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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1900
Page
1
Holiday crowds fill the city as the grand display and diverse novelties attract shoppers. The store touts unbeatable prices and a wide array of goods, claiming to offer more quality and value than ever before this season.
Reports detail daylight bank robbery in Guthrie with safes blown and wall breached. Other incidents include a Hope bank heist of about $25,000 and a brutal home invasion near Middleton with carbolic acid used on a victim. Plus commentary criticizing royal patronage of racecourses in London.
Cleveland Ohio December 18 Fourteen of the largest steel plate mills in the United States have entered a pool that forms a trust of the second size in the country. The plan aims to control the eastern railroads through three financial houses and placing their interests in the pool. The pool becomes effective January 1.
General Passenger Agent Miller of the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul line wired General Agent Preston at Denver that the company will offer a one cent a mile rate to Denver for the G A R encampment. The road has long supported this rate for soldiers.
The Western Federation of Miners claims to balance power in the legislature and warns no U.S. senator will be elected until martial law in the Coeur d'Alene mining district is abolished.
The president sent to the Senate nominations for John G. Leishghman to be minister to Turkey and Arthur H. Hardy to Greece, with other diplomatic postings. In Columbus the Sells divorce case nears settlement terms, with Mrs. Sells awarded $50,000 as final action looms.
Detroit December 18 Governor Pingree denounces the Republican party after the senate rejects his equal tax bill He declares he will vote work for and give to the Democratic party He blames Senator McMillan and the railroads for his defeat citing their influence and bank rolls
Washington December 18 The Senate opened at noon with many members present. The House passed a bill authorizing a bridge across the Mississippi at Dubuque Iowa and a bill permitting division of the southern district of the circuit court. Senate spent substantial time in executive session debating treaty rights with Colombia.
The Industrial Arbitration Conference began this morning in Steinway Hall with many prominent industrial leaders present. Delegates largely favor the conference aims and expect progress, centering on a proposal to form a national board of arbitration representing the nation’s major industries.
Dec 18 report from Capt Town says a Boer commando led by Herzog crossed the Orange River near Aliwal on Saturday and pressed south. British patrols between Oudendal and Bethulle engaged them, a clash that the report says left the British severely defeated with 14 killed or wounded and 4 captured on December 13 near Bourville.
Kilpatrick Bros and Collins secure a mammoth forty mile grade project to eliminate a major canyon curve near Evanston Utah. The four year construction will cost about six million dollars, the largest contract yet for the company, with sub contractors aboard. Work to start around April first and proceed along all graded sections simultaneously.
El Dorado Dec 18 Judge Shipn ordered Jessie Morrison released on $5,000 bonds. Quietly in Lynched. Booville Ind Dec 18 third jail and quietly lynched last night. Boxers Preparing for it. Predicted by Czar Washington Dec 18 Russian envoy Uchitomaky privately warns of a monster Boxer uprising this winter. American officers and foreign correspondents in Peking expect such a rebellion.
Fire swept west of Cheyenne burning 25 square miles of range from Granite Canon to Borie. Stockmen report extensive loss in winter grazing as hills and valleys turned black and barren by the blaze.
Personal notes list residents and visitors in the city including Judge Potter Mrs. Potter Robert Morris and others in Denver Rock Springs and Douglas. Several locals travel for business health and errands with remarks on new roller chairs a notary appointment and a new Cheyenne & Northern time card.
Luxurious display of elegant wares at Buehner & Son's promises fine Christmas presents. Browse a wide jewelry and fancy goods selection while Todian pictures at Brimson's offer additional seasonal gift ideas.
Johannesburg December 18 A collision occurred yesterday on a branch of the Delagoa railroad from Kaup Mulden to Barberton in the Transvaal. Many officials were killed and injured. Details of the accident have not yet been received.
A tunnel accident near Aspen Wyoming at a Union Pacific site caused Peter Johnson to die after being crushed in a cave-in as a dinkey engine passed. In Hanna Wyoming Sam Kerin, a Russian, was seriously injured in a coal mine accident with a broken right leg, treated at Rock Springs state hospital. Li Hung Chang has fever for three days in London reports. Worcester mayoral election results show William Lyttle elected by one vote over P J O Gonnall.
W and Grover, Wyoming sheep grower, reports over 190000 head of lambs from Wyoming and Idaho have moved into northern Colorado. Early feed relied on New Mexico meat, but Wyoming lambs now fetch better prices, fatten faster, and can weigh 76 pounds on average. Feeding is limited to a few Wyoming points like Wheatland, forcing many shepherds to Colorado or Nebraska.
Cripple Creek reports A B Carlton offers his wife sixty thousand dollars to stop the divorce action as of December 14. The deal aims to settle the estranged couple's dispute without court proceeding.
Fort Worth report states W. W. Mays a shoe drummer from Ohio died by self-administered morphine. The incident occurred on December 18 in the night at Three Long Acres. Also noted is a notice that two hundred black recruits will depart from Galveston for Santiago de Cuba on December 1% with transport and orders from Texas command.
Colorado and Southern offers a one fare round trip for Christmas and New Year travel within Colorado and New Mexico. Tickets on sale December 25 and December 30 with good return through January 10 depending on locale and schedule.
Cheyenne Wye December 1900 all county warrants presented for payment prior to November 1900 will be paid on presentation. Interest ceases from this date. John Schuneman, County Treasurer.
Mrs W H Gii arrives home from England with three children and Mrs Howitt her mother after a six month visit to Liverpool.
Engineers in charge of government road work in Wyoming urged the house appropriations committee to grant 150000 to 160000 for roads in Yellowstone park and surrounding reserves. Secretary Root proposed granting equal land area to Wyoming in exchange for ceded lands. Governor Richards said he would back the action with a state lands swap.
Twenty five percent discount offered on all Ladies trimmed hats and children's jackets during this week by The Ternes Dry Goods Co. Placeholder text indicates a promotional sale.
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