Grazing Homestead Bill Nears Final Passage
The 640 acre grazing homestead bill is nearly agreed by conference committees in both houses and acceptable to the president and secretaries of agriculture and interior. It limits land purchase to prevent speculation, requires residence and stock raising plus improvements, keeps filing fee at thirty four dollars, and allows cattle trails from national forests with size limits by distance.
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Congress
Secretary of Agriculture
Secretary of the Interior
Washington railroads enact drastic car famine remedies
Washington DC December 15 drastic railroads rules approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission take effect to ease freight car shortages blamed for rising living costs. The plan by railroads and the American Railway Association’s car service commission limits unloading to two days and imposes daily demurrage charges culminating in a flat 1.00 per day after the fourth day regardless of car duration. Shippers especially automakers and coal dealers had tolerated long car delays due to the small demurrage fees versus warehouse rates.
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Washington, D. C
Interstate Commerce Commission
Car Service Commission
American Railroad Association
Federal Commission
Tragic Hanging Report From Westerner Case
A fragment reports a Westerner who hanged himself by his suspenders to a bedpost. The coroner’s jury verdict states death was caused by being mistaken for his pent by a cousin at home. The note appears in the Tribune via a print exchange.
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Alee Tribune
Big Fires At Chugwater And Cheyenne
A brief item notes large fires in Chugwater and Cheyenne with a school event advertisement inviting attendances for a staged program by students. In other news in Washington, a bill to prohibit mailing liquor advertisements to non dealers and agents was favorably reported by the House Post Office Committee, targeting mail order liquor in dry areas.
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Washington, D. C
House Post Office Committee
Rural Credits Plan Considered by Wyoming Legislator
Andrew Morrow of Kemmerer, newly elected to Wyoming's state legislature, is weighing a bill to create a state rural credits system to assist homesteaders with low interest loans and to set up a bureau of experts to advise settlers on suitable crops and farm adaptations.
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Kemmerer
Wyo
Andrew Morrow
West
Wyoming
Redman
Snow blocks trains in Wyoming and Colorado
Drifting snow piled along railroad lines in Wyoming and northern Colorado delays affect Cheyenne trains for hours. A Colorado and Southern northbound service was discontinued yesterday afternoon and the through northbound train expected at 10:40 p.m. arrived after midnight. Union Pacific trains faced delays west and east of Cheyenne as a flanger covered the fifth and sixth districts overnight to clear tracks.
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Wyoming
Colorado
Cheyenne
Colorado and Southern
Union Pacific
Tribune
Ninth annual governor's conference opens in Washington
Washington D C Dec 14 The ninth annual governor's conference opened today with over a score of executives elect present among them Gunter Colorado Kendrick Wyoming Byrne South Dakota Norbeck North Dakota noted among the attendees.
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Washington, D.C
Gunter
Colorado
Kendrick
Wyope
Byrne
South Dakota
Norbeck
Bough Dakota
Inferno destroys Inter Ocean hotel and Union Pacific shop
Fire in Cheyenne Tuesday night leveled the Inter Ocean hotel and the Union Pacific paint shop and warehouse, a total loss of 144000 dollars. Six people died in the hotel as Roy White and his family perished in a room fire and jump to live wires. Fire departments saved much of the business district, confining flames to the hotel and limiting broader destruction.
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Inter Ocean Hotel
Union Pacific
iNter-Ocean Hotel
Roy White
White
Sand
Cheyenne
Chugwater Fire Destroys Hotel and Shops After December 12
Fire in Chugwater devours the Banks hotel barber shop and Frank W Foss residence causing 1600 dollars in losses with only 3000 dollars insured. Twenty five hotel guests escaped including Miss Genevieve Hurley who was rescued from a third story window. Fire saved adjacent buildings and plans call for up to date replacements as the town grows.
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Chugwater
Banks
Frank W. Foss
Genevieve Hurley
Prohibition Debate and Judge Appointment In DC
Washington reports on the Shepherd bill pushing for a District prohibition vote while an Underwood referendum amendment heads to a Senate decision. Also noted is the appointment of Louis Gweneef Bt Louis, son of Senator Bione, as United States judge of the eighth district, succeeding the late Judge Bing D. Adame.
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Washington
District of Columbia
Underwood
S. K. Gweneef Bt Louis
United States
Bione of
Minsouri
Eighth
Bing D. Adame
Wyoming Day urged to honor early state history
State superintendent Eeith K O Clark urges county superintendents to set aside a Wyoming day for the study of early events in the state. Converse County began the movement, aiming to record firsthand accounts of pioneer life for permanent inclusion in the Wyoming Historical Society archives.
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Eeith K. O. Clark
Wyoming
Converse County
Valley of the Platte
Black Hills
Pacific
Oregon
Utah
Montana
Garden Gate
Oregon Trail
Wyoming Historical Society
Pioneer
Laramie
Denver Market Record Steers Sold at 9 Cents Per Pound
Clay, Robinson & Company sold 21 steers averaging 1,247 pounds at 9 cents per pound for William Stevenson. The sale occurred in Denver and set a new record for the Denver cattle market.
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Clay, Robinson & Company
Denver
William Stevenson
Hecla
Cheyenne
Wyoming Tribune
Record of lamb market at Omaha with Wyoming sales
The Drover's Journal Stockman reports a delayed lamb record as recent sales show a three car shipment from J. B. Greenough of Lander Wyoming selling at 12.25. He had planned to feed them himself but rising feed costs pushed him to finish elsewhere. Wyoming shepherds plan winter feeding due to mild weather but poor range, relying on extra hay and cottonseed feed to sustain flocks.
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Omaha
Drover's Journal-Stockman
J. B. Greenough
Lander
Wyo
Wyoming
Weather forecast for Plains and Mississippi Valley area
Forecast for the week starting December 4 in Plains States and upper and lower Mississippi valleys calls for low temperatures until midweek with possible snow in the north and south. Temperatures below seasonal average early, warmer midweek, then cooler after Thursday. Rocky Mountain and higher areas expected fair with near average temperatures and possible local snow in northern portions.
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Plains
Upper
Mississippi Valley
Porthero
Ras
Rocky Mougtaw
I*igteau
Taeaday
WEK
Bowie
Fore
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