Cheyenne News Roundup From December 1901
Local Cheyenne items include delays on Train No 4, district court case W R Stoll vs George Nagle, and a grand masquerade at Turner hall. Ysalore J Pocher named Wyoming commissioner of deeds in NYC. Huttons Grove district school closed for scarlet fever. Colonel Cody brickyard fires 300000 brick. Lake Minnehaha skating reported good. railway workers fatigued after storm. Carnegie library marble delivery underway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. R. Stoll
George Nagle
US Durants Hose Company
Turner Hall
Ysalore J. Pocher
Wyoming
New York City
Hutton’s Grove
Laramie
Colonel Cody
Cody
Lake
Minnehaha
Cheyenne & Northern
Carnegie Library
Matthews
Fremont County
State of
Western Union Telegraph Company
Telegraph Company
H. G. Nickerson
Shdshone
McKinley Memorial Fund
Nickerson
Vezve and Company
McKiney
St. Mark's Christmas Sale and Dance at Turner Hall
St Mark's Guild holds a Christmas sale at Turner Hall on Saturday December 21 with afternoon sales and a hot supper at 6:30 pm. A dance with Fort Orchestra starts at 8:30 pm, admission 25c. Mrs George P Knight displays new costumes for the Durants ball at 312 West Sixteenth Street, open for viewing and prize-judge entries. The High School Dance is set for Monday December 23 at Turner Hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Mark's Guild
Turner Hall
Fort Orchestra
George P. Knight
West Sixteenth Street
Snow blockades halt Cheyenne and Northern traffic
Two snow plows with engines derailed near Horse Creek kept the Cheyenne and Northern line blocked for seventy two hours after a winter storm. A plow and two engines were sent to clear the line but bucked a deep drift and left the rails. Later two locomotives were dispatched to reblock the track and keep trains moving toward Horse Creek. Meanwhile a high school and Cheyenne Business College basketball game is planned at Turner Hall after the dance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheyenne and Northern
Horse Creek
Turner Hall
Cheyenne Business College
Fight Over Ice Rights Sparks Laramie Court War
In Laramie a legal battle pits Union Pacific against Harry Maynard over ice rights on the Laramie River reservoir. The dam was built last fall, the land leased January 1, and an ice contractor was blocked by a warrant. The ice is valued as high quality with potential 1 000 carloads expected this winter. Army and Navy Union to muster December 21 at Odd Fellows hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laramie
Union Pacific
Harry Maynard
Ico
Morgan Kindler
Knadler
Laramie River
Hartville Townsite Case Sealed With Amicable Settlement
The Hartville townsite matter before the local land office has been amicably settled. Protests by Hammond and Wright and Bartlett and Catlin will be withdrawn and the townsite allowed to go to patent. Corporate authorities will exclude lands within mining claims from the application. A separate incident reports Cheyenettes mocking a negro in a depot waiting room and a scatter of onlookers as a bottle of whisky appeared.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartville
Hammond
Wright
Bartlett
Catlin
Christmas sale and laundry ad items
Goods at cost. See my advertisement. N. H. Andrus offers first class laundry work. Attend the Christmas sale at Turner Hall on Saturday December 21.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. H. Andrus
Wyoming Families Seek 200000 Damages From Utah Mine Firm
Twenty eight miners died in the Diamondville No 1 mine last February and families sue the Diamondville Coal and Coke company in Salt Lake courts for about 200000 dollars. Wyoming law caps per death at 5000 while Utah law allows higher damages. Witness list includes State Coal Mine Inspector Noah Young.
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Diamondville
Salt Lake
State of
Wyoming
Diamondville Mine No. 1
Utah
Diamondville Coal and Coke Company
State
Noah Young
Archbishop appoints administrator for Cheyenne diocese
Very Rev. H. Commiskey of Laramie named administrator with full powers to govern Cheyenne until a new ordinary is named. Likely based in Cheyenne, though he may govern from Laramie. The dispatch from Dubuque notes no bishopric change at present. Officials return from the west. a man in Riverside is adjudged insane and to be sent to Evanston. Prizes announced for Durant masquerade ball costumes. Desperado Sam Roher identified in Guthrie. Christmas shopping notes urge St Mark's Fair and Greenhouse flowers.
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Dubuque
H. Commiskey
Laramie
Cheyenne
Father Commiskey
Cahrge
Newton M. Doggett
Riverside
Carbon County
Evanston
Desperado
Dobbin
Casper
Wyo
Guthrie, I. T
Sam Roher
West
Sheridan Named Assistant Superintendent on Union Pacific
H. W. Sheridan, longtime Union Pacific official at Green River, has been elevated from trainmaster to assistant superintendent and will assume duties immediately. His varied railroad career includes messenger, telegraph operator, dispatcher, brakeman, conductor, fireman, section foreman, and roadmaster. With the upgrade, no train master remains on the Wyoming division as all have been promoted to assistant superintendent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. W. Sheridan
Union Pacific
Green River
Sheridan
Wyoming
Mrs Ohenstein Dies in Cheyenne After Illness
Mrs Charles Ohenstein wife of a prominent tailor died at her home on Sixteenth street at 4 30 this morning after a long illness The funeral will be Sunday at 2 pm from the residence She came to Cheyenne in 1887 leaving a husband three daughters and two sons In town many lifelong friends and relatives remain Also a note seeks used clothing for the Penticostal Mission and gospel meetings at St Marks with Fort orchestra playing Saturday night December 21st.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Ohenstein
Sixteenth Street
Ohenstein
Cheyenne
City to vote on $15,000 sewer bonds tonight
City Council to pass an ordinance for issuing $15,000 sewer bonds with February 4 set for a citywide vote. The plan shifts costs from residents on the sewer line to the city as a whole, arguing the sewer is a necessity and benefits all, despite earlier doubts over such funding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Side
Mann
National Home Seekers Association mortgage offer Cheyenne
Don t pay rent or interest as the National Home Seekers Association offers to buy or pay off your mortgage with a plan requiring $5.50 per month per $1000 advanced. Officers are bonded by American Bonding and Trust. Office hours 9 to 5 and 7 to 9 p m. Agent S C Bennett Room 8 Atlas Block W 16th St Cheyenne WYOMING.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Home Seekers! Association
American Bonding and Trust Company
C. Bennett
Atlas Block
16Th ST
Cheyenne
Wyoming
Rawlins Man Recovering After Three Day Storm Ordeal
Irving Randle in charge of Rusk Rendle sheep arrived in Rawlins in a semi crazy condition and body frost bitten after three days in the storm. Engine 1653 broke a piston knocking out a cylinder head on the Seventh district yesterday afternoon. Matt O Malley the Japanese interpreter arrived from Evanston to go west with the pay car tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rawlins
Wyo
Irving Randle
Rusk & Rendle
Matt O'Malley
Hvanston
Denver Bowlers Decline Cheyenne Match After Settlement
Denver bowling team cancels visit to Cheyenne for the scheduled match amid accusations of white feather behavior by Denverites. The Denver Wheel club is praised for keeping engagements. other local activities include Congregational services, a Christmas program, and a hot supper sale at St Mark's Fair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Schmitt
Capital
Tivoli Union
Cheyenne
Denverittes
Denver Wheel Club
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Ji A, Slack
Henry Sweet
Ghorgh H. Evans
The
Burlington
George Dance
AntAmmense
Dinneen
Jude Riner
Judge Riner
M. B
Mandolin Club
W. P. Carroll
Army and Navy Union
Odd Fellows Hall
San Junan Hill
Cowhick Dry Goods Company
Dickinson
Buckingham
Parks
McKeen
Durant’s
Mrs
Arp & Hammond
ST. Mark's Fair
Messick
Messick’s
Kestner
Penticostal Mission
Biddy Street
Mission
St. Mark's
MES
Warren Avenue
Opera House
Thall & Kennedy
von Yonson
Way Down East
Yon Yonson
Mr. Erickson
Annie Mack
Berlein
Laflin
Lumbermen
Ferguson Street
A. F. Hamilton
Cheyenne Cigar Factory
First Congregational Church
W. B. D. Gray
Boston Transcript
Brooklyn
New York World
Reading Republican
Bertha Mills
Mary I. Webster
West Sixteenth ST
Yonson
Pera House
Bailey & Moor
Lyman Twins
Herbert L. Lyman
Merry Chase
Gho, H. Nagle
Union
Chas
Miller
Corson
Boo
Anereas
Mercantile
USON
Choyhnnd
WYU
Union Mercantile Company
Florsheim Fine Shoes
Jaros
John Hartington
Carey
West 17Th Street
OPERA
Seventeenth Street
Keystone
Cook's Golden Beer and Porter
Astle & Lavander
SHELL
Knighthampbell Music
Knight-Campbell Music
West 16Th Street
Hirgerald Bros
West Seventeenth Street
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Manewal
Harry Hynds’ Old Stand
Louis Manewal
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