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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1900
Page
4
The Cheyenne Leader lists A SLACK as editor and proprietor ER W DE BELLE as business manager and GEORGE H EVANS as city editor with a note for long distance telephone service.
The shipment of coffins to Tie Siding from Laramie becomes a remunerative business. Miss Coates pupil will present a literary evening at the high school next Friday. The tall shop chimney burns again, a common Cheyenne sight and strikingly beautiful. All Union Pacific depot workers in Omaha are vaccinated. Cheyenne may follow. H Altman on Sixteenth renovated and repainted. looks attractive. A burglar entered a Laramie section bunk house, stealing money and valuables. W R Grace and Miss May Connel wed in Chicago at Holy Trinity. Winter clothing sales are weak, risking large summer stock. The L’inconnu club to host a first dance January 3 with invitations soon. Beach & Bowers minstrels staged a good show with notable bicycle trick. Baxter ranch to Fort Laramie road declared a county road. Superintendent Korty of Union Pacific telegraph back from Wyoming trip, pleased with division 18. A new brick hotel by A Coors on Western site will enliven Fifteenth street. Modern Woodmen of America meeting nearly proposed Seabury as camp doctor. West-emerging mail clerks report a Ogden mail contractor collapsing after handing over his register. The murdered man near Tie Siding identified as Donora Lettino Talinn grader. motive robbery. about 200 obtained. Durante nominees named for next meeting: Nimmo foreman, Jor captain, Kingham secretary, Thompson Turnbull England F P Rossman trustees.
Knights of Pythias elect officers at a meeting held last evening to serve for the coming year. Names include W. A. Hopkins C C Theo Voight Frank Bon M of W W. M. Clark M of B J. G. Whipple M of F G. L. Durbin K. of BR 8 W. L. Whipple M. A. A. B. Spaulding J. G. A. T. Clark O G A Underwood trustees A. Russell.
The Zobo concert at Keefe Hall on December 14 features top local talent for charity. A novelty and the only chance to hear the trained Zobo chorus in Cheyenne. Admission is 25 cents.
A near tragedy on Lake Minnehaha ends with two youths pulled from freezing water. Fred Stit, 13, and Fred Sturdevant fall through near the bridge as open water lies beneath thin ice. Skaters Sam Asher and others pull Sturdevant from the water. a board passage aids his exit. Fred is taken home with restoratives and faces a serious but improving condition. The incident warns skaters of treacherous ice despite some solid patches and warm weather.
A city scavenger wagon owned by Minard Bailey bolted from Eddy and Seventeenth streets this morning. The team dashed along Eddy to Nineteenth and Ferguson to Seventeenth, where the wagon and sorter toppled, parts scattered, and one horse was badly injured against the curb.
Horace C Plunkett and Judge Carey altered travel plans from Wheatland to the big reservoir and will arrive here tonight by rail before taking the first train to Lookout.
An important capture by Marshall Ingalls and Officer Ahrens last evening secured John Epps, a known desperado, after a prior murder attempt on his wife in the Gem City. Sheriff Yund of Albany county arrived this morning to take custody. Epps, said to be connected with a dissolute circle, attacked his wife with a knife, wounding her wrist as she shielded herself.
Three mining firms are incorporated with a total capital of 2 605 000 dollars. The Federal Gold Mining Company leads with 2 500 000 dollars, to operate in Fremont County. Osbrone Mining and Milling Company forms with 100 000 dollars, to operate in Colorado and Wyoming from Cheyenne. Colorado Gold Mines Company sets 5 000 dollars capital for Laramie County with offices in Cheyenne. Incorporators include J C Spry F M Tracey E H Adams A H Hopkins Charles Van Sickel J S Stevens and R E B Stevens A A Doyle J K Bruner S T Hamilton J J Connor C D Taylor N B Hames.
W. E. Chaplin H. B. Patten and EB. 8 Johnston return from Denver as witnesses in the Teller case heard in Cheyenne. The government suit alleges cutting angles on public land. The trial featured heated animus and several near physical clashes with Deputy Sheriff restraint between Teller and Attorney Whitford as the jury received the case last night.
Personal, M. P. Keefe returns home from Omaha while Sherrie and arrives in Laramie. Pete Cook the plumber journeys to Denver on business. Miss Fannie Converse back from extended east trip. Mrs. DeForest Richards ill with bronchitis but improving. Phil Shaver nearly recovered from illness and walked out on Thanksgiving. Mrs. Joe Wilde and son fully recovered and plan to join Mr. Wilde for Fort Laramie departure. Dr and Mrs Seabury, Mr and Mrs Pitt Covert, General and Mrs Stitzer, and Dr Barber return from Denver after attending a Silver Serpents ball and Gray Girand Opera. Washington dispatches report $100,000 additional appropriation for Cheyenne public building approved by supervising architect.
The Alert Mandolin club reorganises with ten instruments and Joe Onphaus as instructor and leader. The pew club provides music for the Alerts annual banquet on the 20th.
The state camp of the Modern Woodmen of America will hold its convention in this city in February to elect delegates to the head camp meeting in St. Paul in June. Call 616 Weet ith street for good home board with or without room.
A laborer shot a foreman at Tie Siding grading camps after an wage dispute. The assailant fled to a nearby camp and was captured by deputies. The foreman survived the shooting, and authorities continued to investigate amid ongoing camp violence.
Jeff Carr warden of the state penitentiary at Laramie said no notice had been received about moving convicts to the Rawlins penitentiary. He believed the state might need both jails as Laramie holds 161 prisoners and Rawlins cannot better accommodate them.
A force works yesterday at the city pump house setting up an apparatus for testing water meters and instruments. The facility will become a regular laboratory for rating water measurement instruments for irrigation in the region. Will Fisher, son of T Joe Fisher, returns from thirteen months in the Philippines with the quartermaster's department, sick with tropical fever but well now, noting good opportunities to earn money there and possibly returning.
The funeral of Mrs James Cox occurred this morning at 9 o clock from the Catholic church and was well attended by many sympathizing friends. A large number of floral designs were contributed. The remains were interred in the Catholic cemetery.
Ed Kitchen pleaded guilty to highway robbery after his partner George Mennish turned state's evidence. Kitchen was sentenced by Judge Scott in district court to four years in the Laramie penitentiary. Mennish was discharged. The crime occurred near the city subway on September 14 when C. C. Simpson of the Hotel Normandie was robbed and beaten.
Tom Holland faced a chilling corridor encounter last night as a ghostly figure appeared and vanished before him. The spectral sight was followed by a human voice asking for a room key, revealing the speaker as Ed Smalley in a strange bathrobe costume.
A meeting of Camp 5 205 Modern Woodmen of America last evening approved establishing a reserve or emergency fund to be discussed at the St Paul convention next June. Officers named include John Fleming venerable, J T Budrow adviser, J H Conway banker and state delegate, E H Bartlett clerk, T E L Tiggle escort, Dr J K Werlaufer camp physician, J J Lynch watchman.
At the annual election of the Order of the Eastern Star held last evening, officers were chosen including Mrs. Warren oust as worthy matron Judge C F Miller as worthy patron Mrs Henry Hunger associate matron Mrs H Sherman conductress Mrs P B Cook assistant conductress Mrs A J Shilling treasurer and Mrs C K Bryant secretary.
The daughter of Mr and Mrs Harry Helvin fell from the curb on Capitol avenue near Six teeth street last evening and broke an arm. She endured the pain with little complaint and is being treated for her injury.
Two marriages were performed last evening by Judge Marn. James M. Clay wed Mrs. Néilie Smith of Boulder. James A. Provost and Mrs. Tillis Terel also joined in matrimony in the city ceremony.
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