Long Distance Telephone and Local News Notes
Cheyenne readers receive a batch of town items: deputy sheriff Les Snow heads north. Yon Yonson at the opera house. Christmas services planned. John Morgan of Sheridan dies from erysipelas in the eyes. W H Clayders buys the Midway restaurant. teachers’ resignations and name changes. Lee Allergy to inspect in town. Burt to give piano recital at Omaha. Tom Horn travels to Omaha and Billings with cattle. Kuster to Cheyenne for mining news. Riner to lecture on constitutional law. prison and peniteniary duties noted. Boys Brigade drills promise to form a company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheyenne
John Morgan
Sheridan
W. H. Clayders
Midway Restaurant
Charles Griffen
Baby
Laramie
Tech Depot
Lee Allergy
Burt
Omaha
Lsten
Tom Horn
Billings
Mont
Charles Kuster
Judge Riner
Lyceum
Laramie Penitentiary
Stitzer
Fugitive Tom Leftler Captured After Train Escape
Special to The Leader reports fugitive Tom Leftler escaped from the Columbus Nebraska sheriff on wrecked train No 102 at Solon and was captured at Granger by Dave Nichols. He has been turned over to the Nebraska sheriff and is being taken east to Columbus for confinement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rawlins
Wyo
Tom Leftler
Columbus
Neb
Solon
Granger
Dave Nichols
Nebraska
Mail Clerks Appointed on Burlington Line
Yesterday afternoon Frank Cahill and Oscar Stanfield were appointed as mail clerks on the Burlington between Lincoln Nebraska and Billings Montana with headquarters at Lincoln. Two substitutes remain and two new appointees will fill the vacancies once Cahill and Stanfield leave in a few days. Judge Riner will speak Monday night at 8 at the First M B church on An Outline of the Growth of Constitutional Government with history and incidents. Music by Mandolin Club and W P Carroll’s poem The Man Behind the Pencil. Admission 15 cents for ladies 25 cents for gentlemen, season ticket holders excepted. A lamp gift with every five dollar purchase at THE RACKET. Buechner's offers opera glasses umbrellas canes and gilt bronze goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Cahill
Oscar Stanfield
Burlington Road
Lincoln
Neb
Billings
Mont
Cahill
Stanfield
Judge Riner
M. B
Mandolin Club
W. P. Carroll
Buried Alive by Five Tons of Coal at Union Pacific Yard
J S Burnside a coal heaver for Union Pacific in this city was buried under five tons of lump coal when the chute shifted and the tender emptied. He escaped with a crushed lip and head cuts, after over an hour of digging. He was taken to Doctor Bennett's office and sent home, likely to be back at work soon. The incident occurred at 2 o'clock this morning as he stood inside the tender to coal an engine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. S. Burnside
Union Pacific
Burnside
Schutes
Bennett
Railroad Gossip: First Train In Three Days Runs Noon
The Cheyenne and Northern opened at noon after delays at Horse Creek. A telegraph office was set up at Dale Creek with R. W. Rice as operator. Snow plow 772, blamed for a Sherman hill wreck, lies in yards though engines show few damage. Survey work between Saratoga, Encampment, and Walcott progresses. Sheridan’s appointment tightens Whitney’s jurisdiction between Rawlins and Green River. Deputy Elwood arrests a Rudefeha man over threatened mining claims. Ed Brown faces grand larceny charges in Thermopolis. William Murray of Rawlins sustained injuries when his horse fell on him. physician summoned from Grenville. Patrick O Malia, railroad veteran and James Clause’s brother, dies of lung trouble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheyenne and Northern
Trac
Horse Creek
Murder near Derby claims Lander Stage employee
A man employed by John Carmody at a Derby ranch killed C. J. Warren, a stock tender for the Lander Stage company. Warren died at a relay station on the Rawlins Lander line after a quarrel. An arrest warrant has been issued for the slayer, details remain scarce as the Lander stage crew arrives with fuller information. A local officer is pursuing the suspect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Carmody
Lander Stage Company
Rawlins
Wyo
Derby
C. J. Warren
Warren
Lander
Cooney Hill Mine Yields High Copper Ore Tests Near Wheatland
Messrs John Brown and I A Hoyt owners report Denver assays on Cooney Hill ore showing 19.2 18.9 and 6.7 percent copper with two ounces silver per ton and trace gold in first two tests. Values range 40.68 41.24 and 13.97. ore to be shipped to Omaha smelter via Cheyenne and Northern Union Pacific early next year. Chicago capitalists show interest and may buy stock to develop the mine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Messrs
John Brown
I’. A. Hoyt
Cooney Hill
Wheatland
Denver
J. Stevenson
Messrs. Hoyt and Brown
Omaha
Cheyenne and Northern
Union Pacific
Laramie County
Chicago
Cheyenne
I. A. Hoyt
Lost Sweetheart prompts Cheyenne inquiry
County Clerk receives a Texas man’s letter seeking whether Lola Wilson was married in Cheyenne and asking for county seat names, amid a mix of local notices, a death in Lincoln, a marriage license for William G. Williams and Mary Grace Merrill, weather data, and lodging ads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cowhick
Texas
Cheyenne
Clerke
Cheyenny
Wyoming
Thare
Lola Wilson
Eney
Rock Springs
William G. Williams
Mary Grace Merrill
Fireman Charles Brown Improves After Solon Wreck
Rawlins Wyoming December 21 Fireman Charles Brown injured in the recent Fast Mail wreck at Solon is rapidly improving. Back injuries described as severe. Assistant Superintendent Sheridan of Green River visited and departed for the west. A Lane and Charles Curtis of Lander left for Chicago on business. The pay car circulated yesterday afternoon and went west last night. New Year concert planned by the Turners in Turner hall followed by a dance. The Boyle vs Lyons suit ruled for Lyons on appeal from Justice Court. Special church services for tomorrow in the Baptist church with the Eighteenth Infantry orchestra. Buechner & Son promote Christmas goods and fine Wyoming souvenir spoons at their shop. Mrs Chaffin's greenhouse offers holly and floral greens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rawlins
Wyo
Charles Brown
Solon
Sheridan
Green River
Aay
A. Lane
Charles Curtis
Lander
Chicago
Turners
Turner Hall
Ice dispute at Laramie ends in Knadler favor
The legal battle between Union Pacific and Knadler over ice cutting on reservoir land lease read in Knadler’s favor. An ice foreman was fined $1 for trespass. Union Pacific may revoke the lease as it needs the ice yearly and recently built the reservoir. The court injunction currently blocks ice harvesting pending further action. Remember Monday is the Big Sale Day at Messick's. Army and Navy Union muster set for Saturday at Odd Fellows hall. all members urged to attend. Don’t miss a hot supper Saturday night at St. Mark's fair. Fine silverware advertised by Buechner & Son and a closeout of boys and children’s suits at The Hub.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laramie
Union Pacific
Morgan Snadler
Knadler
Knndler
Army and Navy Union
Odd Fellows Hall
Also Mentioned on This Page
The _Gheyenne
A. Slack
Henry Sweet
George H. Evans
Les Snow
Yon Yonson
Oi Tank
Opera House
Buechner’s
New National Bank
National Bank of Buffalo
Secretary of State
Buffalo
Messick
Bryant and
Delahunty
Dubuque
Father Bryant
Father Delahunty
Lenthan
Commiskey
Murray
St. Mark’s Fair
Fort
N. H. Andrus
Dale Creek
R. W. Rice
Sherman Hill
J. C. Kennedy
Encampment
Walcott
Saratoga
Whitney
Elwood
Rudefeha
Ed Brown
Meeteetse
Thermopolis
Grenville
Here
William Murray
Patrick O’malia
James Clause
Animas
St. Mark's Fair
Presbyterian Church
Sons of the Morning
Rubenstein
Blumenschein
Christmas
Shelley
Mr. Matthews
Marzo
Lemuel
Miss Lyons
Spence
Neidlinger
Ferguson Street
A. F. Hamilton
Ternes Day Goods
Father Commiskey
Senator Simon
Joseph Simon
United States
Oregon
Capital
Courant
Hammond
Arp & Hammond
Truley
John Mason
Eliza Zinn
Miss Merrill
Weather Report
Missouri Valley
Mississippi River
Rocky Mountain
Jacksonville
Knoxville
Tennessee
Pacific Coast
W. S. Palmer
Buechner's
Rawlins Department
James Boyle
Mike Lyons
Boyle
Lyons
District Court
Justice Court
Baptist Church
Eighteenth Infantry Orchestra
Buechner & Son
Mrs
Messick’s
Hub
West Sixteenth ST
Chas
Miller
Weetie
Cor
Bec
Union
Mercantile
Haguson Strom
Union Mercantile Company
Yonson
Cowhick Dry Goods Company
Bailey & Moor
Managers
Lyman Twins
Herbert L. Lyman
Merry Chase
the Peoples’ Store
The
Messick Dry Goods Company
HAWES
Florsheim Fine
JAROS
John Harrington
Carey
West 17Th Street
OPERA
Seventeenth Street
Keystone
Cook’s Golden
Astle & Lavander
Golden Beer Hall
City of
Xogays
Knight Campbell
Knight-Campbell Music CO
West 16Th Street
West Seventeenth Street
Cheyenne, Wyoming
Manewal’s
Harry Hynds’ Old Stand
Louis Manewal
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