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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1902
Page
3
A local shop urges readers to buy a camera, calling photography the finest kind of sport. It highlights baby pictures and picnic snapshots, claiming many enjoyable uses for little cost and invites customers to visit and talk over options.
Listing shows B A Slack as editor and proprietor with Robert Mickel as business manager and Gheorghe H Evans as city editor.
City council will hold its regular session this evening. Many local groups schedule meetings and events including W R C gatherings, church services in Rawlins, and a Cheyenne Railway club proceedings notes. Industrial and social items span Burlington survey work to Sunrise mines case at Supreme Court.
The arrival of Leonora Jackson and her company on April 4 promises a delightful musical event. Jackson has won the Berlin state prize and earned honors from Queen Victoria and European dignitaries, with a career touring Europe alongside Patt, Paderwenkl, Melba and others. In the U.S. she has performed hundreds of concerts under prominent musical auspices and will tour Cheyenne with strong tenor and piano support this year, attracting a grand house worthy of the city.
Deputy Sheriff Quy arrested a man for forging two checks drawn on George Place and Gordon H. Harvey Hood. Checks for thirteen elk were involved in transit from Jackson to Lock Haven, with Paterson of Jackson in charge.
Erin go bragh events mark St Patrick's Day with three social successes. Women's Relief Corps masque at Turner hall drew 160 couples for Old Soldiers' Home fund. prizes honored Marie Collins, D Brierley, and a German migrant. Elks session featured music and speeches for choir funds. St John's hall hosted a St Patrick talk and violin solos for St Mary's choir.
The 1878 Union Pacific Express No 5 robbery attempt near Medicing Bow Station led to a pursuit to Elk Mountain where robbers were killed. Thomas Widdowfield and Edward Vincent died in the gunfight. Each anniversary Mrs Widdowfield rebuilt the robbers camp fire on the grave site.
Union Pacific will begin Cumberland No 3 in the Cumberland mining district within a county where two mines already operate. Contracts are let for miners and stores and offices will be built. Work starts early next month with Cumberland predicted to become the largest camp in the state within two years.
State Superintendent Tynan reports readjusted library book placement and notes Wyoming concerns from the national convention. No applications on Woodard as court deadlines loom, while the state supreme court resumes with possible major decisions. Incorp filings include Colorado Oil Land and Mines and a Thermopolis bank dissolution. Leader subscribers hear of East origin goods change.
Classified notices seek help in housekeeping barbering room and board housing and carpentry with several listings. Addresses include 212 East Eighteenth Street Rawline Wye Post Office Box 205 and Moler’s Barber College Omaha Nebraska offering training and a spring position.
FOR SALE One half block of choice lots fronting on sewer and water main. H. B. Patten. FOR SALE Iron Bed and Stove at 107 East Eighteenth street. FOR SALE Four lots in good location. Inquire at this office. Three lots on Twelfth street near Thames. Inquire of Albert Chapman real estate agent. Cut flowers Mrs. Glafcke phone 546 Real Estate for Sale. Eight residence lots well situated in east part of town Maxwell and Twenty-first and Twenty-second street. Inquire of Albert Chapman real estate agent.
Classified notices include furnished houses and rooms for rent at multiple addresses 20158 Maxwell street 210 West 18th street 411 East Twelfth street and a reward offer for a lost pocket book and card case. Also a floral design notice at Chaffin's greenhouse and a federation convention to meet in Los Angeles in May with Cheyenne rate of 40 dollars.
Mr. Wille Williams of New York paid $160 000 for a quarter section owned by Jager Oil in Evanston County. The Jager company, based in Chicago, signals it will not accept less than 3 000 per acre and won’t sell more than half of its holdings. Williams heads to Chicago to pursue oil prospects in the Uinta fields.
James Fitzsimmons was arrested on Wednesday in Evanston on the complaint of George and Joe Acocks. He was intoxicated and accusatory toward the Acocks brothers, but after a judge urged an apology he refused and was discharged.
A brief autos ad touts Monarch Regal Special and Worlf American high grade wheel makes plus several other wheel stock. Priced from $18 to $50. Call to examine stock.
The Evanston Lumber Co ordered a 2500 gallon water tank and shipped two cars of lumber to oil fields this week. J J Hardin of Jager Oil Co, Chicago, is in town with machinery largely staged at Spring Valley. A peasants tale from the Chicago Record-Herald ends with a humorous exchange between Emperor Francis Joseph and a Persian Shah imposter.
A Philadelphia Record item recalls Low Derlacher recounting a Sherlock Holmes like chase. He notes spotting Lew Bailey on a streetcar after a diamond winked in the car behind, revealing the boxer's location through deduction.
A Chicago Tribune fragment presents a mock dialogue about biblical miracles. The exchange probes literal versus figurative readings of scripture with humorous banter about hanging hides on a barn door and flatly questioning beliefs.
A garbled Rash of dialogue mocks a clock and a tailor in a playful exchange. Mashington questions the time while the tailor insists there is no clock to wind. The quip highlights a humorous misunderstanding about timekeeping.
The Cheyenne store advertises unbeatable value with factory freight paid and terms rivaled only in the East. It guarantees the deal, promising solid protection. customers can verify at any bank. Located at 211 West Sixteenth Street.
A brief notice lists several cities including Mexico City Monterey Guadalajara Havana Cuba and Nassau indicating a travel or shipping related route or itinerary may be referenced in the clipping.
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