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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1902
Page
2
Reports from Lander county recount widespread sheep killings and a sheep herder’s murder. The Lan der Clipper cites a county reward and a large toll on flocks, while Governor Richards calls the figures exaggerated but acknowledges criminal acts by marauding cattlemen. Public alarm grows as authorities mete out punishment and citizens denounce the lawlessness.
The Wyoming Board of Charities and Reform finds improvements at the insane asylum and Rock Springs state hospital, noting better management and self sufficiency. It also reports on prison conditions at Rawlins and Laramie, plus a Soldiers Home hospital upgrade and related reform efforts.
J. W. fspringer of Colorado is described as a man of marked ability whose potential to render valuable service to the week and the country is noted, although the text is incomplete.
A mangled line recounts a mother, Tom Madden, and a woman as memory and warning blur. The text hints at withheld truth and a memory that maybe should be kept. The garbled dialogue suggests a secret shared in a tense moment between characters.
A government committee under Secretary of the Treasury selects two designs for gold dollars honoring Jefferson and McKinley. Only 250,000 coins will be minted and sold at two dollars each to the highest bidders. Premiums fund monument construction. 100 coins per design are numbered and certified. Proceeds aid the World’s Fair appropriation with delivery to exposition authorities likely in the fall.
Salideé Colorado August 4 The McKenna building under construction suffered a rapid two story blaze destroying the brick and white stone exterior with half finished interior work. Investigators suspect boys smoking cigars sparked the fire. adjoining property escaped major damage while McKenna plans to rebuild at once.
Information from St Louis reports Professor Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, supervising an airship project at Haddock, Cape Breton. The craft reportedly cost thousands, is twenty feet long with seventy five parts, and uses plane wires and five miles of wire. Bell aims to outdo Santos-Dumont and carry human freight, signaling a feature of his aeroplane system.
Wyoming Republicans reaffirm loyalty to the party platform, praising labor protection, Chinese exclusion, irrigation efforts, an isthmian canal plan, Cuba pledge, and progress under Governor DeForest Richards. They commend congressional actions, note fiscal gains in public land leases and state revenues, and support Indian allotments and wildlife protection. Includes travel rates, estate sale notice, and stockholders meeting reminders.
The Board of Trustees of School District No. 4 Carbon County Wyoming will offer for sale bonds totaling 3000 dollars dated August 18 1902 at rates up to 6 percent interest payable semiannually. Bonds in 1000 or 500 denominations may be sold. bids due August 18 1902 at Baggs.
Eight residence tote on a coast part of own by Maxwell and insitr Chane agu at.
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