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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1908
Page
8
The entry states a second class matter designation dated September 6, 1907, for Cheyenne Wyoming post office under the 1879 act. The fragment indicates a postal filing note.
A collage of quotes and snippets covers Harry Thaw dramatization plans, Roosevelt versus Thelrman jibes, Mondell homestead bill progress, Taft and Roosevelt political aims, and sharp comments on vaudeville ex-presidents. A Pennsylvania woman’s domestic tale ends the meeting with a crude punchline.
The Official Paper The Leader expresses gratitude to the city council for last night’s backing of the paper. It calls the praise voluntary and nonpolitical, praising independence and dedication to building the city and serving public and private interests.
The piece mocks Chaplin and the Larataie Republican editor, noting how the columnist advises moderation while engaging in sharp quill work. It contrasts Colonel Bell’s country settlement talk with calls for lenient laws, suggesting the author’s own inconsistency in applying advice.
The Denver News argues against lumber tariffs to conserve forests. It says the 2 per thousand board feet tax encourages waste and hinders reforestation by taxing standing trees but not harvests. It urges tax reform to promote private forest planting over destruction.
In editorial snippets the Post backs Mondell half section homes as a solution to the lease dispute and urges support for Mondell and Clark against the administration lease law. The pieces warn Roosevelt and Pinchot would lock up western lands, halting settlement, and urge citizens to express support to their senators and congressmen.
Lusk Herald quotes urging passage of the Burkett bill or any lease law to prevent Wyoming from losing ground. The letter warns that without a lease law the state's future settlement and development could lag a decade.
Two women lean over a garden gate at dusk sharing town scandals while their husbands return from golf. The poem contrasts both sexes loving gossip and the need for social talk to feel alive.
Senator Clark of Wyoming introduced a bill to grant a patent to the board of Indian Missions Protestant Episcopal Church for 160 acres in the Shoshone Indian Reservation Wyoming. The land was given by the late Washakie and his band.
Ii echeon Feb 4 The city council voted six to two to close saloons on Sundays and to bar liquor sales by restaurants drug stores and eating houses on that day in a reform-driven ordinance.
A collage of light quips from Chicago Tribune Baltimore American Philadelphia Ledger and others share jokes on honey moons Latin spiels at college and courtroom humor. Observers mock social pretensions and the chaos of busy minds with witty one liners.
The passage recalls advice on marriage and money from Szechenyi and a cruel sting of fortune for the Earl of Yarmouth. It notes the death of Mrs. Mary Frances Reiley at 83 in Sioux City Iowa and mentions various unrelated snippets about Lincoln, Columbus criminals, and a presidential move to appoint five scientists to arbitrate disputes over the pure food law. It highlights Senator Newlands of Nevada as approachable and Lambroas A. Coromilas, Greece’s first minister to the U.S., detailing his background and wartime capture, noting his English fluency.
Toledo reports Judge George James Austin Jr known as the golden rule judge had himself jailed in the Toledo workhouse for a day to experience the routine of inmates. Prosecutor Frank Boyer a matron and reporters accompanied him as he and his aides were processed, shackled and treated as prisoners to eat prison fare wear prison clothes and be searched and escorted with the inmate gang.
A meeting of the state board of sheep commissioners is to be held today at the offices of Secretary Gal Walker.
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