Cheyenne Industrial club targets street railway and roads
The Cheyenne Industrial club set plans for a street railway study and sought promoters while urging state cooperation on road improvements from Cheyenne to Denver. A committee will gather statistics and contact potential promoters, with resolutions backing a Burlington mail service link and road upgrades.
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Burlington Mail
Burlington Railroad
Sterling
Colo
Cheyenne
Post Office Department
Wyoming
Congress
Dyer
Burlington
Denver
Laramie County
Cheyenne-Denver
Colorado Line
Jealous Woman Reveals Fivefold Oklahoma City Murder
Oklahoma City officers say Fannie Ritchie and Harry McQueen confessed to a five death plot from last August. The woman claims McQueen murdered a Stranger in Anne Bailey’s resort. robbery was the motive. A plan to drug three women and an in-house killer failed as a fire and blood stains followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Okla
Fannie Ritchie
Harry McQueen
Denelson
Tex
McQueen
Anne Bailey
Poisoned Candy Case Opens in Kansas City Court
The trial of Mrs. Sarah Moranch, 40, began in Kansas City district court accused of murdering 4 year old Ruth Miller. The child died from poisoned candy meant for her 14 year old stepsister Ella Van Meter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Sarah Moranch
Ruth Miller
Kan
Ella van Meter
Duseris
Mre. Morasch
New Frontier Park to Be Built in Cheyenne for Public Use
Cheyenne is moving forward with the New Frontier Park project funded by the industrial club and Frontier Day committee. About 12,000 will be spent on a 4,000 seat grandstand and a half mile race track, with city lease and joint supervision to ensure park transfer after debts are paid. Plans include improved roads to Cheyenne and a potential military tournament to boost Frontier Day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. C. Deming
C. T. Johnston
8. E. Bartlett
J. M. Carey
C. E. Cotton
Cheyenne
Crow Creek
Granite Springs
Industrial Club
Fred Warren
Tim Williams
Cheyenne Industrial Club
Frontier Day Committee
Greater
Frontier Park
Vance
City
Carey
Onger
War Department
Park Committee
J. F. Jenkins
Colorado Line
Silver mine discovery plans town mining boom in Cheyenne
Prospect James Thompson reports a West Cheyenne find with galena ore showing high metal content. Western Metallurgical tests on ore from a well near Union Pacific yards indicate potential value around 76.47 dollars per ton, spurring lease agreements and development plans led by Thompson and Dr. Sweatt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheyenne
Fort Russell Ia
James Thompson
West Cheyenne
Thompson
3. H. Sweatt
Denver
Western Metallurgical Company
West
WWE
Union Pacific Stock Yards
Sweatt
Tho
Pi Thompson-Bweatt
McKee Denies McKee Div of Wife in Paris Hearing
A. Hart McKee, Pittsburgh financier, in a Paris divorce trial denies his wife’s charges of infidelity and cruelty. Lawyer Labori seeks a legal separation and child custody while attacking Mrs McKee as deceitful. Evidence includes letters and telegrams, plus mentions of a past affair with a marquis and a meeting with Lord Roslyn at Folkestone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
A. Hart McKee
McKee
Labori
New York
Clarice
Lydia Sutton
Pittsburg
M. Labor
Cornelia
Hart
Cheyenne Film Impresses, Gars Progress in Race Updates
Special reports from multiple cities recounts on March 18 that the Cheyenne made American car film shown at a reception in Denver to Matthewson drawing acclaim. Buckwalter calls it best yet.
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Denver
Colo
Cheyenne
Matthewson
Buckwalter
Ely
New York
Paris
Goldfield
Omaha
Neb
Fremont
Columbus
Grand Island
Carroll, To
San Francisco
Ita
Cheyenne Era of Lead Deposits and Early Mining
The passage recalls early Cheyenne mining excitement in the Silver Crown district west of the city. It notes Missouri type lead deposits in limestone, and twenty five years ago discovery of galena ore carrying silver sparked development led by Mayor J. L. Murray, P. Cook, and other Old-timers, amid the lack of a formal system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
Cheyenne
Silver Crown District
J. L. Murray
P. Cook
Silver Crown Excitement Faltered in Low Grade Ore Venture
A historical note recalls a period of Silver Crown enthusiasm that produced little tangible result as developers pursued low grade silver ore projects with no lasting payoff or success.
St Patrick's Dance Draws Large Crowd in Ploe Bluffs
In Ploe Bluffs Wyoming on March 18 a St Patrick’s anniversary dance drew about thirty couples on the floor with around forty people in attendance, marking one of the town’s most successful events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Patrick's
Ploe Bluffs
Wyo
Tham
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Andi Ng
Albany
Post Office
House
Senate
Denver Chamber of Commerce
Denver Real Estate Exchange
Colorado Automobile Association
Colorado Good Roads Association
Trustees of Greeley and Ault
G. A. Strader
Civic Improvement Committee
Harry P. Hvnds
An- Associates
Capitol Avenue
Leader
Destoy
Lillian Hays
Vergle
Wallace
Radie Ward
Walter Ward
M'Kee
Gars
Granger, Wyo
Granger
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