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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1901
Page
4
The Cheyenne Leader lists office and house telephones with numbers 93 and 181, noting B W Slack as editor and proprietor Henry Sweet as business manager and George H Evans as city editor. The snippet shows masthead details of the newspaper.
Road and ridge matters were taken up by the county commissioners at today’s session. The Primo dancing club will resume bi monthly hops tonight at Turner hall. The district court presents a busy scene with trials. A carload of Italian laborers passed through Cheyenne en route east. The Wyoming Student first issue for 1901 02 is out. King Dodo opera announced with Castle Square involvement. For rent nicely furnished rooms in brick blocks $5 a month upward.
Rawlins Wyoming December 4 sheep men in Carbon county plan a syndicate to lease from Union Pacific alternate land sections totaling about 1 400 000 acres. The move seeks to bar Utah flocks and dominate local grazing lands if finalized. Also notes Masons banquet Elks house warming pensions for Wyominians and new choir members at a Baptist church.
The annual banquet of the Alert Hose company will be held in the assembly hall of the Hose House. Judge Potter and Chief Vreeland will speak among others, with a sumptuous banquet, songs, and music. Invitations go out tomorrow.
The Auxiliary Library Association reports growing support for the Carnegie Library Fair with many donations. Items include a grand piano from F. & Warren, carvings, furniture, a Mauser rifle, artwork, photographs, and cash gifts from various sponsors and officials.
John M Morton a colored laborer from Pueblo now in Laramie hospital after a slag spill at the Colorado Fuel and Iron rolling mill blinded both eyes. The blast occurred when he dumped molten slag in the snow and exploded sending hot metal into his face. He dies not at once and will be moved to Pueblo hospital per company policy for permanent disability.
The T T club held a phantom card party at Mr and Mrs Henry Dillman with a cake walk an Indian war dance and other specialties. Prizes went to Mesdames T T Tynn G E Evans and Messrs Leroy Grant and George Evans. J H Livney a Wabash conductor visits Laramie on leave after a wreck near the line left eighty killed.
In district court this morning N H Andrus was fully exonerated after being accused of remarks about the court made during juror summons The judge and witnesses testified the remarks were not discourteous and the case was dismissed promptly Woodcock Improving A Ogden report says Fred Woodcock the express messenger who suffered a temporary insanity fit is greatly improved and should resume his run soon Mail Clerk Quits W A Simmons resigns from the R M S to raise stock on his ranch in the Silver Crown district Zithers tuned Leave orders at Knights GIRL WANTED 220 West Twenty second street
Western congressmen gathered in Senator Warren's committee rooms to discuss irrigation and the control split between state and national authority. A 100000 public building bill for Evanston Wyoming was previewed by Senator C D Clark with plans to push it early in the session.
Richard Bertagnolli, driver of a Rock Springs delivery wagon, was dragged hundreds of feet after the wagon ran away and overturned. He suffered a broken ankle three broken ribs and severe head injuries.
Supreme Commander Ogden H. Feth ers of the Knights of Pythias will visit Laramie on December 12 alongside the State Industrial Convention. A grand meeting is planned. Also note Washington market offers a large display of poultry for Thanksgiving.
Work on the Cheyenne public building is halted as a government inspector prepares to assess Iron Mountain quarries and stone quality after claims of iron impurities. Forster & Smith say no blocks free of iron have been received, while Iron Mountain partners assert recent shipments contain no iron and argue softer Bedford stone could aid handling but may affect final quality.
Mattie Jones thirteen-year-old colored girl who stole forty dollars from her father at Laramie will not be prosecuted as the charge is withdrawn. She and a companion were victims of a minstrel man passing through Laramie.
Guiseppe Alesandro sues Sam Bergman in district court for 2000 claiming injuries from a July 20 accident when Bergman discharged a gun while showing it, allegedly causing permanent disability and pain and business losses.
Police arrested Walter Whitaker, formerly a Manewal restaurant cook, for burglarizing rooms in the Warren block on Sixteenth Street. A pal aided through a transom. Whitaker wore stolen clothing from Nelson, a bartender at the Inter Ocean hotel. Whitaker is jailed awaiting trial. James Cunningham, once employed at the Aspen tunnel, arrested at Salt Lake, declared violently insane and likely to be sent to Utah state asylum.
Fred Kebler is identified as the man who wrote a worthless check for two ears of sheep at Casper, not BE. McCarthy who owned the herd and will be in Cheyenne tonight. Kebler is believed to be captured upon arrival in Kansas City with the flock.
Heavy snow on December 4 at Rawlins Wyoming totals six inches and is expected to ease the drought troubling sheep. In Big Horn County an epidemic of crime leads to a district court adjournment with eight prisoners awaiting trial.
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