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Newspaper
Encampment Record
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1916
Page
2
Wartime summaries report fresh gains near Fleury and Verdun, Russian offensives around Lemberg and Galicia, and Balkan advances including Romania and Albania. British and French forces claim large captures in the Somme while Turks, Bulgarians, and Germans shift front lines. Copyright details note air raids, prisoner counts, and strategic moves across multiple fronts.
Western Union dispatch reports Allied advances on multiple fronts. British forces pushed 300 yards east of High Wood and 600 yards of German trenches near Pozieres. French and Rumanians claim several trench gains and captures in Verdun and Transylvania. German casualties tallied in the thousands. war-wide German losses July–August reach 240,900 with total near 4.38 million since war start.
Miss Mildred Burke, 18, was killed when the party’s car, returning from Laramie to Cheyenne, skidded on sand near Tie Siding and struck an embankment. Ruth Cook, Charles Wright, and Frances E. Murphy of Cheyenne were injured. Wright applied a tourniquet to save Cook after severed arteries.
James Parritt, a camp mover, is jailed in Kemmerer charged with fatally shooting Lafe Porter, 26, in Fontenelle country. Parritt claims self defense after a dispute with settler George Isenhart. Porter allegedly threatened Isenhart, shot at Abe Massa, robbed Parritt and Massa, then returned and Parritt shot Porter. Porter died instantly. Parritt made no escape and was arrested at the camp.
Representative Keating of Colorado asked the United States Geological Survey to survey the Pueblo area to assess potential oil and gas development opportunities.
Three people died and a fourth was fatally injured when a Colorado and Southern train struck an automobile at First street near Loveland Colorado. The bodies were wedged beneath the engine pilot and removed after about an hour. The dead were James L. Hedelsen 32 of Loveland Mrs Georgia Hedelsen 30 and Clara Jones 64. Mrs Julia A. Lent 60 of Bureke Kansas was injured.
A Cody mystery centers on an accidental shooting and the disappearance of a pan of biscuits. Ed Dallas known as Blondy and Whitey lies in Gillam hospital with a bullet wound in his right leg while ranchers Billy English and James Nolan mourn the missing biscuits.
Ex Gov Martha Glynn of New York will lead the notification committee and formally inform the marshal. Vice President will respond as Gov Samuel Ralston of Indiana introduces Glynn.
Governor John B. Kendrick of Sheridan and city attorney John D. Clark of Cheyenne notified the Democratic state committee they would accept nominations tendered them in the recent Democratic primary for United States senator and congressman. The committee reorganized with S. G. Hopkins reelected chairman and Patrick Quealey named treasurer. A secretary will be named later. T. Taliaferro declined presidential elector consideration and A. M. Brock was nominated for elector.
The D A R unveiled a monument at the site of old Fort Walbeck near Cheyenne Pass on Labor Day. A public celebration featured Dr Grace Raymond Hebard of the University of Wyoming delivering a history address. The pyramid concrete monument stands eight and a half feet high.
Wyoming state news covers upcoming county fairs in Laramie, Park, Green River, Big Horn, and Douglas, plus Basin building activity and a cloudburst washing out a power plant. Oil development expands in Fremont, Converse and Lost Cabin areas as new companies file incorporation papers and existing fields show activity. An unknown man dies theft attempt in Green River, weather records note Thermopolis heat, and other local notes include a bishop’s nephew killed in France, a Wind River leasing bill signed by Wilson, and Guard forces reshaping pending War Department guidance.
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