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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1908
Page
2
George W. Sinks, a Shoshoni prospector, showed ore samples assay ing up to 16000 dollars in gold per ton. He claims discovery of a mother lode from which Wind River placers derive, but he will not reveal the exact location beyond saying it is in the area near the Wind River heads.
The Black Hills national forest was divided due to rising work and Sundance Wyoming joined with Bear Lodge to form Sundance national forest under Supervisor George C mith of Sundance. Hamilton of the Black Hills forest notes the substantial workload and reorganizes administration. In a separate ad, Hall's Catarrh Cure and Hall's Family Pills are promoted with assurances of efficacy and a $100 reward for uncurable catarrh.
Car bon county's Wyoming Wool Growers convention delegation will ride to Laramie in a special Pullman car and likely bring along the Rawlins band. The trip occurs this week as the group attends the annual gathering in Laramie. The notice appears in Rawlins, Wyoming, with local promotional copy for Pineules.
Special to the eLader reports William Hersken, recently crested for burglary at Arvada, is an escaped Illinois penitentiary convict captured in Sheridan Wyoming. He will be delivered to Illinois authorities. The item also contains unrelated dietary ad blurbs and local notices tucked in the page.
In Ault Colorado fifty residents led by the mayor dug two trenches under railroad crossings to finish a 3000 dollar water system. They worked overnight with women serving meals while railroad foremen threatened action. The job completed in 17 hours and water expected to flow soon.
A pharmacy promotes Bees Laxative Cough Syrup for coughs colds croup and whooping cough with claims of prompt relief and gentle laxative action. It is advertised as driving poison and phlegm from the system and giving immediate relief with a guarantee.
Ax Milne of Gillette, Wyoming reports a letter from Scotland stating his wife reached her original homeland in a gas country five days after her mother died. She raced against death after leaving on a cablegram about her mother's illness but arrived five days too late.
Colorado and Southern announces a private train tour through Mexico titled the Egypt of the New World with departure from Denver. Early reservations urged and T. E. Fisher G P A Denver signs the notice.
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