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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1900
Page
1
J F Jenkins invites readers to drink at his soda fountain praising the healthful beverage with fruit flavors. He urges cooling during heat waves and promotes a soda room as a respite from the sun while referencing Greenland's Mountains and candy flavor touches.
Reports say the St Louis Transit Company claims calm after a confrontation with strikers last night. Police and sheriff view the situation as still critical despite the company’s assertion of control. A brewery car incident saw stones and two shots fired with no injuries. The council rejected the repeal of the franchise amid ongoing protest activity.
Pueblo reports Charles Kuntz 22 killed instantly in the steel works mill while oiling crane cogs. He fell from atop the machine onto the iron floor and died. In Williamsburg a Weldman cooperage fire kills four with six injured. identified victims include August Benedict 50 and John M. Lockwood 63 with two other tallies: Charles Colwell and an unidentified man.
Albany news confirms Governor Roosevelt reiterates his refusal to accept a Republican ticket as vice president. He states he has nothing to add and that his decision is irrevocable.
Thomas Armstrong a Denver milkman learns from Denver officials that relatives of a deceased resident left an estate ward to him valued at over a million dollars. Armstrong's share is estimated at 90000 dollars. Mrs Gladstone's health worsens in Hawarden England with expected passing by tomorrow.
The Philadelphia Post recalls Lin say Flovel Mines as an early reporter paid by piecework. At a New York cornerstone ceremony Bishop Potter read from the prayer book, and the young reporter asked for a copy, earning a surprised look and the book being handed over.
Prof Frederick Starr of the University of Chicago argued that the dowager empress of China was justified in expelling Christian missionaries and in resisting Western intervention He said China would unite and become a world power if imperial partition attempts fail and warned China and Russia would dominate the Orient in the future.
June 13 report says British marines clashed with Chinese Boxers near Tien Tain. A patrol of sixteen marines engaged with Boxers, Maxim guns used, and casualties reported among Chinese rebels.
Leoo Doob recalls an old innkeeper in an interior Vermont town known for stinginess. His son, a cler k, kept the washroom and ink locked and refused base on balls to spare waste. A visitor notes nineteen saloons in one block while others nearby have few. The tale centers on prohibition era attitudes and a restrictive hotel.
The Democratic state convention in Columbus adopts a platform reaffirming the Chicago plank and urging radical reforms. It calls for tariff removal from monopolized goods, war tax reduction, direct vote for president and senators, home rule for Ohio, anti Cuban pasta scandal, and demands the nomination of Bryan with Arran favored among Ohio delegates.
The National Republican Committee meets at the Walton Hotel to hear thirty four contest copies involving seventy eight seats in the convention. Each side gets fifteen minutes with a thirty minute executive session to decide. Contests span Louisiana Texas Alabama Tennessee and Delaware with Delaware’s fight for control highlighted. Addicts of Delaware confident for his organization in Philadelphia.
Dr W C Burke medical director of the state hospital has opened an office over Rock Springs National Bank. He brings many years of experience in medicine and surgery and his success at the state hospital since his arrival marks him as a professional man of great ability.
Twenty locomotives that have long served the Wyoming division will be torn for scrap iron as they are replaced by new locomotives from Baldwin locomotive works. The process has started in the shops and the replacement engines are expected to arrive soon.
A plan to kill weeds along Utah railroad rights of way involves a train equipped with four sprinkling units drawing water from the Great Salt Lake. The train will travel the tracks spraying water to vaporize and destroy the weed growth along the road.
In a dispatch from Pretoria dated June 12 General Knox relays Roberts report on a clash near Pretoria as General Botha retired fifteen miles east on the Middleburg road. Botha held a strong position and a vulnerable flank,Roberts notes a slight reverse but promises swift repair and security of the army in South Africa.
Chief Swanson tested his fire companies this afternoon turning in an alarm at box 16 near Twenty-fret and Ferguson Streets. The drill deployed hose lines quickly with one line in eighty seconds and two lines in a minute and a half. The speaker praised the department as very fine.
Colorado Springs June 13 W H Stratton mine owner gave fifty thousand dollars to Colorado college in the morning gift aid to the institution by a prominent business figure funds directed to the college.
Tip of the New York Press notes on plant origins. Strawberries derive from stray, radishes from China, raspberries from Caribbean mountains, turnips from India, tomatoes from South America, spinach from Arabia, pumpkins from Asia Minor, cabbage and lettuce mishaps, asparagus praised, and other folk beliefs about cultivation and uses.
An observant man questions a tank soiled by crime about a missing timepiece. The tan k, boasting recent prosperity, misstates the watch and hints at another with a hooded gold cam, revealing a convoluted street snatch scene.
Classified notice seeking a female helper for general house chores with location at 21 percent East Eighteenth as rent in Cheyenne. No other requirements listed.
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