A Big Flood at the Hub
Local sale at the hub offers 760 underwear at 45 cents, urging quick attendance for first picks.
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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1902
Page
4
Local sale at the hub offers 760 underwear at 45 cents, urging quick attendance for first picks.
Judge J A Riner overruled demurrers in Wyoming Railway and Iron Company vs E S Hosmer Amanda S Hosmer and others. The case is referred to Special Master in Chancery Robert Morris to take testimony within ninety days. The Sunrise iron mines in northern Laramie county are involved, leased to Colorado Fuel and Iron and valued at about $2 to $2.5 million.
Dr. M. C. Barkwell of Fast Seventeenth Street became violently ill at 6 this morning with severe pain and signs of appendicitis. Ice treatment was given and the attack likely aborted. He is now resting with little pain and doctors believe he will improve rapidly without surgery.
H L Brenner the converted Jew plans to dedicate the Salvation Army barracks in the city Saturday night after arriving from New York. He will speak in Lar amie on his conversion experience while dressed as a Jewish rabbi. The Home Talent Lecture Course resumes March 24 with T Blake Kennedy on The Young Man s Heritage. Police pursue two boys who stole hay and later returned it. they will be tried for misdemeanor offenses.
Mr. M Cohn of Brockton arrives in the city yesterday. He is a shoemaker for the Cincinnati Shoe company and comes highly recommended as a first class craftsman. He has foreman experience with a major US shoe manufacturer and guarantees all work.
A gang of sixty five tie loaders left Rawlins today for Green River to load ties there for distribution over the system. The work of loading ties at Rawlins has been completed. Notice. Wait for the B of L F ball on Thursday May 1 at Turner Hall. Committee.
Two hobos fought on a moving passenger train near Cheyenne at fifty miles an hour. Tim Cullens suffered a deep gash across his cheek and a severed hand wound while John Morris had bruises. Morris said they argued over being called hobos before Cullens struck with a cudgel and Morris drew a knife. They fighters clung to the brake beam as the train rumbled. The men later sought medical aid in Cheyenne from Dr. J H Conway.
Plumbers and steam fitters on the new state penitentiary buildings in Rawlins have finished the job and will return to Cheyenne once Contractor P. S. Cook arrives to inspect. The contract, totaling about $3,000, covered all plumbing and steam fitting work, with only two Cheyenne steam fitters remaining. This marks near completion of the penitentiary construction.
Judge William G. Ewing former Supreme Court justice visits Cheyenne from Chicago to give a free lecture on Christian Science at the county courthouse. He is a member of the Christian Board of Lectureship of the First Church of Christ Scientist, Boston, touring the country to discuss his faith.
A heavy spring storm delivered at least eight inches in Laramie county with heavier snows in the mountains. Stockmen value the moisture at thousands of dollars locally, and similar falls are reported across the state including three feet in southern Albany county.
J. E. Kelley assistant general solicitor of Burlington and John B. Byler general livestock agent returned to Omaha last night after a business trip to Cheyenne.
Work will begin soon on a $16 000 improvement project in this city. Plans are drawn by Architect William DuBois for the Continental Oil company.
Judges J A Riner and J W Lacey of Cheyenne will preside over the Wyoming versus Denver universities debate. Denver University will select the third man. Shop men take notice of a shoe sale offering 191 pairs of Gents extra good work shoes with heavy soles at a special price of 2 75 for three days.
The federal court verdict favors J B Okie of Lost Cabin Wyoming in a bill in equity filed by his mother of Washington DC to set aside a June 6 1898 sale of Big Horn Sheep company stock and assets for 30000 and profits totaling about 120000. The judge ruled no undue influence existed and dismissed the mother’s claim with costs.
The bill is dismissed with costs after a payment under protest, without tendering the consideration money, leading to estoppel on the contract. Albert Chapman sold the old Hurd property on Central Avenue for 6500 to Charles Mallin, now resold for 1700. George T. Beck reports coal near Meetectse will coke. first such coal in Big Horn county. Special trains carry the Twentieth Infantry to Chicago from San Francisco via Ogden. they pass through Cheyenne tomorrow.
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