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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1900
Page
3
Partial timetable details show arrival and departure times for multiple trains on Cheyenne and North routes. Entries include daily except Sunday notes, mixed departures, and late night connections with times ranging from early morning to after midnight.
Maile departures announced with East Bound and West Bound trains. Express pouches for Laramie Rock Springs and Rabins sent via Train No 101 and Train No 4. Closures noted at 6 00 am 7 00 am and 2 40 pm with trains 5 0A 16 am and 306-9m referenced.
Over two hundred thousand acres are irrigated by Cody and other canals in Big Horn county attracting land seekers from Utah and Idaho. The Shoshone and Grey Bull river projects under Carey act spark rapid settlement with 600 more families expected next spring.
A Salt Lake Tribune dispatch from Washington reports Wyoming Senator Warren, whose term ends March 4 1901, received letters from fifty three of the fifty six southern Wyoming legislature delegates assuring support for his reelection. Laramie county members note his high standing and fidelity to constituents, while acknowledging possible absence during Congress’s short session.
A party of four teen men claimed to be Burlington surveyors left Kayeville on Saturday night bound for Granger. They carried camp gear and supplies but offered no explanation of their plans. The incident follows a prior route along the Short Line with no stated motive.
Yeo scribe reports all ranchers near Glen prospering with fine holdings and sheepmen welcoming snow to move livestock. A Christmas dance at the schoolhouse ended early when a chimney fire threatened flames, but attendees helped extinguish it and the dance resumed until dispersal at dawn.
A Denver returnee reports to Superintendent Devel in Denver that UP improvements west of Evanston cut heavy grades. One locomotive can haul 1200 tons where two engines carried 250 tons on tough grades. Plans include easing curves and grades through Echo and Weber canyons and extending cuts to reduce grades to about sixty feet per mile.
A West wing ward at the county hospital treated 35 typhoid fever patients during the recent epidemic. Trained nurses attended them while city physicians endorse keeping the ward open for patients lacking adequate care.
The Burlington reports rapid progress on the Toluca Montana to Cody Wyoming line with good weather aiding grading work. Track laying has begun ahead of schedule and the company has contracted to transport wool at Cody on or before July 16th.
A new company will be formed in Rawlins to manufacture pressed brick and tiling. The plant will use high quality clay proven by samples sent east showing excellence. The Union Pacific company has formed a second firm to handle sales, signaling certainty of the venture.
Report from near Union Pacific headquarters claims Janugey Tut Division Foreman Loworins will be succeeded by A. Stuart of Evanston. Purpose of the change and Lomerine’s new assignment are not known and confirmations are unavailable, though the rumor persists from an authoritative source despite denials.
Charles Dantola a Paris artist loses his new silk hat to Mme de Jeuse during a tête-à-tête. The hat’s destruction exposes his ambitions and romance with the widow, igniting envy and ending his visits to her salon. The episode marks a turning point in his pursuit of fame and fortune.
In Cheyenne a sanitary firm notes thin weather is best for cleaning grease traps closets and cesspools and urges businesses to schedule disinfection and maintenance work with Fergu son atregt.
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