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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1901
Page
4
Local newspaper masthead listing staff roles and publication details. June 25 1991 issue notes editor proprietor and staff positions including city editor business manager and long distance phone line.
Close to Laramie the Strong mine is shut down as county commissioners convene as a board of equalization. City merchants stock Fourth of July supplies while a reined contest between a man and a horse is canceled. Troop A may march into Colorado for training in the near future.
An insane woman, affected by altitude, caused trouble on a Union Pacific Wyoming division train. At Ogden she grew violent, at Rock Springs an on board surgeon took charge, and at Denver she asked to be killed. She later returned home to Kansas.
Prof Mead to be discharged from the hospital later this week as he recovers from illness. A Washington letter says he is improving rapidly and will leave the hospital soon with assistance from Prof Olwood Mead. Wedding Tomorrow at 9 AM Brown Hefferon nuptials set for morning ceremony. Improvements at depot offices completed enhancing appearance with fresh paint and varnish. Materials for new local round house ordered and to arrive soon before construction starts.
Delivers’ social event at A U W Hall drew a large, select crowd last night with Nagle’s Orchestra providing music. Dancing ran from 9 to 2 30, despite heat, as guests praised the entertainment and hoped for another such event. committees included Merril, Fisher, Fitzgerald, Mall, Reid, Bruner, Taylor, Wilkerson, Knight, Ohenstein, Dillman, Locks, McGarrity, Norton, Bray, and McCaffery.
The De liverymen's dance saw two young men denied entry for wearing shirt waists and told to wear coats. The incident marks Cheyenne's first public shirt waist showing and leaves the future of the style uncertain. Also reported is a Buffalo Bulletin note of seven elk killed on Powder River with only teeth taken, and suspects pursued by authorities.
William Major, manager of Copper-Gold Mining and Milling at Silver Crown, reports a four foot vein with five dollars in gold per ton improving with each shot. Ore bins are under construction and July shipping is planned. Three shifts will operate within a week as low grade ore is concentrated. Horace Adams builds a concentrator proving Silver Crown’s richness. Extension to Salt Lake is debated. Burlington surveyors are not supporting a Guernsey to Salt Lake extension. Lucille Rhodes and Elizabeth Hilliard plan summer visits. A dinner hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Hinckle included Miss Bradley, Miss Cameron, Bert La Fontaine and Douglas Cathers.
The Oregon Short Line places an accommodation train between Kemmerer and Cumberland coal mines and upgrades the Main Line toward Kemmerer with steel track. Mines No. 1 and 2 at Diamondville produce about 300 tons daily, feeding two westward trains. Cumberland receives modern mining facilities and over 200 coal cars daily, while Cumberland's mining camp battles smallpox with strict precautions.
Four corporations filed articles today with the secretary of state. United Gold and Copper Mining plans Fremont county operations with 15000 capital, incorporators Gilbert Fay Charles Splain and Hughes Wilkinson. Morning Star Copper Mining aims Saratoga properties in Carbon county with one million capitalization. Felipse Oil and Development will work in Uinta county oil fields with 10000 capital, incorporators are all Uint a county residents. Summit Ranch company to operate in Albany county with 20000 capital, incorporators Arthur G. Jones Mary A. Baker and Nellis S. Cortell.
Tomorrow promises a record number of marriages in Cheyenne with at least five ceremonies likely at high noon. The city editor will be away two weeks, with Henry Sweet acting as pencil pusher in the city department.
Government engineer H. W. King travels to Manila for laying out interior routes for military roads in the Philippine Islands. He will oversee other engineering work in the archipelago and is hosted by Clarence Johnston, a former classmate from Ann Arbor University.
J D Horisky brother of operator James Horisky was injured this morning on the freight platform while handling a heavy box of merchandise. The box struck and crushed his left foot breaking two toes.
James Discol, a violent man at his home near Lander, attempted to kill himself with a razor but survived after neighbors and Sheriff Stough, Deputy Axe, and ex-Marshal Boedeker intervened and brought him to a hospital in precarious condition. Also reported: A. F. Whitman sold a three fifths interest in the Mary McKinley mine to Woods Mining Co. for 15000 dollars. The Shriners and Wilks plan a ball game and parade in burlesque costumes to benefit the Woman's Hospital Aid Society. Green River oil excitement grows as claims rush in and samples are sent for analysis.
A newly completed instruction car from Omaha shops will depart by special train tomorrow for a nine month systemwide training tour. Led by Traveling Engineer Pat Stuck, it will visit division points for ten days to two weeks of examinations and practical theory for about 2,800 men involved in train movements.
Mrs Grace Edwards wife of C H Edwards Jr the Iron Mountain ranchman died at midnight after a week of illness from blood poisoning tied to the birth of twins. She leaves a husband three children and was daughter of Judge and Mrs J H Hayford of Laramie. Remains go to Laramie for interment tonight. Physicians gave no hope from the start.
A moving picture of train No 6 arriving at Cheyenne depot will be shown nationwide and at the Pan American exposition as an ad for the railroad. Also listed are a house work job opening at 1722 Warren Avenue and the Converse Cattle Company annual meeting set for July 11 1901 at 10 a m with trustees elected.
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