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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1900
Page
4
The snippet lists the newspaper roles with A Slack as Editor and Proprietor K W De Belle as Business Manager and George H Evans as City Editor, followed by a telephone line and the number 93.
Capt Wilson arrives from Denver to recruit at the local station while crews clean gutters around business districts. The Leader issues two daily editions. Episcopal fairs in Evanston and Green River netted over 1 and 200 dollars respectively. Wild horse riding exhibition on seventeenth street. Cheyenne merchants install storm doors to beat heat. Police raid Weat End seeking a missing girl. no trace found. Chicago funds embezzler W J Glenn linked to Traders Loan case. Baptist ladies hold Christmas sale. court panels meet. Liscom’s remains pass Cheyenne with Gen Wilson. Senator Warren Mondell bill may aid veterans and boost morale. Spontaneous street excitement over a hysterical claim ends with nervousness. Purpel vs Union Pacific jury witnesses to be home tomorrow.
Articles of incorporation were filed today for the Green Mountain Copper Mining company to operate at Grand Encampment. Capital stock is set at $1,000,000 with incorporators J. E. Philips W. G. Wilcoxr and B Burger.
Cheyenne plans large summer project to rebuild Fort D. A. Russell. M. P. Keefe heads the contract for six brick and stone officers quarters and a new brick guard house. Replacing sold-off structures, the work aims to restore the post to past importance and boost Cheyenne's business prospects.
The Cheyenne real estate market shows rising values over the past years. Germania hall rents through A Coord at a low rate, Kas property leased for 40 dollars monthly, and the Western hotel sold for 7000 dollars and bought for 3800 by Mr Hanson. The notice promotes Bolders' Scrip from J W Bruner at 1717 Ferguson Street and Warren Merchandise Company offering hardware and tinware.
W S Leadwich, a prominent Omaha lumber dealer, plans a large yard between the Burlington and Union Pacific tracks east of the depot park in Cheyenne. He aims to lease land from Union Pacific, begin construction soon, employ many workers, and expand to other Union Pacific towns, with Cheyenne’s yard to be the largest yet.
Petro Costa an Italian bound for Torino from Butte was arrested on arrival by Union Pacific officials who claimed insanity after an attempted robbery. Witness Mr. Gabriel Colangelo testified Costa was sane and calm. Costa was released and continued his journey with only a few dollars.
Leader representatives asked local physicians about fever trends. Doctors say epidemic abated with no new cases and deaths from fever appear lower than previously reported. Undertakers list twenty three fever deaths: Turnbull 8 Longhurst 8 Evans 7. Cheyenne party to Denver for Gray Opera Company includes Conductor Hoyt and wife Mia among others. A fifty strong machine shop party returned from Omaha with a bride. Cheyenne Athletic Park Association issues stock at five dollars per share to Cheyenne stockholders.
A young woman, under 18 and described as a refined Cheyenne character with ties to Laramie, attempted suicide by leaping in front of an engine at Union Pacific yards. She was saved at the last moment and continued self destruction efforts until removal by an unknown person. The Leader withholds her name.
The preliminary hearing for Thomas Romin charged with murder of James Braken at The Siding ended with Romin bound over to district court on murder in the first degree. Witnesses described the killing in graphic terms and the penalty is death. Romin, a Greek-born American, is described as a vicious man with suspected past killings and a possible wanted status in Sioux City.
Chas Blixt travels from Omaha and N E Young visits Pine Bluffs area. H B Henderson returns home from Cas, Reid goes south, General A P Hanson returns to Denver, Deacon Carley back to Ava. Mrs Joe Stimpson home from Denver, J F Rossman becomes father of a girl. Engineer Barry passes No 6, George Abbott and T F Burke back from Denver. Mrs E J Morris of Green River visits. G E Abbott away on business to Newcastle. R P Fuller heads to Denver opera. Ray Newman in very critical condition. Thomas C Bruce naturalized British citizen today. Fred Shingle of Denver visits Conductor Robert Shingle. Mise Crickett Corliss of Denver visits Mrs J M Carey at Careyhurst. New bowling alley near Inter Ocean opens Monday at six. Mine Inspector Young improves new house at Twentysecond and Eddy. Claire Holcombe back after typhoid fever. C W Wright, former attorney general of Colorado, dies in Tucson. Best bargains in real estate advertised with J W Bruner. Allegretti chocolates at Cahill Brothers.
Conductor Hoyt, now part owner, returns from Wheatland where the Cooney mine reached 100 feet depth. High grade ore up to 90 percent copper per ton has been opened, with a very extensive vein. The Wheatland mine is deemed a bonanza, rivaling Ferris-Haggarty in value.
A petition filed in the district court of an county by Miss Ada Turner contests the election of Miss May Hamilton as superintendent of schools. Turner alleges illegal voting and an unfair canvass influenced the result, hinting at sensational developments.
Cheyenne parties who had organized a Colorado Wyoming baseball league have abandoned their efforts and will give up the scheme. The exact trouble is unclear but a reliable source says the project has fallen through, disappointing local fans who understood the potential impact.
A circulating claim that Clinton Sullivan, once from Cheyenne, was sentenced to eight years in a Colorado penitentiary for robbing a man at Cripple Creek is false. He is currently employed as a moulder at an iron foundry in Denver and was seen there recently.
The United States won damages totaling 27683 against J. C. Teller in a suit over cutting Uew to about 117000 on government lands. Part of these lies were seized and sold by Uncle Sam for 14000, leaving the balance as damages awarded yesterday.
The Turn Verein society named its new officers for the coming year with H. Welloitz as president M. Breither as vice president H. K. Buechner as secretary Stephen Bonsingwarden and Fred Hofmann as treasurers H. Koelsch as color bearer A Trojan as butcher and Oscar Braun as musical director.
Capt. BR. N. LaFontaine Jr. of company G Wyoming National Guard resigns as commander at Cheyenne citing mail clerk duties. A factional fight over succession unfolds as Had sell wagers on McKinley with 5 cents per McKinley vote as majority. Bryan defeated by 4318, Had sell wins 21609.
Officer McNeil captured Harry St. Clair, a deserter from Fort Riley, and turned him over to military authorities at Fort Russell. This brief item notes the seizure and transfer of a service member.
Six new recruits arrived today from Jefferson Barracks Missouri for the third infantry unit stationed at Port Russell. They are purchasing the remaining stock of a local brewer’s goods to sell in the town.
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