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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1902
Page
2
The item lists staff notes with names including KE A Slack editor and proprietor Robert Mickel business manager George H Evans city editor, indicating changes or promotions in the newsroom staff.
Short items report social events official moves and travel around Cheyenne Wheatland and Fort Russell. Promoted rail workers and new hires at Union Pacific. Ball and dance nights planned by fraternal orders. A marriage license issued and nuptials performed. A mining class caravan passes through Cheyenne en route to Utah.
This afternoon at 5 o'clock a special five car train will arrive from the east carrying 100 members of Isis Temple of the Mystic Shrine of Salina Kansas to attend the national meeting in San Francisco. Local Shrine members will meet the train at the depot and more specials will pass through the city later.
Delegates from the boiler makers union left Cheyenne for Omaha to press wage demands and other concessions. They currently earn 34 cents an hour and expect to ask for 38 cents, with additional grievances to be discussed. A satisfactory settlement is expected.
State Geologist Beeler returns from official trip to Newcastle and Cambria. Three drilling rigs are active at Newcastle with two crews at work. Inspection of oil developments indicates a strike likely within a short time.
Roy Holcomb a sheep herder from Wyoming left his artificial eye with a hotel clerk to secure a board bill at the establishment and promised to return for it later.
A surveying party under Ridney Clout will depart Cheyenne shortly to conduct a government survey of Yellowstone National Park boundaries. Fred and Charles Lemon, recently returned from Philadelphia, will accompany the party.
Special correspondence from Los Angeles reports the sixth biennial meeting of the Federation of Women's Clubs in Cheyenne delegates, with 1,200 delegates present. Highlights include chairing the delegation, notable figures like Mrs. Dennison and Mrs. Decker, executive sessions, debates on leadership, forest and water preservation, child labor reform, and diverse program talks by Jane Addams and others.
A 14 year old boy, Andrew Pugmire of Coalville, was killed when his hand slipped as he rode a Union Pacific train with peers. He fell between cars near Echo and the left leg was severed. Rushed to Coalville, the log was amputated but he died at 11 pm. His father perished earlier in a Diamondville coal mine.
In Laramie Judge Bramel granted an injunction in the Fisher versus Mahs case over water rights on the Butler ditch. Mrs. Fisher seeks to use water from the Ponber canal through the Butler ranch owned by Mahes, who contested her access. A suitable water apportioner will be appointed as the dispute proceeds.
Notices list several requests for lodging and meals including Wanted room and board or rooms furnished or unfurnished with light housekeeping at 600 East Eighteenth street, Wanted good cook at 212 East Eighteenth street, and For Rent rooms for light housekeeping at 411 East Twelfth Street and other furnished room rentals with janitor service at 306 West Sixteenth Street and Warren Emporium. Additional real estate ads offer eight residence lots and three lots on Twelfth Street near Thames with Albert Chapman, agent, and cut flowers by Mrs. Glafeke with phone 546.
Wool sales opened this week at Qudy with several hundred thousand pounds sold. Notable lots include The Taylor and Hogg clip A 200000 pounds to LeRoy Ralow at 15 1 2 cents Went Walking 42000 pounds at 12 3 8 cents A C Dent 60000 pounds at 12 1 8 cents C M Gilmore 36000 pounds at 12 8 4 cents Fred Zimmermans 52000 pounds at 12 1 cents C A Harrisons 15000 pounds at 104 cents. Other clips offered failed to sell. Most sales went to LBD Helden for Dowey Gold & Co.
Cut flowers and designs for weddings parties and funerals offered at Chaffin's greenhouse at the corner of 18th and Central. Hot and cold baths priced at 15 cents at Padgett's Barber Shop on Sixteenth Street.
A brief classified notice requests rental arrangements in The Lead area. It seeks prompt replies from interested parties and outlines essential contact details for follow up.
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