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Newspaper
Laramie County Times
Location
Wheatland, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1907
Page
8
The Laramie County Times reports growing concern over healthy adults who carry typhoid germs. A Philadelphia Ledger note highlights how a single cook’s five year service in 26 households produced multiple typhoid cases, prompting calls for stricter health checks of household staff.
The piece discusses recreation for factory workers highlighting clubs, outdoor games, gym routines, and noon dances. It notes roof gardens in Dublin, Pittsburg, and New York as model improvements to keep workers engaged and away from idling in streets.
The Hindoo editor faces jail for printing his views as the British government risks turning him into a popular hero. Chicago Daily News notes a prison term may be forgotten but public support could outlast official action, offering a dubious consolation and possible better jail grub.
The passage notes Thuringia as a center for glass eye making with households functioning as small eye factories. Four men work at a table shaping brown eyes by hand using gas jets, plates, and molds, with 28 color rules ensuring uniqueness. It adds a policy that next year skirts will be longer and looser to conceal curves, suggesting historical fashion influence.
Aged 14 Mias Robb of Edinburgh has died. He served in the Royal Navy and was granted state pension relief at birth.Legacy plans are not detailed in current reports.
Boise reports swirl around Pettibone’s ties to Pinkerton agents amid the trial. Defense lawyers deny the association while prosecutors press to prove Pettibone’s role as a spy within the Western Federation of Miners. The alleged inside man could alter Orchard and Haywood testimony, and Pettibone’s on‑stand stance remains pivotal.
A. B. Carlton and wife bring Charl ey Neville to Idaho as a key witness for the state. The boy may reveal movements of Orchard and his links to federation officials, with Carlisle fearing possible poisoning of John Neville. Carlton vows to guard the boy until his testimony.
Harry Orchard, convicted murderer of former Governor Stevenberg and eighteen others, is brought to Caldwell to face Judge Wood as the Haywood case in Boise adjourns for a continuance. Orchard seeks counsel. Frank Wyman appointed Boise attorney per consent. Trial date to be set after Boise cases against Haywood, Moyer, and Pettibone are resolved. Sean Coe returned to the penitentiary.
Former Governor C B Thomas endorses Roosevelt land policy as an improvement over current practice. He defends the president's reform program, cites land abuses, and argues federal control of public domain is essential for conservation and national interests.
Colorado irrigation leaders and Washington officials held two conferences on Rio Grande water rights in the San Luis Valley. The effort aims to modify an Interior Department order blocking new irrigation in the valley, potentially allowing new reservoirs to serve southern Colorado and northern New Mexico. Key participants included Ballinger Carpenter Guggenheim Haggett Bonynge and Secretary Garfield.
State rests in the Ray H. Presler murder case against Cheyenne officer C. H. Edwards, with Presler reportedly claiming he mistook Edwards for John Anderson who had attacked him earlier. The defense seeks self defense as a key element in the proceedings.
Mor mon resident Thomas Spiers was killed by a cavern at the mines and his body crushed. Wool sales reach 60,000 pounds at 12 cents a pound, a record in Carbon county. A Crumley daughter born to a colored couple in Laramie. Garrett Lowham dies at Evanston round house. Albany County library buys Histories of the World set. Ray Preslar murder trial venue in Cheyenne. Union Pacific and Sweetwater mines resume with 10 percent wage increase. Coal prices drop 25 cents a ton to encourage summer storage. Gill survey party near Mountain Home for North Park extension. Oregon Short Line eyes branch from Kemmerer to Cottonwood. Ballinger begins western land office inspection tour. Morriwon tabernacle work paused for robin nest. moved to save eggs. Wool market gains with clean clips selling. Casper reports sluggish sales and prices 16–22 cents. Haley Patterson Haley wool sold at 22½ cents. large Wyoming sale totals mentioned.
The article presents Orchard’s dramatic confession as a vivid, troubling testimony that sways but does not prove guilt. It notes defense skeptics doubting his claims while highlighting the trial’s core issue: no solid evidence links Haywood or others to the Steunenberg murder.
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