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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1908
Page
8
Cheyenne Wyoming daily leader notes editor entry as second class matter under 1879 act. Shows subscription rates for daily and three month periods with annual pricing.
A collection of brief editorial quips and political asides from early 20th century newspapers. Notes include warnings about tainted finances in Portugal, taft era politics with Yale and Harvard, shifts in wartime cabinet appointments, and social gossip about Lillian Russell. Also references to a New York judge ruling on property attachment and Roosevelt’s stance on troop use. Mentions discussions within the Republican campaign and a July 1 adjournment by the national committee sub committee.
City improvement chairman J F Jenkins leads crews to build and smooth wide driveways connecting the upper lakes with Frontier park. County authorities grade and adjust the system as residents tour the route, praising the civic effort and urging public support.
A Lander Mountain er letter attacks Cheyenne Tribune claims on water rights. It argues the state grants water to settlers but the Wyoming Central Irrigation Company controls delivery via ditches and land under irrigation thresholds, condemning the contract as graft.
The Riverton News reports Judge Carpenter sided with Wyoming Central Irrigation last week. Work on the large canal should start in about ninety days after preliminary steps and factory delivery, with a smaller initial ditch to reach fifteen miles by next spring for nearby settlers to plant crops.
Senator Knox recalls a Kansas delegation visiting Oyster Bay. Roosevelt, coat off and brow mopped, jokes about hay and a barn talk. He invites the group to the barn while he works, asking John for hay supposedly moved since yesterday’s delegation. The tale ends with the crowd amused at the president’s rustic humor.
The Rawkina Journal notes Taft Sherman and Roosevelt share a rare stance on American forest reserves. It argues reserves would halt western settlement and displace settlers, while only Democrats offer relief this year as many Republicans threaten to vote against Taft.
A compact column features humorous lines from Baltimore American Cleveland Leader Philadelphia Presa Philadelphia Record Punch Puck and Kansas City Journal. Jests cover soldiers wives gifts mail shopping and witty barbers and hotel quips.
A Chicago News poem imitates a voter torn between candidates and party lines. The speaker insists he will vote for Bill, though unsure which candidate is best, highlighting Prohibition era political uncertainty and public imagery of a visible leader.
A collage of brief items references June vacation humor Oyster Bay Cincinnati and Kaw in China. It notes a Washington registration Jack Frost Culpepper Persian shah commentary and a Boston optician inventing a panorama lens for night viewing on a porch. The tone is humorous and ribald.
New Britain Conn June 29 Word received here states the supreme court of Mexico has decided that Wm F Walker the absconding treasurer of the Savings bank of New Britain Conn should be turned over to U S authorities.
Albany June 26 Albert B Hoyt editor of the Argus received a cablegram from former Governor David B Hill denying an alleged political interview on the day he called for Europe The cablegram says Hill did not refer to Governor Johnson as the poorhouse candidate.
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