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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1908
Page
1
Washington April 16 The president’s plea for four new battleships and eight submarine torpedo boats is defeated signaling a decline in his influence. Congress rescinds key naval provisions while Roosevelt presses for a stronger fleet to outpace Britain and threaten potential rivals.
William H. Allen of the New York Bureau of Municipal Research cites widespread corruption in church and charity funds at a Chicago Woman's Club reform session. He warns that private malfeasance could rival city government, detailing small cash skims and larger embezzlement schemes among religious groups.
Reports from Alberta indicate a catastrophic Canadian Pacific snowslide near Alberta Canon in the Cascade mountains swept away two boarding cars carrying Japanese laborers. Telegraph lines were destroyed. believed fatalities exceed forty with only five bodies recovered.
Chicago April 16. W Fuchs an X ray expert who died of cancer years ago discovered a secret to transform living matter into metal. Reinhardt D Fuchs his brother carried on the work and aims to metalise a pauper body into a statue of solid appearance.
Omaha, Neb April 16. Affected by a joint effort of western and northwestern wool growers a storage in transit rate was set by the Union Pacific Southern Pacific Burlington and Chicago Northwestern railroads. Wool may stop for storage in Omaha and be shipped as buyers or growers decide. Three warehouses with 60 million pounds capacity will be built enabling receipts as collateral for cash advances. About 6 million pounds of Washington wool pass through Omaha yearly.
Sheboygan Wisconsin reports iron worker Arthur Beckwith lost sight in both eyes after a bot bolt pierced one eye. He returned to work wearing goggles the next day. An Italian man he had displaced hit him with the glasses, inflicting blindness in the second eye as revenge.
In Washington on April 16 the House struck out a proviso restricting the secretary to Holland type torpedo boats, giving the secretary freedom to select submarine craft. Williams quipped with Hobson over warships and balloons as the debate focused on submarines in the bill.
Two ocean liners, the Monterey of the Ward line bound for Havana and the United States of the Scandinavian American Line bound for Copenhagen, collided in the main ship channel of Lower New York Bay. Both were damaged but no lives were lost and no injuries reported. The Monterey returned to its dock, passengers disembarked for Havana, while the United States, badly damaged with a hull hole, was run aground on the bank and lies at rest tonight as calm weather prevails.
A French car in the New York to Paris race, led by Maurice D. Drieghe and M. Leon Hohmann, reached Castle Rock Washington from Vancouver and Kalama after rough roads and a overturn incident. It will proceed to Seattle this morning with no injuries reported.
A Fairbanks to Post-Intelligencer report says two men who struck Nolan Creek in the Koyukuk have already panned $3,000 from bedrock. Gravel will be built into a spring dump and washed up. A similar wash on Wiseman Creek suggests another rich camp may form if findings match Nolan Creek.
John H. Mandigo longtime head of the Sun sport department dies aged 50. He served Sun for thirty three years after starting as an office boy and became an expert baseball reporter credited with pioneering a technical style of game reporting.
Personal friends of Assistant Secretary of State Bacon report he will become secretary of war around July 1, succeeding Taft who intends to retire from the cabinet. Taft’s retirement is said to be definite and not tied to the national election outcome.
New York April 16 The gathering of state democracy forces ends with the deposition of Senator Patrick H McCarren as leader in Kings county and a new state committee elects W J Connors chairman and appoints a twelve member committee to reorganize Kings county democracy.
Eleven political prisoners at Penza stabbed two wardens to death and escaped after throwing bombs. Guards pursued and killed eight of the escapees in St. Petersburg on April 16.
In Sacramento on April 16 Mrs. Clinton L. White, wife of the city mayor, publicly rebuked her husband for allowing Emma Goldman to speak in public here. She dictated the interview in his presence, criticizing the mayor for permitting Goldman to speak and noting she is not worthy to speak in Chicago or Sacramento. Goldman spoke on "Anarchy, What It Really Is" last night and was to speak again tonight.
A Hungarian miner killed a companion during a Hope church service between Hayes and Willock stations near Pittsburg. The dying man’s cries drew worshippers who fled in alarm as the attacker was captured by churchgoers and the police were alerted.
In Kansas City Missouri on April 16 the jury in a flat theatrical show case reported ten for acquittal and two for conviction despite Judge Porterfield instructing that the Sunday law was violated. After ten hours they were discharged without a verdict.
Riis denounces Father Curry for slur on charity workers calling it an assault on womanhood. Riis questions the charity sale profits and the rings allegedly benefiting inmates, while Albert Lucas accuses settlement societies of proselytizing and notes Cardinal Gibbons's “child thieves” remark.
New York reporters recount an extraordinary incident aboard the Statendam after it docked in New York. Mrs Szybik of Poland allegedly threw her convulsing infant overboard to calm a storm and save the ship. A ship surgeon indicated the child might have survived with medical care. The mother was taken to Ellis Island for questioning.
In Montana the Missouri River north of Helena has receded to near normal levels after the Hauser Lake dam break last Tuesday. No property damage at Great Falls is reported. The Great Northern railway is slated to resume service between Helena and Great Falls by Saturday evening.
The Minnesota Republican state convention elected four delegates at large to the national convention and instructed them to vote for Taft until he is selected by the convention. Minnesota’s twenty two votes will back Taft as district delegates are Taft instructed. Eleven presidential electors were named and Roosevelt administration resolutions adopted.
Gothenburg April 16. Between twenty and thirty persons drowned when the steam ship Goetales capsized off Gothenburg. Eight bodies were recovered and several people were rescued. Others remained trapped between decks and went down with the vessel.
Thomas Taggart, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, disclosed that only a portion of the 7100,000 fund raised by the city of Denver for the convention had been spent. He said a sum had already been paid over to the national committee, with further disbursements awaiting approval.
President Sanderlin orders a meeting of Doctor Jack Pot Consolidated Mining company at the Wyoming agent office on Thursday April 20 to discuss dissolving the company.
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