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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1902
Page
2
The Daily Leader remains the sole state newspaper to publish regular telegraphic press dispatches, providing readers with timely national and international updates through its telegraph correspondence.
The Cheyenne theater syndicate offers an 8 percent profit guarantee to finance a new opera house with full management and profits to the syndicate. Henry Altman vows Judge Carey should build first or a new hall will arise next spring. The piece urges support for Carey and cautions against rival standoffs in financing the project. Venezuela faces war costs but ignores debts.
The piece notes Judge Carey arranged pay to Bristol Printing for publishing the Tribby material, with Doctor Gall in Casper uninvolved. It claims the Bristol firm prints without editing, and suggests the Boomerang’s treatment of the Leader flatteringly echoes reader diet. Roosevelt praised Justice Harlan at a banquet, Kentucky loyalty cited. The ship subsidy bill is seen as dead for the session, with a possible strict anti trust clause adding to the Senate bill if House action occurs.
The writer notes Mr Deming returning from the east and expects Tribune improvements with Bristol Printing’s facilities. It praises the fast pony press and potential to add pages without charge, while criticizing the Chilane manager over recent slights and republishing a facetious remark in Bill Barrow’s budget.
Photographer Stimson offers Frontier Day souvenirs with over forty full tone engravings from his and Lee Hirato’s collections. They make a fine Christmas gift and promote the anniversary nationwide. Images include prominent Shoshone and Arapaho figures.
Mr E A Bradbury of Uinta County was in the city yesterday en route to New York where a son is in business. He plans to return for about six weeks, stops in Cheyenne possible during the legislative session and industrial convention. Bradbury helped found the state and recalled Nast’s Union army cartoons that boosted him at 21.
Henry Clews & Co last circular reports president's message well received with no stock impact. Trust disputes likely to prolong, currency action remote this session. Trade reports firm. eastern boom wanes, Pacific growth resumes. risk of value readjustment toward normal market. Emerson quotes conclude item.
Mr. J Fullerton of Red Lodge Montana writes to President Roosevelt urging action on alleged Yellowstone Park abuses. He contests Captain Pitcher’s elk counts, claims elk numbers far fewer than official reports, and warns that elk tooth demand fuels slaughter near the park. He links carnivore protection laws to sheep interests and calls for better park management.
Edgar Desmond performs a sleight of hand routine titled the lost necklace at a social ball. A guest, Robert Chamberlin, is suspected after a pearl necklace goes missing. Desmond retrieves the necklace from Miss Rosa Mainwaring in a staged reveal, then explains the moral and faces mixed reactions from the crowd.
Bids must be completed by November 1 1903 with full bidder instructions and blank forms available from the Department. Capt Thomas Swobe is the Constructing Quartermaster to receive proposals labeled Proposals for Public Buildings. Also notes on a new Colorado and Southern railway train offering direct Denver to Fort Worth and Denver to Memphis service via Amarillo.
Notice announces bids for nine two hundred dollar schoolhouse bonds by School District No 1 Byron Big Horn County to be paid at Big Horn or Wyoming state treasurers. Bonds dated Jan 1 1902 mature progressively from 1904. bids due Dec 31 1902 2 pm sealed to Clerk HEBER W. PERRY. Also executrix Mary Volk of John Volk estate seeks claims within six months and one year for bar. Also annual stockholders meeting of Tadotamosa stockers company in Cheyenne Jan 20 1903 at 10 am with board of trustees to be elected.
A Cheyenne piano dealer advertises fair terms for home instruments. They claim fixed cash discounts, no agent commissions, and a two year exchange option with credit equal to amounts paid. They promise five year defect replacement and a $100 guarantee against unjustified cases.
Partial OCR shows mixed, daily Breept Sunday mail schedule details. Mentions Colorado and Boutii lines, mail close times, departs, ring of ports and early morning stamps. Readable items include schedule notes for Round, Port Russell, Little Hors Creek, Bend and related stops.
A fragmentary notice details a Masonic lodge event with a president and secretary listed. It mentions meetings on the second and fourth Tuesdays each month and references visitors and examination procedures, naming officers including D. W. Gill and Charles B. Weeks.
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