Cheyenne News Briefs Touch Water Ban and Local Events
Water shutoff expected tonight at 6 30 to prompt issue of a special cop interview. Four divorce filings and no new licenses reflect local legal activity this week. Fort work progresses for Eighteenth Infantry arrival while Dr Crook updates Capitol drugstore. Twenty five laborers leave for Cheyenne & Northern rail improvement. Dog valued at 100 poisoned. Mrs Knight very ill. Crack pitcher Tann to face North Platte. Brice returns from Omaha clerks’ convention. Argesheimers to host later. McAdam building cottage near Twenty first. Frontier Way seen controversial appearances. UP posters boost Frontier Day. Senator Warren moves fort houses to Twenty first and Bent. Excursions to Platte canyon promoted. church groups urged to run trips. Masonic temple water table under way. structure super later. New machinery worth 20000 for Laramie mills. two shifts due to orders. Rock Springs marshal clears Miss Allen’s intoxication claim. Maccabees ball postponed to Sept 6. Pay day shoe sale at Jenkins. Cheyenne council irrigation hours 5 6 30 pm. Rose Brady and Will Dillman to sing Aug 21. Pigeons for sale at 801 East Sixteenth Street.
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Eighteenth Infantry
Crook
Capitol Avenue
Cheyenne & Northern Dick
Phil Kerrigan
Jesse Knight
Tann
North Platte
W. C. Brice
Mail Clerks
Omaha
Charlie Argesheilmer
McAdam
West Twenty-first Street
Mr. Miller
Doc
Middleton
Frontier Way
Mosher
Union Pacific Passenger Department
Warren
Grand Lodge of Wyoming meets at Wheatland elects officers
The Grand Lodge of Wyoming Independent Order of Odd Fellows convened at Wheatland with broad lodge attendance. Heriot Riddle of Evanston was named Grand Master for 1901 02, and officers for the year including Thomas Cottle and Louise Miller were elected. The group planned the 1902 session for Laramie amid growing membership and lodge expansion. The Rebekahs reported 1297 members and 12 judges. GC Oviatt and Cottle returned home praising the visit. A Grand Encampment I C C F meeting elected officers John Thompson and A R Merritt among others.
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Grand Lodge of
Wyoming
Independent
Order of Odd Fellows
Wheatland
Heriot Riddie
Evanston
Thomas Cotte
Rock Springs
Jacob Berner
Laramie
Louise Miller
Larmie
Joseph Dillman
Cheyenne
W. L. Kuykendall
Saratoga
Grand Lodge
Odd Fellows
Rebekahs
D. Oviatt
Thomas Cottle
Carey Hall
Thverybody
John Thompson
Swanston
A. R. Merritt
Douglas
W. W. Hughes
Carbon
Carbon, Grand Scribe
Louise Mailer
Joe Dillman
Thomas Lemar
Boss Epperson Stops Runaway Horse at Saratoga Bridge
A man from the Mammoth mine, Boss Epperson, saved two lives by halting a runaway horse Sunday night at 8:30 near the west bridge. His arm was dislocated while restraining the horse after the breeching failed and the buggy dropped toward it. The carriage occupants were not identified.
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Boss Epperson
Mammoth
Saratoga Sun
Boss
English Oil Syndicate Plans Million-Dollar Wyoming Ventures
Major Graham of a English oil syndicate travels to the United States to take charge of Murphy company wells at Dallas Wyoming. He is to acquire more Wyoming fields with oil expert Prof Redwood and invest heavily in development over the coming years.
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Lander
Graham
Murphy Company
Dallas
Wyo
Redwood
Wyoming
Water problem prompts city officials to cut irrigation hours
Cheyenne officials held a special session to reduce irrigation from three to one and a half hours daily as water supplies dwindle. Mayor Murray warned growth has outpaced the old system, prompting plans for two to three new reservoirs and use of Sloan's Lake water for irrigation to ease the shortage.
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Cheyenne
Murray
Union Pacific
McKeen
Yehoya
USA
City of Metals
Sloan's Lake
U. P. Park
Six Horses Killed by Train Near Diamond Station
Six horses employed near Diamond station were killed Wednesday afternoon by the south bound Cheyenne and Northern train as they wandered onto the bridge being repaired after washouts from recent trains. Three died instantly. the remaining three were shot due to severe mangling. The bridge ran red with their blood. It is considered a miracle the train did not derail from the animals’ bodies.
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Diamond Station
Cheyenne and Northern
Rawlins Notes: arrests, rail engines, and new companies
Special to the Leader reports a pick pocket arrested in Rawlins, along with railway news about two new O R N engines en route west. Articles filed show Wyoming Idaho Land and Immigration company with 50000 capital and named incorporators. Several mining and energy concerns filed paid up stock certificates, plus local business notices and a tax collector notice. Col B P Snow travels to Douglas on sheep commissioner duties.
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Rawlins
Wyo
Turner
Kistler
Cheyenne
Salt Lake
Wyoming-Idaho Land and Immigration Company
H. M. Bons
John Pratley
Ernest Sundin
Louis Schalk
Robert Freedman
Donaldson Mt. Mining Company
Omar Gold Mining Company
Caledonia Copper Company
Fl Paso Gas and Oil Company
Divorces Filed In District Court Accounts Of Petitions
Four petitions filed in district court docket include Eleno ra J Gunston seeking legal separation from Tom Gunston for cruelty. John H Bramkamp for divorce from Laura Bramkamp citing desertion and non support. Adelaide Moore seeking separation from Booth Moore on desertion. Henry L Smith seeking separation from Helen Smith for incompatibility. Also notes on irrigation trial by gasoline engine, social events, and local notices including pardoned convict Elmer Crum released from Albany County jail.
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District Court
Elenora J. Gunston
Tom Gunston
Granite Canan
John H. Bramkamp
Laura Bramkamp
Adelaide Moore
Booth
Moore
Henry L. Smith
Helen Smith
Elmer Crum
Richards
Albany County
Bramel
Foote Chosen Sixth Vice President of Philippine Association
Major Frank M. Foote of the Wyoming Battalion was elected sixth vice president of the Philippine veterans association at Salt Lake meetings. The Salt Lake Herald notes he is highly regarded at home for his soldierly record and civic work, with his unit active against insurgents.
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Philippine Association
Frank M. Foote
Wyoming Battalion
Major Foote
Salt Lake
The
Burned home ruins wedding trip joy near Rawlins
Rawlins Wyoming August 16 two fires struck the city within hours. A small shred fire near the Ferris hotel caused minor damage. At 8 30 p m a colored woman’s home burned down completely, threatening nearby property as the bridal party returned from a wedding at the parsonage. A camping party left for Horse Creek includes Mr and Mrs Bobt La Fontaine and others.
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Rawlins
Wyo
Horse Creek
Bobt. LaFontaine
Robert la Fontaine, Jr
Anker Hirst
Sadie la Fon- Fontaine
Maud Bradley
Honor
Ethel Wilkins
Ethel Mills
Wdna Irvine
Messrs
Homer Underwood
Karl Snyder
Alonzo Bmigh
Gussie Buechmer
Cheese Factory Hopes in Cheyenne Eyed by Edmunds Party
Edmunds Co. F of Lincoln Nebraska visits Cheyenne to assess prospects for starting a cheese factory in the city. The visit aims to gauge local supply, demand, and potential investment.
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Co. F. Edmunds
Lincoln
Neb
Cheyenne
Pension For Ed Leibey With Back Pay Confirmed
Former Cheyenne resident Edgar H Leibey, Civil War veteran, receives a pension of six dollars monthly dating from March 30 1889, totaling about nine hundred dollars as back pay after Senator I L Warren was notified of the successful pension bureau action. Leibey now lives in Denver and was once a Cheyenne resident.
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Warren
Pension Bureau
Edgar H. Leibey
Leibey
Denver
First Pole Set on New Casper Telephone Line Project
A large force of about twenty men began erecting poles on the Choyenne to Casper line, with work advancing from both ends to shorten completion time. The 180 mile route targets Douglas this year and Casper next spring, linking towns to a broader telephonic network. Also notes the Wyman building’s rearrangement for Dr. Wyman and a Turner Hall dance on August 21.
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Douglas
Choyenne
Casper
Ranchorth
Thia
Big Horn Country
Montana
Here
Bell Telephone Company
Wyoming
Elixir Promises Cure All Ailments in Wyoming Ads
An office advert in Cheyenne claims a medicine cures rheumatism catarrh hay fever stomach troubles and diseases of women when doctors fail. It seeks agents in every town in Wyoming and invites readers to write for a booklet from 208 Hast Eighteenth St P O box 20.
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Cheyenne
Wyoming
St. P. O
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Masonic Temple
Marshal
Miss Allen
al Hayford
Gren River
J. F. Jenkins
City of
H. Ingalls
Rose Brady
Will Dillman
Nagel's Orchestra
Turners
Sixteenth Street
GRAND_LODGE
Heriot Riddle
Young Man
English Oil Syndicate
Julia DeBloise
Anna Buffon
Henry Nagel
Turner Hall
Cowhick Dry Goods Company
Rawlins Department
New Land
Germany
Knights
John Schuneman
Col
B. P. Snow
State Board of Sheep Commissioners
Gordon Hunter Ranch
Little Horse Creek
Gillespie
Reynolds
Miss Gillespie
Ida May Cook
F. Apgar
Masters Harry and
Julian Gillespie
Chevenne
Grand Lodge I, C. O. i
Nagel
Jo Ito
George Kile
Major
Foote
Ringling Brothers’ Circus
G. T. A. Moeler
Buffalo Voice
Moeler
W.S. Palmer
Weather Bureau
United States
Palmer
Bureau
Hirus
Nellie Gunston
Thomas Gunston
Dr. Wyman
Wyman
B. S. Karcher
West Sixteenth Street
Cheyenne Business College
D. C
ROVER
PRIN
Silver Moon
Daneen
OLD Hofmann House
HELEBECK @& GUNTHER
Fifteenth Struet
Eddy
Vreeland & Stone
GEO
H. Nagle
Chas, BH. Miller
H. Corson
Sec
Treas
Union, Mercantile, Co
Erguson
AME Jpyanow
Union Mercantile Company
Princess Dental CO
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Ferguson ST
Cobraiong
Anheuser-Busch
TOR Family Usd
Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association
Hofmanns
Anheuser-Busch Branch
Hofmann Bros
Sunbonnet
Iren
Passepartour
Warren Mercantile CO
Ohenstein Brothers
General Grocers
Schilling
Arabia
Eddy Street
Chhyanne
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