Cheyenne Mayor to Inspect Colorado Reservoir Dams
Mayor J C Murray and water committee chair M P Keefe will tour Denver area dams to inform Cheyenne water works planning. They may bring in engineers to design plans for the Silver Crown reservoir, with $85 000 bonds approved, bids to be advertised May 1, contracts let mid June, work due to start July 1 if water permits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheyenne
J. C. Murray
M. P. Keefe
Denver
Silver Crown
Chevene Water Works
Murray
Keefe
Cheeseman
Castlewood
Anaconda Mining Company Holds Annual Meeting
Stockholders and directors of the Anaconda Mining Company of Cripple Creek meet in the Kent Bank block in the city for their annual gathering. The company is described as one of the largest corporations in Colorado’s mining field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anaconda Mining Company
Crippjle Creek
Kent Bank
Colorado
Tramp Survives Train Collision After Falling Under Carriage
Frank Johnston, a tramp, rode freight cars on a passenger train between Laramie and Cheyenne yesterday. He became numb from the cold and fell off under the train, but the locomotive passed over him without injury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Johnston
Laramie
Cheyenne
Immense Rattlesnake Den Blasted Open at Hole in the Wall
Dynamite blasts in the Hole in the Wall opened a rattlesnake den with 167 snakes reportedly killed. Houck’s men used 500 pounds of dynamite to destroy the area and create a road into the country. Also noted are Salvation Army dedication ceremonies on Eddy Street and a four foot copper ore vein strike at the Duchess mine in the Douglas district, with State Auditor LeRoy Grant directing mining shipments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EB. C. Houck
Mr. Houck
Casper Tribune
Salvation Army
Eddy Street
Duchess
Douglas
LeRoy Grant
Rambler
Grant
Laramie
Rev H H McQuilkin Returns To Lead Rawlins Service
The Rev H H McQuilkin, who preached in Rawlins this week, will return tonight to occupy his pulpit tomorrow, continuing his ministry at the local Presbyterian church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. H. McQuilkin
Presbyterian Church
Rawlins
Union Pacific to Open Buford Gravel Pits for Track Ballast
The big gravel pits at Buford Station will be opened next Wednesday by the Union Pacific and a large force of men put to work. The gravel will be used to ballast portions of the line on the Nebraska and Colorado divisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buford Station
Union Pacific
Nebraska
Colorado
Ranchman Fights Horn Murder Case in City Visit
J. C. Colle, the ranchman funding Tom Horn's defense, appeared in the city today as the cattle detective faces murder accusations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. C. Colle
Tom Horn
Millinery Opening by Mrs C E Rich
Mrs C E Rich invites the public to a spring millinery opening on Monday March 24 from 1 to 9 p.m. She invites all to inspect her personally selected stock of latest spring designs.
Committee Notice for May 1 Ball at Turner Hall
Readable fragment reports a notice about a Ball hosted by the Board of Law? FP committee. The event is scheduled for Thursday, May 1 at Turner Hall. No further details are provided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. of L. FP
Turner Hall
Death of Jeas H Loomis Ill With Acute Pneumonia
Jeas H Loomis, assistant cashier at First National Bank Cheyenne, died of acute pneumonia at his room in the Cheyenne club after a brief illness. Born 1866 in Ionia Michigan he came to Cheyenne in 1885 and was promoted to assistant cashier in 1890. He was highly regarded as an accountant and a member of the Elks. Funeral arrangements to be announced pending word from a brother in Ionia Michigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeas H. Loomis
First National Bank
Cheyenne Club
Lonia
Mich
Old Mexico
Mr. Loomis
Loomis
John Harrington
Ionia
Cheyenne
Willia van Devanter
J. B. Wilde
Loomin
G. B. Abbott
The
Elks
Wyoming Banks Report Their Financial Status February 25
A Washington dispatch states the comptroller of currency reports for 14 Wyoming national banks as of February 25. Total resources amount to 3 583 475 in loans and discounts with 730 731 in bonds and stocks. real estate 227 795. due from banks and reserve agents 1 266 339. cash 438 230. Liabilities include capital stock 910 000. surplus and profits 390 617. notes outstanding 450 250. due to other banks 262 807. deposits 100 061. average reserve 32.05 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Comptroller of Currency
Wyoming
National Bank
Miss Warren Chosen for Intercollegiate Debate Team
Washington dispatch reports Miss Frances Warren daughter of Senator Warren will represent Wellsley College in the Intercollegiate debate with Vassar on The Shipping Subsidy Bill Now Pending in Congress. Warren is noted as a leading elocutionist and has drawn crowds with her readings during college vacation. The notice also promotes the MBE Home Talent Lecture Course with Hon T Blake Kennedy speaking and W P Carroll composing an original poem. General admission music tickets priced for ladies and general spectators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. H. Warren
Senator Warren
Wellsley College
Vassar
Congress
Frances Warren
Cheyyenne
Warren
Secretary of the Interior
Big Horn Basin
Wyoming
Globe Trotter Accused of Unpaid Bills Abroad
Denver reports IM Bernstorf Schroder, a Dan jab newspaper man, travels the world handcuffed leaving unpaid board bills in Kansas City, St Joseph, and Lincoln. A local bar keeper asks for his address as Gerder claims robbery in an alley near Eighth and Locust is false. Police say to watch for him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Colo
Bernstorf-Schroder
Kansas City
Hele
St. Joseph
Lincoln
Neb
Inaloo
Ghroder
Eighth Street
Locust
Ladies Inspect Lodge in Laramie Visit
Mesdames Addie Taylor C K H Stabler Daley Christensen Annie Mertens and Mise Kimome Kath returned from Laramie with Mrs Turner of Cairo Illinois grand matron of the Ladies Auxiliary of the B of K T to inspect the lodge at that place. The Daily Leader notes an advertising column offering houses for sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mesdames
Addie Taylor
C. K H. Stabler
Daley Christensen
Annie Mertens
Mise Kimome Kath
Laramie
Mre. Turner
Cairo
Ile
Grand ¥ Lee Mintress
B. of K T
Plan for gallows drop revised with button system
Casper report corrects earlier claim about a trap operated by the condemned man. New plan uses four buttons at once to trigger the drop, led by a sheriff signal, ensuring none know which button fires. Also notes sentences handed to several criminals, a sanitarium inquiry, a Cuba return, and a planned township resurvey in Big Horn basin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Casper
Woodard
One on Louis Breckens Praises Cheyenne Bowling Team
A Honolulu letter from March 6 1902 praises the Cheyenne bowling team for defeating the Centennials of Denver in a recent match. The writer notes the absence of a regular member and the inclusion of a substitute named Kirk, calling the victory remarkable given the handicap.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Breckens
Bob
Honolulu
H. L
Cheyenne
Centennials of
Denver
Kirk
Improvements at Union Mercantile Store
Black and Clark began improvements at the Union Mercantile store. Work includes a stairway from the retail area to new upstairs offices and a new plate glass front for the wholesale department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Black & Clark
Union Mercantile
Cheyenne Ambulance Under Construction At Studebaker Works
A new county hospital ambulance is being built at Studebaker in South Bend Indiana and will reach Cheyenne in about three weeks. The device costs over $500 and was funded by the Ladies Hospital Aid Society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Studebaker
South Bend
Ind
Cheyenne
Ladies’ Hospital Aid Society
Large Shed Erected at Public Building Stands
A large eighty foot long shed is being erected at the public building stands where stone masons will work dressing stone from the saw mill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Staunds
Anti Gambling Case Delayed as Stipulation Extends Answer Time
In a status quo filing Attorneys Stoll and Burdick request ten additional days for respondents to answer. Marie Masten, a Cheyenne figure once famous in Denver, reappears in trouble amid a murder case involving Robert Hyndman and J. B. Quinn in Denver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stoll and
Burdick
Marie Masten
Denver
Robert Hyndman
J. B. Quinn
Quinn
Street Naming Ordinance Aims Alphabetic Tree Names
City council discusses a street naming plan by Alderman Davis to name east of Central Avenue streets after trees in alphabetical order. The scheme would mark avenues west of Central with numbered names to indicate location, and names would reveal distance from Central.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davis
Murray
Davie
Central Avenue
Firat Avenue
Second Avenue
Mondell Sees 20 Percent Reciprocity as Cuba Aid
Wyoming's Rep. Hon Frank W Mondell writes a city official that a twenty per cent reciprocity on Cuba sugar and tobacco in exchange for duty cuts on cattle would boost Cuban prosperity and reduce insurrection risk. He notes House opposition and a hard fight ahead as he plans to push irrigation legislation on the floor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank W. Mondell
Cuba
Wyoming
Congress
House
Senate
House Landers
Granted a Pension to Harry Sessions of Otto Wyoming
Harry Sessions of Otto nine miles west of Cheyenne has been granted an increase of pension to ten dollars a month. J A Noonan Guernsey section foreman and his gang quit their jobs after a dispute with the road master. Noonan will take a job at Evanston with the Union Pacific.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Sessions
Otto
Wyo
Mr. Session
Cheyenne
J. A. Noonan
Guernsey
Noonan
Evanston
Union Pacific
Women raise 200 dollars at supper and dance
The Woman's Relief Corps collected two hundred dollars at a supper and dance on Monday night. The funds will be donated to the Old Soldiers' Home in this city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman's Relief Corps
Two Boys Cleared After Lecture on Theft of Hay and Coal
Two youths were arrested for stealing two bales of hay and coal but were discharged after an impressive lecture. They returned the stolen property before being taken into custody.
Records Recovered From Weber Mercantile Safe Theft
Papers stolen from the Weber Mercantile safe six months ago were found near Frank Stark’s ranch while a man hunted rabbits. The safe door was blown off the night of the robbery, with several hundred dollars missing. William Brown was arrested at Laramie and sent to the district court in Rawlins on grand larceny charges with $600 bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weber Mercantile Company
Frank Stark
Bruah
Casper Tribune
Rawlins
Wyo
Wilhiam Brown
Laramie
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Max J. Meyer
Leading Hatter
Idelman Block
Cincinnati Shoe Co
M. Corn
Cincinatti Shoe Co
Lauce & Tupper’s
Logan’s Bookstore
Post Office
Man Keefe
State Auditor's
Coble
D. Miller
Ferguson St
Cowhick Dry Goods Co
Jess Loomis
City
Miss Warren
Washington, D. C
Mae
Globe Trotter
M. Bernstorff-Schroder
Arnald Bille
Laramie Lodge
the Daily Leader
Cook
W. G. Churchill
Campbell
Raymond
King
State Penitentiary
E. E. Farrell
New York City
K. Collenburg
Martin Breither
Tuttle & Hawes
Cunningham
Green River
Louis
R. W. Breckones
Cacee
Boyle
Haseen
Gaye
National House
Fidelity and Casualty Co
N. Y
J. W. Bruner
Ferguson
Ledice
Wee He
Wm. Myers & Co
C. L. Bulkley
Pagan
Chag. E. Miller
Nagle
Corson
Rec
Union Mercantile Co
Ferguson Street
Wyvo
Watchmaker
Millers
David Miller
Messick Dry Goods Company
Buechner & Son
Diamond Letters
Fergueon Street
Opticians
Wyomind
Grainger
T. E. Gray
Kent
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