Wyoming oil and fair news from early 20th century pages
Wyoming counties host fairs and oil activity expands as Powell hospital opens while Newhouse leads Utah capitalists into Powder River dome. The Midwest Refining and Kinney Oil drill firms push deep wells. schools delay reopenings due to smallpox. tax rates rise in Cheyenne. executives die in a freight wreck near Casper. Sixteen banks form in eight months amid fiscal and highway coordination talks.
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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
Kinney Oland Refining Company
Kinney Company
State Bank Examiner
Newlin
Wyoming Crop Report Signals Larger Wheat Potatoes and Hay Yields
The September Wyoming crop report shows winter wheat at 1,340,000 bushels and spring wheat at 3,110,000, with oats 10,010,000, potatoes 3,780,000 and all hay 1,260,000 tons. Prices list wheat at 21.7 and 11.9 cents, oats 10.7 and 5.6, potatoes 13.4 and 13.0, hay 14.60 and 9.60 per ton, eggs 40 and 28 cents.
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Union News Service
Cheyenne
Wyoming
Bureau
Weather Bureau
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Walsh bill to open naval reserve acreage sparks Wyoming oil boom
Prominent oil men forecast the Walsh bill opening naval reserve acreage will mark an epoch in Wyoming oil development and may triple daily output. Eighty capped wells in Naval Reserve No. 2 Teapot Dome district could be tapped once the bill passes. Ring found near Lovell after twenty years helps identify Mrs. W. F. Hunt via initials, reported by Mrs. Leland Harris.
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Casper
Naval Reserve
Wyoming
Naval Reserve No. 2
Teapot Dome
Lovell
W. F. Hunt
Leland Harris
Mines and Bridges Damaged by Cloudburst at Cumberland Camp
Mines and bridges near the Cumberland camp were damaged when a cloudburst caused the Little Muddy to overflow its banks, inundating nearby works and access routes. Local crews assess the aftermath and begin repairs.
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Kemmerer
Cumberland
Fire Destroys Asylum Building in Evanston
A blaze at Evanston insane asylum gut a building on the third story and burned to the basement. Guards and city volunteers evacuated all 120 inmates to a new facility with no loss of life. Loss estimated at 76000 dollars, insured.
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Evanston
Green River
Evanston Insane Asylum
Mining and Oil News Highlights Across Western Fields
Western Newspaper Union News Service reports varied metals pricing with lead at 94 percent to 106, bar silver at 95, copper coating at 24.12 per unit, and tungsten concentrates at 17.00 per unit. Cripple Creek district produced 102,268 tons in August with strong mill efficiency and dividend payouts totaling 167,000. Numerous mines and mills across Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming show continued activity, shale oil shipments to England, smelter expansions, and new refinery and drilling ventures amid growing ore shipments and high-grade discoveries.
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Tinion News Serviee
New York
St. Louis
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
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 Major Tax Hikes
The Senate approved a war revenue bill totaling 2.41 billion dollars, removing proposed taxes on tea coffee sugar and molasses and outlining levies on income higher earners and profits. It calls for taxing war profits from steel trusts and expanding taxes on travel freight telegraph and long distance calls.
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Union News Service
Washington
Senate
House
Smoot
McKellar
Steel Trust
Wilson demands purge in Sweden over neutrality breach
President Wilson views Sweden's neutrality violation in the Argentine affair as grave and seeks removal of pro German officials shaping Stockholm policy. State Department disclosures tie Sweden to secret Berlin channels, with Lansing releasing only part of the evidence. Elsewhere, Joliet prison riot injures a guard and prisoner amid inmate clashes. one convict was shot and three guards stabbed.
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Washington
Wilson
Sweden
Stockholm
Lansing
Berlin
Joliet
Status Quo Peace Plea by Germany
London reports that officials expect a definite peace offer from Germany before winter proposing immediate cessation of hostilities on a status quo basis. Entente statesmen would refuse such terms, but German leaders view it as a step to shape public opinion for further concessions.
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Germany
London
Berkman Raises 25000 Cash Ball Then Rearrested
Alexander Berkman, anarchist, raised twenty five thousand dollars in a cash ball to fund his pending appeal from conviction in antidraft conspiracies and was rearrested upon leaving the Tombs by central office detectives on request from San Francisco authorities. They seek him to explain alleged ties to a July 1916 preparedness day bombing that killed seven people.
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New York
Alexander Berkman
Wberry
Central Office
San Francisco
Government Control Ends Open Market Wheat Trade
The government wheat corporation assumes full charge of wheat entering the market on Sept 10. Millers may previously buy openly at fixed government prices but must now deal with Food Administration agents. Local agents plan to permit both outside and local millers to purchase wheat, with Gilver at 67 1/2 percent, highest since 1891 in New York as Gilver was quoted.
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Chicago
Government Wheat Corporation
Food Administration
Judge Julian Mack A Civil War Era Pension Advocate
Judge Julian Mack born in San Francisco and long Chicago jurist, Harvard Law graduate 1877, Harvard Berlin and Leipzig studies, Northwestern and University of Chicago professor, Cook County judge, U S circuit judge and Taft Commerce Court appointee. In a recent interview he argued for a twofold aim of winning the war and giving a square deal to soldiers families, urging maintenance of dependents until service members return.
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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 Profiles Bell and Naylor
Maj. Gen. George Bell Jr born January 23 1859 in Maryland is named to command Camp Logan Houston at age 58. His career spans West Point 1876 graduation 1880 rank progression and multiple infantry roles. Lt. Col. W. E. K. Naylor Bell’s chief of staff, born November 24 1874 in Illinois, rose from Minnesota National Guard to Ninth Infantry and attended staff and army war colleges.
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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
Fuel Ruler Named as Garfield Sets Wheat Price Control
Dr. Harry A. Garfield president of Williams College is named coal director with authority to administer fuel provisions of the food control act. He outlines a tentative program including a licensing system modeled after Hoover scheme for wheat. Government will not commandeer mines unless required. retail prices remain to be fixed. Wilson order prescribes maximum coal prices at mines from 4 to 5.30 per ton with 75 cents extra regionally, and caps on jobbers profits for bituminous coal at 15 cents per ton.
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Harry A. Garfield
Williams College
Garfield
Herbert OC. Hoover
Wilson
National Council of Defense
French aviation expert among foreign war instructors in U S
The article notes several French military instructors in the United States teaching modern warfare techniques. French aviation expert Capt Henry Dourif leads aviation instruction, with Maj L W B Rees of England and Maj BR Perfetti of Italy, forming a trio of foreign advisers aiding American forces.
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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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Nder
Afton
Ont
Federation of Women's Clubs
Thermopollis
Scottish Rite Masons
Young Oil Company
Midwest Refining
Board of County Commissioners
Department of Agriculture
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
Arizona
Duquesne
Patagonila
New Cornelia
Ajo
Arizona Binghampton
Ruby Copper Company
Pinal
Colorado
Madagascar
Gunnison County
Imperial Oil and Shale Refining Corporation
Debeque
Doctor
Taylor Park
Tin Cup
Leadville
Grey Eagle
Carbonate Hill
Montana
Anaconda Copper Company
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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