Probe on state coal prices sparks legislative inquiry
Wyoming lawmakers opened a probe after Governor Carey relayed a Public Service Commission finding that coal price rises since federal fuel administration ended were modest given wage and overhead hikes. A three member delegation will report recommendations. The Senate and House anticipate action and a statewide royalities drive faces broad support.
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Wyoming
State Senate
Carey
Senate
Public Service Commission
Ouridey
Lee
Chassell
Cranney
House
Federal Fuel Administration
Delaney
Jackson Hole County
Lincoln County
Snake River Ridge
Sublette
Coussell
Campbell County
Platt-Brewer
University of Wyoming
Committee On Finance
Capitol
Cheyenne
United States Supreme Court
Evanston Foreman Killed Walking Track Near Knight
Evanston Wyoming January 24 Dennis Hogan foreman for Hysell Construction sub contractors on Union Pacific work near Evanston was instantly killed Thursday at about 150 when struck by passenger train No 67 He was walking on the track two miles east of Knight and is believed not to have heard the approaching train which curved before impact His back was broken and he died instantly The Carnegie Library will close one hour Tuesday from 2 to 8 in honor of the late Robert Morris.
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Evanston
Wyo
Dennis Hogan
Hysell Construction Company
Union Pacific
Hogan
Knight
Carnegie
Robert Morris
Prairie 601 & Gas Cuts Crude Oil Price
The Prairie 601 & Gas company announced a 50 cent per barrel cut in mid continent crude oil. The reduction affects prices in Oklahoma Kansas and Texas and takes effect immediately.
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Tulsa
Okla
The
Prairie 601 & Gas Company Today
Olahoma
Kansas
Texas
Sale to Anaconda Set Aside by Court
Minority stockholders of Alice Gold and Silver Mining win in the Supreme Court to annul the sale of its property near Butte Montana to Anaconda Copper Mining. The court found no evidence that Anaconda controlled copper trade, thus voiding the sale claims.
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Washington
Alice Gold & Silver Mining Company
Supreme Court
Butte, Mont
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Anaconda Company
Anaconda
Taken to Evanston Insane Hospital
Dan Hiner, a homesteader about eleven miles northwest of the city, was taken to the state hospital for the insane at Evanston today. He was brought to Cheyenne by Sheriff Carroll after his wife and neighbors reported strange behavior. He was said to have been an Evanston patient before but was released after recovery.
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Dan Hiner
City
State Hospital For the
Evanston
Cheyenne
Sheriff Carroll
Accountant backs up Abadie tale at congressional hearing
New York January 24. Per ley Morse accountant whose firm audited the ledger testified before congress during a shipping board investigation. He described discovering a $260000 voucher intended to cover Charles M Schwab expenses in October 1918 and said he told Abadie of the voucher and other related vouchers. He noted another $18000 payment to Paul D Cravath charged to overhead.
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New York
Perley Morse
Bethlehem
Congression
BE. H
Shipping Board
Charles M. Schwab
Morse
Abadie
Paul D. Cravath
Bethleham Company
Arrests in Cheyenne cleanup drive target Atlas hotel
Mayor Taylor's citywide cleanup announced to rid Cheyenne of undesirables yields first arrests, Fred and Elsie Cavalli proprietors of the Atlas hotel at 20944 West Sixteenth Street. Four soldiers provided affidavits. police court hearing set for later today. testimony to be repeated by their commanders.
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Taylor
Cheyenne
Fred Cavalli
Elsie Cavalli
Atlas
West
Sixteenth Street
Fort Russell
Post
Baker’s frame up charge proves without grounds
In a developing case, Baker was arrested on concealed weapons charges while two alleged accomplices, Davin and Williams from Denver, claimed Baker authored a moonshine agreement. The pair’s testimonies contradicted Baker’s alibi, leading to renewed questions about the frame up claim and ongoing investigations by Deputy Marshal Burri and Assistant U.S. Attorney Howell.
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Burri
Federal Building
Dervis
Howell
Williams
Federal
Baker
Fred Clyde Baker
Bakers
United States
Jack Burri
United States District
D. J. Howell
Thermopolis
Thermopoli
Marshal Burri
Davin
Sea Cied
Federal Revenue
Internal Revenue Department
Deuver
Omaha Mayor Opposes Legalizing Boxing
City of Omaha executive letter dated January 22 argues against legalizing boxing in Nebraska. Mayor Ed P. Smith says he opposes any measure legalizing brutal prize fighting, notes Omaha has halted so called athletic contests due to degeneration into slugging. He cites racial mixing as a reason for stopping such events, urging prohibition unless a clean contest can be distinguished.
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Omaha
The
State Tribune
Nebraska
ED P. Smith
Glenwood High School Party Lost in Colorado Blizzard
A party of Glenwood Springs high school students and teachers went missing in yesterday’s blizzard. Despite search efforts in all directions, Miss Florence Goodyear of Denver Miss Katherine Schroeder of Colorado Springs Miss Mary French Chal mers Noren and Howard Hubbard and other students remain unfound.
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Glenwood
Springs
Colo
Glenwood Springs High School
Florence Goodyear
Denver
Katherine Schroeder
Colorado Colorado Springs
Mary French
Chalmers
Noren
Howard Hubbard
Glenwood Springs
Ready to Vote on Granna Bill
The Senate prepared for final vote on the decade long Gronna bill regulating meat packing. Voting to begin at 4 o clock with five minute debate at 2 pm. The measure, a Gronna substitute for Kenyon Kendrick, would create a three member federal live stock commission with $10 000 yearly salaries.
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Washington
Senate
Gronna
Republican
North Dakota
Kenyon-Kendrick
Government Livestock Commission
Resignation from Shipping Board by California Member
Chester Rowell of California resigned today from the new Shipping Board effective immediately. He will join the California Railroad Commission, as announced from the White House. The Supreme Court upheld the alien property custodian’s seizure of securities from German insurers to protect policyholders under the Trading with the Enemy Act.
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Washington
Chester Rowell
California
New Shipping Board
White House
California Railroad Commission
Supreme Court
Agnes Kittredge Sues for Divorce from Chicago Husband
Mrs. Agnes Alene Kittredge files for divorce claiming desertion and failure to support from her husband D. L. Kittredge, said to reside in Chicago. The couple wed in Chicago on December 6, 1916.
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Agnes Alene Kittredge
Kittredge
Chicago
Unsettled weather brings likely snow in Wyoming and Chayanne area
The Bear region and vicinity expect unsettled conditions tonight into Tuesday with probable snow in the north and east portions. Colder tonight with lows near 14. Far Wyoming shows little temperature change, still unsettled into Tuesday with possible snow and minimal temperature shifts.
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Chayanne
Wyoming
Gas Tank Car Explosion Kills Dozens in Memphis
A gas tank car explosion in Memphis Tennessee on January 24 injures and kills many Black residents. The blast damages tenement blocks, shatters windows, and starts fires that imperil a gas plant and nearby factories. Police report at least 25 dead, 50+ hurt, with many occupants unaccounted as rescuers work amid debris and scattered embers.
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Memphis
Tenn
Lenine death reports persist in Copenhagen dispatches
Reports from Copenhagen persist on the death of Soviet Premier Lenin. Bolshevik press cites further evidence and notes Lenin did not attend recent Soviet government meetings led by Leon Trotsky, war minister. In other items, Lee case adjourned until Wednesday. Ayle to be arraigned in East St. Louis. draft tax bill discussed by Mexican petroleum firms. Edigor Drury of Wheatland Times visiting Cheyenne for the legislature.
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Copenhagen
Nicolai Lenine
Halsingfors
Berlinski Tiedide
Lenine
Leon Trotsky
Destruction of Mad Mullah's Power in Somaliland
British air campaign against Somaliland native ruler the Mad Mullah ended with the destruction of his power. In three weeks fewer than 200 airmen and eleven planes bombed strongholds, forcing leaders to surrender or die. The 1919 expedition ended decades of uprisings dating back to 1885.
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Washington
Mullah
Somaliland
Africa
Mormon Town Bans Filthy Weed In Paraded Prohibition
Cowley Wisconsin January 24 1903 A Mormon town bans tobacco following Zion City I ll with a two band parade a coffin with Old King Tobacco burned the corpse as Rev A Evans delivers a funeral oration merchants vow to quit selling tobacco this campaign echoes Joseph Smith s 1838 revelation against drink and tobacco by Charles A Welch of Cowley
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Wic
Zion City
Latter Day Saints
Mormon Church
King Tobacco
Rev. A. Evans
Charles A. Welch
Joseph Smith
Sleepers at Jail Escape City Service
Seventeen guests registered at the Mmbery Hotel slept through a stormy night and fled the town Sunday, avoiding removal to the city chain gang.
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Mmbery
Cheyenne Suffers in Worst Snow Storm of Season
Cheyenne endures heavy 12 inch snowfall with blizzard conditions, rail and streetcar service disrupted, cars stuck in drifts, and widespread travel delays. Denver likewise isolated as storm sweeps from Cheyenne through Colorado and beyond, cutting telegraph lines and forcing plant suspensions.
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Weather Bureau
Cheyenne
Colorado
Wyoming
Denver
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Kansas
Nebraska
North Dakota
Goodland
Kes
Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company
Merres
Denver Gas & H Electric Lighting Company
Masked bandits rob Kansas City St Louis train near Louisiana
Four masked men held up Chicago and Alton passenger train No. 10 about ten miles east of Louisiana Missouri shortly after midnight. They escaped with nine dollars taken from the fireman. The train was en route from Kansas City to St. Louis.
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Louisiana
Chicago & Alton
Here
Kansas City
St. Louis
Smoke-Grazed Man Leaps From Two-Story Fall
Denver January 24 A smoke filled room awoke Richard Nagel at 8 30 this morning and he leaped two stories to the ground suffering a fractured shoulder at the county hospital Two women in the building were rescued by Deputy Fire Chief Moses and his assistants The fire was blamed on defective wiring
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Denver
Richard Nagel
Moses
HURRY CALL SENT FOR STATE LEADER
The Cheyenne Leader reports a telegraph order from Billings Montana dated January 22 requesting a three month subscription and immediate paper start for coverage of legislative proceedings. Northwest Land Appraisers express urgency for timely subscription. Marriages licenses issued in weekend by County Clerk Mrs. Graham include Earl L Kill ibrew Fort Collins and Ethel Fore mah Fort Collins and Benjamin Flood Saskatoon to Rose Fern Ludlow Canon City.
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Telegraph
Billings
Mont
Cheyenne Leader
Cheyenne
Wio
Northwest Land Appraisers
Graham
Earl L. Killibrew
Fort Collins
Ethel Foremah
Benjamin Flood
Saskatoon
Saskatchewan
Can
Rose Fern Ludlow
Canon City
Colo
Allied Leaders Meet to Settle Grave Questions
Paris January 24 Representatives of Great Britain France Italy Belgium and Japan gathered for a high level conference seen as second in importance to the treaty signing. Key figures Lloyd George Briand discuss reparations disarmament of Germany and policy toward Turkey Austria and Russia while hearing Marshal Foch and General Nollet on German disarmament. Afternoon session slated for four o clock.
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Great Britain
France
Italy
Belgium
Japan
Germany
Turkey
Voldolugo gaveUys
Austria
Russia
Supreme Council
Marshal Foch
Henry Hughes Wilson
Imperial Staff
Nollet
Berlin
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