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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1901
Page
4
The Cheyenne Leader issue of Monday August 19 1901 lists D A Slack as waker and proprietor K W De Belle as business manager and George H Evans as city editor. The telegraph long distance contact is provided.
The Zehner block on Sixteenth street gets a new paint job. Dan A Hastings arrives in Laramie to organize a 2 Federal Labor Union. Fires plague Cheyenne again. The Silver Moon restaurant relocates near the post office. The Rawlins band buys new uniforms for Frontier Day. Superintendent Park visits wheel scene and returns. Carnegie library boilers arrive for basement placement. Master Mechanic McKeen attends yesterday's ball game with Park as his guest. A Frotman of Chicago seeks mining properties near Laramie. Union Pacific to set Elks carnival rates for Salt Lake with Wyoming ads. The merry go round leaves town after complaints. Read prize essays on The Value of a Business Education by Henry Sweete and Miss Mary Bailey. Rev. Oastler's Cheyenne-connected parents reside in the city. Cooney Hill mine contractors lease to William Blarney for a 15 foot cross cut. Cullen Watt sells his Big Piney ranch to Charles Weagele for 17000 dollars, including 1000 fenced acres. Passenger trains ordered to slow to 30 mph Hermosa to Buford. freights to 10 mph Hermosa to Hermosa Junction. A young eastern woman asks why horses are picked and is told to use the stake with a ring.
The Indians depart tomorrow on a two week eastern tour through Nebraska. They will play North Platte on the 21st, Kearney on the 22nd and 28th, Omaha on the 24th and 25th, then North Platte on the 26th, returning Thursday morning, August 27th. The squad includes Green, Glaze, Simmons, Leary, Trudgeon, Kroell, Dickerson and Schoels with Kitzmiller C Tield and Pendergast joining at North Platte. Results will be received daily at the Capitol saloon.
State Today reports that Medal distribution funded by the last legislature began at the governor's office with commissioned and non commissioned officers receiving medals first. Major Foote, present in Cheyenne, received the first medal as the process started. Elmer Lovejoy of Laramie survived a wrist artery cut after fainting in public. Mrs. Clark of Laramie to sing at the Philharmonic concert in Cheyenne next Wednesday evening August 21 with admission 35 cents.
Fire at the west end of the railroad yards destroyed the big coal chutes roof for over an hour. Strong east wind and water pressure limits hindered efforts. A second alarm drew the railroad fire department. About 3,000 spectators watched the firefighting. Damages are repairable without rebuilding the structure. A later small blaze at the Capitol restaurant rear was quickly extinguished.
A collision on the Union Pacific near Table Rock left three engines demolished and a composite car badly damaged. Nine people were injured, with C G Coleman and Garside among those hospitalized. The wreck halted trains for over five hours as track was rebuilt.
The Michigan copper mine near Laramie was sold to a group including Judge J H Wear a wealthy banker from Boone Iowa and Assistant Superintendent Whitney of the Union Pacific for 50000. The mine sits near the mouth of Whalen canyon Pay Car Here The Wyoming division pay car arrived and dispersed checks to employees All stores in the city will stay open after 6 this evening.
Mrs Maggie Black of Laramie widow of Civil War vet George A Black who served in the Eighty fifth Illinois Infantry has been granted a pension of eight dollars a month dating from December 13 1897. The back pay totals over 360 dollars and the claim was pursued by Senator Warren who pressed the pension bureau for years.
Frank Williams pleaded guilty to attempting a room robbery at the Brunswick hotel in Rawlins. Judge Craig sentenced him to four years in the state penitentiary. Nearby, tragedy struck as a three year old girl drowned in a river near Lander. The child’s parents grieved publicly. Also noted, the funeral for Mrs. Mary Knight was held at her home with private interment and many mourners.
Noted Ward sister Miss Mary Ward is sent to Ogden where she will be cared for by her father B. B. Ward. Also notices that railroad employees can pay laundry bills at Cheyenne Cigar Factory and Cheyenne Steam Laundry offers pay day specials. J I Jenkins advertises a wide footwear assortment and shoe prices.
John O Keefe a former Evanston yard switch man died in Ogden from injuries after a fall beneath a freight train near Mills eight miles east of Evanston. He attempted to talk with the head brakeman while riding the train and, losing balance, was dragged. Despite grave injuries he walked a mile to a station and received care in Evanston and Ogden. His brother also works for the railroad at Evanston.
The Leader reports the Doane Rambley mine in Gardon county has been confirmed sold. The sale occurred in Dengar last Thursday to Chicago buyers from the Battle Lake Tunnel Site company for about 2,500,000 dollars.
The Leader corrects earlier reports stating only four to five hundred men will be stationed at Fort Russell. An entire regiment will not arrive, but a battalion of the Eighteenth Infantry with regimental headquarters, including several staff officers and the band, will occupy the post. Fred Thompson dying after a bout of typhoid pneumonia has ended his life. He is believed to have only a few hours to live as doctors give up hope.
Edward H. Lewis and Martha Bolin were married by Rev H H McQuilkin Saturday evening at 7 at Mr Doak's south side residence. A wedding dinner followed. The couple will live in the city. The groom is a well known shopman and the bride has long resided here. Friends offered congratulations.
A. A. McCoy has been appointed postmaster of Battle replacing James M. Thomas who resigned.
Police found four people in a room on Sixteenth Street and ordered two white girls and two black men to leave town. The men left for Denver after being given twenty minutes to depart. the girls were released with orders to appear for trial, with a threat of rearrest and fine if found in the city tonight.
J R Donnelly and Carl Dixon were struck from behind with an eighteen inch iron pipe by Harry Wells near the Rocky Mountain hotel in Evanston. Wells fled after a bar room challenge and was recaptured after a long chase. Both victims in critical condition. Wells faces murder charges if dead.
A Denver telegram reports Prof. Laurence Bruner of Lincoln investigates the grasshopper plague for the U S Department of Agriculture. Hoppers have damaged ranges and may trigger killing experiments. Also notes Cheyenne manure dumping violation and a sale listing offering 200 head young stock cattle and dairy cows from H G Enders at the Hub.
At Athletic Park the Great-Camel Indians overcame an eight to four deficit in the seventh inning by erupting for seven runs in the eighth to win 12 to 8. North Platte and Indians swapped blows as crowds roared, with Pendergast rattled and Glaze delivering a key center-field catch and drive.
Ed Haggerty, owner of Rudefeha or Terris Haggerty mine in Carbon County, travels to Denver for tests on a large body of recently found low grade ore near his mine. Ore valued at 16 dollars per ton in gold. A separate report notes an English syndicate struck a big oil well near Lander at 700 feet, flowing one barrel per minute.
Special to the Leader reports the shooting of Clarence Hansen at his father's Bull Canyon ranch may be murder. Willie Cronin fled after the incident, prompting suspicion. The coroner's jury waits to proceed until Cronin is found. Governor Richards and state officers plan to attend a Wyoming Press Association dance in Cheyenne.
Thieves have been stealing several tons of ice from the Cheyenne Ice company houses near Sloan's lake for weeks. The firm hires watchmen to guard the ice houses around the clock and warns that anyone caught will be severely dealt with.
Niles Callahan in charge of grading for the Laramie Hahn's Peak Pacific Railway declares a large outfit ordered from Western Steel Scraper Company. The equipment will arrive in about ten days and grading work will begin promptly. no subcontracting of the big contract. Jenkins notes discounted Rummeer footwear as pay day inducement.
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