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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1902
Page
4
The state board of equalization released total Wyoming property valuation at 43,348,356 with a gain of 3,767,139.45 from last year. Carbon County is now a first class county with valuation over 5,000,000, and county totals list Fremont Sheridan Sweetwater and others with varying figures.
Dr. Laughlin of Cheyenne has been installed as physician at the Glenrock and Big Muddy coal mines. Miners, paying $1 a month for a medical fund, objected to the former doctor and held a mass meeting demanding his removal. Laughlin was chosen and now serves several hundred miners.
Last evening at a meeting of Company B W N G the following commissioned officers were appointed F Hagan first sergeant C F Swartz quartermaster sergeant E Sanberg and James Gill duty sergeants E Smith Otto Nachtman and Elmer Keefe corporals To Purchase Stock Mrs A F Hamilton has gone to Chicago to purchase her full line of millinery and will be absent several days
A. C. Kalley leads grand mask balls at Turner and Keefe halls during Frontier nights with four bands led by the Cook band of Denver. German village at Turner hall and refreshments at both venues promise lavish entertainment with 5 cent admission. Maskers may unmask at will after 11.
Mrs Paul Lariver and daughters touring the country visit the McPhee ranch on Pole Creek and plan a later stop in Laramie. A Thermopolis well reports gold bearing ore at 60 feet depth and 145 feet drilled. Frontier Day asks for spare rooms reported to A G McGregor and city residents to decorate with Frontier Day colors and flags. $5 prizes offered for best dwelling and best business front.
Articles filed yesterday in the secretary of state office show Brooks-Hudson Company forming a live stock business in Casper with capital stock of 60000 dollars. B. B. Brooks is a member. The Wyoming moose hunting law expires September 1 allowing legal harvest during hunting season. A Nebraska party arrived to scout Wheatland for potential irrigation assisted homesteads.
Walter R. Stoll for the state and Hugo Donzelmann for defendants argued the 1899 1901 Wyoming jury law's constitutionality. Stoll contended jurors must come from the county body not five miles of Cheyenne. Donzelmann said questions were hypothetical and could await future panel exhaustion. Burke backed the court’s integrity and the state's position.
Superintendent W L Park confirms corps of prospectors have located rich coal veins west of Rawlins in Carbon county. While not suited for locomotives yet, future use is anticipated with new camps and deposits at Cherokee and Black Buttes. current supply from Hanna Rock Springs and Cumberland satisfies immediate needs.
J Murray and A D Kelley met Lieutenants Appel and Pratt of the Thirteenth artillery at Frontier Park to review planned maneuvers. The battery drilled to acclimate to the grounds as preparations continue for improved artillery displays tomorrow.
Cheyenne Lodge No 660 B P C E to hold a big fair in Keefe hall October 17 18 20 21 and 22 to raise funds for the new Elk home. A general committee of arrangements was appointed with A D Kelley as chairman and members Frank Vreeland C B Richardson E Dinneen P J Gauff L Kable and Joe Cahill.
Three days Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday to clean up all ads and ends in dress goods summer under wear hosiery shirtwaists and remnants of all kinds prices less than cost Cowhick Dry Goods Do Subscribe for the Leader.
Invites friends and parents to the M. C. Lt. party at St. Mark's Keefe hall Thursday afternoon and evening August 21. Attle tots dance after summer instruction. Free refreshments in the afternoon. Dancing for adults in the evening. Admission 25 cents for either session.
P L Neil, once a Cheyenne postal clerk and now based in Portland, Oregon, has been ordered to appear for the examination for the position of post office inspector.
Horton company, incorporated in Wyoming, Cheyenne, with $1.9 million capital, Denver head office, patents 632032 and 689805 for a seventeen year term, offers 60,000 preferred shares at 10 cents, then 26,000 shares at 26 cents. A. M. Horton exhibits a working model at Normanide hotel Cheyenne August 20–26, rooms 9, for dry amalgamating tests. Blocks of fifty shares sold. no interview fee. exhibitions from 2 to 8 pm.
Miss Sadie La Fontaine will enter tain tonight in the form of a dance at Keefe hall with about fifty guests invited. A pleasant time is anticipated.
Desperado Kid Blizzard, freed on horse stealing charges in Rawlins after a preliminary hearing, is now being tried for the sheep wagon robbery. Cahill Brothers display an elk portrait in hopes of raffling it for the fall fair. Thirteenth battery plans field target practice near Laramie at Fort Russell in about three weeks.
A Cowhick Dry Goods show window features Frontier colors black and yellow for the celebration. Five good wells at Frontier Park provide ample pure water across different park sections for the event.
Judge Craig of Rawlinson hosts a short Denver visit. Mall Clerk Otto Machtman heads to Colorado for three weeks. Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Bickel of Bikhart Indiana visit Ray and Mrs. Knopf. Eva and Sielim Glenn return from a pleasant visit. Attorney R. N. Matson departs for Omaha for a week. State Examiner Henderson leaves for Douglas and Casper, returning Friday or Saturday. Mrs. B. M. Shay returns to Salt Lake after visiting Miss Maggie and Anna Conroy. Attorney Cyrus Beard of Evanston attends the state supreme court for the May canal case. Arthur Kelley visits from Denver, staying with his cousin England. P. J. McQue and children leave for home.
James A. Kason of Rawlins has been granted a patent for a forced draft appliance for locomotives. The invention, expected to aid railways, may enter general use. Kason, an experienced Union Pacific engineer, has lived in Rawlins for many years.
A blaze yesterday at the rear of Mike Walish residence 415 B Eleventh Street damaged sheds. Firefighters from Clark Hose Company extinguished flames with minimal overall loss. Sale announced three days for odds and ends.
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