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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1902
Page
3
The page credits KB. A. Slack as editor and proprietor with Robert Mickel as business manager and George H. Evans as city editor, outlining the paper’s editorial and managerial lineup.
The Indians are all right as Cheyenne aims for the pennant with clear confidence. Local notes report personnel changes at the Tribune and jokes about a pantatorians man in an ice cream suit. Community events include church services, a reservoir project, and a new high school site at Evans ton.
H. Lemon advance agent for Buffalo Bill's Wide West show visits the city to arrange billing for the performance scheduled on August 8. The visit confirms the traveling entourage and expected public notice.
Mrs Bailey Bartlett an original Daughter of the Revolution and great aunt of Governor DeForrest Richards died at 99 in Orange New Jersey. She was sister of Colonel Long after whom Long's Peak Colorado is named. Governor Richards visited her in New Jersey about a year ago.
H. D. Schoonmaker travels from his central state ranch to attend a Wyoming Central Association gathering in this city. The agenda covers routine business on oil properties managed by the company in the state.
Saturday afternoon the league season opened in Cheyenne with the Indian nine defeating North Platte by a close score. Sleepy Simmons pitched for the Indians and Mercer starred for the visitors as both teams showed strong defense and sharp play. Final score by innings: North Platte 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 6 Indians 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 5.
The Union Pacific league standings list Cheyenne, Kearney, and North Platte with games played and win loss records. Cheyenne shows 20 games played with a .1000 win percentage, Kearney at 5 games with a .500 mark, and North Platte at 6 games with a .434 percentage.
Matthew G. Brantley, jailed since his June 6 1899 assault with intent to kill James Lavin, has been released on a gubernatorial pardon from the Rawlins state penitentiary. Supported by Rawlins citizens, he resumes work at Jack Carson's sheep camp.
Authorities seek a hitchhiking tramp who boarded a Union Pacific freight from Laramie to Rawlins and used a revolver to force passage. The brakeman was ordered off the car but the tramp fled the train at Rawlins and vanished.
In Rawlings district court Carbon county commissioners sue Henry Rasmussen J H Clause P Paulson and H Hansen as bondsmen for E T Burke clerk of Carbon county 1894 to 1896. Sixty days granted to file briefs on whether Burke collected 1100 during his term and did not turn it into the county.
M. P. Shannon, president of the Pennsylvania Oil and Gas company, is in the city en route home from Casper Wyoming where the firm owns oil properties and operates a refinery. He states the company is drilling new wells and starting major improvements in Casper fields totaling $350,100. The firm is expanding yearly in Wyoming with extensive work planned this summer.
The arrival of telephones and switchboard marks start of pole mounting and wire stringing for the new exchange. Newcastle will soon boast one of the most complete exchanges in the state per the Newcastle News Journal.
Washington enjoys quiet Sundays with closed theaters and puritanical blue laws while the Senate endures heat and humor. Senators Teller and Warren share laughs and long days, and night sessions hint at weariness as Congress drifts through fashion notes and procedural glimpses in early June.
Local forecast for Cheyenne and vicinity calls for fair conditions tonight and Tuesday with slightly cooler temperatures Tuesday. High pressure remains east of the Mississippi, keeping clear skies in that region. Rocky Mountain and Plateau areas see warm weather with readings near 95 degrees in Utah and western Colorado yesterday. Local data show a high of 79 and a low of 51 with minimal precipitation.
Classified item listing seeks room and board options near the mall or 600 East Eighteenth Street and a good cook at 212 East Eighteenth Street. Also requests buying clean old rags at the Leader office.
For sale four lots in a good location and eight resilience lots in the east part of town. Inquiries directed to Albert Chapman, real estate agent. Additional listings include three lots on Twelfth Street near Thames. For rent rooms for light housekeeping at 411 East Twelfth Street and a nicely furnished room at 306 West Sixteenth Street. Nicely furnished brick-block rooms with electric light and janitor service from $5 a month, inquire Warten Emporium.
Cut flowers and designs for weddings, parties and funerals offered at Chafin's greenhouse on the corner of Eighteenth and Central avenues. Hot and cold baths available at Padgett's Barber Shop on Sixteenth Street for 15 cents.
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