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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1900
Page
3
Westbound departures include 8:36 pm No 101 Paet Mail and 9:30 pm, with 8:45 pm and 10:00 am noted. Eastbound times list 6:40 am and 6:60 am departures, 1:26 am arrivals, and 2:30 pm No 4 south. From south arrivals noted 6:50 am and 9:40 am.
A historical notice lists Cheyenne train arrivals and departures, then details meetings for Wyoming Commandery No. 1 Knights Templar and Umbyenne Lodge No. 1 A F and AM. It notes monthly or biweekly meetings on specific weekdays with times and officers signatures.
The ranchers of Big Laramie county met in the courthouse with attorney Arnold to safeguard their water rights against the Wyoming Development Company. They emphasize that only irrigated lands count toward rights and plan to file protest within the state deadline, naming local leaders such as Charlies Sodergreen Oscar Sodergreen Hans Olsen Fred Pahiow George Priestel Ora Hailey Charles Heidrich Jonh Margiana Barrent Cole Jacob Lund.
Boonering Fireman H D Reed is rapidly recovering from typhoid fever. Engineer John Carroll, once dangerously ill, shows marked improvement. The Scandinavian Lutheran church on the West Side hosts a picnic at Hutton's Grove on Thursday. Bernard Featherstone reports a successful trip to Denver and is progressing well. A window was broken at the Gibson saloon last night by a tough individual who fled before officers arrived.
Forecast for Cheyenne and area. cooler weather due to a high pressure centered over Oregon and a low over South Dakota. Seasonable temperatures expected, with highs in Kansas and Missouri. Dodge City and St Louis noted. Showers reported in the low pressure region from southern India to Agdibola.
From Georgetown Kentucky a statement by Coles Powers calls the trial a political farce amid the Goebel case. He blasts Democratic tactics, cites a $190,000 shield, and claims the judiciary was outraged by a guilty verdict driven by party power. History may judge those who reshaped Kentucky’s fate.
The Interior Department selected Ham mitt Wilkes and added Jesse Nelson M L Newton W T Barron and L Corey as refuge riders in Cody. Most are local residents. Corey and Wilkes reside outside the community. Waterworks progress in Basin exceeds 700 feet with pipes laid and many connections planned. Colonel C G Contant arrived in January from Lander where he gathered notes for a Wyomin g History project while noting Lander’s prosperity amid drought.
The Cheyenne brides rehearalog twice a week but musicians receive little encouragement from the public. Frontier Day price offered by the committee was declined though reasonable. A trend to devalue the art leads to poor support for a professional band and harms both dignity and earnings.
A forest blaze in Battle and Grand encampment districts destroyed about four miles of the Denver Lake long distance telephone line and damaged a service branch. Residents feared isolation as the line burned and work to restore service is expected to continue amid community need for meals for workers and volunteers.
eed J Kosold administratrix of the estate of William Konold sues in Salt Lake district court against the Rio Grande Western Railway for 10000 damages in the death of husband William Konold an engineer killed April 2 in Salt Lake suburbs. He left a wife and three children. Konold and family formerly lived in Laramie where his brother Victor Konold, fireman, was killed last year. The suit alleges the accident occurred due to an open switch allowing a train to collide with another on a side track.
Oliver Richardson reports a midi house burned to the ground yesterday while Boner and McKinney cattle crews were nearby at the ranch on Muddy. A nearby note read You had better leave this part of the country and leave damned quick.
Local notices advertise meals at the Sterling, bus services, baths, and a Wadgett's barber. Property offerings include a five room house with favorable terms and an 80 acre buffalo county ranch trade. Also promotions seek dress cutting instructors and agents for Metropolitan lodges. Furnished rooms with modern utilities offered by J W Griffin and others.
A compilation of United States land office notices from Cheyenne Wyoming includes contest actions on homestead entries and filings for final proof. It lists names of contestants witnesses and settlers such as Asa J Covington Alfred W W Tremain and Walden with dates August 1900 and September 1909 and details on required appearances and proofs.
Multiple notices appear including Leane B Snow of Cheyenne Wyoming filing desert land claim No 38.2 for section 14 T19N R68W before the register and receiver at Cheyenne on September 2. Witnesses named include Robert P Allan Duncan Clarke Walter D Pease. Also a notice of sealed proposals for the United States Public Building at Cheyenne Wyo James Knox Taylor Supervising Architect. Plus excursion rates to Ogden and Salt Lake City offered by Union Pacific and a notice for a stockholders meeting of the Ole Nadows Alkall company in Cheyenne City.
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