Wyoming Oil Boom and Health, Taxes Dominate State News
Wyoming reports show oil development expanding with Kinney Oland and Midwest refiners drilling in Big Muddy and Greybull areas. Hospitals advance at Powell and Glenrock, while Goshen counties delay schools due to smallpox. Tax increases hit Cheyenne property owners as new rural post road funds flow from federal aid.
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Powell Hospital
Douglas
Glenrock
Masons
Cheyenne
Big Muddy
Midwest
Greybull
M. J. Egan
Casper
W. M. Marx
Casper Ellis
Kemmerer
Diamondville
Aladdin Company
Alderdice
Eastern Star
Merritt
Ohio Oil Company
Board of Health
Goshen County
Lusk
Cheyenne Business College
Utah
Sam Newhouse
Wyoming
Powder River Dome
Wyatt Oil & Refining Company
Brewning Basin
Wall Creek
Commissioner of Internal Revenue Osborne
Washington
State Highway Commission
Eric R. Anderson
Frank Cross
Northwestern
Walton
Roland Philbrook
Philadelphia Divinity School
Episcopal Church
J. W. Cavender
Third Wyoming Infantry
Houston
Department of Agriculture
Kinney Oland Refining Company
Kinney Company
State Bank Examiner
Newlin
Wyoming Crop Report Shows Larger Wheat Oats Potatoes Hay
Wyoming crop data indicate higher yields for wheat oats potatoes and hay versus last year. September forecasts list winter and spring wheat oats potatoes and hay production with price contrasts from Sept 1 to last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union News Service
Cheyenne
Wyoming
Bureau
Weather Bureau
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Walsh bill could spur Wyoming oil boom at Teapot Dome
Prominent oil men predict passage of the Walsh bill opening naval reserve acreage will mark an epoch in Wyoming oil development and may triple daily output. Eighty wells in the Teapot Dome naval reserve No 2 could be opened once the bill passes. In Lovell, a ring lost twenty years ago by Mrs. W F Hunt was found by Mrs. Leland Harris and identified by initials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Casper
Naval Reserve
Wyoming
Naval Reserve No. 2
Teapot Dome
Lovell
W. F. Hunt
Leland Harris
Mines and Bridges Damaged by Cloudburst
Mines and bridges near Cumberland were damaged by a cloudburst that caused the Little Muddy River to overflow its banks affecting the camp area.
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Kemmerer
Cumberland
Fire Destroy Asylum in Evanston Gutts Building
A blaze at Evanston asylum destroyed a third story building and burned to the basement endangering 120 inmates. Guards and volunteers moved all inmates to a new building with no loss of life. Origin of the fire remains unknown and losses are estimated at 76000 dollars, insured.
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Evanston
Green River
Evanston Insane Asylum
Mining and Oil News Highlights Across Western Districts
Mining and oil notes report Cripple Creek August ore tonnage 102,265 at $11.11 per ton with $1,137,000 bullion. Anaconda Copper April–August outputs vary from 11,175,000 to 28,800,000 lbs copper. Smelters at Waldo to handle Socorro county ores. Oil shale shipped to England. Wyoming and New Mexico activity includes Riverton refinery plans and Hanover sine sulfides development.
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Cripple Creek
Portland Gold Mining and Milling Company
Victor
Independence
Cresson Consolidated Gold Mining and Milling Company
Deny
Pueblo
Dg. M. Mill
C.c. Ret
Ind. Cc
C.c
England
Imperial Oil and Shale Refining Corporation
Debeque
Doctor
Taylor Park
Tin Cup
Leadville
Grey Eagle
Carbonate Hill
Anaconda Copper Company
Grubneau and Bryant
Waldo
Socorro County
Empire Copper Company of
Santa Rita
State Corporation Commission
United States Copper Company
Water Cafton
Socorro
Magdalena
War Revenue Bill Passes Senate With Hefty Tax Increases
Western Newspaper Union News Service reports the war revenue bill passed the Senate 69 to 4 after removing consumption taxes on tea coffee sugar and molasses. The measure aims to raise about 2.5 billion dollars in new revenue plus 1.33 billion from existing laws and includes taxes on liquor tobacco stamps income and various business profits.
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Union News Service
Washington
Senate
House
Smoot
McKellar
Steel Trust
Wilson demands Swedish personnel shakeup over neutrality breach
President Wilson views Sweden's neutrality violation in the Argentine affair as serious and seeks removal of pro German officials in Stockholm. Secretary Lansing reveals messages hinting Sweden as a Berlin conduit, with the public mostly not pro German but wary rulers may push toward the Teutonic camp. In Joliet Illinois, fifty prisoners rioted at the state prison with one convict shot and three guards injured.
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Washington
Wilson
Sweden
Stockholm
Lansing
Berlin
Joliet
Status Quo Peace Plea by Germany
London reports an expected German peace offer before winter proposing a status quo ceasefire. Entente leaders would reject such terms, but German leaders see it as a step to shift public opinion and enable further concessions.
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Germany
London
Berkman Raises $25,000 Ball for Appeal
Alexander Berkman anarchist raised a $25 000 cash ball to fund his pending appeal from conviction on antidraft conspiracy charges and was rearrested outside the Tombs by central office detectives at San Francisco authorities request to explain alleged ties to the July 1916 preparedness day bombing that killed seven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Alexander Berkman
Wberry
Central Office
San Francisco
Government Control of Wheat Market in Chicago
The government wheat corporation took full charge of Wheat entering Chicago on September 10. Millers may still buy in the open market at government fixed prices, but henceforth must deal with Food Administration agents. Local agents plan to allow both outside and local millers to buy wheat, with a quotation of Gilver at 67 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Government Wheat Corporation
Food Administration
Judge Julian Mack Aims for a Square Deal for War Fighters
In an interview Judge Julian Mack, veteran of Chicago courts and a Taft appointee to the federal circuit, outlines pension system flaws and calls for government to win the war and provide full support for soldiers families. He stresses protecting dependent wives children and parents from want until servicemen return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julian Mack
Germany
San Francisco
Chicago
Harvard
Berlin
Leipzig
Northwestern University
University of Chicago
Circuit Court
Cook Country
United States Circuit Court
Illinois
New Commerce Court
Taft
Mack
Secretary of the Treasury
Command at Camp Logan Forms as Bell Heads Texas Post
Maj. Gen. George Bell Jr. is designated to command Camp Logan in Houston. Born January 23, 1859 in Maryland, he rose from West Point in 1880 to captain in 1898 and to lieutenant colonel in 1911, attaining general rank in 1914. His aide, Lieut. Col. William E. K. Naylor, born November 24, 1874 in Illinois, began in the Minnesota National Guard and advanced through infantry and staff colleges to the Army War College by 1910.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Bell, Jr
Camp Logan
Houston
Maryland
United States Military Academy
West Point
Cornell
Sixteenth Infantry
William EK. Naylor
Bell
Illinois
Minnesota National Guard
Ninth Infantry
United States Army
Infantry and Cavalry School
Staff College
Army War College
Williams College’s Garfield Named Coal Director for Fuel Act
Dr. Harry A. Garfield president of Williams College is appointed coal director with full authority to administer fuel provisions. He outlines a tentative program including a licensing system modeled after Hoover's wheat scheme. Wilson’s order fixes coal prices and limits jobbers profits, aiming to curb retail costs through public sentiment and transparent wholesale pricing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry A. Garfield
Williams College
Garfield
Herbert OC. Hoover
Wilson
National Council of Defense
French aviation expert among foreign officers aiding US war effort
Article notes several French military instructors in the United States. Capt Henry Dourif leads aviation guidance alongside Maj L W B Rees of England and Maj BR Perfetti of Italy. French specialists train US Army surgeons, artillery, camouflage, and drill sergeants in modern warfare techniques.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvard
America
United States Army
Col. KB. Cercle
Fort Monroe
Virginia
Henry Dourif
L. W. B Rees
England
BR. Perfetti
Italy
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Foutern
Jason News Bervice
Burris
Rawhins
Nder
Afton
Ont
Federation of Women's Clubs
Thermopollis
Scottish Rite Masons
Young Oil Company
Midwest Refining
Board of County Commissioners
Wyoming Crop Report
Cody
Union
Valentine Colonna
W. H. Miller
Buffalo Bill
Uncle Sam
France
Burlington
Shoshoni
McCoomb
Owens- McCoy
Torrington
Rawlings
Bill Wiii
Mining and Oil News
Tinion News Serviee
St. Louis
Arizona
Duquesne
Patagonila
New Cornelia
Ajo
Arizona Binghampton
Ruby Copper Company
Pinal
Colorado
Madagascar
Gunnison County
Montana
New Mexico
Big Bear Company
Riverton Wyoming Refining Company
Riverton
Griffith of Compeany
Salt Creek
Denver Oland Refining Company
Luxburg
Berkman
Gilves
Gilver
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