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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1908
Page
8
The Cheyenne Leader announces its status as successor to the Sun Leader with JS Bartlett as editor. It lists second class matter and post office details dated September 5, 1907, in Cheyenne Wyoming along with subscription rates for Daily Leader plans.
A garbled sampler of editorial quips and notes from various papers. It touches on weather and politics, sea fossils in Kansas, ethnology recordings of Indian songs, and a Fremont county politician’s odd vocal pledge to a state convention with sand or whitewash.
An editorial calls for cleaning out longstanding figures Otto Gramm and Miss Hebard to prevent future trouble. It urges Gramm to sever his link with the U and for Hebard to resign to restore peace and prosperity despite any past services.
A Wyoming opinion piece argues Miss Hebard and Otto Gramm hinder university progress. The writer urges resignation or removal, accusing Hebard of domination and questioning motives, while calling for new leadership to restore better conditions at Laramie Encampment Herald.
The Wyoming Consistory issued a volume containing the memorial address delivered at the June Cheyenne reunion. Governor Bryant B. Brooks, a thirty second degree Mason, offers a tribute to Senator Stephen A. D. Keister, who clashed with Brooks in the last general election. The Mountaineer notes the governor’s address highlights Keister’s steadfastness and integrity as a public servant.
A domestic vignette from London Tit-Bits shows a wife praising her mother's superior cooking while her husband laments a dreary supper. The scene contrasts a novice cook with a visiting mother who outshines the meal, highlighting family kitchen pride.
Mrs. Russell Sage has given the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals a forty horsepower automobile for ambulance use. A German bacteriologist visiting the country disputes germ theory by growing a long crop of whiskers. A Chicago wife wins a divorce from her husband after proving he was drunk 3,000 times in ten years.
Six soldiers from Fort Russell were arrested last night for stealing a handcar from the Colorado and Southern. They allegedly used the car to travel between the post and Cheyenne and were captured while beginning the return trip by an officer lying in wait.
Deputy Sheriff Nelson Perry raided a Colorado and Southern box car sidetracked in West Cheyenne and removed six hoboes. They were escorted to the police station and to be turned over to Chief for court where they likely face chain gang servitude.
A collage of jokes and quips from Yonkers Statesman Baltimore American Punch Detroit Free Press Washington Star highlights witty gibes about phonographs wolf imagery appetites locksmiths and Mars inhabited theory.
Mrs Daniel Foster of Germantown discovers a burglar in her home while packing wedding presents. The crowd captures the man, who pleads for mercy claiming his family is in need. She guides him to the trolley, provides fare, and the patrol wagon returns empty as onlookers disperse.
Gunnison Colorado April 15 District Judge Shackelford heard Steve Adams murder case arguments and took under advisement the motion for change of venue arguing San Miguel County cannot be fair. Opponents said affidavits signed by Western Federation of Miners are invalid and transfer costs are high. No decision date announced.
Moscow on April 14 reports a city specialist departed for Yasnaya Polyana to see Count Leo Tolstoy who is suffering from stomach and intestinal maladies resistant to treatment.
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