Wyoming News Briefs Include Oil Rigs and Incarporation
Burns voted 49 to 6 in favor of incorporating. A coal strike near the state line has been settled. More oil rigs are being placed in the Greybull fields. A new bridge will span the Powder River at Arvada. Cattle are being marketed from Kemmerer. Claude F. Palmer’s Burns home burned. Harry O’Hair sold his Sunrise ranch for 18000. Lovell celebrates for a sugar factory. Snow covered nearly two thirds of Wyoming. Capitol wing to be completed in November. Austrailian shearing pen foundation started at Opal. Flathead Valley Oil and Gas down 60 feet near Cody. Extra freight on Alliance-Casper line. Laramie to cooperate on scenic road with Cheyenne. Mrs. Etta Humphrey injured in Careyhurst auto overturn. Juan Hernandez acquitted of murder in Cheyenne. Bessemer Oil company files incorporation in Casper. Whiteley adds two rigs on O B Barber near Glenrock. Edward L Patrick, famed stockman, dies in Omaha. John E B Osborne returns to Cheyenne. Casper duck hunters kill a Rocky Mountain eagle near Nine Mile Lake. Marshal Davidson captures W Riddell on parole violation. State Dairy Food and Oil Commissioner recommends state oil refinery. Wyoming banks total 15,216,607.45. gains 4,469,493.88 in two years. Sheridan sugar beet harvest over 36,000 tons expected. Cheyenne arrests up 629 in eight months. Gracy Gorton case ends in marriage after charges dropped. Orren Babbitt jailed for ballot defacement sentenced to four months and $700 total.
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Burns
Greybul
Powder River
Arvada
Kemmerer
Claude F. Palmer
Harry O'Hair
Sunrise
Lovell
Capitol
Opal
Flathead Valley Oil and Gag Company
Cody
Alliance-Casper
Laramie
Cheyenne
Etta Humphrey
Stuart
Neb
Careyhurst
Juan Hernandez
Theodore Valencia
Bessemer Oil Company
Capital Stock
Casper
Whiteley
Glenrock
Edward L. Patrick
Patrick
Wyoming
Clarkson
Omaha
Sheridan
Gracy Gorton
John C. Collins
Resi Dents
Thermopolis
Colling
Collings
Trainwreck Kills Two Crew Men Near Bushnell Neb
Union Pacific Los Angeles Limited wrecked near Bushnell Nebraska when it struck an overturned freight car. Fireman John W. Crawford and brakeman W. A. Moore, both of Cheyenne, were killed. Engineer John Ulrich of Cheyenne was seriously burned and several passengers injured but not fatally.
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Western
Union News Service
Cheyenne
Union Pacific
Los Angeles Limited
Bushnell
Neb
John W. Crawford
W. A. Moore
John Ulrich
Julesburg
LaSalle
Colo
Shipbuilder Buys Jackson Hole Ranch in Big Purchase
Elk-David HB. Skinner of Seattle has bought the Otto E. Kushey ranch of 320 acres for 14000 dollars. He stocks it with 500 Hereford cattle, 100 from Otto Kushey and 400 from the Trexler and Mosser outfit near Jackson known as the Hatchet herd.
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Jackson Hole Ranch
Elk
David HB. Skinner
Seattle
Wash
Otto E. Kushey
Otto Kushey
Trexler and Mosser
Jackson
Sheridan Seeks Convict Labor for Bridge and Roads
At a special county board meeting in Sheridan the plan was set to apply for twenty convict road laborers and a cook for next year to build a bridge across the Powder River at Arvada. Convicts will work on the Dayton Mountain road and then the Red Grade on the Dome Lake road if the project stays on schedule.
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Sheridan
Powder River
Arvada
Dayton Mountain
Dome Lake
Kemmerer Laboring Men Organize Meeting Report
A mass meeting in Kemmerer featured Harry W. Fox of the State Federation of Labor outlining plans to organize unrepresented workers.ill include butchers meat cutters carpenters teamsters auto drivers and several other groups to unite labor forces in Kemmerer.
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Kemmerer
Harry W. Fox
State Federation of Labor
Miner Misar Found Dead in Hudson Home
Coroner's jury cannot determine if Hudson miner Lander-Whether Gabel Misar died by his own action or another caused it. Misar was found at his home with a gunshot wound and died later in Lander hospital after being moved there.
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Lander
Gabel Misar
Hudson
Misar
Oscar White Executed for Casper Murder in 1913
Oscar White, a Black man, was hanged at the penitentiary for the murder of Anderson Coffee near Casper in 1913. The killing arose from a quarrel over a 15 cent gambling debt and White walked to the gallows singing as the trap fell, death coming eleven minutes later.
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Oscar White
Rawlina
Rawlins
Anderson Coffee
Casper
White
Trapper Moves to Missouri Buttes for Wolfing Trade
Ross, known as Sundance Perry, shifted his wolfing work from Powder River to the Missouri Buttes area near Arvada. He reportedly killed over eighty coyotes in the few months since starting in the region.
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Sundance
Perry Ross
Powder River
Missouri Buttes
Weodon
Ross
Arvada
Big Piney Roundup To Ship 7000 Beef Cattle This Year
The Big Piney Roundup Association reports two drives totaling about 7,000 head of cattle. The first drive is nearly finished with around 3,500 head and the second will be about the same, representing a half million dollars in value.
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Big Piney Roundup Association
Force Romanians keeping up close pursuit in Dobrudja region
Western Newspaper Union News Service reports Teutonic forces on the Transylvania frontier facing stubborn Romanian resistance. Romanian troops claim 1,800 prisoners, recapture Piscul Tulghes and Bicaz, and take 1,100 more at Uzul valley. Additional Romanian captures and tactical gains are noted amid broader front activity.
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London
Transylvania
Bucharest
Piscul
Tulghes
Bicaz
Uzul
von Falkenhayn
Campulung
Dragoslavie
Wallachia
Jiul
Berlin
Kronstadt
Dobrudja
von Mackensen
Mexican Crisis Looms Anew Involving Cabrera Statement
Washington reports a Mexican de facto government statement attributed to Luis Cabrera assails U.S. neutrality and immigration policies. Cabrera, minister of finance in Carranza's cabinet, leads the Mexican commission in border talks amid unsettled reactions from the State Department. Eliseo Arredondo, the ambassador designate, declined interviews.
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Luis Cabrera
Mexico
Washington
Mexican Information Bureau
Cabrera
Carranza
Bia
State Department
Lansing
Eliseo Arredondo
Britain’s Note Replies on Commercial Blacklist Relief
Great Britain’s note responding to American protests over the commercial blacklist arrived at the State Department. It reiterates the right to blacklist but offers relief methods for Americans in certain circumstances. The note responds to the July 28 American communication denouncing the blacklist as arbitrary interference with neutral trade.
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Washington
Great Britain
State Department
Reichstag approves 12 million mark war credit
Berlin reports the Reichstag, after a brief debate, passed the bill for a new war credit of 12 000 000 marks requested by Count von Roedern, the imperial treasurer.
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Reichstag
Berlin
Reicheing
Count von Roedern
Army Officers Complete First Thirty Miles Test Ride
Douglas and Arna report that thirty six army officers above captain completed the first leg of the army’s ten mile test ride.
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Douglas
Arna
Correct One Way Teacher Bobby Spells Yesterday
The piece shows a child named Bobby attempting to spell yesterday while glancing at a calendar. The scene presents a classroom moment focused on pronunciation and spelling practice.
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Bobby
Grateful West Alexander Woman Champions Dodd’s Pills
Mrs A G Clemens of West Alexander Pennsylvania credits Dodd's Kidney Pills with relief from years of backache tender spine spots and past floating specks vision plus lumbago and heart trouble. She endorses the pills and notes the price of 50 cents per box at dealers.
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A. G. Clemens
West Alexander
A.g.clemens
Dodd
Buffalo
N. Y
Women and the court seek more than asked in damages
A terse proverb notes women rarely care about all questions asked while a man pursuing legal damages may receive more than he seeks.
Safe Skin Treatment Ad Promotes Cuticura Soap Ointment
An advertisement touts Cuticura Soap and Ointment for pimples blackheads redness and itching with free samples by mail and a book. It urges readers to request by postcard addressed to Cuticura Dept L Boston.
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Cuticura
Dept. L
Boston
Robbed Her. A witty exchange on beauty and blame
A quip about inheritance of beauty sparks a light moment. A speaker jokes that their daughter’s looks came from them and that it is selfish for the daughter to have taken it. The exchange reflects social humor from the period.
Gazelle as Cute Creature Sparks Harmless Exchange
A brief dialog snippet shows affection toward a gazelle described as a cute creature. The exchange centers on endearing tones and shared amusement about the animal.
Red Cross Bag Blue promises whiter than snow clothes
Ad copy notes Red Cross Bag Blue for wash day promising clothes whiter than snow. Mentions grocery availability and a gasoline engine driven machine invented to bale hay or straw into cylindrical bales.
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Red Cross
Ady
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Wyoming State News
Western Newspaper Union News Service
Wyoming Teachers’ Association
American Livestock Association
John EB. Osborne
Nine Mile Lake
Marshal Davidson
W. O. Riddell
Canon City
Maurice Groshon
Stats Examiner I
Newlin
Orren
Babbitt
W. ©. Mentier
Rambler
Rambier
Baltimore
Miner
Teutons
Rumaniansbage
Wrigley’s
Caveay
Wrigley
Boratory
Barkeley, California
Hide and Fur Shippers
United States
Bolles & Rogers
le Mighoat
Vent Varvican
Frente Ue
N. Uy
Denver
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