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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1908
Page
4
A handwritten message dated April 27 10086 invites a reader to enjoy fresh produce. It lists asparagus cucumber string beans green peas tomatoes celery radishes lettuce spinach new onions new cabbage and new potatoes available at the grocery. The note closes with a casual sign off, Your friend Jacobe Pe.
Westbound timetable shows trains from Cheyenne and Sterling. Train 164 departs Cheyenne at 3 30 p m for connections, Train 154 arrives Sterling 9 30 p m, Train 163 departs Sterling 6 00 a m, Train 153 arrives Cheyenne at 12 00 noon daily except Sunday.
No. 41 departs at 7 10 p m and No. 48 arrives at 6 86 p m in the timetable snippet.
Judge Charles E. Carpenter in Laramie grants a temporary restraining order in the case Federal Land and Securities Company vs Chicago Cattle Company. The order halts foreclosure on lands in eastern Laramie County while the court hearings determine the disputed $21,000 mortgage and related security.
Palace Pharmacy promotes a D D D Prescription based on wintergreen oil claiming to cure non hereditary eczema and other skin troubles. The ad asserts instant relief from itch upon application and urges customers to visit the store to try the liquid and inquire about D D D Soap.
The Chicago Tribune via its Washington correspondent states that Taft already has enough delegates to secure the 1908 Republican nomination on the first ballot. It cites 694 of 940 delegates chosen, with Taft holding 264, many unknowns, and many conventions still to be held.
Several residents and visitors arrive or depart from the city including B. Irwin, John Wilkinson, O. C. Brownlee with pneumonia, William Trumbull, Frank V. Wright, D. S. Park and son, R. P. Allen, George Walker, Miss Maggie Coughlin, Ed Wedemeyer, William Benton, Ben Dixon, Miss Laura Dean, Colonel H. L. Anderson, Miss Margaret Ryan, Bert E. Cark.
Sheriff Felix Alston of Basin Wyoming aided Billings Montana police by identifying ranch hand George Stewart as the robber in a string of local burglaries. A prior Meeteetse theft of a fiddle is noted. Stewart confessed to the Billings crimes after investigators found stolen saddles among his loot. He is held for trial in Billings.
The first brigade parade in Fort D. A. Russell history will be held this afternoon with all organizations stationed at the post taking part. Cavalry infantry artillery and medical corps are represented, and about 50 troops will participate, the largest unit since the Eleventh Infantry left for Cuba eighteen months ago.
In La Porte Indiana on April 28 Mrs Belle Gunnerson and her three children are believed dead after an incendiary fire destroyed their country home north of the city. Hired man Joseph Maxson barely escaped with his life. A young man who had troubled Mrs Gunnerson is missing and cannot be located.
Las Animas Colorado reports C. A. Whittentaker alias McLeeley about 40 and Maude Potter 13, who eloped from Longmont last December, are jailed on horse stealing charges. The Potter girl wore boys clothes. Whittentaker may face statutory crime charges based on her statements.
Newport R I April 28 The management of an amusement company issued a statement announcing that an earlier restriction denying admission to a marine in uniform has been dropped and that no distinction will be made between uniformed and nonuniformed men.
Naples reports Prince Helle de Sagan with Mme Anna Gould and party arranging to depart for Rome tomorrow. They have rented apartments at the Grand hotel and one of Mme Goulds cars is sent to Nice as she plans to spend time on the Riviera.
Pueblo Colorado April 28 Delegates to the national convention were chosen today by the republican state convention and the second district congressional convention. They were instructed for Taft. The resolutions endorse the Roosevelt administration and the state administration, also the work of the Colorado delegation in congress.
Fred Lubb also known as W W Williams was arrested in Los Angeles on April 28 for allegedly embezzling 14500 dollars from the First National Bank of Dillsboro Indiana. Detectives had pursued him for three weeks and found him Saturday working as a restaurant waiter.
R B Kinley a Laramie river sheepman died from pneumonia after a wound suffered when a sheepherder fired during a dispute over a check amount. Kinley, a young man recently married to County Commissioner Oscar Sodgreen's daughter, passed away in Laramie Wyoming on the evening following the shooting.
Mrs. L. J. Brackett of Boston wife of L. J. Brackett formerly Miss Anne Haga will come to Cheyenne Friday morning to attend the funeral of her father Truman B. Hicks who died in Los Angeles Monday. G. B. Abbott received a telegram confirming her plans.
Riverside California April 28 The first Indian conference in the state opens to discuss practical ways to improve conditions for Indians. Thirty chiefs from northern and southern California attend the gathering in Riverside seeking coordinated action.
Cecil Kilrain, son of Jake Kilrain, takes the decision over Harry Jones of Philadelphia after six rounds in the main event at the Monumental theater. Roétégee Fred Sweigert officiated as referee.
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