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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1909
Page
7
April 5 1800 minutes show Connell and attendees approving reports and offers. Entries cite a county liquor license, court actions, salaries, and bills including attorney, police, and blacksmith payments. Several names and local vendors appear alongside totals and references to charges.
The State Superintendent of Public Instruction A. L. Cook has finished the apportionment of school funds derived from public lands. The distribution among counties is based on the number of school children. The total enrollment is about 7507, with the amount per pupil shown in the table for each county, highlighting Uinta and others in the traditional division. The report illustrates the enduring application of apportionment laws to fund schools across the state.
Clarence T. Johnston summarizes two year progress in Wyoming water permits for irrigation. 1,35% acres are diverted at about 613,044. Sections show canals and district officers. The report highlights land reclamation costs and lists contacts for land sales in Encampment Wyoming.
Judge David Bagley of Granger reports Hagley preparing a western Wyoming ranch for planting. Four horses plow 230 acres with water via ditch to irrigate about 1 400 acres. Seed from Eric country, 2 000 pounds ready. Fall plowing praised. officials invite Western Wyoming farmers to visit.
Notice warns flock owners that Circular No. 26 requires sheep be dipped once in April under official oversight. The directive imposes a tax on all sheep in Wy except those in certain counties, with penalties for noncompliance and details remaining unclear due to damaged text.
The new brand law requires compiling a state brand book listing all brands for horses cattle sheep and other livestock with designations of their locations. Mr Durbin announces the publication after January and county clerks must record current brands while stockmen present state board certificates.
A mass attack by masked horsemen in Big Horn County left Joseph Ademan Joe Enge and Joe Laker owners of Huck dead near Melia Jeep. The assailants looted the camp burned a wagon and abducted two herders, scattering remaining sheep as authorities seek the culprits. George Spencer reports Elk Coal stockholders meeting approved briquetting plant plans and elected officers including J M Jensen president and Edgar Hill treasurer.
The International Consolidated Oil Company of Spring Valley will bring one Prichard oil rig to their property one mile east of Kemmerer and install it late this month. Oil field work is expected to begin soon with spring activity likely to increase.
H George Nichols of Cokevalle son of Mr and Mrs Murry Nichols lost sight after a harness mending accident. A wall clip pierced his eye and doctors fear the sight cannot be saved. He had already lost the other eye eight years ago and has since faced family sorrows including the death of their daughter Gladys last summer.
In Montpelier last Tuesday the city elected Mayor Frank Jones City Clerk W J Ryan Treasurer Fred Marion Police Judge S P Stanley Engineer Edward Marder and council members for wards one through three. Democratic and Republican contenders split votes among candidates, with several races including J M Phelps John J Jones Mike Malone BE I Quyon William M Roberts and Richard Dirou among the named figures.
Jack Canoy of Big Piney who left in February for St Louis to join the Monarchy Company arrived with his bride on Saturday and departed for Piney country on Monday. He married Miss Marie Bertalott of Unangeville after a short stop in Freeport. The couple plans to move to a ranch near Lafe Gettin Hore camp and improve it.
Carbon County Wool Growers' Association had charged Sheriff McCourt of Sweetwater County with offenses. The Sweetwater County commissioners met Tuesday and unanimously adopted a resolution exonerating him, finding him not guilty of the charges. Fred Burt assumed duties from Perry Mendricks and continues with regular tasks and spring elevation work.
The Town Council of Kemmerer Wyoming enacts Ordinance 60 for the annual appropriation to the town treasury for the fiscal year beginning May 1 and ending June 1. It states emergency repeal of prior ordinances and immediate effect after passage. Passed April Mth by the Kemmerer Town Council.
Notice announces a land unit sale in Evanston with details about parcels and parties involved. The document lists filing and auction terms and names officials overseeing the sale.
Beginning last week, the Rawlins Republican will appear as a weekly, a change the paper had contemplated for some time.
Local strife over morals and business stirs Saratoga town affairs as community debate grows about progress and public welfare.
The governor appoints three provisional county commissioners for Park County. They set temporary headquarters and call a special election for May 4 to reject county officials.
The Sheridan Enterprise urges Cheyenne to withhold the new court house proposition, arguing Wyoming will soon move the state capital to a more central location and Cheyenne could use the old capitol building as a court house.
Secretary Wil son of the U S department of agriculture has banned bleached white flour. Mills will discontinue white flour production and switch to golden flour due to concerns that white flour is nutritionally deficient, indigestible, and harmful to teeth.
Law raises district judge salaries but Judge Carpenter elected last fall may not receive pay during his six year term. If true, it would be an injustice to current judges and suggests the act’s intent is being evaded.
James K. Moore Jr, awarded a Shoshone beef supply contract for 235000 pounds this year at 4.23 per hundred, compares with last year 4.48. Cattle prices are higher now, yet the contractor can supply meat cheaper than last year, raising questions about profits and fairness.
Green River city council approved an ordinance at the last meeting aimed at regulating moving picture shows operating between towns. The measure seeks to bar fake films and outdated content and requires secure, fireproof projection rooms, proper lamp types, and specific screen dimensions to protect local exhibitors’ interests.
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