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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1908
Page
4
A personal note dated March 31, 1908 from Jacobe to a friend reflects on sugar beyond a simple ingredient. The writer contrasts a lump of sugar for coffee with a spoonful and mentions many sugar based foods like pies cakes cookies and candy.
Governor Bryant B. Brooks proclaims Friday April 24 1908 as Arbor Day in Wyoming. He urges all citizens especially schoolchildren to plant trees and participate in appropriate exercises in every schoolhouse to inspire future generations and beautify the state.
Dr Wilbur Gillette, a noted alienist in Detroit, died of cerebral hemorrhage. In 1905 he suffered hallucinations and was confined for two months. he later published a personal analysis claiming many crisis reports are insane. He described an impulse to self harm and a temptation involving a hidden lancet.
A coroner inquiry into William Myers's death questions the cause and centers on an old fashioned remedy given by his mother. Suspects include a treacle made from molasses and sulphur and artificially colored candy as possible poisoning sources.
New York April 2 remarkable brain experiments are under way at Jefferson Medical College Philadelphia on the brain of Chester Gillette the man executed for the murder of his sweetheart Billy Brown. Dr Edward A Spitzka who performed the autopsy took the brain and will conduct exhaustive studies to find any peculiar formations linked to the crime.
The young monarch survives a close call as his automobile race past danger, walking would be safer though slower, highlighting ongoing concerns about his safety and mobility.
A string of local social notes lists Frank Bevana in Laramie Netil Clark ill at St John s Hospital Mrs A J Large visiting in York Neb M H Hartung back from Campstool Ed Dolan back to Pine Bluffs Mr and Mrs 8S Foster visiting in Cincinnati EB Bartlett left for Rock Springs Agnes Johnson visiting Grand Island Neb William Gauff sick at home Rev Father Tully visiting Evanston Miss Prendegrast visiting sister Mrs C Atherly Mrs William Daley and children visiting Laramie Thomas A Cosgriff back from Fort Steele William Dunstan back to Pine Bluffs Ben Stimpson in city from Ogden Prosecuting Attorney Clyde M Watts back from Evanston Mr and Mrs Harry Hynda left for Denver Bert Caffery seriously sick admitted to St John s hospital Deputy Sheriff Charles W Johnson in city from Pine Bluffs Coroner Thomas C Murray attending to county business W L Luchte sick at home hoping to be out by Monday Mrs C O Brien Denver former Cheyenne resident visiting Mrs A F Richardson Dr Lowell Clark bureau of animal industry agent in city H G Hay Cheyenne native now in New York visiting daughter Mrs Foster of Fort Russell D B Sullivan former Cheyenne now Union Pacific master mechanic in city from Ogden
The Forty Hours Devotion began at St Marys Cathedral with high mass at 9 this morning followed by 7:30 services tonight and 6:30 and 7 oclock masses tomorrow. The observance traces to Milan in 1534 and has been annual for 374 years with Rev Father Tully of Evanston presiding in Cheyenne.
Twenty two sleepers, hoboes kept from lodging, lined up by Chief Bergerson, join two existing chain gangs to force work on streets. A third gang will be formed as six more sleepers are arraigned. City aims to deter lodging requests and promote Cheyenne as hostile to vagabonds.
Baltimore girl Miss Nannie Norris and Midshipman Bruce R. Ware Jr tied the knot in San Francisco after a 14,000 mile round trip by the groom and a 3,000 mile continental journey by the bride. The ceremony at Lieutenant Littelfield’s home followed Ware’s order to depart aboard the Washington a week after engagement was announced.
In a wreck near Spanish Lake the stockman J A McKittrick nearly crushed under steam and debris asked Rev Robert Cameron Allen to cut off his left leg with a dull pocket knife. The clergyman succeeded after great pain. Mrs Renner applied a tourniquet and he was later moved to a St Louis hospital.
Advices from Seoul report anger among natives and foreigners over the French consul general posting a notice at the club board opposing the condolence message to the Stevens family. He stated there could be no sympathy for Stevens even in his tomb.
A head on collision between two cars near Rosemary station on the Los Angeles Pacific road in dense fog today killed one man and seriously injured six others. Twenty more people sustained minor injuries.
Paxton Neb April 2 A prairie fire in the sandhills has burned for two days. James Kane is known to have been burned to death.
A fishing note mentions hooking a royal duke fish before and landing it, recording the proper tactic for handling such a catch.
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