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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1905
Page
7
Items note New Year wishes and events in Cheyenne including calls for 1906 calendars, new officer elections for local groups, ongoing illness and weather effects, bounty figures on coyotes, mining company meetings, theater shows, and travels to Denver for fights. Local officials and workers move through a city in frost and reform.
A historical weather summary from Cheyenne Wyoming covering thirty four years. It lists mean temperatures with a high of 64 degrees in 1888 and a low of 38 in 1875, frost dates, precipitation totals including a peak 2.02 inches in 1891, snowfall records, cloud days, wind direction from the northwest, and a December 27 1905 issue date.
Supt. W E D Gray head of Congregational mission work in Wyoming and his wife Rev Annette Beecher-Gray have been summoned by the National Congregational Missionary society to present Wyoming needs in the missionary field They will depart for Boston January 16.
Cheyenne Carnegie Librarian J. Ross Irvine uses the pen name Ombre Thames to publish a story titled Old Man in the current Genuine Reader issue. The work appears under Thames byline, reflecting Irvine’s writing activity.
A report from Omaha states that the Union Pacific has decided to reduce passenger engineers by adding two men to the Cheyenne to Laramie run. The route will be Cheyenne to Laramie with a new Cheyenne to Rawlins run created, shifting trips away from the Cheyenne to Rawlins line.
Miss Kittle Chamberlain reports the loss of a hand satchel containing $10 in cimah and other articles while returning from Fort Russell where she was a Witness in a court trial.
Omaha papers report Dr Frank Powell known as White Beaver and foster brother of Col. W F Cody is very sick at the Merchant's hotel in Omaha.
Deputy Sheriff Camp of Greeley Colo arrived in town with Jack Boyle who is in custody on a charge of shooting Sam Scoville's horse. Boyle says he knows nothing of the incident while Tom O Neill claims Scoville was ambushed and shot at range. O Neill denies shooting at Boyle but says Boyle fired at him from ambush. The two men have long running feuds as Boyle describes himself a victim of sprite-work.
M. P. Keefe has been notified by the War Department that a $13,000 contract for the construction of a quartermaster's storehouse at Fort Omaha, Nebraska, has been accepted.
West railroads vie to haul the Second Infantry and Eighth and Thirteenth batteries to San Francisco where they will sail for the Philippines on February 1. Union Pacific, Colorado Midland, Santa Fe and Rio Grande compete. UP favored by land grant rules and straight routes.
Lincoln surveyors completed layout of Worland townsite. Main street to be Big Horn avenue, hundred feet wide. Parallel and cross streets planned at seventy feet. Big Horn basin metropolis projection outlines.
A marriage license was issued yesterday to George Perry and Miss Mary Knox, both residents of Cheyenne.
As soon as the child is done nursing apply Chamberlains Salve. Wipe it off with a soft cloth before allowing the child to nurse. Many trained nurses use this with the best results. Price 26 cents per box. For sale by A. BE. Roedel, Leader, 50 cents a month, delivered.
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