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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1901
Page
4
The Cheyenne Leader issue lists staff and contact details with editors and managers. It identifies A Slack as editor proprietor, HW No 93 and KK De Belle as business manager, George H Evans as city editor, reflecting the paper’s early 20th century masthead and telephonic contact line.
A roundup of brief notices: manager Joe Cahil won about $50 on yesterday’s game. the D W C ball club returned to Denver. two cars of Asiatic silk valued at $120 000 moved east. the merry go round left town for parts unknown. Eugene Wilkerson of Cheyenne to graduate state university. Miss Mayme Dillman withdraws from Tribune contest.
Retail ad lists limited time offers in a large New York style sale with prices on sugar lard coffee and flour. Notable items include 16 pounds sugar for 1, eight bars Silver Leaf soap for 25 cents, assorted hams flour and prunes and a 25.50 suit promotion by Wheeler Goodale and William Myers Co.
A large crowd watched the Indians overpower the Denver nine 6 to 0 at the Athletic Park. Grindle’s three base hit and Glaze’s pitching highlighted the contest as the Indians seized control with four runs in the sixth inning and one more in the eighth. Shoels stole two bases and Grindle drove in three, while Lempke fanned many as the visitors struggled to score.
A warranty deed filed in the county clerk indicates the sale of the Dyer ranch on Pole creek to Warren Live Stock company for 10000. The 1382 acre property, formerly owned by Mrs Catherine B Dyer, includes ranch houses and grazing land north of Cheyenne. Tonight Nebraska excursionists depart to inspect Wyoming Development Company property via Lookout reservoir and Wheat land passes through Cheyenne.
J C Baird United States district attorney for Hawaii arrived in Denver from Honolulu and will spend several months in the Colorado capital for his health. He suffers with a nervous ailment and hopes the climate will improve his condition. The report notes other local items including a Memorial day observance by the Knights of the Maccabees and Odd Fellows, a snow-covered train arriving from the east, and a nine pound boy born yesterday afternoon to Rev G A Gates who delivered the baccalaureate at the state university in Laramie.
Rawlins Wyoming June 16 two more convicts were sent to the state penitentiary after Judge Craig sentenced Al Probst for robbing Cosgriff Brothers store at Medicine Row to twelve years and Frank Spencer for grand larceny at Battle Lake to five years Probst confessed five hours before witness Diels Mngland was killed at Medicine Bow F. H. Nevins faces trial for stealing and killing a steer from B C Fay Prof Mead improving in Washington hospital and expected to be out in three to four weeks Judge Becker united William R Hartman and Mrs Bertha I Stanley in marriage at the Metropolitan hotel Cripple Creek Colo
The Denver Republican noted that the D W OC team came to Cheyenne to teach the Indians a baseball lesson but failed. A separate item promotes the Young Men's Institute event on July 20 at Turner Hall with tickets and a sale at WM Myers & Co.
Ed Snyder, a Union Pacific blacksmith’s helper, was struck by a flash while walking with two companions near the city west of town. He suffered chest burns but remained alive and resting at home. His companions, St M Powers and William McDaniels, were unharmed.
Tom Johnson and Ada Knapp died at the county hospital. Two funerals were held this afternoon from Warren undertakers. Johnson, a city figure since 1867, died at 8 pm after delirium tremens and acute alcoholism. Knapp, a West End habitue nicknamed the Tragedy Queen, was buried at 4 pm.
B F Perkins and others file in district court alleging that new mayor and council members changed city attorney M L Blake to win a contract and salary paid by the city. Blake allegedly voted to hire himself and two council members later contracted with him to divert city funds. Perkins seeks to enjoin payment of the contract.
Three new Wyoming companies filed incorporation papers. Dixon Land and Live Stock Co. to operate in Carbon County with $50,000 capital and Dixon HQ. trustees D. H. Craig J. B. Osborne James Douglas and Sam Hartle. Enterprise Irrigation and Power Co. to operate in Fremont County with office at Lander. $5,000 capital. Union Ore Extraction and Reduction Co. to operate in Wyoming and Colorado with $100,000. incorporators Z. T. Esmond G. G. Holmes and T. S. Murphy.
The Cheyenne Rifle Club held its weekly shoot yesterday at the local range. Scores included Bergersen 76 82 75 86 90, Bonzer 71 76 88 82 84 84, Pat Jones 87 87 84 80 78 77, and Lafors 80 76 92 75.
A young man arrested last week for embezzling 176 dollars from his employers was rearrested at 4 PM today and placed on $500 bonds for a preliminary hearing tomorrow at 10 AM. He claims he will raise the funds and the case will be dismissed. the agent remains in jail.
Sixteen waiters of both sexes met at Union hall to form a local union seeking uniform wages. They sent to the International Waiters Association for a charter and will meet Friday to elect officers and form a permanent organization. A new telegraph line between Hartville Junction and Sunrise to connect with Guernsey is nearing completion by July 1st with rushed extension work.
A two hour hail event near Sun dance tops a historic national weather record. Hail stones up to half an eggshell broke over four hundred panes, flooded streets, swept cattle, and felled trees. Bridges were impassable as streams swelled beyond banks, with uninsured losses looming.
Railway employees of Cheyenne have subscribed about six hundred shares and expect five hundred more next week. The plan mirrors Laramie Building and Loan, with 500000 capital and 2500 shares at 200 each. Monthly payments of 1 per share start after a June 21 meeting to elect seven trustees and adopt bylaws.
Rico Derose Italian section hand in Newcastle was shot in a Burlington car by a tramp. He died twelve hours after a 44 calibre bullet perforated his head. Suspect Oliver Merrifield, 20, has been captured. Other items note a Pleasant Dance at the Merry ranch, a wedding of James McKay to Anna Morley, an elocution recital in the Presbyterian church, a Y M I ball at Turner hall, a ladies wool suit sale, and Denver Overland Park Races tickets with round trips in June.
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