The bridge disaster in Quebec managed to make the front page the very day it happened, which is truly remarkable. The big news for Wyoming, however, was the failure of the Stock Raising Homestead Act to pass to pass on its first attempt. The act, a modification of the series of Homestead Acts dating back to the 1860s, was important for those in Wyoming agriculture and therefore extremely big news. Particularly as the entire West was in the midst of a homesteading boom at this time.
Something was also going on with a "border patrol", which wouldn't mean the agency we think of when we hear those terms, as it did not yet exist.
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