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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1913
Page
1
The last of the Grand Lodge representatives and their ladies left Kemmerer Friday morning, praised the city for four days of hospitality despite bad weather, with events at Lyceum Theatre and a ball at Lyceum Hall. The next Grand Lodge gathering was planned for Thermopolis.
At a Grand Encampment meeting held last Tuesday a petition for a new Royal Lodge of the Encampment Branch in Kemmerer Lodge 1 U C F No 31 was granted. Charter members number 16 with officers for the first year including Chief Patriarch Pitt and High Priest Gudmundson. Ed Hansen senior warden Kay Burke junior warden W Peterson scribe B W Smith treasurer.
The Delaware incorporated United States Coal Company elected directors led by M. Conroy and J. M. Conroy at Wilmington. New officers were chosen in Pittsburgh, and the Kemmerer Wyoming mine project, with a vast coal reserve, was described as ready to expand and lucrative amid western shortages.
An editorial from the Douglas Enterprise notes that some sheep are more valuable than others. At the State Fair two known sheepmen from Casper and Glenrock viewed the June exhibition by Ming Bros. Co. when Mr King Bear was approached by a Wettleman asking for the owner to pass price.
Judge David H. Craig ruled that Lincoln county receives none of the moneys or assets from Uinta county after the county division dispute. He found assets exceed liabilities but no statute for sharing assets, so Uinta retains public property and Lincoln must cover indebtedness. The decision estimates Uinta’s coffers will reach 50,000 to 75,000 after debts taxes and credits are settled. An appeal to the Supreme Court is planned within sixty days. Also reported: William Hawking killed his wife Margaret and wounded his daughter Pern after jealousy, firing into the yard where they stood with two companions. Hawking shot himself later and died.
Articles of incorporation reveal a new railroad the Northport and Southwestern Railroad Company. It would run from Northport Nebraska to Pine Bluffs Wyoming then toward Weld County and possibly Denver. Pine Bluffs residents Dr. B. W. Marshal L. B. Coy C. E. Perry H. E. Worrell and T. J. Rutledge are incorporators with capital stock set at 1 200 090. Rutledge said surveys would begin soon and the line is not connected to any other railroad, with stock to be sold mainly to farmers and businesspeople in the area.
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