Wyoming House Debates City Manager Bill and Blue Sky Reform
Wyoming House debates sixteen bills on Wednesday including H B 42 to allow cities of 1000+ to adopt the city manager form, with salaries for council members and primary nominations, and H B 43 to tighten the blue sky law. Senate filings cover irrigation assessments, exemptions, water rotation, and dental hygiene practice.
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Harding Pauses Public Duties Before Florida Trip
President Harding’s schedule clears as he prepares for a six week trip to Florida a farewell period likely lasting four years. He will depart for St Augustine late tomorrow night attend an Alks fraternity gathering then travel by special train to Columbus with his private car attached to regular trains for the journey ahead.
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Ms Peters Peete Trial Opens Over Denver Widow in Denton Murder
Mrs Louise L Peete of Denver goes on trial before Judge Frank Willis in Los Angeles on an indictment charging the murder of Jacob L Denton, a wealthy mining promoter, around June 2. Prosecution aims to prove the crime and burial in a cellar while the defense contends the defendant was physically unable to commit it. More than 1,000 sought admittance as police reserves aided deputies to disperse the crowds.
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Louise L. Peete
Denver
Frank R Willis
Los Angeles Superior Court
Jacob L Denton
Mexicans Reject Socialistic Plan
Mexico City Jan. 19 delegates to the congress of federations of labor rejected resolutions for profit sharing in plants. They urged legislation to fix minimum wages and protested capital efforts to reduce living costs by cutting workers’ pay while planning union propaganda in Central American countries.
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Abandonment of German reparations plan agreed in Berlin
British French and German representatives abandon fixed total reparations in favor of annual payments. For five years payments will be made in kind under the new arrangement, according to a Berlin dispatch in the Journal.
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Bulletin on Lance Creek oil field discovery and growth
The interior department issues Bulletin No T16E on the Lance Creek oil and gas field in Niobrara county Wyoming. Author E T Hancock presents a compelling account of discovery and development, with maps and half-tone pictures illustrating actual development work.
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Lance Creek
Niobrara County
Wyoming
E T Hancock
Rickard denies big bout off plans continue for July 2
Tex Rickard, promoter, denies that the Dempsey Carpentier heavyweight bout is off as reported. He says all principals have posted deposits and terms have not been violated. Promoters continue plans to stage the fight on July 2.
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New York
Tex Rickard
Jack Dempsey
Georges Carpentier
New York Times
Rickard
Underwood 1 Head Of AR Westige Tale
Captain A A Underwood described delivering seven messages by air to Denver during the Denver stock show run after plane trouble and a hurried borrow from Don Hogan. He praised Cheyenne businessmen for allowing use of a large plane. Denver officials and Mayor Taylor exchanged felicitations by aerial mail. A Haiti Santo Domingo probe request was also filed in Washington.
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Committee On Foreign Affairs
Woman found easy money in holding up strangers
Chicago dispatch reports Mrs Cleo Patra Hurtzman, 23, a Texas farm girl, confessed to leading fifty hold ups in sixty days with husband Kurt Hurtzman. She used charm and a pearl handgun to lure victims then Kurt took the cash. They operated from a rented room in a fashionable district and evaded arrest until detectives nabbed them at dawn.
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Cleopatra Hurtzman
Wichita Falls
Texas
Kurt Hurtzman
Kurt
Hurtzmans
A Little Lesson on Home Buying Home Building
A Denver businessman argues Wyoming should buy and build at home to boost local industry. He credits Denver's growth to home production and cautions against relying on mail order rivals. The piece urges Wyoming to press oil interests, support local merchants, and foster home-based growth for prosperity.
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Colorado
Denver Gentleman
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Chicago
Mystery Still Shipment From Casper Baffles Officials
In a Cheyenne tale a moonshine still arrives shipped to federal internal revenue officers. Casper Wyoming is urged to identify who sent it while officials note the pre paid express and the blank bill of lading. The piece mocks the unknown sender and teases local intrigue amid law enforcement interest.
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Cheyenne
Wyoming
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Woolgrowers urge Fordney tariff bill in crisis pleas
Salt Lake City Jan 19 executives of the National Wool Growers Association declared that wool growers are in the throes of financial distress threatening the industry. They sent resolutions to Washington urging immediate adoption of the Fordney emergency tariff bill and wired copies to President Wilson Senator Penrose Senator Smoot and Representative Fordney.
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Naval Officer Buried in State
Manila burial rites honored Lieutenant W. J. Langdon of the U S Albany who was shot by a Japanese sentry as a Reuters dispatch from Vladivostok notes. General Oi and Russian officials attended the ceremony amid religious and military rites. Harding quits job at Federal Reserve district president post offered in foreign trade finance group.
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Harding
New York
William G. Harding
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Foreign Trade Finance Corporation
John McHugh
Organizaon
City issues dog license tax and tags
The city clerk announces new dog license tags and a dog catcher patrol for untagged dogs. Fees are 1.50 for male dogs and 3 for female dogs, as part of the updated canine tax.
Nab Kimball Man On Arson Charge
Walter Zaiser was arrested in Kimball Nebraska by Deputy Sheriff Shultz and Wilcox at the sheriff's request on an arson charge. He is accused of burning farmers wheat who refused to withhold grain from the market amid a market tumble and farmer organization efforts. The sheriff plans to transport Zaiser to Cheyenne the following day.
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Shultz and Wilcox
Kimball
Neb
Zazier
Cheyenne
Zaiser
City water test shows bacterial presence at level reported
Cheyenne lab reports raw water sample from Round Top valve house on January 12 contains 140 bacteria per cubic centimeter. Incubation at room temperature shows colon bacilli none. Mayor Taylor seeks Vulcan Copper Mining company officials in Wyoming amid a Florida money offer to learn company details as the city directory shows no such firm in Cheyenne.
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Aman
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Cheyenne
Texas Man Shoots Wife and Friend
In Galveston Texas Francia Brown, husband of Edna Brown, surrendered after fatally shooting his wife and a man named Settle. Edna Brown died from a heart wound while seated in a car. Settle was found shot in the roadway. An inquest was awaited to reveal motive.
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M. Settle
Francia Brown
Two Dams Burst Drowning 100 In Mexican Mining Town
In Pachuca, Mexico, over 100 people drowned and 200 were injured when two above town dams failed and floodwaters swept the lower mining district. A thousand were rendered homeless as mines flooded. death toll expected to rise with shaft clearance. Mexico City sent doctors, nurses, and supplies.
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Pachuca
Seaplane NC6 Sunk by Gun Fire Near Canal Zone
San Francisco reports the naval seaplane NC6 forced down and wrecked during its flight from San Diego to Balboa Canal Zone has been sunk by gun fire. No method described in the received messages. The incident remains unexplained.
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Western Union Telegraphs Restraining Injunction Issued
Federal Judge Hand issued a temporary injunction restraining West Union Telegraph from landing the Barbados to Miami cable and from using cables between Key West and Havana for messages from Brazil. The order also bars splicing the line from Barbados to Cuba, returnable Saturday.
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West Union Telegraph Company
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Key West
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Brazil
Barbedoea
Cuba
House vote keeps present 435 seat limit for Congress
The House rejected an amendment to raise membership to 483, keeping 435 seats. States Missouri Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Nebraska Rhode Island Montana California Michigan Ohio Connecticut New Jersey North Carolina Texas Washington each lose one seat in years ahead, while California gains seven and Michigan gains two. The chamber also defeated a move to reduce membership to 307, leaving the size question open.
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Casper Killer Sought Here After City Merchant Slaying
Casper police spread an all points bulletin for a 22 year old man about 155 pounds with tight hair and a brown overcoat, wounded in the stomach recently, in connection with the murder of J. H. Reeder. Frank Mitchell and Roy Dean, jailed here for a separate hold up, are not linked to the Casper crime.
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J. 8. Reeder
Cheyenne
Embery
Frank Mitchell
Roy Dean
Lee at Liberty Again On Bond
Fred Lee known as perfume burglar is at liberty on a $200 bond signed by J B Griffin of the Normandie hotel where Lee worked as night clerk. He faces a second larceny charge set for January 22 before Justice of the Peace Houseman. earlier he was fined $25, 90 days, then released on $11.50. Forbes pharmacy staff set a trap that led to Lee’s second arrest for stealing perfumes and toilet articles.
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Normandie
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Forbes
Soviets Establish a New Decoration in Paris
Paris January 19 The Bolsheviks with a Moscow wireless message have instituted the military order of the red flag Leo Kamenoff former Soviet trade commissioner in London and General Budenny the noted cavalry leader were the first recipients of the new decoration.
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Opposition to Sublette County Dropped in Legislature
Opposition to the Sublette county scheme faded as Fremont and Lincoln counties debated creating Sublette from western Fremont and east central Lincoln. Jenkins of Fremont sought to set the bill as a special order, but the court affairs committee had not reported it out. Chairman Free explained Lincoln’s side had not been heard and another session would be held to hear both sides. Some Kemmerer residents oppose the plan while Lander remains neutral.
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Worcester Fire Ravages Main Street and Outlying Districts
Worcester Mass January 13 fires swept the city causing roughly 1 000 000 in damage as two Main Street buildings burned to the ground and a roofless tenement row drove occupants into freezing streets another blaze near city hall district inflicted about 100 000 with origin undetermined and police downplaying arson claims.
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Main Street
Lord Mayor of Cork Ordered Surrender in Virginia
Counsel for Donald O Callaghan, lord mayor of Cork, who recently arrived in the United States from Ireland without a passport, was directed by Secretary Wilson to deliver the lord mayor promptly to the immigration inspector at Norfolk, Virginia.
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Dan
Donald O’callaghan
Cork
Ireland
Wilson
Norfolk
Hinton Wanted Ten Dilmam Farrell Inquiry Testimony
Lieutenant Walter Hinton testified in the inquiry into the Canada flight by the three naval balloonists. He said he consulted Commander Lewis A. Cleor about disarming Lieutenant Stephan A. Farrell.
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Walter Hinton
Canada
Lewis A ‘Cleor
Stephan A. Farrell
The Bear Set For Cheyenne and vicinity weather forecast
Weather bulletin notes fair conditions for Cheyenne and vicinity with chilly trends. Tonight will be slightly colder with low around 32. General fair weather extends to Thursday with continued cool temperatures and light winds.
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Cheyenne
Wyoming
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