Sequoia National Park Declared Rich in Giants and History
Sequoia National Park, 24 years old, holds vast groves of ancient redwoods including General Sherman and Abraham Lincoln trees. The park spans 161,597 acres with 13 dense groups, hosts gleaming peaks and golden trout, and carries a legacy linked to John Muir and early explorers.
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Sequoia National Park
Rockies
Yellowstone
Yosemite
Sequoia
John Muir
R. B. Marshall
California
Yosemite Valley
Yosemite National Park
Tuolumne
United States
General Sherman
Abraham Lincoln
William McKinley
General Grant National Park
Whaworth Huntington
Staan
Egypt
Rome
Muir Grove
Dalton
Garfield Grove
General
Greybull Gusher Floods Town With High Grade Oil
A two day intermittent flow near Greybull Wyoming formed a lake of top grade petroleum near Burlington railroad tracks. Driller Charles Stubbs of Denver capped the well, estimated at up to 500 barrels per day during eruption, later about 300. Oil stored by Greybull Refining Company while Stubbs plans further drilling on 250 acres.
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Greybull
Wyo
Burlington Railroad
Charles ©. Stubbs
Denver
Greybull Refining Company
Stubbs
Wyoming State Fair Announces Sept 27 to Oct 1
The Wyoming State Fair will run September 27 to October 1 in Douglas with many new features. Highlights include a trotting ostrich on the half mile track in under a minute and searchlights to illuminate the fair grounds and town for evening street entertainments. The Wyoming Old Timers Association has set the dates for its annual meeting.
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Douglas
Wyoming
Wyoming Old Timers’ Association
Miner Dies in Cave-In Near Town
Gillette resident Gillette H R Brooke died after a mine cave in while he and C L Broadhurst were digging coal south of town. Broadhurst was badly bruised but escaped and alerted nearby residents. Powder River Kid dug Brooke out but he was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Gillette
H. R. Brooke
C. L. Broadhurst
Broadhurst
Powder River
Brooke
Douglas Militiamen Capture State Cup in Wyoming
Rifle range scores from the Third regiment of the Wyoming National Guard encampments show Company F of Douglas winning with 1746 points, followed by Company G of Cheyenne with 1677 and Company A of Newcastle with 1636. Winners will hold the militia cup until another unit seizes it.
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Douglas
Cheyenne
Wyoming National Guard
Newcastle
Sheridan
Livestock Graded Under Permit on Wyoming Forests
A forestry HQ report for the 1916 fiscal year ending June shows 670,581 head of livestock were grazed on Wyoming national forests under Denver office jurisdiction. Of these, 91,067 were cattle and horses and 679,514 were sheep.
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Wyoming
Forestry Headquarters
National Forests of
Denver
Do Dolan Recovers 1150 In damages from RF case
In Kimball Nebraska District Court a jury awarded Do Dolan a total of 1150 dollars as damages for several homes he owned that were struck and killed by Union Pacific trains.
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Cheyenne
Kimball
Neb
Do Dolan
Amie County
Union Pacific
Sheepherder Sentenced In Gillette Case
James MacDonald a sheepherder received eight to twelve years in the penitentiary for shooting and wounding his employer C A Gilkey after a wage dispute at the Gilkey ranch. The article notes a second poisoning incident where the b year old son of Charles Tethers died and other family members recovered after spoiled canned food poisoned the household.
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Gillette
James MacDonald
C. A. Gilkey
Gilkey Ranch
Charles Tethers
Wyoming News State Fair Dates and Local Happenings
Wyoming report highlights fairs in Evanston Kane Natrona Big Horn and Douglas with the eleventh state fair in December at Douglas. Other items note Burns Cheyenne day crowds, sugar beets, war horses, rail yard improvements, army worms, suicides and accidents, capitol wing construction, University enrollment, Post Office fire, notarial commissions, attendance growth at the University, and diverse local happenings across towns like Upton Cokeville Douglas and Rock Springs.
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Evanston
Kane
Big Horn
Douglas
Wyoming
Cheyenne
Burns
Cody
Rawlins
Upton
Gillette
Saratoga
Dan Domnash
Worland
State College
Jireh
Claude Rush
Horton
B. C. Noble
Sundance
John Monay
Gunn
University of Wyoming At
Laramie
Cc. E. Lynch
Cokeville
U. S
C. D. Clark
Portland
Ore
Murray
Frank Miller
Rock Springs
Manhattan
Crook County
Frank W. Williams
Pauline Schill
Joseph A. Sedlacek
van Tassell
Burge
Wyo
Chicago
Sheridan
Little Goose Creek
Beaver Creek
José Torres
Colorado State Penitentiary
Carlon City
Dr. Long
Sheridan Min Futer
Medicine Mountain
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Ad
A grandmotherly endorsement from Lackawanna New York features Mrs A F Kreammer praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief from "weak tired feeling" after childbirth. The ad claims the product cures displacements inflammation ulcers and other female ailments and invites letters for confidential advice from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Lackawanna
N. Y
E. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mra
A. F. KreamMer
Electric Avenue
Lydia E. Pinkar
V. le Com
Lynn
Mass
How Could They Fishing Trip Fib Be Real
A terse exchange hints Jones caught many fish but refuses to speak, fearing disbelief. The remark implies a notable, perhaps unbelievable, fishing tale and a quiet, wary witness. The dialogue centers on credibility and secrecy surrounding Jones's claimed success.
The Lantern Quest for Honest Men
A wry remark contrasts Diogenes hunting with a lantern to the stubborn belief that a lie becomes truth, mingling odd asides about grocers and uncleared phrases while suggesting how honesty and perception clash in public life.
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Sequoia. National Park
Wyoming News
Western Newspaper Union News Service
Kendrick
N. J
James Douglas Glage
Ina
Gs Dle
Jeraey City
Glass
Prankoe
Public Safety
Jersey City
Babe Billett
Fletcher
Diogenes
Dean
Colorado
A.B. Mcphenzie
Ius Foster" Surn CO
Buffalo
N, Y
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