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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1902
Page
3
The CE Telephone listing identifies A Slack as editor and proprietor with Robert Mickel as business manager and George H Evans as city editor in a historic newspaper masthead.
Charlies Woodard hangs this week. Harold England returns from Denver. Attorney T B Kennedy lectures tonight at the Methodist church. G W Coe visits from Rawlins. Oscar Rogers back to Laramie after a vault here. Modern Woodmen of America plan a July 4 event. Born to Honry Powell a boy. mother and son well. Henry Miller father of twelve pound girl in Arcola. Louis Duon builds a house in Arcola for Henry Miller. Mrs W J Garlock visiting in Laramie with Gates family. New UP time card rules take effect April 1. George Wilson, D A Tracey and Emma D Tracey visit Denver from Pine Bluffs. Two Chinese miners at Kammerer injured in a fight. Harry Hubbard reopens Germania hall on Sixteenth street. Rawlins shops get new two inch pipe floor with maple boards. William Hits, Cheyenne student in Lincoln, Neb., on vacation. J N Mengzie plans to organize a Woodmen lodge in Kemmerer. Extra clerks deployed for heavy mail. Rev Father Hays returns from Laramie Palm Sunday. Florence Ruff surprised by friends. A W Scott named manager of Rocky Mountain Bell in Wyoming District north of Douglas. Incandescent lights glow in Mrs C E Rich’s millinery windows. Thunderstorm with lightning seen by Cheyennettes. Ferris Haggerty Mining ore sales yield 142629 last year. cash on hand 45044. George Place alias Gordon Place bound over for forgery in Rock Springs. forged two checks for 25.
Local forecast for Cheyenne and nearby areas calls for rain or snow this evening as a storm moves through central Utah. Over the past 24 hours precipitation was widespread from Idaho and Montana to the Dakotas, California, and the Gulf states. Temperatures are near to above normal in central and eastern regions and slightly below normal on the Pacific coast and southern Rockies. 4% hours ending 6 am showed a high of 45 and a low of 82 with 0.03 inch of precipitation.
General Superintendent er and Thomas Paxton of the Colorado Southern visited Cheyenne to review Cheyenne and Northern branch operations and discuss car service with Hartville Range owned by Colorado Fuel and Iron. They examined Interchange operations between Colorado, Fremont Elkhorn and Missouri Valley lines as the first heavy traffic for cattle begins next month. Bert Bales, shot last year near Gillette, underwent leg amputation at Gundance. Lewise Sutton charged with intent to kill Carpenter near Bundance. Federated Wholesale Pa conventions to meet in Los Angeles. Cheyenne rate discussions noted.
B C Groves forged a $280 draft drawn by his partner on a local firm and obtained the money then returned it when questioned, dissolving the firm. He later secured several hundred dollars on life insurance from Felix Alston, but may have kept the funds. An investigation is expected to indict Groves.
Major General MacArthur in command of the Department of Colorado arrived from Denver Saturday night and yesterday inspected Fort D. A. Russell under escort of Colonel M. J. Sanno. He will be relieved soon by General Funston and aims to inspect all posts before departure.
The Salvation Army in this city opened permanent barracks with Ensign H L Brenner of New York leading a service noted for a bottle solo. A five year old boy Willie Patrick died of scarlet fever at 519 West Nineteenth Street. funeral at 2 pm officiated by Rev Forsyth.
John Dillman son of Henry Dillman is seriously ill at his home in this city with pneumonia developed Saturday from a severe cold.
This morning two Nebraska immigrant caravans with households headed north to Wheatland. They purchased a home and will settle permanently, adding to Laramie county’s thriving farming colony. Officials anticipate several hundred more migrants to Wyoming lands near Wheatland as spring movement begins.
Thomas Allen, a former employee, sues the Diamondville Coal and Coke company in Salt Lake courts for 15000. He alleges a mine accident when a horse attached chain snapped while hauling a coal car, trapping him and leaving him mangled and disabled for life.
A man’s body was found last Friday night near Big Mornst on the Burlington in Wyoming with his head crushed and body mangled. A paper tag named Joslyn from Terre Haute Indiana to Portland was recovered. Police assume he fell from a train during the night while near the Burlington route. relatives are unknown and Terre Haute authorities have been notified.
Word reached that John Paulson alias Paul Chow claimed to be the husband of a Laramie woman and collected a pension in Trenton New Jersey for over a year. The real Paul Chow died in Byron state asylum years ago and his widow had been receiving the pension for years.
Special Correspondence from Washington reports Senator Warren's measure to refund the initial payments on unperfected desert land entries, with a Clark committee summary noting government gains and settler losses, including improvements and water-right issues under the 1877 act and later rulings.
A new oil company, Fossil Consolidated Land Company Limited, forms in Fossil Wyoming with 1,000,000 shares of par $1 each. Directors include John McMillan as president and Fay W. Young among others. The firm controls 1010 acres at Fossil and plans to acquire more land.
State Geologist Beeler warned against a fraudulent oil stock scheme tied to Wyoming fields and the Uinta county area. He noted no flowing wells exist in the county and said Beeler will inform Cincinnati papers, exposing the misrepresentation to prevent investor loss.
A column of old style classified notices seeking a territorial manager position and a housekeeper for an elderly or small family. Also offers for a girl for cooking and general housework, room and board, a modern cottage for rent or lease, and several real estate and room rentals including furnished rooms and light housekeeping. Listings mention addresses and agents such as Mrs A E Baker, T R Leader, D W Gill, Albert Chapman, and Warren Emporium.
Advertisement notes cut flowers and designs for weddings parties and funerals at Chaffin's greenhouse located at the corner of Eighteenth and Central avenues. Also mentions hot and cold baths at Padgett's Barber Shop on Sixteenth Street priced at 15 cents.
Sherif Smalley travels to Casper to witness Woodard hanging. County assessor to begin spring campaign and may appoint several deputies. Three men hanged in Larimer County historically. Five prisoners due to expire April 1 reducing jail boarders to seven or eight. No marriage licenses since March 19. Joe Hale and J. Mo Whitney brought coyote pelts for bounty papers.
Announcement from I and Bartlett states the derrick is secured and a full drilling equipment order placed. They expect drilling within thirty days and predict stock price rise from 5 to 10 cents per share. No orders under 100 abaroa accepted. Room 4 Hoyt Block.
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