Wyoming News Highlights and Local Occurrences
Wyoming news notes cover events May 21 to May 23 including Cheyenne meetings and fairs, new hotel in Chugwater, Basin post office site, and road signs on Park County roads. Reports on deaths, fires, and guards entering federal service. Military, relief efforts, wool sales, and local ceremonies accompany town anniversaries and a notable Cheyenne wedding among a gypsy tribe.
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Union News Service
Wyoming Press Associaon
Cheyenne
Oay
du- Sept
Douglas
Chugwater
Park County
Basin
John Sharp
Reliance
Rawlins
Wyoming Guards
Federal Service
Dwyer Reservation
Belle Reardon
Joseph W. Tanner
Kearney
Neb
Thermopolis
LaGrange
Red Cross Society
Liberty Bell Oil Company
Laramie
Helen Fitzgerald
Bertha Green
Wyoming July crop forecast shows strong yields for wheat oats potatoes hay
The July 1 Wyoming crop report from the Bureau of Crop Estimates notes forecasted production gains across winter and spring wheat, oats, potatoes, and all hay. Prices listed include wheat 2.19 and 0.93 per bushel, oats 0.88, potatoes 2.32, hay 18.50, eggs 0.34 and 0.22 per dozen.
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Cheyenne
Wyoming
Bureau of Crop Estimates
Weather Bureau
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Wilson urges patriotism to fix wartime prices and profits
President Wilson appeals to coal operators and manufacturers to set fair wartime prices and avoid excess profits. He warns no one may profit at the public's expense and stresses national unity, condemning shipowners for high ocean freight rates hindering the war effort.
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Washington
Wilson
France
Germany
Dubois to Dedicate New Highway With Wild West Show
Dubois in Fremont county prepares a wild west celebration July 30 and 31 to dedicate the Den ver Yellow stone route upon its expected opening July 26. The event aims to recall cowboy days and highlight tourism prospects from travel to the park’s southern entrance.
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Lander
Denver
Mine Mixture Resembling Paint Emerges Near Red Desert
A paint-like mine near Red desert about forty miles north of Wamcutter could spark a regional industry. Prospectors last year located the site and this spring shipped a carload to the railroad. Tests in Lander show a material like dried oil or asphalt, black, spreads under pressure, and is non inflammable.
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Lander
Red Desert
Wamcutter
Committees Pick Officers for Wyoming Training Camp
Wyoming men seeking training at the second Presidio camp opening August 27 must file applications through local committees appointed for each state section, not through the camp authorities, according to George E. Abbott of Cheyenne chairman of the Wyoming Military Training Camp Association.
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Cheyenne
Wyoming
Presidio
George E. Abbott
Military Training Camp Association
Kansan torpedoed off French coast carrying food cargo
The steamship Kansan with a 50 man crew is sunk near the French coast. It carried flour and foodstuffs plus 4 000 tons of steel valued at 2 000 000 dollars for the French government. Losses include engineers J M Murphy F Aughre A P Kau and C Hanan. London reports fourteen British merchant ships sunk in the week.
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U. S
New York
France & Canada Steamship Company
J. M. Murphy
F. Aughre
A. P. Kau
Honolulu
C. Hanan
Singapore
London
Rancher Hangs Self in Asylum at Evanston
Evanston report: Evanston-Ryan Johnson, 50, a Uinta county rancher committed to the state insane asylum, hanged himself in his room using a sheet noose. He was unmarried and left two sisters and two brothers. It is the asylum´s first death by own action.
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Evanston
Ryan Johnson
Uinta County
Johnson
Rancher Recruit Injured Returns Home
Sheridan Milton Allen son of H. H. Allen Prairie Dog ranchman volunteered for the Navy March 17 and was among the largest party of boys to leave Sheridan. He arrived home from the Pacific Coast training station with a discharge due to injuries that render him unfit for further service.
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Sheridan
Milton Allen
H. H. Allen
Prairie Dog
United States Navy
Pacific Coast
Red Cross Money for Italy Front Hospitals
Rome reports about 10 million dollars will fund Red Cross hospitals and ambulances on the Italian front.
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Red Cross
Italy
Rome
Slavs Near Lemberg Gates and Allied Front Struggles
British troops report fighting near Lemberg as Russians push from Halicz toward the Dniester and Lomnica river towns. German gains limited on the Yaér front while artillery volleys rage on French fronts. Dolina taken by Italians as German cabinet resignations ripple through Reichstag war funding debate.
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Belgium
London
Halicz
Lemberg
Galicia
Dniester
Korniloff
Lomnica
Yaér
Dunkirk
Haig
Dolina
Selo
Reichstag
Wilsons Embargo Proclamation on Exports to Neutral Nations
President Wilson issues an embargo effective July 15 1917 restricting export of coal fuel oils kerosene and more to neutrals and enemy nations. The order aims to protect US food reserves and support war efforts while cooperating with neutrals through licensed distribution.
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Washington
Wilson
Congress
United States
Abyssinia
Afghanistan
Albania
Argentina
Austria-Hungary
Belgium
Bolivia
Brazil
Bulgaria
China
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cuba
Denmark
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
France
Germany
Great Britain
Greece
Guatemala
Haiti
Honduras
Italy
Japan
Liberia
Leichtenstein
Luxemburg
Mexico
Monaco
Montenegro
Morocco
Nepal
Nicaragua
Netherlands
Norway
Oman
Panama
Paraguay
Persia
Peru
Portugal
Roumania
Russia
Salvador
San Marino
Serbia
Siam
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Uruguay
Venezuela
Turkey
Secretary of Commerce
Man Fatally Drives Off Bridge After Tick Bite
J S Ewalt a ranchman suffered spotted fever after a woodtick bite and died in a car crash at the ranch entrance fifteen miles west. His mother and his young child were killed and his wife fatally injured in the accident.
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Cody
J. S. Ewalt
Here
Ewalt
Drowned Man Found in Big Piney Creek
Milt Hardesty is reported drowned after apparently slipping into a creek near here following a fainting spell. Coroner and local officers are investigating the accident.
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Hardesty
Big Piney
Milt Hardesty
Here
Worland Grants Purchase of 160 GPM City Pump
The Worland city council authorized buying a 160 gallon per minute water pump to boost the municipal supply. Power will be supplied by the local light company.
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Worland
the Light Company
Millionaires and Diplomats Plot Against England Arouse U S Indictments
In San Francisco United States District Attorney John W Preston says German agents and Hindu agitators prepared for war with England more than a year before Europe’s outbreak. Ninety eight indictments target a world wide Indian revolution plot and forty one pertain to the Steamship Sacramento case involving provisioning German warships at sea. The defendants include rich men diplomats and Hindu workers sent to China and Japan to bribe foreign press.
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San Francisco
England
United States
John W. Preston
India
Sacramento
China
Japan
Fort D. A. Russell Hosts Belgian Commission Visit
Cheyenne and the Frontier Days committee prepare to welcome Col Frederick 8 and Fort D A Russell officials as the Belgian commission arrives in Cheyenne July 18 for a four hour visit.
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Cheyenne
Wyoming
Frontier Days Committee
Col
Frederick
Forts
Fort
D. A. Russell
United States
Reduction Asked in Use of Meat
The Food Administration asks every person in the United States to cut daily meat intake by at least one ounce to ease demands on the armies and reserve more for the Allies. Studies show current per capita consumption averages about a third of a pound of beef and a fifth of a pound of pork daily.
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Washington
United States
Food Administration
Governor Gunter Urges Miners to Stay Strikes In Leadville
Governor Julian C. Gunter issued a proclamation urging Leadville district miners not to strike while dispute with operators is adjusted. He notes federal and Colorado legislative actions to reduce food costs and mentions a special session beginning July 18.
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Denver
Julian C. Gunter
Leadville
National Congress
Colorado
LONG WEDDINGS IN PERSIA
Describe the elaborate Persian marriage customs of the Mohammedana, where betrothal may span years, invitations are heralded with gifts, and a prearranged kaben dictates divorce terms. Weddings last days with lavish meals, musicians, dancers, and even wrestlers, ending as the bride is veiled and escorted to her home with dowry bearers.
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Persia
The Russian Peasants and Emancipation Revisited
The article cites Albert J. Beveridge and The Russian Advance to discuss peasant emancipation. It notes that even after ending slavery peasants could not freely use landowners tools or forests, leading to clashes over land and timber and a lack of understanding of emancipation's obligations.
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Albert J. Beveridge
New antiseptic breakthrough aids brain and blood poisoning
A ten year effort by Dr. Wilfred Fralick, Dr. Oscar Eckstein, and Dr. A C Allen yields a chlorinated antiseptic that surpasses Carrel Dakin. It can treat brain and abdominal infections and be injected into the bloodstream without danger, offering dramatic potential against blood poisoning.
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Wilfred Fralick
New York
Oscar Eckstein
University of Berlin
A. C. Allen
University of Chicago
Two Grouches Clash Over School Treat Joke
A Washington Star item recounts a Y M C A squabble between a hotel proprietor and a local editor. At a school treat a magician asked for a handkerchief and received a large square of muslin, prompting the editor to claim innuendo about hotel bedclothes while the hotel man blamed the editor’s paper for the joke.
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Aoealesman
Washington Star
Mining and metal price listings from various markets
Prices for metals across New York St Louis and Boulder including lead spot 11 percent asked bar silver 78 cents copper casting 29.12 dollars spelter 9.09 tungsten concentrates 60 percent 17 dollars per unit crude ores 60 percent 1590 26 percent 9.40 12.00 10 percent 8.70 10.00 per unit
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Western Newspaper Union News Service
New York
St. Louis
Boulder
Cripple Creek Mines Yield 441740 Tons in First Half 1917
Cripple Creek district reports 441740 tons of ore for the first half of 1917 with a gross value of 6141737 dollars. After 10 percent losses for moisture sampling and smelter treatment, mint value stands at 5527564 dollars. Dividends totaling 1313041 dollars are paid by six companies, about 23.7 percent of net output value, showing strong local returns.
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Cripple Creek
United States
Jung
Cresson
Portland
Jack Pot
Jerome Verde rushed operations and mill success noted
This report from Arizona notes rushed operations at the Jerome Verde, strikes disrupting Bisbee Miami Globe production, activity sparked by New Cornelia, and the Yucca Tungsten Company mill now in commission performing well. First shipment receipts from Ray Silver Lead at Ray reached 1200 dollars.
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Arizona
Jerome Verde
Bisbee
Miami-Globe
New Cornelia
Yucca Tungsten Company
Ray Silver Lead Company
Ray
Miners Vote in Leadville District Strike and Ore Output Figures
In Colorado the Leadville district voters approved a strike by 641 to 72. Iron Mask mine near Breckenridge shows rapid progress. Frisco King Solomon mine holds firm amid recent strike. Breckenridge placer output, mainly dredged gold, topped $100,000 in June. Wellington Mines Co. maintains heavy zinc concentrates with occasional lead shipments. Cripple Creek district produced 89,740 tons in June valued at $1,064,465.50. Royal Tiger Mines begins large scale work above Swan City. May 1917 dividends from 31 mining firms totaled $11,327,647, up from $11,038,170 by 34 firms in May 1916.
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Colorado
Leadville
Breckenridge
King Solomon
Frisco
Wellington Mines Company
Cripple Creek
Royal Tiger Mines Company
Swan City
United States
Mining and Mining News from New Mexico and Wyoming
The Cobre-Plata Mining and Milling Company with 250000 capital is incorporated. Mogol lon mills clean-up yields 1400 Iba bullion and 3 percent high grade concentrates. Atlas Apex lease in Quartalte Dona Ana county. Willow Creek ore sent to Balt Lake City smelter for test. Victor-American coal fields sold to Hayden Stone for about 3 million. Bridal Chamber mine at Lake Valley resumes work on manganese ore shipping three car loads daily to Joliet. Horse shoe Oil and Gas drills Big Muddy field down 565 feet. Salt Creek Field expects higher activity in six months with major drilling planned.
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Cobre-Plata Mining and Milling Company
el Paso
Atlas Apex Group
Quartalte
Dona Ana
Willow Creek
Pecos
Balt Lake City
Victor-American Fuel Company
New Mexico
Hayden, Stone & Co
Lake Valley
Sierra County
Joliets
Glenrock
Big Muddy
Horseshoe Oil and Gas Company
Associated Interests
Salt Creek
Wyoming
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University of Wyoming At
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Bob Meldrum
State
American Relief Committee
William Friedman
Monarch Salt Creek Petroleum Company
Wall Creek
Docito Medina
Carl Williams
Petroleum Oil Fields Company
Fred Bond
Union Pacific
Armstead Corbin
Winnie” Jones
State Council of Defense
Buffalo
Mae Simmons
John Krenits
U. P
Rh. A. Morton
State Council For National Defense
Wyoming Crop Report
U. S&s. Department OF Agriculture
Kansan
Asylum
Lemberg Gates
Ald Kaiser
New Medical Marvel
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