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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1900
Page
4
The Cheyenne Leader dated Thursday June 21 1900 marks editor E A Slack owner and notes staff including H A Clarer business manager and A Richardson city editor.
Local items include Coronel Baird’s July departure to Honolulu and a call for home duties at 2220 Capital Ave. Big bass catches in Sloan’s Lake and recent sports chatter mix with concert hype at Turner Hall. Reports mention a mutilated body near Bitter Creek and a Cheyenne business suit over hotel advertising ink.
Andy Clark from Denver visits his son Harry at St Luke's hospital. Harry underwent a severe operation this week. Physicians expect early recovery and say he is progressing as well as can be expected. Mrs Clark is at his bedside.
Mrs Naomi Doherty formerly Miss Ramsey and well known in Cheyenne will marry Mr Amos RK Jennings this evening at the Apperaun home. Jennings leads the circulation department at the Denver News.
Wyoming Attorney General J A Van Orsdel clarifies that one original duplicate of the incorporation certificate must be kept permanently by the Secretary of State with county clerks recording copies only to align with the statute. The ruling ends the practice of storing duplicates in county offices, reducing clerks’ filing burdens and expense for multi county corporations.
The Tribune reports iMitkhe McCoy a thirty year contracting veteran and Utinker, father of an invention to ease track laying. His bridge device replaces spiking and offers quick rail positioning, now in use out west with eastern manufacturers showing strong interest and offers.
Judge Martin heard the case of Mrs Werlaufer versus Mrs Mackley in the morning. Attorneys Barry and Billots represented Werlaufer who seeks 35 for professional services. Mackley says the contract was cure or no pay and that no cure was effected. Case taken under advisement until Saturday.
The Colorados, one of Colorado’s strongest clubs, will host India in Saturday and Sunday afternoon games. Admission notes show popular prices with ladies admitted free Saturday after 1 PM.
An old advertisement notes new unlaundered soft bosom shirts with two collars and cuffs for 696 and a Don’s Removal Sale offer. Ladies’ bummer corsets priced 22c by WM, Myers & Co.
A year after a moonlit fire was put out by Cheyenne lovers a second incident occurred when a buggy horse reared as two riders approached. One young man leapt for the reins to prevent an overturn while city ordinance prohibits buggy racing on streets.
Local forecast for Cheyenne and vicinity calls for fall and continued warmth tonight and Friday. Below normal pressure dominates the central and western states headed by the central and upper Mississippi Valley. Temperatures this morning rise 5 to 16 degrees above normal, with Grand Junction Colorado hitting 100 degrees yesterday. Showers fell in Iowa and parts of Minnesota, 24 hours ending eight a.m. The state law on medicine excludes itinerant opticians unless compliant. traveling firms may be summoned. Messrs Moses Brier H Street er and Pusey of New York Stratton Pa and Philadelphia in conference over a secret range near Douglas Wyoming.
The Golden Rule Store announces a closing out sale offering 750 all silk foulards and changeable taf. fat as and best quality china silk at 476 The Yard.
The St Marys Catholic ladies hosted a Turners hall evening to support their silver service fund. An attendance rich program included a solo by Miss Lille Apgar whose sweet voice impressed guests. Admission was 25 cents and the event netted over $100 after expenses.
Emerson McCarty of Luton Town rode from the east via Nebraska toward Montana. Fatigued after three days on roads grown rivers by heavy rain, he reached Cheyenne exhausted but determined to find Yellowstone Park routes. He plans to continue daily progress toward his brother’s home.
Local youths swimming above Sloan's bring a four rattle snake to town. They offer to display it at the Leader of Age, but organizers decline. The reptile may move to the Tribune. Three Cheyenne gentlemen report a promising yard prospect in northwest Cheyenne. Rock samples have been sent to Denver with details expected in a few days.
Mr M P Keefe has leased the Cheyenne brick yard and will begin building several houses at once. It is understood that all the houses have been applied for in advance with space for fifty more if available. Cheyenne park is visited by scores during hot days with trees providing shade and children reading or napping on the grass.
Tony Folley, a Wilkinson sheep herder, killed a large gray wolf this morning about three miles east of Cheyenne. Trainmen have frequently reported sighting this same wolf in the area.
The Woodard hosts ninety five guests at dinner while builders boom and carpenters rise. Copper work shows good ore in Doyle’s mine and Anaconda progress. no Denver ore car update. An outside firm buys copper claims for twelve thousand dollars as census doubts rise in Atlanta about enumeration speed and scope.
A comic exchange in Indianapolis Sun notes a bachelor’s joke about marriage for a woman to sew, a bookkeeper, and a breach of promise claim. The scene shifts to boxing news from New York June 21: a ten round bout planned between McGovern and Frank Hiroe for the lightweight title at 128 pounds with a winner take all purse.
Two men are detained on a robbery charge after an alleged hold up at a local resort. The complainant claims they stole $12. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for tomorrow.
Paris June 21 Colonel Picquart, the French officer who sacrificed his career over the Dreyfus affair, has been awarded 100000 francs damages for articles published during the Dreyfus agitation in the Echo de Paris.
Rev. White joined L. A. Rust of Denver and Miss Rena Wolfesberger in marriage this morning. The couple departed for the south on the afternoon train.
Local ad announces will sell all wool ladies tailored suits at 495 dollars. The listing emphasizes full suit sets and immediate availability in a department store or shop setting. Demand appears focused on quality wool garments appealing to professional buyers.
An old advertisement lists a removal sale offering ladies' shoes and oxfords at a sec and dollar price, gents' shoes, youths' and men's shoes, children's shoes priced 250, with mention of He and Me.
Fragmentary note cites Jadica shoes priced at ec and 61 units. Mentions Dewatore 8 and BON'S SONS branding in a display or sales context. Outside details unclear due to garbled text.
Ad reads black hose priced at 7 cents per pair from WM. Myers & Co, promoting sale of children’s hosiery with bargain pricing.
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