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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1905
Page
8
Ephriam McMinn captured near Evanston Wyoming wounded Deputy Sheriff Eastman and is declared legally insane. Eastman recovers in the state asylum. McMinn’s family has a history of insanity with a sister in Wyoming asylum and another in Utah Provo.
Special to The Leader reports Michael Cummings and his son killed by a coal fall in Hanna No. 1 mine. Coroner Bennett summoned for inquest as acting details remain scarce. A Cumberland No. 1 mine rock fall kills another miner. Coroner Rosenberg heads there for an inquest.
William Lefier of Manistique Michigan was killed when a Colorado and Southern ore train split in two near Bordeaux station eighty six miles north of Cheyenne at 2 am Sunday. Coroner Murray holds the body awaiting word from relatives while investigators note Lefier rode between two cars and was crushed as the train separated.
The holder of ticket No. 4149 is the fortunate winner of the beautiful doll offered by the New York Star.
A Denver Rio Grande eastbound train wreck near Durango Colorado injures fifteen passengers with two possibly fatally. Victims include Miss Katie Porter with a severed hand, George Scofield with internal injuries, and H C Harris with internal injuries. The chair car toppled after a defective fall over a bridge, dragging cars 400 feet downslope amid extreme cold.
The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad plans a modern rebuild of the Balt Lake dhopa area facilities destroyed by fire. Officials expect Superintendent A. B. Welby to secure a $150,000 company appropriation for construction and modernization.
At Fort Russell officers speculate on war department orders sending Eighth and Thirteenth field artillery and Eleventh Infantry to the Philippines on short notice. The Second Infantry joins in sailing early, suggesting a broader American mobilization amid possible troubles in China or Korea and a Philippine position ready for action.
Miss Bertha Rudine visits Salem while William Montgomery of Iron Mountain tours as a city guest. George S. Walker is due back from the Pacific coast today. James Libby a Colorado School of Mines student spends holidays in town. John Cahill rests at Pueblo hot springs awaiting an appendicitis operation. Miss Josie Dillman, University of Colorado student, holidaying with parents. Margaret Holliday and Jennie Lynch, convent students, stay with parents in Laramie.
Omaha, Dec. 25. Simon B. Clark of Omaha, famed Nebraska pioneer, was killed in a grizzly bear attack in Big Horn county, Wyoming. A ranchman named Adams found Clark’s mangled body at a cave mouth after tracing his horse to the trail. Adams reported two dead grizzlies nearby.
Holiday excursion rates set at one and one third times the regular fare for round trips during Christmas and New Year periods. Dates for sale include December 25 24 26 20 21 1906 and January 1 1906 with final return January 2 1906. E R Breisch, agent.
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