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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1912
Page
9
Mayor Folger and the Kemmerer town council celebrate a new ordinance setting strict speed limits. Vehicles may not exceed 1 mile per hour on streets and public ways including Frontier road, 10 mph on the triangle, and 6 mph when turning corners to prevent accidents and injuries.
The Big Fight Award from Bill Moreland notes Oxmando and Cordove cigars sponsors will run The Osmando Special. An electric lighted train with dining cars will take fans from Denver to Las Vegas for the Johnson Flynn championship fight. Round trip with berth is 95 dollars with reservations required before June.
Intermountain Good Roads Convention set for Logan Utah from June Vth to Mth. Round trip from Kemmerer priced at 10 dollars and 80 cents. Tickets available June 10th 11th and 12th, valid for return through June 17th. Try Pellegrini's ice cream.
In Judge Rosenberg's court Saturday evening four Frontier residents Andrew Stuck Paul Sekerak John Covich and John Bamar faced a criminal assault charge for beating Frank Eckosky while he aided another man being attacked The jury found Stuck and Sekerak guilty and Covich and Bamar not guilty The judge fined Stuck twenty dollars and Sekerak five dollars with costs split among witnesses and parties involved.
The Interstate Commerce Commission ordered new freight rates on wool shipments from western states that become law and are expected to save growers in Colorado Wyoming New Mexico Arizona and Utah up to 400 000 annually. The rates replace the old pricing to Boston with 18 cents per hundred pounds from blanket territory and 182 per two hundred for 34 miles. The through rate from Ogden Salt Lake and similar points drops to 179 per hundred a 41 cent cut.
Paul Paulson of Rock Springs attended a Kemmerer visit after helping organize the Rocky Mountain Association of the United Mine Workers of America in Butte Montana. The body unites four northwestern districts and two Canadian districts representing about 51 900 coal miners, with annual meetings and aims to coordinate wage talks and safety measures.
President Taft signed a three year homestead bill on June 6 altering requirements for public landEntry. It shortens proof time to three years with five months absence annually and lowers large-claim acreage to 40 acres. The act allows electing to use prior law within ninety days, preserving seven year final proof for some entrants. Local mentions praise from Wyoming delegation and Industry notes on related mining and railroad developments.
Citizens praise the new route from Graham’s to the gap via Willow Creek ranch and Rich and Earl Hamilton’s area. Freighters and locals report smoother travel and high marks for the surface, noting it is now a well-used, satisfactory thoroughfare.
Mr and Mrs L. Nelson Sr of White Cloud Kansas arrived in Opal last to visit their Montenelly ranch on the Muddy near Montenelly. Nelson brought a gasoline engine from his fort to operate the Wyoming ranch where he plans to cultivate plus one hundred acres this season. Joe Cardenis returns from Troy New York after visiting son Bert at the Polytechnic Institute. Bert plans a summer trip to Cuba with a party of government engineers. Bart overcomes illness and operation and completes his studies a year before graduation.
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