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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1902
Page
4
The fragment lists the newspaper staff including editor proprietor A Slack, business manager Robert Mickel, and city editor George H Evans. It appears as the masthead of a local paper with no event details or dates provided.
Numerous Cheyenne items span society and sports notes from Feb 29. Bowling teams head for Denver while local marriages, obituaries, and public events fill the week. Copper vein finds and execution plans figure among sensational notes.
Daniel Densley sues Union Pacific in Salt Lake courts for 7176 damages claiming a delay of a sheep shipment from Bitter Creek Wyoming to Omaha caused the loss. Also reports fines for Till Ashford in a city assault case and Epworth League social at Mr O C Goodale’s home.
The Ladies' Auxiliary of the B. of K. T. holds a raffle of an embroidered center piece to raise funds for a charitable cause. Drawing follows the Auxiliary dance next Tuesday night at Waltuite Bees, Sixteenth at Opp. Idiomas Don't mim Hacringtos's shirt this week.
A Nebraska ranchman in the city explains that western Nebraska cattle shipped to Omaha are driven to Pine Bluffs Wyoming and sold as Wyoming stock. He notes higher net price by about one cent per hundred due to Wyoming reputation despite higher transport costs.
Col B A Back buys Lot block 200 at seventeenth and Capitol from Fannie Converse for 10000. Negotiations pending for Louis Jabelman saloon building on Ferguson Street with 10900 expected. Union Pacific sells lots 1 and 7 block 334 at Nineteenth and Bent for 1260. Louis Rasmussen sells west half of lot 6 book 228 for 200 to Thomas D Whipple.
Prof Elwood Mead head of the irrigation office of the agriculture department arrived in the city this morning en route to California. He will spend about two days here and says his bureau’s work is in good shape. He expects a generous appropriation from Congress this session for irrigation investigations.
The Cas per Tribune notes Woodard prepares to meet his God and may request time on the gallows to deliver a sensational statement. He faces execution with calmness, awaiting a priest visit before his death. Also mentioned is engraving of the Trowel used in laying the corner stone of the Masonic temple by Mc Kinley.
The Rocky Mountain Synod of the Lutheran church will hold a regional gathering in Lar amie from April 16 to 23 with all pastors from the inter mountain region attending.
A Washington dispatch reports the secretary of the interior approved plans and signed the order to fund a full water and sewerage system at Fort Mackenzie Wyoming. The post’s water supply question had been under department consideration for months and held pending the army board’s ruling on permanency.
This afternoon the remains of Will Long, who died Thursday at the county hospital, were shipped east to Aldeo for interment. A brother accompanied the funeral train.
William Baille, a rolling mill employee, is jailed in Lara mie after his wife accuses him of threatening to kill her and then commit suicide. The arrest follows the alleged threats and suicide intent.
George H. Corse reports Ogden real estate up 20 percent in two weeks due to Union Pacific decision to build the Ogden-Lucin cutoff. Funeral held for Mrs Sophia Nelson at Longhurst parlors with Rev Bickhart officiating. Mrs Nelson leaves husband Nels and four children. Cheyenne railroad club to meet Monday as H B Sutton to discuss Use of Air in Train Service. Laramie students to present a French play next semester.
Union Pacific officials decide work will begin mid April on a Cheyenne club house for employees. The facility will include a natatorium a large library reading rooms a gym and four billiard tables. Top floor sleeping rooms for 25 to 35 railroad men provide first class accommodations at nominal prices.
The bowling group including J Schmitt, Schmitt, John McVivan, Lem Ellis and T B Kennedy heads to Denver to face the Centennials whom they beat in Cheyenne. Charles Buechner joins as substitute and a Ladies Auxiliary dance is announced.
K. B. Jones, formerly with EK Johnston, will open a stockery store in the vacated Torums Dry Goods space on Perens street. A Good Production noted that Nathan Hale’s nighttime performance was of high class, though attendance was not as large as the play.
Attendance details appear garbled but suggest a social event titled a masque ball at a Saint Patrick’s venue. Names such as Nagel and Harries surface in unclear text, with references to week timing and attendees, typical of a community notices page.
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