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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1908
Page
4
Pilot, owned by Marshal Naylin and Lloyd Geary, famous for clever tricks, suffers a bad sprain after a wheel passed over his front leg. He has endured pain but is recovering with medical relief and will soon resume his canine prominence in Kemmerer.
The Citizens Health committee issues a city wide circular urging precautions to stamp out the dread plague. It traces transmission to rats and fleas, notes winter declines and summer returns, and warns of possible quarantine if cases rise.
A Wyoming proclamation enforces a one year quarantine forbidding the shipment of certain cattle, with a health certificate required for movement. The order cites public protection and references the state veterinary authority and officers in Cheyenne.
John Hay of Rock Springs pitches Utah smelters to Green River City offering 600000, land, perpetual water rights, and coal at $2 per ton. He argues water is abundant, cites Utah smelter shutdowns hurting 20000 jobs, and says Green River will welcome the industry. Smeltermen to decide after return home.
A garbled mixture of song phrases and a legal notice appears, listing titles such as Goodbye Sweet Marie and More with Me alongside a divorce petition notice. The legal matter names Evelyn Phil and Robert A Philp in a Wyoming district court. dates and details are obscured by OCR errors.
The notice states the Democratic State convention is called for Thursday May 14 in Cheyenne. It will nominate three presidential electors a congressman six delegates and six alternates to the National convention in Denver July 6 and select candidates for judges of the first second and third judicial districts. Also advertises Finest Rosaries and Quaker Maid Rye from Cleveland's Ware Food Law distributor.
The notice states an intention to make final proof for a homestead claim in area Frontier Hints County Wyoming. Hearing to verify continuous residence and cultivation of the claimed land. Witnesses named include George McKinney and James Lees of Kemmerer along with others. Prepared by register Thomas V. Davis.
Thomas F P Hickman of Cokeville Wyoming files notice of his intention to make final commutation proof for a land claim. Vaughn Hufford commissioner at Cokeville will preside with witnesses listed to prove residence, irrigation and cultivation in the claim area. Mary V Harbord of Fokeville also files similar notice with names of witnesses and dates in Evanston and Cokeville.
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