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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1908
Page
4
A fragmented OCR note mentions oil and binge leaking or spilling from an unspecified source. Names, places, dates, or organizations are not clearly readable in the text. The item appears as a stray caption or fragment without full context.
The item describes a glass designed for serving tea during New Year festivities. It notes the glass’s features and intended use for celebratory tea service.
Muscatine Iowa defeated Cheyenne Business College Athletic Association 31 to 25 at Keefe hall in a fast paced match. Referee Volger’s calls drew crowd comments as Lamm from Muscatine and Kautz from Cheyenne starred amid a high spirited audience.
President Hally of the Colorado State Federation of Labor and President Fitzgerald of the Cheyenne Trades' Council organized the Building Trades Laborers union in Cheyenne. The new body limits membership to unskilled building workers and starts with many had carriers and excavators. Plans seek to enroll all unskilled labor in Cheyenne and affiliate with the Cheyenne Trades' Council and the American Federation of Labor.
Henry Hoffman shifts his right back service from Hynd's bar to the Senate bar at corner Sixteenth and Ferguson streets. Telephone 15. Carriages called during the day from Metropole stables, phone 275. Calls answered promptly.
W F Hamilton left for Douglas yesterday morning. Trainmaster F C Letts of Laramie visited Cheyenne. County Commissioner I W Gray came from Wheatland. Attorney T B Taliaferro from Rock Springs was in town. Patrick Quealey Kemmerer coal mine operator is in the city. Mrs Clayton Danke Camp Stool ranch is visiting. J L Sawyer Torrington attorney attends to business. Mrs C H Morgan and daughter Catherine Rawlins guest at Cahill home. Dr J M Wilson Douglas president state board of sheep commissioners is in the city.
A Redpath Canada letter asks for help identifying a suspicious unnamed man claimed to have worked in mines and a Chicago beer brewery. The writer alleges his son was lured away last summer and asks what drug could influence him. The note requests Wyoming residents with information to contact N Rutland at Redpath.
Casper Wyoming February 4. County commissioners focus on enforcing the migratory stock law for assessment and tax collection across Natrona boundary counties. They deny tax cancellations for stock moved after April 1 1907 and order publication of statutory sections and printed notices for stockowners and assessors.
W T Rover in Basin announces a contract for two steam ditchers to reclaim 42 000 acres with water from Paint Rock lakes. Each machine costs 12000 dollars and will be shipped soon. Work on the irrigation ditches will start as soon as the machines arrive, likely in April.
The body of B. E. Cummings age 70 a dry farmer died from injuries after a runaway wreck near Campstool ranch He had recently moved from Iowa and planned to reclaim new land He and a companion rode to Arcola for hay the wagon bolted overturned and Cummings died the next day He is survived by a widow and several grown children.
An old advertisement touts Foley's Honey and Tar as a remedy for la grippe coughs and to prevent pneumonia. It warns buyers to refuse imitators and to purchase the genuine product in the yellow package from A. B. Roedel.
New York reported a 54 year old mail delivery mystery as a letter mailed December 30, 1854 from New Orleans addressed to Miss Elizabeth Garthwaite in Newark reached Mrs Elizabeth B Nicholas by messenger yesterday. The postmaster found no such addressee and traced the letter to Fannie Britton, now Mia Nichol as who studied with Mrs Nicholas decades ago.
John Hilton of Boulder arrives in Laramie with his sweetheart Elisabeth Nicholson and her family funding his stay. Hilton says the elopement and promise to marry are backed by a claimed $20,000 dowry to be paid in eighteen months. He intends to work a ranch during the interim.
Albany Feb 4 Dr Allen Ferris president of the lunacy commission visited Harry Thaw at Matteawan. He said Thaw appeared nervous and excitable but too early to judge his permanent mental condition. The prisoner was cordial and gentlemanly and answered consistently though too excited for questioning. He is being treated the same as any other patient.
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