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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1900
Page
1
From a window observation palace announces a December art show featuring statuary, ivory and wood carvings, medieval and modern sculpture reproductions, and imported browse in a green bronze finish. The note hints at high demand and a climax of opportunities at year end 1900.
The steamer Parisian, bound Liverpool to Halifax, is five days overdue with a large passenger list. Reported off Camperdown harbor, it broke down near Sambro as a heavy snow storm with high winds rages. A pilot boat and tugs sought the vessel, which was signaling for help in the blinding snow.
Steamer Rogefull hit the coast near St Heleler on December 5. All passengers were saved but nine crew members are missing.
Wisconsin lawmakers debate a marriage bill that would require a state medical examiners board. The measure would certify applicants as free from insanity consumption and tainted blood before granting marriage licenses.
President and Mrs. McKinley plan the first dinner of the season tonight. The Paris exposition commissioners are invited guests making it the smallest and most exclusive White House function of the year.
Galveston Texas December 5 flood devastation leaves city crowded with cases of typhoid fever. Twenty one patients are at St Marys Infirmary seven at Sealey hospital and more could be treated if space were available.
New York secretary of the interior Mr Hitchcock predicts one million names on the pension roll next year and total payments of 2 900 000 dollars an increase of 4 000 000 due to an amendment allowing widows with incomes up to 260 dollars to receive pensions. Premier Pearson in The Hague cannot identify a psychological moment for Britain and the Boers to arbitrate their differences. A miner in Colorado is crushed to death in a mine collapse. Cedar Rapids minstrel show praised as highly entertaining with Cape able company and strong encores.
Congress opens vigorously with the Senate reviewing the Hay-Pauncefote treaty and the House taking up the army reorganization bill. Democrats oppose a 100000 man army while ship subsidy and related measures proceed amid executive sessions and political forecasts. surprise in social circles over Harrison’s absence from Paris exhibit dinner guests.
A northeast gale pounds the coast from Labrador to Cape May with gusts up to 76 mph. The schooner Oliver Schofield went ashore at Lavallette, New Jersey, and was broken to pieces.
An official denies rumors that the Union Pacific Land company will host Boers on its western lands. Reports claimed many Boers would travel through Omaha to settle there and that northern railroads sought to locate Boers in the northwest.
State Auditor LeRoy Grant reports ore samples from his Horse Creek mine with copper ranging 27 to 47 percent and gold valued at 46 dollars per ton. Shaft sunk sixty feet, cross-cut needed, and development machinery and materials are on site for rapid start. A Detroit Journal correction states Grant did not own the Custer Holmes mine in Albany county.
London papers respond to Mercier's French senate remarks by blaming red tape for British defense shortcomings. The Daily Chronicle quotes Mercier as claiming a courageous yet perjuring minister of war forced fear at the Elysée over a potential German declaration of war.
An imperial edict denounces General Tung Fu Hetang and deprives him of all rank. He remains in command but must return his troops to Kanga province. This signals the first step by the dowager empress toward full punishment after the peace treaty.
Denver Post reports a severe typhoid outbreak in Fort Collins Colorado and surrounding area with about 200 cases. Dr. W C Mitchell bacteriologist travels from the health board to investigate cause and curb spread over at least a week while daily updates go to Dr. George E Tyler in Denver.
City sportsmen report multiple game law violations and plan prosecutions. A Cheyenne meat market displays a black tailed deer behind a window in violation of state law and another local man distributes deer meat to friends. Investigations will pursue strong evidence and prosecutions. An engineer seeks a heating plant position at Perry's hotel in Cheyenne.
The National Live Stock Association plans a Salt Lake City convention starting January 1i to discuss the twenty eight hour feeding law and other matters. They oppose state inspections on interstate shipments and seek federal inspection, defeat the oleomargarine tax, and push a census of livestock while criticizing state boards as burdensome.
An old clipped notice touts a guarantee backed by 200000 and five national banks. It directs readers to 1717 Ferguson Street to buy a soldier, attributed to J. W. Bruner.
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