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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1908
Page
7
A bank advertises full account access with daily balance, a bookkeeper, and the ability to pay bills by check without registering letters. Lost checkbooks are replaced free, and cancelled checks serve as receipts. The notice is signed by T. B. Hord president David Nimimo vice president and E. W. Stone.
The Cheyenne Leader is issued with WM A Bartrett as manager and Charles Thompson serving as city editor. The publication appears as successor to Sun Leader under the Leader Publishing Company.
The municipal snow plow was busy yesterday and district court met in the afternoon. There are 236 convicts in Rawlin a state penitentiary. The Atlas theater reopened with a strong bill. Civil war veteran William Lewis learns his pension rises to 12 dollars a month. Capitol and Eighteenth streets will soon be remodeled. The New York store closed awaiting a temporary receiver for bankrupt owner B Predmestky. Lighting transfers from old to new Northern Colorado Power plants proceed. Ice cutting at Sloan's Lake and city Fort Russell construction were delayed by bad weather as Cheyenne and Helena delegates prepare to return from the Wool Growers convention.
The Leader Publishing company held its annual meeting on a Tuesday night. Directors named for the coming year include Colin Hunter Gibson Clark Leopold Kabis J H Arp F J Johnston E B Johnston L R Bresnahan Sidney B Bartlett and W A Bartlett. Colin Hunter was re elected president.
In district court Minnie Brossard was granted a decree of divorce from Joseph Brossard after trial at 2 pm. Grounds include living together intolerable due to drunkenness cruelty and lack of support. Married August 1889 at Carson Iowa Minnie Tuck is her maiden name.
Lincoln Land & Townsite secretary A B Minor and Chicago Burlington & Quincy officials Frank N Pearson attended in Cheyenne to arrange the transfer of Cheyenne & Burlington Railway real estate to the CB&Q after Tuesday’s merger. Palace Pharmacy advertises ManZan for piles in collapsible tube with nozzle.
A private train excursion from Denver on January 28 offers a view of ancient Mexican ruins described as older than Egypt. Reservations are urged. contact T. Fisher, P. A., Denver. Also promoting Hewitt's Carbonized Witch Hazel Balm for piles, sold by A. E. Roedel.
The county brand commission met at the courthouse with Daniel Moelivane Thomas Durbin and County Clerk Wdwaerd Artist and allowed a further of new livestock brands.
Prosecuting Attorney Watts asks the court to dismiss twenty five charges against Harry P. Hynds, seventeen against C. H. Evans, seventeen against John J. Len, and six against Al Leslie. The court grants the petition and the defendants are discharged. Similar actions are planned for northern county residents after they destroy gambling paraphernalia and promise not to violate the law.
An advertisement extols a home remedy claiming to purify blood by activating the kidneys. It links rheumatism, skin sores, and catarrhal conditions to “bad blood” and uric acid, and prescribes Fluid Extract Dandelion, Compound Karyon, and Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla taken after meals and at night.
J H Sheridan formerly train master for the Union Pacific at Green River travels to the coast to become assistant superintendent of the Sacramento division of the Southern Pacific under D Burkhalter. He will relieve the Sacramento division from A S Brown though no disposition for Brown is known. Separately a baby remedy Caseasweet is advertised as gentle for infants and children without opiates, sold by A B Roedel.
Clerk of the Court T. Joe Fisher reports a Florida winter note from veteran Iron Mountain ranchman G. O. Latham about a sea bass angling party. Twelve men caught twenty nine sea bass. four were landed by Latham. The four fish weighed 110 pounds total, averaging about 27% pounds each. Latham landed the largest after seventy five minutes. A photograph of the party and catch accompanied the letter.
An 19th century style advertisement touts Williams' Kidney Pills as a cure for kidney and nervous system troubles. It claims relief from back and flank pain, bladder issues, fatigue, and facial puffiness, offering a sample and mail order for 60 cents from Williams' Manufacturing Company, Cleveland, Ohio, with local sale by A. EB Roedel.
Phoenix Camp No 144 members and visitors are asked to meet at Fraternal hall at 1 p m Friday January 17 1908 to attend the funeral of Neighbor Geo W Stirling. S D Gleason Consul Commander L Maxon Clerk.
Henry Hoffman relocates his right back service from the Mynch's car to the Senate bar at Sixteenth and Ferguson streets. Telephone 15. Carriages available during the day from Metropole stables, phone 376. Call promptly answered.
Francis A. House, a federal examiner of naturalization, is in Cheyenne reviewing naturalization accounts of clerks at the United States district and state district court.
The note lists a basketball game between Fort Collins and C H dated January 17. No scores or locations are provided.
Kentuckian takes Mich and Indiana marriage. Hoetseyaterday woe lxavell to Rule Tunberlake of Lexington Kentucky and Miss Stella Nenringer of Unionville Michigan.
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