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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1903
Page
3
Local paper details communication lines and staff credits for the Cheyenne Leader edition. Names listed include editor Pete A. B. Yeager and business manager George H. Evans with a focus on city reporting and telephone bureau.
Local notes report potential opera house ambitions in Cheyenne, evolving school board delays, aging ordinances, upcoming fishing trips, a surplus of express wagons, disappearing wild horses, a proposed July 4 impromptu gathering on the sandlots, militia support for Capt Lafontaine, and views of the federal building’s frame. Reports cover lake Minnehaha water levels, ice wagon routes, copper finds near Duck Creek, Roosevelt era encampment disorderly conduct, county board tax valuation sessions, and Wyoming weather with showers and warmer highs forecast.
Fragmentary text mentions no winner in a fight and a calm public mood. Phrases reference carpenters, a head and a life, with odd wording suggesting a local event or notice.
Former Cheyenne resident Thomas M Fisher, known as Tom Fisher, becomes chief of the Pacific emigration inspection bureau with headquarters in Seattle. A Grand Army man and former justice of the peace, he previously served as a Treasury special agent and Chinese immigration inspector. His promotion draws praise from Seattle papers and reflects a salary of over five thousand dollars yearly.
An unsigned appeal touts 1000 Laramie County town lots for sale urging investors to buy on a “song and a dance.” It argues future value will soar to 600 to 1000 dollars per acre, promising riches for buyers and their descendants if purchased now.
The Denver papers praise Mrs. Mary A. Seaboldt who is to wed State Treasurer Hay. She is known in Salt Lake City and Denver society scenes. She recently acknowledged engagement rumors and a wedding is reportedly set for next month.
The piece weighs Palmer’s multi day forecast and warns against trusting weather prophets too eagerly. It jokes about a prophet who claims to read yesterday’s weather but cannot predict tomorrow’s, suggesting skepticism toward forecasts from unreliable sources.
June reports note Nick Randell shot at Hanioa with little hope for recovery. M. F. McGrath killed. body to be shipped to Union Oregon. Coroner exonerates company over Seminole wreck. brakes released on a down hill collision. Engineer Larry Baker remains alive with fluctuating condition. transfer of an operator and hospital updates also recorded.
Seaman of the Chain Lightning claim on Duck Creek reports a copper glance and peacock copper in a sample sent to Wheatland World. Assays run $50 to $75 per ton with notable gold and silver values. shafts reach fifty feet, ore seen in a narrow surface streak. owners JL Laughlin and others back the project near water and Duck Creek Falls with transport routes to Union Pacific.
WANTED 1000 families to have old furniture repaired and car parts cleaned by Sam Mandel at 1606 Eddy Street. WANTED laborers quarry men and hammer men for the Cheyenne dam site six miles northwest of Cheyenne. Wages range from 225 to 276 dollars per day with board and bed offered. no time chords and no discounts. Gaffy and Kove advertise nearby jobs and services.
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