Wyoming State News Briefs Highlight Local Projects And Incidents
Wyoming notices report a Cheyenne canal meeting, 225 saloons, auto licenses 3892, a $16900 school at Afton, snowfall in Sheridan, and Cheyenne country club efforts. Other items note contracts for Thermopolis apartments and Rock Springs paving, a new synagogue in Cheyenne, notarial commission for L B Manson, and Douglas street lights.
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Afton
Sheridan
Cheyenne
Thermopolia
Mount Sinai
L. B. Manson
Kool
Sheridan County
Douglas
Joseph Johanssen
Cody Country
State Land Board
Frank Paulus
Parkman
Goshen County Teachers’ Institute
Torrington
Fremont County
Warren Wilson
Basin Fair
Aneaching Board of Education
Thermopolis
Sherk
Delroy Stevenson
Laramie
Census reveals Wyoming demographics and land use shifts
A Cheyenne pamphlet on the state census details Wyoming’s population by race with counts of 609 Negro residents, 184 Chinese, 752 Japanese, and 1,829 Indians. It notes Sweetwater as the most cosmopolitan county and Weston the least, plus housing ownership, farmed acreage, crop totals, and livestock figures across the state.
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Cheyenne
Laramie County
Platte County
Sweetwater County
Lincoln County
Fremont County
Big Horn
Campbell
Carbon
Laramie
Lincoln
Weston
Livestock Increase on Wyoming National Forests
A forestry report for the year ending June 1915 shows 670 681 head of livestock grazed on Wyoming national forests under Denver jurisdiction. Cattle and horses totaled 91 067 and sheep 579 514. Permittees for cattle and horses rose 19 percent with 1 035 permits. 80 percent went to small stockmen under 100 head, a 32 percent rise in such permittees since 1914.
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Denver
Forestry Headquarters
National Forests of
Wyoming
Civil Service Examinations in Cheyenne Schedule
The U S Civil Service Commission lists upcoming Cheyenne tests from October 6 to October 25. Open positions include field assistant in marketing Investigation and public health statistician with salaries from 600 to 2,500 dollars for qualified male and female applicants.
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Cheyenne
United States Civil Service Commission
Committee of 100 formed to gauge candidate views on morality laws
Active steps have formed a committee of 100 to obtain candidates for city commission expressions of their attitude toward enforcement of laws bearing on moral behavior. The group will also pursue statewide prohibition through a constitutional amendment submission to Wyoming voters.
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Cheyenne
Wyoming
Shorter Shifts and Pay Kept at Casper Oil Plant
Beginning October 1 the Standard Oil Company plant in Casper will add an extra shift while shortening several department shifts to eight hours. Superintendent B. Manbeck says workers will receive the same pay for eight hours as for longer hours. The new shifts will hire locally and most positions are reportedly filled.
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Fremont County
Sheridan
Johnson, Park
Big Horn
M. EB. Church
National Forest
Daniel
Western States Oil Company
Moorcroft
Crook County
William B. Matheny
Thermopolie
Campbell
Cody Methodists
Dexter Wertman
Grass Lodge
Bheridan
Western Alican Company
Rock Springs
Riverton
Aaid
Bert Balverson
Birney
Fremont County Pioneers’ Association
Lander
A. P. Batham
Casper
Wyo
Standard Oil Company
B. Manbeck
Rockefeller Plan Aims to Peacefully Bind Labor and Capital
In Pueblo miners hear John D. Rockefeller Jr present the Rockefeller Industrial Plan. It pledges wages in line with rivals, broad grievance arbitration, union rights, limited firings, and joint representative conferences to discuss working conditions, mine safety, and welfare. If boards approve, it becomes binding like a new corporate labor constitution.
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Pueblo
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Rockefeller
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
State Industrial Commission
Colorado
Morgan Firm Appointed to Handle British Credit Loan
Announcement says J. P. Morgan & Co. have full charge, subject to syndicate managers, of the flotation of the $500,000,000 credit loan to Great Britain and France in the United States. Morgan was asked to act as agents at a meeting of state syndicate managers and the Anglo French commission.
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New York
J. P. Morgan & Co
Great Britain
France
United States
Morgan
Thi City
Anglo French Commission
U. & Soldiers Ambushed Near La Feria
U S cavalry patrol and a group of Mexicans clashed near La Feria Texas about thirty miles up the Rio Grande. The Mexicans attempted an ambush but failed with no known casualties. Major Edward Anderson reported a detachment of the Sixth Cavalry was fired upon at short range, but the Mexicans escaped.
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Bronsville
Tex
United States
la Feria
Rio Grande
Edward Anderson
la Verla
Sixth Cavalry
Wireless voice crosses continent in first transcontinental test
Washington reports successful wireless telephone transmission from Arlington Virginia to Mare Island California covering 2500 miles. Officials including Captain Bullard and AT&T President Theodore Vail describe the test as a milestone with potential naval military and commercial use.
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Western
Unio News Service
Washington
Great Naval Plant
Arlington
Mare Island
Cal
Bullard
Navy
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Western Electric Company
Daniels
Testa
Theodore N. Vail
New York
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Naval Radio Station
London
Paris
Berlin
Rome
United States
Telephone Company
Montauk Point
Wilmington
Del
Navy Department
Ariington
Naval Station
Pavy
Pat Gets Even in a Laughing Standoff at the Cashier
A Chicago Daily News snippet recalls Pat, who resents a cashier delaying him. He returns next Saturday and jokes back with a coded number riddle. The note adds reflections on temptation, cranberry crop outlook, and a string of aphorisms about life and work.
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Pat
Patrick Mul
Chicago Daily News
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Wyoming State News
Union News Service
Gymnus
Census
Civil Service Examinations
Western Newspaper
Defiance Starch
Defiance Starch CO
Omeha
Nebraska
Lany
Coyne Brothers
We. Gouth Water
Chigago
Howard E. Burton
Miver
Bilver
Leadville
Colo
Carbonate Net Bank
Investrica At
N. U. Denver
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