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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1902
Page
4
The snippet shows a March 18 1902 issue with long distance office telephone house telephone and editors names including FE A Slack and Robert Mickel with George H Evans as reporter. It lists manager Jens proprietor and city editor roles.
Mrs McKeen's Constance not yet on sale in Cheyenne. Judge Hayford of Laramie ill but improving. Joe Cahill raffling a fencing girl picture. Shoshone Wolf dance at reservation. Mrs K G Turner returned from Chicago trip. Laramie mills run night and day with full crew. New stone sidewalk around Dr G P Johnston residence on Ferguson. Mrs Frederick Neil aon to Rawlins to preach next week. New coal mine opened in Buffalo Basin eight miles south of Fenton. Charlee Randall moving to Lead City SD. William Rowe of Thayne granted 12 monthly pension. Mexican War veteran. Thirteenth artillery baseball team challenges amateurs in Intermountain. Diamond thieves and detectives visit capitol. W E Brooks of Cheyenne on business in Laramie. Dan Weller oil well near Meech eotee down 415 feet. drilling continues. Cooperative school governance adopted at Laramie. Pupils sponsor for class behavior. honor system. Mahoney Brothers dinkey engine being repaired for Lookout work on new cut-off. Narrow gauge tracks planned to ease work. Jelm district reports hunters slaughtering game against state law. investigation and possible arrests.
P Arnold from Laramie Lara mie visitor. N E Corthell from Laramie. Mrs Dan Rice returns from western trip. Louis Manewal departs for Missouri. Mrs Harlan T Marsh leaves for Ogden to join husband. Mrs Charles Manewal and sister home from Laramie. State Auditor Grant returns from mines near R P Teele irrigation expert heads to Washington to set up office with Prof Mead. Mrs Teele accompanies him. M E Mulvey past exalted ruler of Salt Lake Elks and carnival committee member visits the city.
An engine failure delayed the Northern train due last night, arriving at 7 20 this morning. A second northbound train left a few minutes late and a relief engine from Cheyenne was sent to Wheatland to assist and bring in the delayed train.
A dull humorless notice warns residents not to dress up for a poverty social at the Presbyterian church Thursday night with a fine for those who arrive in old clothes.
Mr. Peterson will perform a violin solo at the Baptist church on Thursday evening. The program includes other fine musical numbers and starts promptly at 8 o'clock.
Poignant poverty fundraising event titled Poverty! Poverty! Pehaw aims to aid the needy. The Poverty Souhul organization pledges low-cost clothing and pennies for participation. Presbyterian church hosts the gathering on March 13 at 7 30.
Mrs. Reed saved her two year old Edna when a runaway horse and city market wagon charged toward their East Eleventh Street home. The mother suffered severe bruises and possible internal injuries while the baby escaped with a deep temple gash. the horse and wagon were later halted after striking the porch.
Union Pacific officials finalize plans for a new employees club house at Cheyenne with a $60,000 price tag. The company will issue bids soon and begin work once materials are secured, the Omaha correspondent reports.
Charles Savage and wife were arrested off Montreal while boarding a London-bound vessel in connection with a Portland Ore diamond heist totaling 75000 dollars and 9000 in cash. Pinkertons John Mangus and Joe Day led the capture. Many jewels traced to the couple across Omaha Council Bluffs and Wichita.
The three year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Mickel died at their East Nineteenth Street home from membranous croup shortly after midnight after a three day illness. The family, with the boy’s remains, traveled to Lincoln, Nebraska, for burial beside a younger brother. The father is a job printer at the Leader office and the loss is described as deeply painful.
Fish Commissioner Campbell notified in Laramie that 100000 grayling trout eggs at Bozeman Montana hatchery for Wyoming cannot be stored in the state due to their nature and were declined.
Late yesterday a special train carrying a battalion of the Twenty second Infantry en route home from the Philippines passed through the city.
Custer Post No 1 G A R of Lar amie endorses Col. O A Hamilton of Rock Springs for United States marshal in the Wyoming district court.
The Laramie cement works will be enlarged to raise monthly output from 1500 to 2000 tons about 100 carloads. An eighty foot storage building will be erected and about two miles of sidetrack constructed.
Samuel Hodge 19 was brought to Denver by his father G F Dodge after spending a night in Cheyenne city jail for running away from home. He studied at Colorado School of Mines Golden and failed, then briefly worked on the J C Coble ranch at Bosler before being arrested and returned home.
A crew of laborers moved through town last night heading west to join Mahoney Brothers grading camp at Lookout. Among them was Michael Cassidy, once with the 1867 Union Pacific construction gangs.
State notes report $5500 filing costs for corporate articles when capital stock is $1,000,000. Grant returns from Laramie. land segregation work in Big Horn and Uinta counties continues. McKinley monument fund gains $2. Philippine medals delivered. Governor's Guards count 47 members as a rifle club forms unofficially with named members. Penitentiary work proceeds with convicts. several new incorporations filed in Denver and Port Colina. Duet shootout among Governor's Guards ends with Mewes, Buck, Ganberg scoring high. Superintendent Merc and Higgins arrive from the south for inspection work with Master Mechanic McMees.
Charles Mans a Laramie tavern keeper and Herman Schultz a Chicago arrival were found insane by juries in Rawlins Wyoming. They will be committed to the state asylum at Evanston. Mans recently attempted self harm by slashing both wrists on the street. Schultz had shown recurring insanity symptoms after arrival.
Leroy Grant state auditor ranks among the state's richest men. An assayer in New Jersey tested ore from Grant's mine in the Douglas district and found it would yield 3 percent platinum, valuing it at 17 000 dollars a ton. The ore actually runs three Troy ounces per ton, making it valuable but far from the platinum percentage estimate.
Father Hugh Commisky of Lara mie arrives from the west to recuperate in Denver as Father Delahanty of Cheyenne assumes charge of the diocese during his absence.
Union Pacific brakeman Harlan T Marah has been transferred to Ogden. His wife left on Monday to join him there.
Three years ago Cheyenne residents discussed weekly lectures on American history in advanced school departments. The proposal was rejected due to lack of funds from district voters. The Leader urges consideration before the annual meeting so the school board can be authorized and funded if the plan is deemed desirable.
George Van Dance and Clyde Wallis of Laramie are sent to Golden Colorado reform school as incorrigibles. Mrs. Charles Griffin will address a Cheyenne audience about a frat affair at the Baptist church musical Thursday evening.
Advertisement notes new colorings in ladies silk waist patterns with prices starting at four dollars. It highlights the latest style for ladies apparel in current fashion colorways.
Mrs. Helen Jenkins sues the city for 10000 damages alleging a defective sidewalk on Thames Street between Seventeenth and Eighteenth Streets caused a fall that injured her ankle rib fractures and left her permanently disabled. The petition cites city negligence and prior notices in 1900 urging repair.
A warrant issued in Laramie by J. D. Allen, a local resident, seeks the arrest of William Kusson a sheep herder accused of threatening Allen’s life.
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