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Newspaper
Encampment Record
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1915
Page
12
A 1935 notice details second class matter in Encampment Wyoming, subscription rates for one year six months and three months in advance, and advertising rates per column inch per week with minimum charges. It sets copy deadlines Wednesday for display ads and local readers, and notes all ads run until discontinued.
Readers push for a high school in Encampment to stop sending pupils away for secondary education. A district centered on Encampment could fund a building, ending the need for students to travel elsewhere for high school before the next school year.
The publication will post late Wednesday after each week to catch star routes leaving Encampment Thursday. All advertising copy must reach this office by Tuesday afternoon.
Notice outlines forest ranger positions with a $1,100 yearly salary and chances for promotion to deputy supervisor or supervisor. Duties include enforcing forest laws, building roads and trails, fighting fires, estimating timber, managing grazing, and handling small sales under district supervisors.
Deputy Sheriff Glenn Scott of Saratoga arrested Carl Loomm of Rawlins on a charge of larceny of a diamond belonging to a girl after a quarrel over a ring. Loomm was taken to Saratoga for processing following the incident. Read the ads in the Record.
The prisoner in the next cell reports waking to noise in O Leary s cell between one and two. O Leary hanged himself using a rope from the clothes line and a pillow as a stand. Coroner Bennett ruled suicide and no inquest. O Leary, long in Wyoming, previously shot at home and wounded several, including Guard Frank Webb and his wife, before being shot in the leg by a railroad man.
The Wyoming census shows a decline in population due to a flawed 1915 assessment. Washington reports 95,000 settlers recorded in land office records, likely overcounted, suggesting about 15,000 actual settlers on public lands last year. The discrepancy highlights issues with state census data.
Sheriff Rivera of Rawlins and deputies Denison Bradford and Glenn Scott of Saratoga raided a Hanna gambling ring Sunday night arresting thirty men. They seized the outfit including tables cards and ships and burned them.
W T Peryam plans a large addition to his ranch house for lodging rooms while EK M Benson builds two pits to burn charcoal for local needs. Fifteen plus tents dot the townsite as newcomers arrive daily seeking markets, restaurants, and lodging.
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