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Newspaper
Encampment Record
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1917
Page
3
Wyoming notices report a December midwinter meeting of Scottish Rite Masons in Cheyenne. Casper seeks 500 carpenters as various economic developments unfold. Debates include depot projects, new mills, oil activity, and a Cody memorial initiative.
Wyoming stores hold over 500000 gallons of whisky taxed at 2.10 dollars a gallon. Federal agents probe liquor houses across the state, tracing stock moved from Utah. Officials say Wyoming will likely pay more war tax than any Western state relative to its population.
Prices for metals and mining notes report bar silver at 84 and a half cents, copper casting at 23.17, and various ore values in Boulder, St Louis, and Cananea. Mines in Arizona, Colorado, and Kansas show production progress, new machinery, by products, and staged development. The Montana Wyoming Stock Exchange raised 75000 for Liberty bonds, and a new Hepler field acquisition was announced.
Aged readers learn how 22 000 Wisconsin youth join corn canning and garden clubs to serve the country. Notable youths include Heiron Block who raised 137 bushels per acre and saved 18 000 seed ears, George Ferris who produced 159 bushels, and world champion corn growers from South Carolina and Alabama. Southern boy Billy Minter won 100 in gold at age ten with a 10 by 20 foot plot yielding 5738 pounds of vegetables and a $28.32 profit, projected to $6 148 per acre.
Ten Wyoming Masons were awarded the Thirty third Degree honorary title by the Southern Jurisdiction’s Supreme Council in Washington. Half honored are Cheyenne Masons. Recipients include George C. Rafter and William A. Riner of Cheyenne, and Ralph Denio of Sheridan among others.
United States Attorney Charles L. Rigdon filed a federal action against Diamond Coal and Coke Company seeking recovery of 2283 acres near Kemmerer and Diamondville, alleging hiring of eighteen claimants to place claims then transfer to the Utah firm. The government also seeks restitution of over $1,000,000 for coal mined over twenty years.
In Cheyenne District Court a jury found Robert Hammonds guilty of first degree murder for killing his wife Ethel Hammonds on September 19. The verdict marks a decisive legal outcome in a high profile fatal case.
The Vulcan coal mine east of Glenrock will raise daily output to 100 tongs to meet local coal demand.
Soldiers at Fort D A Russell in Cheyenne Wyoming have subscribed to more than 235000 dollars in Liberty bonds, reflecting strong war bond support from the garrison.
Secretary Lane arranged for Liberty bonds totaling over 600000 dollars placed in escrow in national banks in Denver Cheyenne and Casper with oil operators in Salt Creek and Grass Creek Wyoming. The funds were deposited under a government contract delaying release pending title determinations on the lands involved.
In Golden a hydraulic gold washing plant for Santa Fe Gold Dredging Co. should be ready by December 1. A rich banana ore strike occurred on the Lady Franklin group at Kingston as silver peaks. Phelps-Dodge’s Organ district option was assumed by American Smelting for 350000, with 30000 paid upfront. Oaks Co reports 17 ore at Deep Down, expanding Mogollon district output. Cakes Central group adds a fourth producing property. Auto truck transport to the mill is being considered due to burro shortages in camp.
Gen John J Pershing head of the American expeditionary forces in France joins the Liberty bond drive through a Cheyenne bank subscribing for himself and son Warren The drive in Cheyenne pushed the district over the minimum with a total of 1 080 000 while the city raised 162 200 beyond the goal Warren Pershing is listed as a beneficiary
A large freight house in Clearmont burned during a high wind endangering the town and a line of freight cars on the track. No injuries were reported.
Neighborhood children form a small amusement company for recreation and profit. They own a swing and take turns operating it while others ride. A little girl demands her turn, threatening to tell mamma, but George dismisses the complaint, saying the venture isn’t run on the tell mamma plan.
Reports from New York and other major cities show food conservationists cutting household waste by 6 to 20 percent. The savings amount to about 3,000 tons of food in the metropolis, a figure that could boost national gains and motivate city governments to curb living costs.
A homestead resident near here named A. Johnson killed thirteen rattlesnakes in a single day after locating a nest. The snakes were large with about ten rattles each, suggesting a dangerous hunt on the property.
Rumors Permint concerns a share well brought in by the Akron Oil and Gas Company in its second well. The Pathfinder well on 36 34 76 in the Big Muddy field has been straightened out and drilling now proceeds in the most satisfactory manner. Midwest drillers struck productive slate at 1400 feet in the joint project for New York Oil and Murtle Companies.
A chatty tale in a railway carriage recounts Black and White attempting to swindle a man named Brown who was well read and deceived them both. They lose all their money, leaving Black and White blue as a result.
A quoted remark stresses seriousness in wartime conduct as a warning to avoid complacency and later regret. The speaker cautions that approaching conflict with levity could miss the gravity of the situation and its consequences.
Doctor Iyemaga, head of the East and West News bureau in New York, cites Japan's wartime gains as proof of a unique position. He notes Japan entered the war under the Anglo-Japanese alliance and has since profited massively as blood and treasure go to Europe. Bank clearings doubled, industrial shares climbed, and earnings surged 100 to 300 percent while discount rates fell, signaling outsize profits for the island empire.
Lou D. Sweet of Colorado, known as the Potato King, is appointed head of the potato division of the Food Administration. He will collect and systematize potato grower data to prevent market manipulation while prices are set by a separate commission. His irrigated Rocky Mountain lands support his role and he heads the Potato Association of America.
A Petrograd trial centers on a former Russian minister of war linked to conspiracy to aid the enemy. Ex-consul general John H. Snodgrass explains the case as driven by wealth rather than patriotism. The minister, married to a much younger wife, allegedly used his high rank and czar’s favor to assist Germany.
The Right Honourable Sir Wilfrid Laurier, aged seventy six, leads Canada's Liberal Party amid raging conscription controversy. A storied figure, Laurier is praised as a silver tongue statesman, famed for a 1870 England visit that boosted his overseas profile and honors from Oxford and Cambridge. If he can unite Western liberals around conscription, he may again become premier.
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