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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1900
Page
3
Fragmentary schedule lines show times and numbers for transit or service names. Key items include various numbered routes and station notes with inconsistent formatting. Details are unreadable. no definite occurrence or route can be confirmed.
Mails departing Cheyenne follow a prompt east bound route per the stated timetable. The message appears garbled with unreadable portions elsewhere.
Wyoming stockmen plan a special car from Cheyenne to Salt Lake City for the National Live Stock Association meeting next month. Delegates will discuss wolf bounty funding and statewide assessments to fund bounties, aiming for coordinated action across range states to exterminate pests.
A collage of local notices and advertising blurbs including vacancies for furnished rooms with steam heat and electric light at Warren Emporium, a for sale stock of plumbing goods by B. Lawler, home wage offers for women by Mrs H A Wiggins, hotel amenities at Metropolitan hotel, a call for cut trees and evergreens at Chaffle's green houses, a Keefe hall photo exhibit, and a Durrant Fire Company ball announcement. Also public land notice from Cheyenne Wyoming dated November 20 1900 listing Robert A as the settler with final proof to be made January 8 1900 before register and receiver.
A dramatic tale from Blair Nebraska follows Rev Rowland P Hilla who abandons England, marries twice, and faces scandal after a relentless pursuit by his first wife. The second wife tracks him across towns to Blair where records show a marriage and a jail sentence, with the neglected wife vowing to seek justice.
The Chinese minister dressed in flowing robes drives through Washington streets in his own automobile with an expert chauffeur. He calls the car a great modern invention, predicting it will supplant horses and travel will become more comfortable and efficient. He notes Americans’ customs appeal to him and says he will take his machine back to China when he returns.
Sealed proposals for erection and completion of a Cheyenne Wyoming public library will be received until 12 noon December 27 1900 by Robert Morris secretary of the building committees. Bids require a 500 dollar certified check. Specifications available at Patton Fisher Miller Chicago or Morris Cheyenne after November 27.
United States Land Office Cheyenne Wyoming issues notices of timber land sales under the 1878 Timber Land Act and 1878 homestead laws. Michael J. Jeckons and Robert W Breckens announce sworn statements for parcels in Township 20 North Range 69 West, with hearings set January 1901 and requests for opposition by January 4 1901.
United States Land Office in Cheyenne Wyoming publishes a notice of filing sworn statement No 162 by James Miller Iron Mountain for purchase of North half of Section 14 in Township 20 North Range 24. Witnesses named include Joseph Reed William Clay John Jordan and Robert Breckens. Claimants must file by January 4 1901.
John L. Jordan of Iron Mountain Wyoming files sworn statement No 160 under act of August 4 1492 to purchase lands in township 19 range 12 Hecla Wyoming with final proof set before the Cheyenne office January 8 1901 witnesses include Hugh McGee Thomas Castle Menary Enders and others. CHAPLIN Register warns of quarantine fire December 31 New Year.
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