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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1916
Page
11
The devil confronts a printer’s editor, accusing years of bearing blame for paper errors and unpaid readers. The exchange ends with the editor being cast out to avoid further disorder from delinquent subscribers as a strange fate unfolds in a clipped, archaic tone.
In Cheyenne a district court suit by Laramie county school district No. 2 seeks a court order forcing county commissioners to levy a general tax to fund $200 for each teacher who has taught at least six months. If successful, about $12,000 more would be added to the county fund. Other rural districts seek similar shares, challenging the attorney general’s view that rural schools are “grade schools” not entitled to funds without six months’ attendance.
Finnest Stinson of Granger has leased the Lyceum bar the theatre and rooming house in Kemmerer for five years and will move with Mrs. Stinson to make Kemmerer their permanent home. He plans to reopen the picture show and undertake improvements while considering theatre plans. Stinson is well known in southwestern Wyoming and will be welcomed back to Kemmerer.
Mia, Frank Pfeifer and daughter Marjorie traveled Sunday to Cheyenne and Laramie. They plan to be in Laramie on June 6 for Mrs. Ethel Pfeifer's graduation from the State University and will return home afterward.
The text discusses small rural districts facing high per pupil costs and seeking a court decision to reverse an attorney general opinion. It notes the district would receive about 6600 dollars for the year and argues that city taxpayers in Cheyenne would bear most of the levy while rural districts get unequal shares, prompting appeals for equitable distribution.
The third week closed with Judge Arnold’s Lincoln County court handling five jury cases and other motions, reducing the criminal docket, saving county costs. Sentences included Claude Bird 18 to 24 months, Roy Bird 12 to 18 months, James Little 18 to 24 months, John Connors three months, and Frank Prank five months. Several cases, including Walker, Allied, Frank Dryer, and George Edwards, yielded not guilty or acquittal verdicts. Roy Bird was tried first, then Claud Bird and noted prosecution by the Big Piney Cat and Horseowners association in a cattle theft inquiry linking to Dryer pasture boot prints.
Marshall Reynolds prosecuted for the state with Robert K R Rose for the defense. The jury found Edwards not guilty after testimony questioned whether the water notice was posted and if the headgate had been opened by a new employee while Edwards was away. The case highlighted alleged neglect by the water commissioner and the impact on Edwards crops.
The Civil Docket lists multiple cases including Dodson vs Jackson School District 24 where a demurrer was sustained and the use dismissed. Several money on appeal actions, foreclosures, and divorces are set for May and June. Names include Chrismas Adler Millinery Wy Wy, Peardon, Sneddon, Huck, Badd, Luce, Johnson, Hagley, Danvers, Westheimer, Bourne, Dunn, Duan, and McLeod. Jury and attachment motions noted with dates and times.
Damage suits by Sheriff Hansen, Deputy Udmundsen and McDougal seeking 110000 each against Fred Reardon were dismissed. Robert R. Rose, attorney for D. Bradford, withdrew the libel suit against Linenis County Publishing Co. which had been pending for several years.
In Alvin Allred's case charges of grand larceny were brought by Kelly Hamilton of Cokeville after Allred removed a house from land tied to a mortgage. The mortgage foreclosed. Allred claimed he did not know the house was also mortgaged. Marshall Reynolds aided the prosecution with W E B Mair of Rock Springs and Rt H Rose led the defense. the court directed a verdict for Allred, who was released.
The defendants Biale ve Hebert Newby and others faced charges over unlawfully killing sea birds. They pleaded guilty and were fined $100 each, allowed to pay on their own recognizance until able to settle, with the court noting the event as a season’s end and the families involved.
The case, a civil dispute over ownership of a cow, was appealed from the justice court after Reardon claimed a feed bill and later demanded the animal. O Neil had replevined the cow and won in district court via a brief jury verdict.
Mrs Frank Onaper underwent a double operation for rupture yesterday morning in Kemmerer. She came to visit her brother John Jenkins of Cumberland who had the surgery last week. Doctors Arbogast and Stafford performed the procedures with opposite side incisions while under anesthesia. Jenkins recuperation follows a prior illness.
Carl Cook was kept busy Saturday as clerk of courts handling petitions for citizenship. Six applications were filed, with two declarations and four more requests for certificates of landing prior to citizenship filings.
Word spread early Monday that George A. Hittle escaped from the Evanston Insane asylum around midnight Sunday. Sheriff Hansen led a rapid search into the intervening region. Hittle had previously killed his uncle during a ranching dispute near Lone, Green River Valley, then barricaded himself at a Boulder store before being jailed in Lander and deemed insane. Some doubt his sanity persists, fueling fears he may have fled the region with outside aid.
Range rancher Frank Fear of Hig Piney visited Kemmerer on Monday and Tuesday. He says the dry condition of the range dampened summer feed prospects, reversing earlier hopes for ample grazing. He attributes the cold spring delaying sun exposure on grass roots after snowmelt, with wind drying and cracking the range soil.
The Kemmerer Avetract and Realty reports the sale of the Lloyd Isen hart ranch comprising 240 acres in the Fontenelle basin to James M. Jamieson who takes possession immediately. The property will support his sheep interests and is near Jamieson’s ranch. JH Dunham and son Arthur arrived Sunday from Cottonwood ranch. Arthur has long suffered heart trouble and consulted Dr. Margulis who advised lower altitude.
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