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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1902
Page
3
A. Black, Buktor and Proprietor, Robert Mickel, Business Manager, George H. Evans, City Editor, with office and house telephone numbers listed.
This fragment reports schools closing for Easter, preparations for travel to Denver, and local events. It notes a funeral due Sunday, property purchases near Twenty first street and Warren, and various regional happenings including weather, health, and transportation items involving Sunrise, Platte river, Cheyenne, Rawlins, Wheatland, and Centennial areas.
Special to Leader Huntington Mass March 24 There is no change in Mrs Warren's condition but she is gradually sinking and growing weaker with no hope of recovery The infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Thomia Burke died this morning at 3 o'clock The funeral will be held in the city tomorrow
This afternoon Charles Hirsig and his wife left for the east with a shipment of polo ponies from his ranch near the city. They are headed to sell to eastern millionaires.
Oscar Deltrick’s funeral is set for tomorrow afternoon at his house with Rev Forsyth presiding. Joe Deltrick cannot attend from California. Also next Monday night at the M B E church a grand lecture titled Greater Americans and Their Value will be delivered by the Silver Tongued Orator, followed by fine music and a poem Custer and the Three Hundred. Admission 16 cents for ladies, 25 cents for gentlemen. Ticket holders should note the date in March.
Reports from Clayton New Mexico on March 28 recount a fatal shooting and a failed attempt to reach J W Guyer and W Sarlos in a hotel. Deputy sheriffs exchanged fire near the county jail as Marty Thompson was shot during official business and preparations for possible lynching draw strong local sympathy against the assailants.
Excursion rates to seaep and return will be made by Pecide railroad on March 18 April 16 May 6 and May 20. Trip limited to 16 days. Return allowed. Final unit return 21 days from date of sale. Barron 7.
Special to reader Casper Wyoming March 28 reports Charles F. Woodard who had awaited a Wyoming Supreme Court stay was lynched by about twenty eight masked men at Natrona County jail. He was hanged on a gallows built for him after a midnight retrieval and a rough mob scene ensued with masked figures guarding Sheriff Tubbs and the death watch, followed by a brutal demise and rapid dispersal.
Lincoln Neb March 28. Officer Sandy McNeil captures Job D Young alias Henderson in the east end after Young robbed Jenkine store and fled. Young, believed wanted in Denver and elsewhere for crimes, was apprehended shortly after. Biryan announces in the Commoner he will retire to Fairview, with time to devote to Waverlag.
Washington reports the state department denounces Captain Christmas charges as baseless and fabricated. It suggests possible Danish West Indies negotiations under Danish commission and insinuates ill use of funds by unnamed officials during the Spanish war era. The text hints at connections to a senator and representatives and notes direct talks between the United States and Denmark.
A stay of execution was issued until the state supreme court could hear the petition in error. Citizens in Casper declared Woodard would hang, while a coroner’s jury prepared an inquest and expected to find him dead at the hands of unknown executioners.
In a 3 30 dispatch Acting Governor Fene Chatterton directs Natrona county prosecutor Alex Butler to thoroughly investigate the Woodard lynching. The note condemns the courts and calls for punishment of the guilty and notes a weather forecast for Cheyenne with possible snow this afternoon and tonight.
Classified items include a girl wanted for cooking and house work with Mrs A E Baker in Central avenue. barber trade training offered by Motor Barber College Minneapolis with free clinic and diplomas. insurance agents wanted in Cheyenne with room 6 Delaware block. sale notices for wagon, range, land scrip, and four lots. real estate listings by Albert Chapman in east town on Maxwell and Twenty-first streets.
Several rental notices list furnished and unfurnished dwellings with locations at 520 East Twenty first street 210 West 18th street and 411 East Twelfth Street. Some rooms offer light housekeeping janitor service electric light and prices from six dollars monthly with inquiries directed to Warren Emporium or the listed addresses.
Miscellaneous items note flower designs for weddings parties and funerals at Chaffin's greenhouse at the corner of Eighteenth and Central avenues. Also advertised are hot and cold baths for 15 cents at Padgett's Barber Shop on Sixteenth Street.
Annie rer received a fifteen year sentence in the penitentiary for the murder of John West. The couple had a pact that if either proved false the betrayed spouse should kill the faithless one. West taught the woman to shoot. when he deserted her she shot him dead.
Chicago March 26 The Rock Island road announces plans to spend 2 000 000 for equipment to improve its Chicago and California service. Complete new trains will be installed and delivered to the Southern Pacific at El Paso.
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