Cheyenne Grants Cosgriff 25Year Street Railway Franchise
The Cheyenne City Council granted Thomas A. Cosgriff a twenty five year electric street railway and power franchise with work to begin within twenty days of Fort Russell right of way and completion within six months. A bond of 310,000 and a 5 000 certified check are required, with the life of the franchise set at twenty five years and conditions for tracks paving and poles.
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Cheyenne
Thomas A. Cosgriff
Fort Russell
Union Depot
Union Pacific
Eighteenth Street
Gerantee
Adam Schilling
Cosgriff
First National
Forti
Oregon Elects Democrat Chamberlain to U S Senate
Portland June 2 Governor G E Chamberlain Democrat wins Oregon’s U S Senate seat to succeed Republican Charles W Fulton and a Republican legislature is chosen to elect him. Chamberlain’s margin over Republican Henry M Cake is believed to exceed 1000. victory seen as a personal triumph in a normally Republican state.
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Portland
Ore
G. E. Chamberlain
Oregon
United States
Charles W. Fulton
Republcan
Chamberlain
Henry M. Cake
Roosevelt
Anti
Senate
United States Senate
Bronchos Lead Race Across the Plains Tonight
Reports from the Denver Post recount a long distance race with leaders scattered along the Union Pacific between Rawlins and Laramie. Charlie Workman on Teddy, and several other bronchos including Dix Bluebell Riley and Sorrel Clipper, are at Rock River with bets in Cheyenne favoring Workman as the probable winner.
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Denver Post
Union Pacific
Rawlins
Laramie
Charlie Workman
Teddy
Wyoming
Kern
Dix
Colorado
Castro
McLelland
Riley
Edwards
Rock River
Cheyenne
Workman
Vance
Cannonball
Aged Lawyer Porter Ends Life in Office
New York reports Anthony B Porter a senior partner at Porter Kilvert killed himself in his office by inhaling chloroform at age seventy after careful preparations. Porter, a Civil War Union Army veteran, had endured years of life weariness.
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New York
Anthony B. Porter
Porter & Kilvert
Porter
Mitchell Emerges as Governor Nominee Contender
Chicago June 2 John Mitchell former United Mine Workers of America president rose as a serious candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination after a conference with Roger C. Sullivan James T Connery and Fred W Block.
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Mitchell
Chicago
John Mitchell
United Mine Workers of America
Roger C. Sullivan
Jobo T. Connery
Fred W. Block
Wyoming Weather Forecast Shows Showers and Cooler Days
Forecast for Wyoming calls for showers and cooler weather Wednesday and Thursday followed by fair and warmer conditions. Local data through 6 pm June 2, 1908 report a maximum of 64 degrees and a minimum of 42 with zero inches precipitation.
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Washington, D. C
Wyoming
Palmer
North Platte Boom Town as Rail Service Restored
Train service between Cheyenne and Chugwater resumes with limited schedule after flood damage. C and S faces washouts north of Chugwater, bridges rebuilt, roadbed repaired, and full service unlikely this week. Passengers diverted via Union Pacific, Burlington, and Chicago and Northwestern routes. Superintendent John Dwyer leads repairs with haste.
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Colorado & Southern
Chugwater
North Platte River
Cheyenne
Wheatland
John Dwyer
Burlington
Chicago & Northwestern
Roosevelt arranging to boss convention
Washington reports two weeks from the Republican national convention as Roosevelt backs a Rooseveltian platform for Taft. Taft aides outline tariff ideas, backing revision after inauguration and emphasizing protection phrased to deter monopolies. Senator Lodge may chair. Mrs Taft and Taft aides prepare Chicago headquarters.
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Washington
Chicago
Taft
Wade Ellis
Ohio
United States
Resolutions Committee
Senator Lodge
Massachusetts
Myron T. Herrick
Acres of Taft
Annex
Auditorium
Great Northorm
Hammond Enters Republican Vice Presidential Race
Washington D C June 2 John Haya Hammond joins the Republican ticket vice presidential race urged by western supporters noting his California birth knowledge of western issues and Gloucester Mass residency He formerly worked with Guggenheim Mining now independent mining engineer with strong business backing Montgomery of Colorado to open Hammond headquarters in Chicago tomorrow
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Washington, D. C
John Haya Hammond
Gloucester
Mass
Hammond
Guggenheim Mining Company
Smelting Trust
Washington
John B. Montgomery
Colorado
Chicago
Close Iowa Republican Senate race probed by incomplete returns
Des Moines June 2 incomplete returns show a tight Republican senate contest between Allison and Cummings with both claiming lead between 10 000 and 20 000. Governor race also uncertain Garat v Cummings Carroll v Allison. Democrats nominate Fred E White for governor and Claude Porter for US senator without opposition.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Allison
Cummings
Garat
Carroll
Fred E. White
Claude B. Porter
United States
Girls Sentenced to Death by Russians at Warsaw Court Martial
Three girls and eleven men were sentenced to death by court martial in Warsaw for attacking a post car at Sokolow last January. A bomb struck the car, killing two and wounding ten soldiers and railroad employees.
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Warsaw
Sokolow
Bryan's strenuous day with automobile tour ends in Kimball
Wm J Bryan completes a grueling Nebraska day traveling by auto from Alliance with stops in Bridgeport Scottsbluff and Kimball. The journey included multiple breakdowns and delays from a mobile accident as communities welcomed the visiting Democrat and his party.
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Kimball
Neb
Wm. J. Bryan
Nebraska
Alliance
Bridgeport
Scotts Blum
Death by Own Action Shocks St Joseph City Hotel
Robert J. Roark a presumed Junction City Kansas lawyer cut his throat in a St Joseph hotel this morning then leapt from a second story window. He fled four blocks to a residence where a window was burned through and he died in the kitchen.
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St. Joseph
June S
Robert J. Roark
Junction City
Kan
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