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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1908
Page
4
Roedel's advertises wide inventory for technical and general use drugs. It assures customers no substitutions and promises notification if an item is out of stock, noting occasional shortages are acceptable for a big business.
Reports from West Highteenth Street describe Neema Hodge firing a revolver at Irene Hall during a quarrel at the Whitechapel brothel. Bullet missed by two inches and lodged in a wall. Hodge and Hall detained, with Prosecutor Watts to file county charges against Hodge.
Professor Edgar L Hewett leads excavation near Santa Fe with archaeology students for six to eight weeks in Los Frijoles canon and two Harvard professors join soon. Five camps will be set up and relics found will form the nucleus of a Santa Fe museum.
New York August 13 Dr Max Ziegler a veterinary surgeon of Avenue L I was buried yesterday his death said to result from a horse bite He was administering medicine to the horse when it snapped at him nipping his nose He fell ill days later and died A close watch is kept on the horse to learn what malady it had
Six days remain until Frontier Days as crowds come in and events unfold. Equipment work rush continues for the street railway with cars possibly operating before the celebration. A showman from Cheyenne faces prosecution for attempting to persuade a minister’s son to commit a crime. he claims to seek a Frontier concession.
The Saranac hotel on Broadway near Forty second street may become a restaurant with invisible waiters. Guests write orders on pads and place them on the table which sinks to a space between floors for waiters to fill. A chain of such places from New York to the Pacific coast is rumored.
Fort Collins Colorado August 13 C W Chickering a sewer contractor was buried under several feet of earth during a cave in while supervising a new sewer. He was freed after about a half hour of effort the earth left him in a stooped position on his spade chest bruising only.
Rochester, Aug 13. Harry Jarrel of Baltimore and his daughter in law Mrs Lillian Jarrell are dead and Mrs Jarrells husband and her mother Mrs Margaret M Schelb are critically ill from eating headstools mistaken for mushrooms in a tragic error at a family gathering.
El Paso August 14 Deputy U S Marshal Fred Lancaster surrounded a portion of Del Rio with troops last night and searched for revolutionaries named in warrants but found none.
M. T. Lynch editor of the Phillipsburg Daily Post writes that he has tried many cough and cold remedies but none compare to Ley's Honey and Tar. He praises it highly and notes it is sold by A. B. Roedel.
The Industrial club entertainment committee seeks Cheyenne residents offering rooms beds or meals for Frontier Days visitors. Applications may be left with Gus Buechner Joe Wasserman Robert Davidson or A H Beach. Citizens are urged to host guests and allow reasonable payment while the committee manages reservations to prevent confusion during the Frontier rush.
London report states the divorce court, led by Sir Birrell Barnes, made absolute the February decree in Thaw versus Yarmouth. Miss Alice Thaw of Pittsburg had nullified her marriage to the Earl of Yarmouth. six months elapsed, enabling the final judgment. The presumption favors resuming her maiden name.
The Fourth Circuit held that civ il courts cannot discharge a minor under 18 enlisted in the military or navy without parental consent if, when a habeas corpus petition is filed, the youth is under arrest on a charge cognizable by military or naval court. The ruling reinforces that a juvenile must remain in Army or Navy custody in such cases.
In San Juan Puerto Rico August 13 the 400th anniversary celebration of Ponce de Leon ends with a palace reception by Governor Post. The remains are carried through the city in a grand procession from San Jose church to the cathedral and laid in a crypt funded by Spanish residents.
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