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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1903
Page
1
Belgrade June 16 Senate meets to discuss revision of form restricting royal authority. Peter Karageorgeovitech to arrive next week as new king greeted by celebratory events. Geneva reports King Peter of Serbia receives attention from leaders and pays respects to Geneva government president’s family.
Topeka Kan June 16 At noon today Governor Bailey chose June 24 for a special session of the legislature to provide funds to repair flood damage triggered by the Kansas City Kan incident. The situation in Kansas City Kan prompted the action.
Frank Dean vice president of the Seaboard National Bank killed himself with a revolver in his Orange New Jersey home today. No reason was given for the act.
Washington applies warrants for two additional post office workers accused of fraudulently transferring funds. Authorities will reveal identities after arrest.
President Theodore Roosevelt arrives by special train from Washington to Charlottesville to attend the University of Virginia exercises. He is greeted by Monticello guards and a student body that welcomes him as alumni officials and locals line the arrival route. The visit marks Roosevelt as the third president to attend UVA commencements following Jefferson’s founding university.
Denver June 16 The Stratton estate will lease 700 acres of Cripple Creek mining ground to finance 1500 to 2000 new miners. Leases will go to Colorado financiers with Poverty Gulch properties first granted to W. S. Hollister extend until 1905. Applications flood in as tracts are exhausted.
Mrs. B W Leonard of Denver was believed fatally injured when she jumped from a streetcar and struck her head on a telegraph pole in Las Vegas New Mexico. She was reported near death Sunday night but by noon Tuesday she was improving and may recover. Her husband arrived this afternoon.
Hundreds of rescuers resume work in Heppner Oregon searching for missing in debris and slime. Officials say about 200 more may lie beneath wreckage as temperatures rise and facilities remain limited.
The preliminary hearing starts for Chauncey Dewey the millionaire cowboy and two associates Wilson and Mc Bride on murder charges. The militia guards the court as investigators search entrants while Attorney General Coleman leads the prosecution and Senator Hassin defends. A Beech Berry testimony describes Dewey firing the first shot amid a family killing.
In the Jet White murder trial Dr J eAsh testified he was first to reach Marcum after he fell and saw Jett across the street ten seconds before the shots. County Judge Jim Hargis testified he saw Marcum killed from his store and observed White and Jett near the court house area before the shots.
President Roosevelt departed for Charlottesville to attend the University of Virginia commencement. Mrs Roosevelt Ambassador McCormick and others accompanied him on the trip.
Scranton June 16 President Mitchell read a report from the grievance committee faulting the operator for refusing to accept district presidents Duffy Fahey and Niccols as miners’ representatives on the conciliation board. The notice endorses their appointment and notes no grounds for protest on legality. The day opened with loud acclaim, and Sells & Downs circus praised in a Hannibal Missouri journal excerpt. The Great Sells & Downs will perform in Cheyenne June 18, and Woodmen Circle hosted a 10 cent social with a musical program at Woodmen hall.
Forecast notes partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday with showers, warmer Wednesday. Reports from New England coast heavy rains with 2.54 inches in Boston. Scattered showers across Wyoming Colorado Utah and New Mexico, fair in Mississippi valley. Local data: high 68, low 60, precipitation 0.06 inch. Palmer, Section Director. Also notices: Peony Mining Co annual meeting June 26 at 2 pm in Cheyenne. G A R comrades meet June 17 noon at Union Pacific depot to receive outgates of department encampment. Painter and decorators advertise services. Sterling silverware advertisement completes.
Superintendent W L Park returns from inspection reporting rapid progress on new cut-offs and double track west of the city. The entire line will be in service by September, with sections ready for steel laying within weeks. East of the city also advances and will open with the Borle Buford section, adding twenty five miles of double track and removing Archer hill grades.
The jury returned a verdict at 9 0 last night finding for the defendant in the case of Sway Land and Cattle Co versus Henry Hitterling over nine head of cattle allegedly killed. Costs will be taxed to the plaintiff. The trial of W Baker versus Mrs J L Murray for 262 60 commissions on the sale of the Murray house on Eighteenth Street to W L Sarah was in progress as the Leader went to press.
A jumble of movements shows Judge Hauphoff in Hartville’s city area. Al Bowie and other travelers head north. Weddings, marriages, and licenses figure amid city life with several pairs tying the knot and journeys to Denver, Ann Arbor, Wheatland, and Islay.
Last Wednesday Captain Thomas G. Carson of Troop F, Tenth Cavalry, and Ming Ala Mae Nickerson wed at the Shoshone agency. A cavalry escort accompanied the ceremony, and the bride, known in Cheyenne, has visited during Frontier days while her father served as Indian agent directing reservation visitors to the Frontier Show.
Carl Klopp, 41 year old boy who asked to go to reform school rather than home, was adopted by Fred Frevert of Wyncote. Klopp left with Frevert for his new home wearing new clothes. Mrs Jewitt had sought a home for him through a South Dakota children's home, but Frevert's arrangement resolved the matter satisfactorily.
The wedding of Miss Mildred Hay daughter of State Treasurer HM G Hay and Captain Charles W Foster of the thirteenth battery Meld artillery will be held at high noon tomorrow at the Forgusbn street Hay residence with Dr G Master officiating. A wedding breakfast will follow and the couple will depart on the afternoon train for the east via Denver to spend three months in Europe.
Notice to creditors. Having sold my business the Wyoming Fuel, Feed and Delivery company all persons knowing themselves indebted to the undersigned will please call and settle at once. WM. MURPHY.
Work has begun on a late water plant at Dana station and fifteen pits are under construction in the Wyoming division. Completion will improve water supply for Union Pacific engines by removing elements from boilers. Ren Mercantile Co announces a large stock of chairs and rockers arriving.
The advertisement lists reduced prices on items like Taffeta Silk Monte Gali garments and Lady's Fine Shoes with clearance figures. Other deals include coats, ribbed garments, chambray sunbonnets, girdles, ladies and gents hosiery, and wash fabrics with marked down cents and dollars.
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