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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1903
Page
1
The Kemmerer area reports a busy period with arrests and legal actions. A Cheyenne murder case ends in a four year penitentiary sentence after a guilty plea. Local business ads note fruit shipments and repainting while several residents travel, visit kin, or pursue fishing. An Austrian miner dies from a rock fall in Cumberland and mass will be held in Kemmerer.
Mire Johns of New York, staying at a hotel near Glacier Point in the Yonotaln Valley, fell from a steep precipice after dark while walking to view Ct Instres. She landed on a ledge well below, bruised but alive, and was found by a searching party the next day. Her age and condition are uncertain, but she survived with only injuries from the fall.
A vast landslide roared from a mountain range between Uray and San Miguel counties into the Silver Creek basin on Saturday afternoon. Millions of tons of rock and ice toppled, with some boulders as large as skyscrapers. The Ben Hur mine narrowly escaped destruction as witnesses from the San Pedro mine watched the mountain mass plunge into the basin.
Bulletin updates on the Pope's condition note periods of calm and rest with the August patient showing slight improvement in spirits. Dr. Lapponi cautions not declaring recovery, saying the patient is not worse but could linger for some time.
A Caldwell man Earl, married with two children, fled with 11 year old Blossom Small, an orphan, from their Idaho worksite. They were pursued near Huntington when Earl shot the girl and then killed himself. Both died within moments, ending a week of sensational Idaho incidents.
The church notes announce the final service for the conference year at the Methodist church on Sunday night July 24 with the student program titled The Past Present and Future. Special music is planned and the public is invited. There will be no preaching next Sunday night at the M F E Church.
A four year old brown horse with a circle brand on the shoulder and a white ring on one front foot and both hind feet went missing the night of June 1948. The animal has a long white blaze, a prominent lack bone with pula, and wears a rope halter. A reward of 8100 is offered for its return to Quong Wing in Diamondville Wyoming. Also notes a boy wanted to learn the printing trade at least sixteen years old with reading and spelling ability apply at the Camera office.
Petaman and Mail advertise 10 percent off summer suits with a call for bargains and cheap round trips to Baltimore. The notice also mentions an annual Grand Lodge meeting and Oregon Short Line tickets from Kemmerer for 800 dollars, with travel good to return.
Lew R. Henderson submits a detailed field report on the Slate Creek oil district near Kemmerer. He notes shale thickness from 20 to 60 feet with a 10 degree east dip, oil potential in shale and larger liquid oil at depth, multiple anticlines and waves guiding oil flow, and parallels to Casper Langford and Spring Valley fields. He predicts Wyoming's Slate Creek could become a major producer with proper development.
Kemmerer Fire Department hosted a ball last Thursday at the Opera House. A lively crowd enjoyed a well received supper and grand march. Profits helped offset costs with attendees from Frontier and local residents noted in this report.
Reports from the Hanna No 1 mine disaster describe rescue teams penetrating toward the main slope at entry 17, erecting stoppings, and battling black damp. Five rescuers fainted but recovered, air circulation efforts continue, and fire remains confined to hay and wood near the seventeenth entry. One Finnish survivor died at Rock Springs hospital.
Reports on Wyoming and Utah National Guard show too much drill absence and weak military methods. Officials hope government aid including instruction, inspections by regular army officers, and a $2,000,000 shared appropriation will improve readiness. Wyoming lists units in Basin, Cheyenne, Newcastle, Lander, Buffalo, Sheridan, Douglas with 23 officers and 414 men.
In Coppell Texas J I Rhea describes catarrh of the stomach caused by overloaded digestion and undigested food decaying in the stomach. He notes nerve irritation and gland involvement, effort to cure with medicines failing until Kortol Dyspepsia Cure is used, sold by Dr F Guynn.
Tickets for travel from Kemmerer to San Francisco offered by Oregon Short Line for the National encampment in August. Valid Aug 5 to Aug 22 with return options. Limited seats advertised at discounted fares, with departure and connection details in local notices.
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