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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1901
Page
4
The Che Cheyenne Leader lists editor J A Slack proprietor and long distance telephone number 93 with business manager K W De Belle and city editor George H Evans. The item announces the paper’s masthead and key staff roles.
Short items report chain gangs on city streets in Laramie and millinery sale at Mrs A J Hamilton. A cyclist sought a race, a stable addition is under construction, and a merry go round business earns tips. Trains 6 and 102 merged at Green River, golf club members study with a Denver pro, and McKinley club trustees meet tonight. Firehouse doors to slide, two men transported after mill accident, and altitudes affect passengers. Property delinquent tax sale notes few Rawlins properties, and funeral for Charles Johnson held. Large stock shipments pass through town, a boy injured falling from a train engine, and a Swedish North Star club picnic set for Sunday. Swan Oleson files intent to become US citizen.
A three day sale lists sugar at 16 pounds for 1 dollar in a 38 dollar order and various items like Silver Leaf soap, Santa Clara prunes, Gold Dust and Best Wheatland flour, picnic and boneless hams, Arbuckles coffee, seeded raisins, oat flakes, and medicated soap offerings. Wheeler & Goodale advertise as sole agents for California medicated healing soap at 811 West Seventeenth Street plus a ladies tailor made suit deal at 15.50 and WM Myers & Co promotions.
Western State engineers meet to plan action for irrigation aid and legal issues. Delegations from Nebraska Kansas Colorado Idaho Utah Wyoming and others prepare recommendations to Congress backed by experiments and investigations. A second congressional gathering will frame bills and a united western strategy for the coming session.
Six Pullman special trains from Ogden carried 470 freight agents to a market breakfast then headed to Denver. Interior agent J Jenkins and Major Brockenbrough went north to inspect Caspar oil lands. Sam Moor colored of Hanna faces first degree murder trial with Hanna crowd present. Denver pugilist James Ryan jailed for theft of a barber’s gold watch. fined $25. George Matthews named deputy sheriff horse inspector at Iron Mountain and nearby stations. Knoll, son of S L Smith, injured with a broken collar bone from a wagon fall. Laramie penitentiary reports 181 convicts the highest ever. Young Men's Institute ball set for June 20 at Turner hall. Ladies’ all wool new style suits offered by WM. Myers & Co.
Regular bi monthly meeting presided by Mayor Murray discusses delaying final passage of the Independent Telephone franchise to hear Rocky Mountain Bell's attorney. One bid for stone crossings from Louis Rasmussen at 50 per crossing accepted. Water main taps bids from Cook and Nash & Son reviewed. more bids requested. Street repairs planned with catalogues requested for a road machine. Saloons license on Sixteenth Street refused. Club rooms and gymnasium equipment for Young Men's Institute advancing. Convict Lansing discharged. State Superintendent Tynan addresses teachers in Albany county. Bride and groom search advertised for Elks fair. charity ball plans coordinated by Elks and Shriners committees. Y M C A ball at Tunner hall June 20. Women’s French heel slippers advertised.
A cluster of marriages reported in Cheyenne today includes James McKay and Anna Morley at St Marys-Miller-Talbot service, Tom Miller and Kate Tablet at Mill-R-Talbot home, and Ollie Hopkins wed W H Redd, with details of bridesmaids, best men, and plans for honeymoons and residences.
Sheriff Wyott of Greeley follows a clue to arrest rustler gang suspected in last Thursday night’s shooting at John Bradford near Pine Bluffs Wyoming. Bradford, with deep knowledge of local rustling history, lured into open by a burned barn. Neighbors heard Winchester shots as marauders fled north. Also reports Mrs Klinghammer, mother of H Buechner, suffered a paralytic stroke and is very low.
A switch engine number 1105 and a loaded hog car jumped the track on the siding between Union Pacific and Burlington lines about ten this morning. Experts traced the cause to rotten ties that allowed rails to spread, sending the engine deep into the ground. The wrecker was used and the equipment was not back on track until late afternoon. Charles Hirsig, polo pony trainer, returned from New York after selling trained ponies to eastern millionaires.
Judge Carey returned from Wheatland with Moritz Weinrich of the American Beet Sugar Co to inspect the Wyoming Development Co lands near Lookout reservoir. Weinrich praised surface conditions but noted sparse population as the main objection. No factory this year. a plant is hoped for next year on the company land.
County commissioners let a contract to the Bullen Bridge Co of Buffalo for a new Laramie River bridge at Fort Laramie. Bid 1225 dollars with several rivals including M Blodgett Kansas City and Midland Bridge Co Kansas City. Also notes mining talks and a Y M T ball event.
Dan Gill, agent for Miss Fannie Converse, sold the Converse residence at Warren avenue and Eighteenth Street to Harry P. Hynds for 14000. The two story Queen Anne mansion, with fine grounds and a large stone stable, reportedly cost 40000. Neighbors note it as one of the city’s most beautiful homes.
A roundup of local residents returning to Denver and city visits. Mrs. Masten arrives home this afternoon while George Nagle comes back from the south last night. Several others travel to Denver for weddings, university meetings, or to visit family.
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