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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1902
Page
2
The Cheyenne Leader published by A. Slack is issued in Cheyenne Wyoming as a second class matter. The notice lists subscription rates for the Daily Leader at one year and marks the issue date as Tuesday March 18 1902.
Capitol Notes reports the Colorado St Louis Exposition Commission seeks Wyoming cooperation for an interstate irrigation exhibit at St Louis. The Wyoming fair commission discussed a Wheatland irrigation model for the state exhibit and invited Hon. J. M. Carey to April meetings. The aim is a creditable Wyoming presence at the event. A Honolulu daily piece describes a Kona wind sweeping streets, bending residents over as hats and parasols fly.
The Cheyenne wind record shows velocities reaching sixty five miles per hour with wider nationwide instances higher winds. Authorities note many US cities exceed Cheyenne’s speeds, while the notion of uniquely harsh Cheyenne winds is challenged by broader data.
About 200000 United States modistes form a plan to guard members against poor workers and incompetent assistants. Leading modistes in Chicago have begun steps toward creating such an organization to raise standards and regulate prices.
A Denver Post reader condemns covert attacks on Wyoming in its columns. The letter calls Polly Pry's recent pieces unfair to Wyoming, noting law and order prevail, and urges the paper to drop sensationalized vilification for readers in Wyoming and Colorado.
The United States court of appeals ruled against Thomas A Edison in favor of the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. It held Edison did not pioneer the moving picture machine or the film itself, noting earlier French inventors and patents. The decision allows Biograph to push film sales at lower prices, cutting Edison's monopoly.
A collection of aphorisms about effort, knowledge, charity, luck, and perception. It contrasts practical action with idle thinking and notes how great ideas can be dulled by small minds. It uses humor and common wisdom to reflect on human behavior.
A narrator recalls quarreling lovers and gender views, then a southern preacher visits rural households. A poor sister challenges faith with daily hardship and a bill she prays to remove, only to find the bill remains and calls the Lord an everlasting fool.
In Yonkers a reader recalls a scene where a bonnet defined the moment as a seatmate’s hat looms large. A sigh, a cough, and a shy smile blend with the amused tension of a theater miscue. The hair under the bonnet draws more attention than the hat itself.
A garbled dialogue shows a wallice captain and his wife arguing about burglars and a revolver amid wartime tension. The exchange hints at fear and protection, with references to a fire and infection without clear context or names.
Special correspondence reports two brigadier general vacancies with more in two stars, as Roosevelt delays filling posts. A bill to retire two war veterans at next higher ranks looms, while calls grow to reshuffle senior officers and create a four-division supply department under a major general. General Wood is favored for the new transportation division post. others await retirement prompts. The piece notes broader implications for army leadership and policy shifts.
Notice states two stockholders meetings in Cheyenne Wyoming for Abbandwal Mining and Happy Thought Mining companies. Abbandwal plans April 17 1902 to consider selling to Boston Cleveland Mining and Milling. Happy Thought proposes April 26 1902 to increase capital from 100000 to 200000 dollars and to expand trustees from three to five. Books close April 23. Attest: Ritter and von Gonzenbach. The Leader ad copy follows.
The proclamation declares an epidemic of domestic animal diseases across Montana South Dakota Nebraska and Colorado and bans moving animals within Wyoming in 1903 except animals from those states entering with a health certificate issued by the Wyoming state veterinarian after inspection in Nebraska or Colorado. It is signed by Acting Governor F Chatterton at Cheyenne on March 4, 1902.
Office Quartermaster Denver announces bids for transportation of military supplies on Routes 1 7 3 4 5 6 7 8 and drayage at Denver Colorado for the fiscal year starting July 1 1902. Bids due March 31 1903 at 11 a m with right to reject any or all. information on application.
Notice announces the deferred annual meeting of The Anaconda Mining Company stockholders to be held at 10:00 a.m. March 22, 1902 in Cheyenne Wyoming. Stock transfer books close March 15 and reopen after adjournment. Registrar: International Trust Company Colorado Springs. ADOLPH J. ZANG, F. J. CAMPBELL, Secretaries.
Notice declares War Bonnet Livestock Company dissolved following a December 18 1001 stockholders meeting and a trustees resolution. Dated February 18 1003, Benj L Young serves as President and Homer Sweetser as Secretary.
A fragmented timetable lists multiple train names such as Werives Express and Pacific Express with arrival and departure times. Notes include No. 8, No. 6, Pacific and Atlantic Expresses, and departures around 1.04 pm, 2.10 pm, and late night arrivals. Also mentions Denver Pacific lines and Chebee coordinates.
A garbled railway timetable lists Cheyenne departures and arrivals for lines No. 154 and No. 153 with daily and Sunday exceptions. It mentions stock express runs, mail closings for West and East binds, and connections to Fort Russell Little Bear La Grange South Bend, with various unspecified times and routes.
Cheyenne Lodge No 1 4 H Masonic hall hosts meetings on the first and third Tuesdays each month with visitors examined a t 1 9 am.
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