Cheyenne News Highlights Big Canal Work and New Munitions
The Leader reports on a large excavating machine arriving to work on the Salisbury Cody canal in the Big Horn basin, heavy ore shipments on the Northern railroad, and a new Red Oxide Mining and Milling company formed in Albany county with $100,000 capital. Also noted are a recruiting station expansion in Laramie, government orders moving General MacArthur to Denver, and military instruction for city grammar students.
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State Supreme Court
Union Hall
Seventeenth Street
Denver
Cheyenne
Union Pacific
Salsbury- Cody Canal
Big Horn Basin
Laramie
Salt Lake
MacArthur
H. C. Merriam
Department of Colorado
Fort Russell
Cold Wave Grips Cheyenne as Temperatures Plunge
Weather officials declare storm over but Cheyenne records 22 degrees below zero at 7 am, the coldest December in two decades. Wheatland hits 30 below and Chugwater 37 below, with Lander and North Platte also deeply frozen. Denver and Rapid City show minus readings. The University of Wyoming cites a forecast of a blizzard in Laramie as barometer tugs lower.
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Wheatland
Weather Bureau
Cheyenne
Palmer
The
United States
Mississippi Valley
St. Louis
Chugwater
Lander
North Platte
Rapid City
S. D
Denver
Miss Pearl Powelson to Wed Next Thursday
P F Powelson travelled to Boulder for his niece Miss Pearl Powelson daughter of Rev B F Powelson to marry next Thursday. Miss Powelson has friends in Cheyenne and this city. Inspector not yet arrived to pass Iron Mountain stone suitability for public building. Call 169 A for first class laundry this evening.
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Miss Powelson
P. F. Powelson
Boulder
Miss Pearl Powelson
B. F. Powelson
Cheyenne
Iron Mountain
Five More Herders Die in Wyoming Blizzard
Report from Point of Rocks indicates four sheep herders are dead and a fifth remains missing as the fierce blizzard rages south of the area. Bodies to be shipped to Rock Springs for interment. the storm described as the worst in state history with nine total victims so far.
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Rock Springs
Wyo
Tim Kinney
Point of Rocks
Union Pacific
Frost Covered A Frost Engine Arrives After Snow Drift
Train No 2 from the west, due at 6 05 a m, did not reach until 10 30 a m because heavy drifting snow. The locomotive appeared extraordinary in the extreme cold with steam and frost from pilot to tender, giving it a ghostly white cloak.
Mansion Burned on Jackpot Ranch in Armenta Loss
Manuel Armenta, away in Nebraska for a month on business, learned his Jackpot ranch mansion burned down while he was gone. The insured loss is $30, with adjusters to assess the total damage.
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Manuel Armenta
Nebraska
Governor directs inspection of Rawlins prison health
Governor Richards assigns Dr. A. B. Hamilton of Laramie to Rawlins to examine the sanitary condition of the new prison there.
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Richards
A. B. Hamilton
Laramie
Rawlins
Bolln Arrested in Cattle Stealing Case
John Ulrick was arraigned on a cattle killing charge and then re-arrested on an information for cattle stealing. Ehler Bolln, Ulrick’s uncle, faced the same charge. Both were bound to appear May 26 in district court, with authorities asserting a strong case and possible further arrests. Bolln, a prominent ranchman twelve miles east of the city, is tied to Ulrick.
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John Ulrick
Becker
Ehler Bolln
Ulrick
Bolln
Bolin
Man Found Dead on Work Train in Hanna Wyoming
Special to Leader reports John Garrett died alone aboard a railroad work train in Hanna. His remains will be shipped to Fort Madison Indiana where his family lives. A separate incident notes Conductor D S Walcott lost a finger at Seminole after a brakeman struck it with a hammer. Also listing: Vendome board rates, Geyser laundry phone number 169 A.
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Hanna
Wyo
John Garrett
Fort Madison
D. S. Walcott
Seminole
Mrs Briggs Husband Arrives As Denver Death Mystery Continues
Lewis Briggs, husband of Margaret Briggs, arrives from Denver on the noon train. The woman, found frozen south of the city, had given the name Mrs Flannigan in Denver and Laramie. She died Wednesday. the funeral is set for tomorrow in this city.
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She
Denver
Lewis Briggs
Cheirleyn
Cheyenne
Convict Shipments Update at Wyoming Prisons
The second prison convoy arrived in Rawlins from Laramie, making 100 inmates per state prison. A third batch left Laramie for Rawlins and the final load was to depart west the next day, leaving no state convicts here.
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Rawlins
Wyo
Laramie
Rudolph and Adolph at the opera house Monday
Broadhurst and Currie present the new musical farce Rudolph and Adolph starring Dan and Charles Mason for a single Monday performance. Lottia Williams-Salter leads a bright company praised for its humor and new tuneful musical numbers. The Knight Camp Bell Music Co advertises piano tuning and the new laundry lists its city telephone number 169 A.
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Rudolph
Adolph
Broadhurst & Currie
Dan
Charles Mason
Lottia Williaams-Salter
Carlysle
Messrs
Broadhurst
Currie
Stage Lost In Snow Storm Near Casper
A stage traveling from Casper to Lander was lost for six hours in a blinding snowstorm. The driver could not find the road, wandered off, and spent the night before the route was regained sixteen miles from Casper. Captain William Kirkland, ex Lieutenant of Fort Russell, was arrested in Manila for debt.
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Casper
Lander
William Kirkland
Kirkland
Fort Russell
Manila
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B. A. Slack
Henry Sweet
George H. Evans
Ady
Messick Dry Goods Company
Stitzer
Board of Appraisers
Court House
Platte River Canal and Power Company
Richard Whalen
Harry Artist
Andy Artist
Jessie
Roy Darrell
Bitter Creek
Yon Yonson
Thall and Kennedy
Gus Heege
Glenrock
Wheeler & Goodale
Wyoming
Sixteenth Street
Miller
Harrigan
Eighteenth Infantry
University At. Laramie
Rocks
Vendome
Geyser Laundry
Mrs. Briggs
Knight-Campbel Music Co
West Sixteenth Street
U. P
Wyoming Saloon
West Sixteenth ST
Manewal
Harry Hynds
Old
Staind
Louis Manewal
GO. H. Nagld
Union. Mercantile
Hhrguson Stawe
Aks
West Seventeenth Street
Cheyenne, Wyoming
Keystone
Cook's Golden Beer and Porter
Astle & Lavander
Golden Beer Hall
Logan's
Marge Sixt
West 17Th St
New York
A. Underwood
Manhattan
A. L. Fowler
Messick Dry Goods Co
Peoples’ Store
HAWES
Florsheim Fine
John Harrington
Carey
West 17Th Street
Knight Campbell Music. Co
Inter Ocean Hotel
Knight-Campbell Music CO
Lave
SNS
Ferguson Street
Buhchner & Son
Diamond Setters
Adelman
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