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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1902
Page
2
The Cheyenne Leader issue from June 11 1002 shows the masthead with Office Telephone House Telephone numbers and staff roles including A Slack editor and proprietor Robert Mickel business manager and George H Evans city editor.
Local notes report daily practice for the Indians ahead of Saturday and Sunday games with Kearney. Also updates on park improvements, a pension granted to Clifton R. Wolfe, coal mine inspection, birth of a girl, and various city happenings including a church concert and road concerns.
Sidney Blout the surveyor led a party at night toward Jacksons Hole south of Yellowstone to complete an unfinished government contract surveying the park boundaries. Ec Stable also departed with a party from the west. The Blount party via Opal Uinta county includes Ray Newman Fred Lem on Ed Weeks and Fred Stratom.
Notice states a sorrel gelding two years old branded EL on left jaw was picked up May 1, 1902, described as an estray in a pasture six and one half miles west of the city. Posted by LA PASH & TUPPER.
Have you moved If you have changed your address since it was taken for the city directory notify me at once Address F Yager City.
The Spreckles sugar king of San Francisco travels in one of the finest private cars en route from New York. The party includes four from New York and officials Superintendent Park and Assistant Superintendent Whitney. A Missouri Kansas Texas group travels to St. Louis from California aboard the special car 01. Multiple long gravely trains pass daily through the city for work east of Cheyenne.
Fred Collins and Alice Frampton, both described as well known colored residents, applied for a license to wed. The clerk misnamed the bride as the mother and later corrected the error after the groom objected to the mistaken party.
Dick Tottenhoff leader of the boiler makers union returns home from Omaha where he and delegates met Union Pacific officials to discuss grievances. The conference did not finalize settlements and the delegates will return for another meeting. They refuse to disclose details of the discussions.
Weather forecast notes thunderstorms tonight and Thursday with cooler conditions. A moving warm wave shifts from the Rocky Mountains toward the Mississippi Valley while showers ease in the Lake and upper Mississippi regions. Yesterday values reached 102 in North Platte and 19 in Valentine with a local 24 hour max of 91 and min 54 and no precipitation.
Chicago Chronicle sketches the new Assistant Secretary to the President, Mr. Barnes, as tall and slender with abundant black hair and a carnation at his buttonhole. He resembles Major Pruden in presence but may lack Pruden’s unmatched gallery sway. Eight residence lots in the east town on Maxwell and Twenty-first streets offered by Albert Chapman, real estate agent.
Wyoming cattle grower R. Van Tassel from Cheyenne warns range water shortages threaten stock in Laramie and Converse counties with July onset risk. He notes climate shifts since earlier winters and government forestry efforts aim to repair damaged ranges.
A dialogue features a friend asking whether a law should compel elected officials to reveal campaign expenditures. Senator Lotsman warns of embarrassment, noting some Senate campaigns reportedly spent as little as 500 dollars. The piece includes poetic interjections from The Angel and the Worm by E. Kiser.
The Office of Irrigation Investigations will add several special agents and experts to pursue irrigation studies in Utah Montana Idaho Wyoming Colorado Nebraska and other western states. A competitive civil service exam yielded fifteen to twenty new scientific employees.
Multiple short ads seek furnished and unfurnished rooms with light housekeeping at various East Street addresses. Also requests for a good cook, old rag collection, and sale of four lots on Twelfth Street. Other items include cut flowers, funeral designs, and barber shop bath services.
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