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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1900
Page
3
The Cheyenne Leader lists AA Slack as editor and proprietor with ER W De Belle as business manager and George Evans as city editor for the December 3 1900 issue.
A collection of brief notes: court events and schedules, social announcements, theatre updates, local business improvements, weather, and mining news. Mentions include a state supreme court convening, the Two Merry Tramps engagement, district court trials, a Congregational supper, Miss Mabel Reid's recovery, Governor proclamation on Senator Davis, play reviews, Monk Taylor's injury, Eddy street improvements, upcoming locomotive deliveries for Wyoming division, water works concerns, Jett Nash leaving for school, National Live Stock convention delegates, Ladies Relief meeting, Georgia Sullivan’s surprise visit, a Judge Martin case on intoxication, snowfall, lake ice, Helen Gould likeness in the San Francisco Examiner, and the Silver Crown stamp mill nearing operations.
Casper dispatch reports a serious accident on the Casper Lander and Thermopolis stage line. A runaway down a steep hill left Mrs Barker and manager William Clark severely injured between Thermozolia and Walton, far from medical aid.
Arrangements were made for next Wednesday night at the opera house to feature A Hindoo Hoodoo, a theosophy themed comedy. The original company, traveling from San Francisco to New York, will present the play here as one of the season’s distinct comedy successes.
Citizens express support for making the Mitchell sanitary report public and urge action on Cheyenne water system. Noted voices from Judge Martin to Chief Justice Potter urge transparency, engineering review, and potential reforms with springs as a source.
Des Moines police secured James Kennedy wanted for highway robbery. Detective J Ekroot obtained requisition papers and escorted Kennedy east. Kennedy, a two term criminal, had been linked to a Des Moines bridge robbery during a state fair incident with James Clipper. He was captured in Cheyenne by Officer McNeil.
Colonel Barkwell plans organize a new military company in Laramie with state funding covering equipment and armory rent. Influential locals back the effort and many have signified intent to enlist, believing Gem City can support a crack company.
Ed Kaufmann travels south while Hinckle returns from Denver. Misa Miller ill with fever. Matthews goes north. Tim Kinney visits Inter Ogesa. Warren Richardson's condition unchanged. C H Wheeler back from Rawlins. Johnston family leaves for Denver. Mrs Fitz leaves for Omaha. Master Mechanic Manbing to Omaha to join family. Oliver Messenger and wife visiting Cripple Creek. E B Blydenburgh in city from Rawlins for Grand Encampment. McEweeney and wife return from Montana to reside here. Bob Allen leaves Iron Mountain ranch as stock remains good. Ray Newman brought home from Fort Collins ill with typhoid after recent diphtheria. Jett Nash Jr. to canal to enter Plumbers Trade School in NYC. friends bid farewell at depot. A prominent Raw- stein tyop noted. poised to leave for Ogden bod springs.
Nine deserters from Companies K and M of the Twenty third United States Infantry at Fort Russell near Cheyenne have fled in four months. Eight new recruits arrived from Baltimore to replace them. Desertions are blamed on a wish to return to civil life after long service in the Philippines. none have been recaptured. Names of the deserters are listed. Cheyenne recruiting office reports thirty two new recruits last month, the highest tally in the United States. Ten recruits are to be sent west to San Francisco tomorrow.
Frank Boehm, formerly of Cheyenne and a cigar manufacturer on Sixteenth Street, died after a paralytic stroke and mental illness in Beattie and Chicago. His divorced Denver wife and daughter now reside there.
Frank Bond editor and manager to lead as expert in irrigation investigation for the department of agriculture. No successor named yet and he will continue duties until a new editor is chosen. Bond, an able engineer, is to be congratulated on the appointment.
A movement aims to form an association to protect wild game in the county. Detectives will be engaged to pursue poachers as new evidence supports charges against several sportsmen violating game laws.
Slaughtered the Bunnies Prof Martin A J Gereke and Ed Weeks return from a Sherman rabbit hunt with no game. They claim rabbits were killed in excess of Creight charges, leaving city finances strained. Archdeacon Webber preaches an instructive sermon at St Mark's cathedral to a large audience. Hardware and tinware featured by Warren Mercantile Co.
General Manager B Dickinson of the Union Pacific arrived from Omaha to meet Mrs Dickinson returning from California. He said freight and traffic remain strong, cut off work is advancing with tunneling taking long, and he denied plans for a Coalville Ogden line or Evanston to Salt Lake connection. He noted Burl ington surveys near Salt Lake as interesting but not proof of construction and expressed belief in the Los Angeles and Salt Lake line while denying Union Pacific backing.
Competing Colorado brewers Golden Neef and Krug push into Cheyenne trading area. Each firm has secured a foothold and plans further growth. The rivalry has already spurred major real estate transactions and is expected to boost local commerce and property as plans unfold.
Judge Brame received a letter from Prosecuting Attorney J.8. Vital of Fremont County asking what to do about the December term of district court, which by law must convene on the tenth. He notes a smallpox epidemic and that the county has converted the courthouse at Lander into a rest house, so the term will not be held.
A civil service examination for a post office clerk and carrier will be held in its city on December 15. Many applicants for the position will take the examination. J A Newsom of Nebraska is now on a regular run between Cheyenne and Ogden.
County Treasurer John Schuneman announces all warrants presented for payment before September 1 1900 will be honored. Interest ceases from that date. Also promotes Soldier Script via J W Bruner at 1717 Ferguson Street and mentions five national banks backing guarantees.
Harry Keith Schnitger, 18, son of May or Schnitger, died last evening at his home after a three week battle with typhoid fever. Funeral set for 2 p.m. tomorrow from his residence. Born and raised in Cheyenne, he graduated from high school last year and had recently left for Fort Collins Agricultural College before falling ill.
Thomas Doyle and Frank Daley pleaded guilty in Rawline court to burglarizing the Coserio Brothers store at Fort Steele. Judge Craig sentenced each man to three years in the penitentiary.
Ben Kelley has been appointed as a substitute mall clerk joining his brothers John and Charlie in mall service. Yesterday on the Lane while going to or from the post office a gentleman found a shirt cuff with a gold tone button and may return it to 402 East 17th.
L Kabia flatly denies in this city that he has been offered 27000 by a Denver brewing company to sell his business. He states he has no plans to leave the city or exit the business.
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