Wyoming State News Highlights Sept Events and Local Happenings
A roundup of notices from the Western Newspaper Union lists upcoming events across Wyoming including races, fairs, and lodge meetings. It also covers local industry, military enlistment, new buildings, and arrests, naming towns like Douglas, Kemmerer, Evanston, Laramie, and Cheyenne along with firms such as Tisdale Ol Company, Mexico Wyoming Oil, and Becker Brewing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union News Service
Yenna
Douglas
Carpente
Burris
Lincoln
Afton
Scottiah Rite Masona
Cheyenne
Guard of State Mobilized at Fort Russell Camp
Cheyenne Maj J W Cavender of Cody named colonel of the Third Wyoming Infantry by Gov Houx, completing the guard’s assembly at the mobilization camp northeast of Cheyenne. Burke H Sinclair named lieutenant colonel. both men bring long guard service and prior roles with state and Georgia units. The entire Wyoming guard is drilled daily as units from Sheridan and Newcastle join after a bridge fire delay. The force will train for weeks before moving to Palo Alto California for further work. Plan for a $7 million concrete highway bond issue to traverse the state from the Colorado line near Cheyenne to Yellowstone Park is to be proposed by the Legislature, with Casper planners Fred Patee and C R McGrew leading an education push.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hudson
Sheridan Rifle Club
Kemmerer
Cheyenne Odd Fellows
Thermopolis
Evanston
Cheyenne
A. J. Covington
Guernsey
Riverton
Laramie City Springs
Caroline Atchison
State Mental Hospital
Forest Service
Washington
Tisdale Ol Company
Tisdale Dome
Powder River Field
Beverly C. Daly
U.S. Army
Fort Russell
Laramie County
F. DiGiacomo
Virginia Englese
Diamondville
Ed Prayer
Western
Union News Service
J. W. Cavender
Cody
Wyoming National Guard
Houx
Third
Wyoming Infantry
Col. Cavender
Guard
Georgia
Burke H. Sinclair
Palo Alto
Cal
Wyoming
Colorado Line
Yellowstone National Park
Fred Patee
C. R. McGrew
Casper
Mining and oil news from the West highlights ore runs and copper output
Western Newspaper Union reports morale, copper at 24.1214 dollars per ton, lead 11, tungsten concentrates 26 per unit. Arizona and Wyoming oil operators plan to enter Big Chino valley. Prescott closes a transaction signaling early exploration. Rich ore samples from Victor Copper in Wallapai mountains shown by J W Oney and B E Guthrey. Six carloads of copper gold ore shipped from Copper Chief to Humboldt smelter, ore yielding $20 to $60 per ton in gold and copper. Copper Queen branch of Phelps Dodge in Bisbee produced 6.5 to 6 million pounds of copper in July, about 70 percent of normal output.
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Arizona
Wyoming
Big Chino Valley
Prescott
Victor Copper Company
Walnut Creek
Wallapai Mountains
J. W. Oney
BE. Guthrey
Copper Chief
Humboldt
Copper Queen
Phelps Dodge Corporation
Bisbee Mining
Arthur Notman
U S Grain Crops Boosts Corn Prospects to Record Yield
The August crop report shows corn prospects improved by 67 million bushels, indicating a total U S production of 3 191 000 000 bushels. Wheat declines by 25 million, winter wheat up 15 million and spring down, with all wheat yield about 14 0 bushels per acre.
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Union News Service
Washington
United States
Department of Agriculture
Wilson
Minnesota
North Dakota
South Dakota
Ohio
Indiana
Iowa
Missouri
Nebraska
Kansas
Mrs Ed Wright Killed by Fall in Denver Ride
Mrs Ed Wright 20, famed world champion broncho buster, died two hours after being thrown during an exhibition at Camp Baldwin reception in Union Park Denver. The accident occurred less than a week after her Frontier celebration acclaim.
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Ed Wright
Cheyenne
Camp Baldwin
Union Park
Denver
Denver Hospital
Colorado Mines Show Strong Output In 1917 First Half
Colorado coal and metal districts report rising production in early 1917. Silver Plume and Cripple Creek shipments reach high levels. new operators form in Boulder county to run Wood Mountain mines. Copper, manganese, and oil activity expands in New Mexico and other districts, with total output up and down across commodities.
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Onondaga
Georgetown
Colorado
United Gold Mines Company
Crippple Creek
Florence
Fremont County
Former Cheyenne Boy Killed on French Front
Zachs Jordan of Denver, formerly of Cheyenne and son of Rev. Jordan longtime Cheyenne Methodist pastor, has been killed in action on the French front shortly after arriving in France, according to unconfirmed reports reaching Cheyenne.
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Cheyenne
Zachs Jordan
Denver
Jordan
Methodist
France
Murder Theory Advances in Burgo Slaying Case
Blood on the razor said to cut Walter Burgo’s throat raises a theory the victim was robbed and murdered rather than taking his own life, while no blood appears on the dead man’s hand.
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Laramie
Walter Burgo
Man Killed Under Street Car in Cheyenne
Laula Cook 26, son of former Mayor Beter 8 Cook, died while boarding a moving street car. He missed the handrail and fell onto the track as the car Wheela crushed his skull, nearly tearing him in two.
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Cheyenne
Laula Cook
Beter
Cook
Wheela
Oil Boom Sparks Rocky Ford Well Spouting Thirty Feet
Excitement rose in Rocky Ford Wyo after a new drilling of a well by the Rocky Ford Wyoming Oil Company. When completed it reportedly spouted thirty feet from the wall and produced near eight hundred barrels in the first eight hours, signaling a successful strike in the region.
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Rocky Ford
Cooper
Wyo
Rocky Ford-Wyoming Oil Company
Copper vein found in Laramie Range emerald mine
In Wyoming a rich copper vein has been uncovered in the Emerald mine of the Laramie range. Casper Oil Company is expected to start larger scale operations in the Thirty Three Mile field. Mexico Wyoming Oil Company has brought in a new producing well northwest of Grass Creek, expanding the Khown producing area by about 2000 acres.
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Lovell Canal Company
Lowell
Richard M. Blatchford
Fort
D. A
Grass Creek
Manville Oil Company
Lance Creek
Belson Oil Company
Denver
Buck Creek
Lucerne Dome
Hot Springs
Sattley Oil Company
Geo. Blakey
Guernsey
Watters
Platte River
Butte-Detroit
Southern Montes Oil Company
Powell
Elk Basin
Spring Creek
East Butte Company
Wyoming
Laramie Range
Casper OU
Mexico
Wyoming Oil Company
Khown
New German Chancellor George B Michaelis
George B Michaelis, named successor to Von Bethmann Hollweg, becomes imperial German chancellor after serving as food commissioner with ministerial rank. Born September 8 1857 in Haynau Silesia, he rose from Berlin attorney to university professor, held finance posts, and favors direct equal suffrage though he has not been active in party politics.
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George B. Michaelis
von Bethmann-Hollweg
Germany
Haynau
Silesia
Berlin
Ecity
University of Tokyo
Trevas
Westphalia
Liennitz
Breslau
Red Cross Seeks European Groundbreaker Grayson Murphy
Grayson M P Murphy of Guaranty Trust becomes the lead advance agent for Red Cross relief in Europe. His background spans art metal construction and woolen worsteds, with Spanish American War service, West Point graduation in 1908, and postings in South America and the Caribbean. He is serving as a major on Pershing's staff in France and is expected to receive the initial million in relief funds. He will not return until war's end.
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Red Cross
Europe
Grayson M.P. Murphy
Guaranty Trust Company
First
Pennsylvania Infantry
West Point
South America
Panama
Cuba
Philippines
Murphy
France
Pershing
New York
Cedarhurst
Harbord Named Pershing’s Right Hand Man in France
Lieutenant Colonel James G. Harbord serves as chief of staff and trusted aide to General Pershing. His early career spanned Cuba with General Wood, then the Philippine constabulary under Allen and Bandholtz, where he organized Moro forces in Mindanao.
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James G. Harbord
John J. Pershing
France
Harbord
United States Army
Cuba
Leonard Wood
Philippine Constabulary
Henry T. Allen
Colonel Harbord
United States
General Pershing
Sun Yat Sen back in sight as China’s upheaval shifts
A. Masters MacDowell, returning from China, says Sun Yat Sen could be chosen as leader if events force it, though he is not seeking the presidency. He calls Sun the possible mastermind behind China’s political labor, noting Sun’s high price and the three major factions shaping the era: the military Tories, the Kuomintang, and the Chiaputang subdivision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sun Yat-sen
A. Masters MacDowell
China
Chinese Republic
MacDonell
Sun Yatsen
Peking
United States
Cxle
Tories
Kuomintang
Chiaputang
Kupumlatang
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Wyoming State News
C. A. Duniway
University of Wyoming
Becker Brewing Company
Sheriff's Office
Jose Avill
Army
Gavender
Ginclair
U.S
Gunter
State Federation of Labor
Boulder
Dwyer
Dywer
John Starett
John Schwartz
John R. Oltz
Frank Bremski
Bremski
Montana
New Mexico
Mogollon Mines Company
Harry
Socorro Mining and Milling Company
Mogollon
Oaks Company
Pecos Copper Company
Santa F@ forest
Charles W. Henderson
United States Geological Survey
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