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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1901
Page
2
The July 11 1901 issue notes Fort D. A. Russell upgrades and potential regiment stationing, comments on President McKinleys third term stance, profiles Charles S. Miller’s career moves, and discusses army canteen restoration with strong support from officers and medical staff. It also reports Mrs McKinleys illness linked to a blood infection and periostitis with mitral valve involvement but improving.
Reports from San Francisco show the Tevis Baxter wedding cake for the April 10 ceremony was partially destroyed when a waiter dropped it. Some guests believed the incident an ill omen, even as others dismissed any significance.
The Denver Business Men's Association plans excursions to Colorado and Wyoming to foster business relations. Possible first trip on June 18 or 25 may visit Rawlins Cheyenne and Laramie with other westward points. A reception for neighbors is suggested and a silver boom in Colorado is anticipated with government silver purchases and a Manila mint proposal.
The Times outlines a plan for token coinage backed by the government to imitate the Mexican dollar and be redeemable in gold at par. The scheme aims to boost circulation, expand American trade with the Orient, and eventually place the U S at the center of the world silver market.
An Italian section hand was shot by a tramp near Newcastle last Friday morning and will die. Four hobos were given supper in the section car and in the morning one of the tramps fired a shot into the car for amusement, striking the Italian over the left eye and making a horrible wound. He is at the county hospital in an unconscious condition and can not lie.
The Kurtz-Chatterton company will sink a 1000 foot shaft on their property after an expert copper mining engineer from New York recommended extensive developments. When completed the mine will produce about 1000 tons of ore daily and cost around 100000 dollars. Recent workings uncovered an eighteen foot wide ore body and the engineer promises large deeper ore bodies, with the hill showing surface veins carrying copper ore from three to fifty percent and increasing in richness with depth.
Inside sources claim Pittsburg capitalists secured 7000 acres of oil land near the Butte adjacent to Evanston and will begin development within months. Higbee of the Aspen tunnel reports Kilpatrick Brothers plan three wells at Hillard with Indiana machinery en route. A Carmichael was arrested at Basin for stealing four horses from J. B. Alder dice and will be tried next term.
A subscription dance at Turner Hall honored Miss Helen Greenough Miss Fannie Greenough and Miss Carrie Conley guests for the Buechner McKie wedding. About thirty couples danced sixteen numbers with two extras to Nagle's orchestra. The floor music refreshments and atmosphere pleased attendees.
The Burlington plans a park beside its Lusk depot and a Fourth of July tent city will rise there. Laramie hosts a benefit for city firemen and a new Laramie Rambler mine stage line is planned. Live in Laramie face scarlet fever quarantine while Uinta County oil boom grows as prospectors push east and west. A Union Pacific crossing at Evanston now has a watchman after costly accidents. Matt Daugherty filed on UP land at Spring Valley where oil was struck and seeks possession. Maennerchor hall in Laramie to be rebuilt as an $8000 modern opera house. Cow Creek Copper to install a steam mining plant at Grand Encampment mines. Adele Collins receives a divorce decree and a marriage license in Rawlins. Newcastle mayor opens churches closed for smallpox fears.
In Ogden a meeting of Wyoming oil interests pledged to form the Fossil Consolidated Oil company. P J Quealey will head the venture, with nine firms including Wyoming Utah Oil and Ogden Fossil Oil joining to share costs and begin sinking wells. The plan aims to unify development across the district for mutual profit.
A collage of classified items lists for sale and rental offerings, real estate, furnished rooms, and services. It includes rooms for rent, furniture for sale, real estate lots near Maxwell and Twenty-first streets, a four horsepower well machine, and requests for pure water filters. There are also notices for army recruitment, rag collection, a fortune teller, cut flowers and designs, and a bathhouse offer.
Department of the Interior announces a contest against Homestead Entry No 2965 filed by Wilford J Wood. Oscar Yoder of Phillips Wyoming contests abandonment and nonresidence for over four years. Hearing set for July 18, 1901 at 10 a.m. before the Cheyenne Land Office Register and Receiver.
Executor Henry G Hay announces intent to make final settlement at the May 1901 term of the district court in Laramie County. Also includes ad for Washington Market and Leader subscription.
Sealed bids for School District No. 8 Johnson County Kaycee Wyoming bonds totaling 800 dollars are invited with bids due June 24 1901. Bonds dated July 1 1901 carry 6 percent interest and redeemable from January 1 1908 to 1910. Proceeds fund two schoolhouses. Also bids for School District No. 4 Fort Bridger Wyoming ten bonds of 900 dollars each with 5.5 percent interest due serially starting January 1 1903.
Notices from the Department of the Interior show settler John Hohnholz filing for final proof on land near Iron Mountain Wyoming with July 10, 1901 hearing in Cheyenne. A second timber land entry by Robert Lawson in Cheyenne specifies July 10, 1901, as proof date. observers are listed. An estray notice from Goldsmith, June 4, 1991, details two horses taken in at a ranch with descriptions and brands.
VOR SALE Also registered mares and fillies both young and matured LARG trotting bred stallions for sale There is none better in the world Anyone that is at all interested send for stallion catalogue giving extended pedigree of a few and mentioning other stock owned at the ranch Never before were good road horses so scarce nor the demand so great Address L C Kinney Pine Bluffs Wyo.
A merchant advertises closing out entire stock of men and boys suits and overcoats at deep discounts. Items include $15, $20, $25 overcoats reduced to $10, $12 overcoats to $7.50, men’s suits at $13.50 cash, extensive boys and children suits from $1 to $7.50, and shoes and furnishings at special low prices. Prices are stated as no object due to closing out.
Two women seek a live in or daily housework position at 919 Warren Avenue. Subscriptions to The Leader are 60 cents per month.
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