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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1901
Page
2
The Cheyenne Post notes Laramie to host the next Odd Fellows gathering and Wheatland to gain 45 farming families. A flood eases water fears, Albert Chapman fears overwork, and 500 to 1,000 farmers considering westward irrigation. Barrow’s budget gets a robe, while Doc Middleton faces Frontier travel doubts amid civic water plans and folklore.
City outlines excessive water use and risk of resorting to Sloan's Lake. Officials warn meters costly but necessary. Last night sprinklers cut off. reservoir refilled, showing cooperation improves supply. Proposes three new mountain reservoirs and expanded water sources to meet rapid population growth.
The Barrow Budget notes a seven day press meeting in Cheyenne with a carriage drive, papers on running a newspaper, a ball, a trolley ride in Denver, and a visit to Manitou for bowling. Attendance is expected large, promising pleasure and profit.
The practical man, W. A. Richards of Wyoming, now assistant commissioner of the general land office, oversaw the opening and allotment of reservation lands in Indian Territory. He proposed prior claimant registration and land disposition by drawing lots, a plan once ridiculed but adopted as sensible and just, avoiding violence and injustice.
Lon Shaffer was jailed after a three year sentence for sheep theft in Douglas, remarking it beats hell as he had long stolen horses and cattle without trouble. Manuel Armienta, wrongly convicted of accumulating mutton in Casper, had prior acquittals after numerous horse and cattle theft trials. The piece notes high court costs across Johnson, Fremont, and Natrona counties and the unlikely outcome for an innocent man before a new trial was granted by Judge Brame.
The Cheyenne festival grows yearly with the Fifth Annual Show on the 28th and 29th, promising the largest crowd in history. Cheyennese plan an elaborate program celebrating frontier days, reviving and reenacting western history for both old timers and new visitors.
Denver poetical lines accuse Cheyenne of discrediting Newman's work with verses about drinking and revelry. Also a public notice warns against dumping manure in Cheyenne alleys and bans accumulation in stables beyond four weeks. City Marshal Bi H Ingalls signs the notice dated August 8 1901.
Major Foote narrates a Wyoming joke where the doctor Dr Barber arrives at the Cheyenne club to treat a mock broken leg. The scene ends with Foote springing up, jokingly kicking Barber, and the crowd laughing at the physician’s expense amid a chain of farcical events and brief notes on lightning, a delusion joke, and public notices from Cheyenne in 1901.
Notices to creditors urge claims against the Christopher O'Brien estate to be filed within six months and a year to avoid forfeiture. A second notice states Union Pacific Railroad lists lands in Wyoming townships open for inspection, with protests due within sixty days for land patents and filings through the General Land Office. Local official W. B. Chaplin, Register, June 29 to Sept. 1.
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