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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1908
Page
1
Chicago June 3. The national Republican committee convenes to hear 200 plus contest claims for seats at the Republican convention. Taft’s nomination hinges on committee action as members debate anti Taft strategies and possible lumping of disputes to save time. Roosevelt and Taft influence looms as conservatives push moderation while Roosevelt Taft program gains traction.
A Twin Falls dispatch reports Idaho Democrats split over the Mormon issue with two rival conventions in the same hall. Antimormon faction led by former Senator Dubois claimed a delegate majority while the other faction nominated delegates to the national convention amid clashes and disorder.
Helena Mont June 3 Flood conditions in the state hinder rail service as no trains arrived at Helena over the Northern Pacific for several days and none are expected before tomorrow. Great Northern trains run with delays as renewed rain follows a brief sun.
Sebastian Guyn a liquor house clerk and Mrs Anna Karesva both killed themselves after a death pact. They were found in a Kingleton home room dressed for a final act with farewell letters. The woman's husband was alive preventing marriage, prompting the tragedy.
A telegraph message from Carbon County Sheriff Horton says a man believed to be John Summers, the slayer of Sheriff Bath, is surrounded in a copse twenty miles south of Encampment on Big Creek. A posse led by Sheriff Thirkeld has departed Rawlins for the area.
Three trolley cars were blown up with dynamite during a Chester Pennsylvania street car strike turning violent. One car shattered. deputies arrested the car crew. No passengers aboard. motorman and conductor unharmed and held for investigation. In San Francisco the German steamer Anubis returned after gale damage to its propeller blade amid a voyage from San Francisco to Hamburg via Seattle.
Charles T. Muir, a trusted New York bank teller at the Forty third branch of the Corn Exchange bank, confessed to embezzlement totaling about $9,000 over five years. After a staff inquiry and admission, he shot himself in the basement and died at the hospital.
Heavy rain and electric storms worsen flood damage in north Texas. The Red River rose seven feet at Gainesville blocking the Santa Fe bridge. A windstorm at Verona unroofed a dozen homes and tore down wires. Telegraph and telephone service to Panhandle towns nearly failed. Denison saw the Red River rise six feet washing out Missouri, Kansas and Texas tracks.
G W and G C Walsner prominent local sheepmen face charges of stealing forty seven head of sheep from R R Selway and A E Upton. County Attorney Kutcher filed the information. Trial set for June 24. Each posted a $2000 bond. The Walsner outfit operates as Walsner and Con.
Laramie Wyoming June 3. A blindfolded Denver psychologist Dr Alexander J Melvor-Tyndall will attempt to locate G A Sommers, Bath county sheriff killer, by thought transference as posses ride rough country toward Sheep mountain. If he succeeds he may be paid 400 dollars. Albany county friends fund the experiment amid fears of violence. Jerr Davis centenary noted in Mobile Alabama.
Washington officials say printing will begin within ten days for the new notes. The design stays like current notes except the security legend changes to secured by bonds of the United States or other securities. About 203 million in old notes remain in vaults to be used until new notes are printed. It may take six months to update 6810 national bank plates with some deliveries possible by July 1. Smaller denominations likely first due to autumn demand. current notes will be destroyed as new notes issued.
President Roosevelt moves to prosecute predatory wealth after his Standard Oil push. Plans target the print paper trust, top financiers linked to the stock panic, and renewed attacks on Standard Oil. Government agents gather evidence as new suits loom.
Lyman Durfey a 17 year old from Lovell Wyoming received two and a half years in a state prison for attempting to assault a neighbor’s daughter. The jury recommended reform school but Wyoming law requires imprisonment for offenders over 16. In Cuba a military court at Camp Columbia ongoing trial of Corporal Cooper and Private Gw nwell for murder of two Cuban fishermen continues. Private Fernley testified that the two soldiers shot the Cuban men in cold blood during a failed escape.
Honolulu June 32. United States District Attorney R W Brock has been arrested for attending a prize fight to test the law prohibiting such attendance. The case will go to immediate trial.
In Vooronezh on June 10 a 25 year old former school teacher, who attempted to kill General Bibikoff, governor of the province, was hanged. The would be assassin faced the court and was executed for the crime.
Baltimore delegates chose sixteen at large for the national convention with four Bryan supporters. The platform was adopted and Bryan’s presidential bid received no explicit backing in the final actions.
Weather report for Washington DC notes showers Thursday with cooler air in the east and south and warmer conditions Friday. Local data for the 24 hours ending 6 pm June 3 1908 shows a maximum of 0 degrees? and a minimum of 48 degrees with 1.16 inches of precipitation.
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