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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1905
Page
8
Defense counsel Lieut Ansell opens by arguing witnesses falsified testimony under bias from Lee's adversaries. Cross-examination shows discrepancies between trial and preliminary hearing testimony, with King named as aggressor in the saloon fight before the shooting.
City notices list Jack Boyle from Pine Bluffs, Blackie Boylan bound for Tex ite, D W McDole visiting his sister in Laramie, Robert Morris back in Green River, J D Woodruff en route home from Denver, Rev David Miller returning to Iowa, A M Erickson Fort Saunders foreman in the city, and M C Pounds near hospital release as health improves.
Rawlins Wyoming December 14 Special to The Leader M Ma Maghee formerly of this place spent yesterday here as the guest of his father Dr Maghee. He is en route from Goldfield Nevada where he installed a plant of machinery for the Goldfield Engineering Construction company to Belle Fourche South Dakota where he will install an electric lighting plant.
A hot chicken pie supper will be served by the Baptist ladies in the vacant fore room of the Capitol Avenue theater building from 6 until o'clock on Tuesday December 18. The price is 25 cents. A widow with three small children seeks honorable employment. Mutual Life ad offers insurance. E. G. Johnston has moved and is ready for orders.
Twenty three head of young elk from the Littlefield Ranch near Slater Colorado were transported to Freshwater Colorado. The animals, domesticated and hand fed, were driven about 100 miles to Rawlins and boarded stock cars for their final destination at the Pigg Ranch.
Jack Nash writes to Denver management requesting a tryout next year and says he is free to sign anywhere. The Denver club reportedly has seven good pitchers already on the list, making a signing unlikely.
Louis James stars as Virginijus in a staged production at Capitol Avenue Theater that critics call an artistic triumph. Supporting leads Norman Hackett ag fellius and Charles Stedman receive praise, with Aphie James as Virginia delivering a solid performance and the ensemble earning strong notices.
Ranchers across the West show growing interest in baby beef as big packers push for finished cattle near ranges. General Manager Petrie of the Western Live Stock Show reports stockmen plan to exhibit yearling steers around 1100 to 1200 pounds, expected to bring about five cents per pound from packers.
One week after a challenge to Mo alleged professional abater, J. E. Hunter is labeled a quitter by Williams Cass. The notice also advertises a Cheyenne Cur Store units and various local services including pipe products and watch repair at 1709 Vergusta Street.
Big Piney Wyoming December reports two local ranchers James Nickelson and Dave Randa returning from South Omaha with cattle they shipped from the area. A stampede at Opal killed sixty head as cattle bolted the track while another five hundred scattered toward Slate Creek twenty miles away, taking three days to reassemble. A W Smith Cyrus Fish and John Nelson shipped a trainload of cattle to South Omaha after feeding here as prices improved.
M. C. Barrow of Douglas editor of Sagebrush Philosophy is in the city en route home from Denver where he delivered an address to the Credit Menu association.
Chief Forester Pinchot asks livestock group presidents to appoint committees for a Denver meeting on January 29 to discuss Jubilee lands and forest policy. A general session is planned to hear stockmen and a large crowd is expected during the Western Live Stock Show week with special railroad rates.
Leadville reports James Brown a 62 year old miner living in the city for a year died after falling fifty feet from the Colorado Midland railroad trestle. A watchman warned him to retreat as trains moved nearby. Brown ignored the warning and toppled over. He left a wife and two children.
A switch engine of the Illinois Central left the track in the yards at Evansville Indiana tonight and crashed into a four story building occupied by the Indiana Stave company. The engineer and fireman were injured in the collision.
Fire at the corner of Fulton street and Bedford avenue in Brooklyn destroyed a four story brick business building owned by State Senator Charles C Falling. Losses reached about 100000 on the structure and 150000 more in other damages. A tower collapse caused the structure to crash through three floors and fall into the Brooklyn Trust company, burying a safe containing 25000 dollars in cash, which is believed unharmed.
A skating accident at Lake Loveland last night left a girl in danger when thin ice broke. An unidentified young man rescued her from the water and disappeared, leaving residents seeking the rescuer while the girl recovers at home.
Blooming and House Plants offered by BH Garwood at Jorint Place with early orders encouraged and phone contact 163 Y for ordering assistance.
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