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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1901
Page
4
The Cheyenne Leader lists Felaphone long distance No. 93 Ti with editor and proprietor A Slack and business manager K W de Belle along with George H Evans as city editor.
The Sherman gravel at the depot is being well mixed with rice. Three dances are scheduled for the three remaining nights of this week. Yesterday was pay day and the streets presented a busy scene last night. Many people admire the fresco work in the corridors of the state building. A Parisian phrenologist and wife are in the city and will stay awhile. Telegraph poles west of the city are being painted white. Work has begun on the buildings for the Elks street fair in Laramie. In the future today may be an important one in irrigation history. A large asphaltum deposit near Rawlins valued at 90 dollars a ton has been discovered. The Union Pacific park at the depot draws many tourists. The Laramie city council ordered 1,200 feet of new hose for fire companies. Many complain of feeling ill in the strong weather. Y M I dances next. R B E McCormick A R Whitely and Raleigh Pollard return from a fishing trip to the Middle Crow. An open meeting of the McKinley club is set for Wednesday June 26. Mrs Minnie Peckham returns to Rawlins with two Cheyenne girls to work in the steam laundry. Additional shares in the building association have been subscribed and 1,000 shares expected tomorrow. John Brownlee, formerly a railroad man not Laramie, is named round house foreman at Ogden for Union Pacific and Short Line engine repairs.
The board of trustees at Laramie decided to build a central heating plant to serve all university buildings. Bids are due July 22 with another board meeting to award the contract. Estimated cost ranges from seven to eleven thousand dollars. Salaries for all faculty will rise by one hundred dollars annually. three staff are excluded: Prof. McClelland, Miss Morey, and Miss Calhoun.
Three soldiers captured after desertion from Fort Russell were sent south to Port Logan and sentenced to two years in prison. They will serve near Denver after the western discharge.
Congressmen and state engineers gather in Cheyenne to draft national irrigation aid bills for the arid west. Five western state engineers attend with plans for reclaiming arid lands, with joint talks tonight to align Congress actions and secure western support.
William McCarthy and Luther Guyett fled the guardhouse at Fort Russell last night. They pried the door and escaped while the guard was away, with no trace found yet. Guyett faced a three month sentence and McCarthy had five days remaining. Efforts to recapture are underway.
The trustees of the Superior Oil company met today in the city and elected officers for the coming year. New York's M. A. DeWitt and H. W. Wheeler attended. The firm, operating near Douglas, plans to sink more wells with the first to reach 1500 feet. Bill Barrow and his wife arrived from Douglas and proceeded to Laramie for Miss Helen Barrow’s graduation from the State University. Daniel McDonald of the Western Federation of Union will speak tonight at Union Hall to Painters Union members and interested union labor advocates.
A party of Nebraska home seekers excursionists will return tonight from the lands of the Wyoming Development Company and proceed eastward along the Northern route.
William Flood of Omaha married Brid get Purcell of Omaha this morning at seven oclock in the Catholic church. Rev Father Bryant performed the ceremony with N J Frenzer as groomsman. A wedding breakfast followed at the Frenzer home on Eighteenth and Capitol. The couple will depart this afternoon for Omaha to reside. Flood works as an engineer on the Union Pacific line between Omaha and Grand Island.
The Warren Live Stock company runs three steam shearing plants with a large crew under Manager Gleason to shear about 60,000 head of sheep this week, marking one of the season’s last big outlets. A new secret society, Societo Italo Americano Di Mutuo Succorso Christofori Colombo, is filed with no capital stock. Anglo-Saxon Gold Mining Milling and Tunnel Co files a fully paid stock certificate with 25,000 capital. Mrs. Henrietta George is arrested in Laramie for threatening to kill Mrs. Hisenbiess. L. E. Burnett is transferred from Union Pacific to the Laramie office. Furnished rooms sought for light housekeeping. Ladies' French heel opera slippers offered at 9.50 a pair.
Cheyenne adopts new uniform rule as all city mail carriers may wear shirt waists in uniform color. James Gross first to wear the drab light material outfit, praised by onlookers while heavy suits remain unused amid chilly weather.
An agent for the Burlington Railroad filed thirty two coal land entries in Carbon county near the Platte river north of Rawlins at the United States land office in Cheyenne. Despite repeated denials of westward expansion, filings continue with many acres located and registered in the area amid ongoing activity.
Deputy Sheriff Golden left Cheyenne for Sidney after a telegram reported W. H. Mason captured there for obtaining board under false pretenses and larceny. Mason, who fled from the Vendome hotel Tuesday night, will be returned tomorrow morning.
City editors and residents report a flood of visitors and moves from Denver to Rawlins and Laramie. Notables include Dr Lillian Heath and Governor Richards, with new appointments like Dr H S Finney as assistant Union Pacific physician at Rawlins.
A Wyoming Development Company representative says within the next year at least three hundred families will gain homes in the Platte valley country. The Lookout reservoir project in Albany County will reclaim thousands of acres formerly grazing land. Excursions from Nebraska are already bringing home seekers to the valley, extending from the Union Pacific line northeast to Wheatland.
Ecker who shot Deputy Holden is being taken to Evanston via Green River to avoid Big Piney and Opal. Captors J M Vandevert and Ira Dodge head north from Horse Creek with the prisoner. Reardon remains in critical condition after Holden's death. Holden buried at Fontenelle. Lieut West Point graduate Guy Kent en route to Manila.
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