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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1902
Page
3
Offers on half-price suits from Kohn Brothers with updated styles. Lot prices include $6 for a $10 suit, $8.50 for a $13 suit, $10 for a $15 suit, and $12 for an $18 suit. Also new lines of regular up-to-date suits and overcoats with prices ranging up to $18.00.
Laramie visitors and residents including Jos Payne Miss Anta Nolan and Miss Minnie Garland. Patrick Sullivan Natrona county senator travels route to Rawlins. Special church services held. Jury report expected in district court with criminal trials to begin. Death in family prompts relatives to travel to Laramie. The Hottest Coon in Dixie opera tonight. Cattle shipments from northern Laramie county to South Omaha. Hospital Aid Society meeting at Carnegie while charity report filed. Veteran engineer W B Moyer reported seriously ill. Woebghed Tigers vs High School Saturday on boulevard gridiron. Rural mail routes average 11 per day. Greeley High basketball team praised for hospitality. Sheep train from Jack Creek Sheep company passes through. George Thompson dies at Sweetwater mine. Senate presidency candidates include Guernsey Thomas and Davin. Boy falls into Lake Minnehaha but rescued. Mine fireman Joseph Miller suffers arm injury from emery wheel. Deputy Sheriff Meldrum resigns to take Telluride post. noted for curbing Carbon county lawlessness.
The tenth annual grand banquet of the Alert Hose company drew city officials and residents to its rooms Saturday night. Toastmaster Frank Vreeland led about twenty impromptu speeches, with music from the Eighteenth Infantry orchestra and a feast prepared by Christine Stenger. The menu featured chicken bouillon, turkey, tongue, and cognac, as the event delighted attendees and fulfilled expectations.
About 800 fans watched Keele hall host Cheyenne Business College and Greeley High School. Greeley led until mid second half when Cheyenne used desperate plays to seize the advantage. A return game will be in Greeley soon followed by a dance with Nogel's orchestra.
A laborer L. A Anderson was buried alive Friday afternoon when a rock mass caved in during excavation at the Perrin Haggerty mine near Grand Encampment. Chris Christenson was seriously hurt as rescuers failed to reach Anderson before his death. Anderson was 36 and single. In a separate item, Miss Nannie B Lane of Wheatland married ranchman Joseph Rutherford at Buford, west of Cheyenne.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron company plans a 600 foot shaft near the Gamble claim above Sunrise. A drift will extend east for several hundred feet, possibly through the hills east of the camp. Diamond drilling suggests higher grade ore below the surface.
Last week a dwelling owned by R BE Lewis at Rock Springs burned. An Italian girl helped by leaping through a window, braving smoke and flames, to rescue an unconscious boy. She was slightly burned on the hands but suffered no other injuries.
Ah Tong a longtime Rock Springs resident was judged insane by a jury and committed to the Evanston asylum. He believed ten years ago he was appointed by AM Bay as coal mine superintendent at $60 monthly and now seeks $6,000 in back pay, attempting to cash a related check in town.
Report from Cody notes the opening of a new Irma hotel during a trip from Cody. Mentions Hynes killing elk and a mountaineering outing where Marty bagged two fine buchels. Also references Accurate adjusting and watch repair services and D. Miller of Ferguson Street, Lander.
The article reproduces a U S act authorizing use of public land sale receipts in western states to fund irrigation and reclamation works. It details fund creation, surveys, land withdrawals, project contracts, entry requirements, payment terms, management transfer, rights of way, and intergovernmental water rules, plus protections for settlers and enforcement provisions.
A sensational report from Rawlins claimed A I Bes a beer buyer was lured to a lonely spot near Usat city drugged robbed of 260 dollars and left to die. The tale proved false as Bes had been drinking and gambling, pawned his ring, and wandered away while intoxicated, freezing to death in the cold.
Winter resorts in the south southeast and California are best reached via Colorado and Southern railway and connections through Fort Worth Memphis and the new Dalhart El Paso Route. Low round trip rates and sleeping car reservations available on request. Also notes subscription bargains for Bat Lake City Weekly Tribune and Cheyenne Daily Leader offers.
Letters of testamentary were granted November 16 1902 to Timothy Dyer in the above estate. All persons with claims must exhibit them with vouchers for allowances to Timothy Dyer within six months after the date of letters or be barred from benefits. If claims are not exhibited within one year from the letters they will be forever barred.
Classified items advertise tailoring advice travel routes and job and rental offers. Wording mentions Daiber's tailoring shops and Memphis Denver Chicago Caxton Building and Twelfth Street property listings. Notices include wanted managers wanted rentals for winter and real estate offers.
Classified rental notices advertise rooms and houses at 1002 Central avenue 515 West Tenth street and 514 West Twenty-third street with contact points at 200 West Eleventh street Chapman's rear engine office and 1719 Ferguson street plus furnished rooms with boards at 217 East Nineteenth and brick block rentals with electric light janitor service from Warren Emporium.
Miscellaneous cut flowers and designs offered for weddings and funerals at ChaMn a green house corner of eighteenth and Central avenue. Hot and cold baths and a barber shop also listed at Strteanth 3.
Mon Hugo Donselman under an alias J. Castello bought parcel 21 on Wighthoonth Street for 2760 dollars. The deed funds improvements to elevate and enhance the brick structure and provide handsome evidence of property investment.
Property listing for sale in the Maxwell area near Twenty Second Street. Inquiries directed to Albert Chapman, local real estate agent, for details and arrangements.
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