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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1902
Page
3
A historical newspaper masthead lists A Black as editor and proprietor with Robert Mickel as business manager and George H Evans as city editor, identifying key staff in the publication.
Short items note Miss Coataworth to sing at a May party, Hynde’s home upgrades, a Manila Bay anniversary, high wind damages, Greasy William joins Salvation Army, Decoration Day plans, Vreeland & Gregory hazer dashery opening, fishing trips, nickel find in Halleck canon, Burrage family to Massachusetts, Wyoming Industrial committee delay, Fort Russell concerts, Federal Labor union growth, numerous fishing tickets sold, Acacia Lodge initiates, Mass returns from Silver Crown, Inter Ocean card rooms open, Brierley and Pendergraft tour Longmont, several youths swim, Kitzmiller heads Cheyenne Rocky Mountain News, fishing season opening, Congressman Jenkins links to Cuba, Richard Grace education winner, juvenile window break case, William Miller drunk deposit.
Southbridge Massachusetts weighs two gifts for a town library. Andrew Carnegie offers 106000 for building and maintenance with site and annual upkeep by the town. Jacob Edwards of Boston proposes 4000 plus site purchase and library setup at no cost to the town.
The senator boasts a walking stick valued at $50,000 as part of a claim about cane sourcing. He notes $60,000 was allocated for river improvement last year, and the dialogue references a Tribune item and a Daily Leader classified ad about a house for sale.
A traveling informant reports Carbon once a thriving Union Pacific mining town now being deserted after No 7 coal mine closed Tuesday night. Stores pack goods for Hanna and Rock Springs while workers move machinery. trains depart with families and houses torn down as track lines are removed. A burning mine near the city may burn on as a symbol of Dead Carbon.
Yesterday at Laramie three corporations filed articles including The Royal Placer company to mine in Albany county with 10000 dollars capital and Sheep Mountain Farming company and Sheep Mountain Irrigation company planning a canal from the Big Laramie river to reclaim land both with 30000 dollars capital each.
County records bustle as incorporation files build up and stateIndustrial connection books pile in hall. Delinquent tax list posted. liquor licenses and road matters loom. Sheriff Smalley leaves for North Platte with prisoners from a recent burglary. Names listed for marriage licenses since last report include EB Swanhardugh with Cartie A. Granteer, Joseph Shints with Susan B. Oakes, Sylvanus Briell, and Lucy Griffith.
In Evanston Wyoming citizens hailed a House approval of a public building bill granting 100000 dollars for a federal building. Telegrams of congratulations arrived and a bell rang as the news spread, with local leaders praising Senator Clark for the accomplishment.
The New York World recounts a near disaster at the Buffalo Bill show in New York City opening night. Ten thousand spectators watched as Baldy Goodrich rode a bucking bronco and escaped when the horse crashed into the arena fence. Bert Shanks on a cayuse suffered a dramatic fall but survived, while Goodrich saved himself by gripping the fence top as the bronco leapt away.
Forbes & Co of Boston will publish Buell Hampton by Willis George Emerson, a western-set fiction praised as rivaling Bret Harte. A third edition already ordered for 15 000 copies after an initial 3 000. Local Cheyenne forecast calls for fair weather with a recent eastward storm bringing high winds up to 68 mph in Denver.
Actor Duke Francis Whyte allegedly stole a dress suit from attorney T. H. Gibson in Laramie and pawed it. He then stole a teamster's horse in Separation, moved it to Rawlins, and sold it. Rawlins authorities were notified to arrest Whyte, but no arrest news has been received.
Washington April 20. Perry S. Heath and treasury officials discuss a Post Check scheme to print four blank faces on a greenback to act as a money order. Proponents claim lower mail costs and safer rural delivery. opponents warn of wasted value and altered currency circulation.
A fragment notes Boston related action with large numbers and possible impact on Africa. The terse text mentions the Gold Coast and Transcrit, implying broader civilizing influence and strategic stakes amid a wartime or imperial context.
At the State House Nick Warlarmount an old soldier and Soldiers Home inmate died at 4 this morning. Chief Justice Potter and Associate Justice Corn are in Denver and likely to return tomorrow. The state board of sheep commissioners adjourned after a lengthy session. Assistant Secretary R P Fuller returned to the secretary's office. State officials prepare for a Colorado inspection tour. O F Hamilton and Deputy State Treasurer Sheldon appeared at the state house during the day. More than 300 volumes arrived for the state library but will be inaccessible until cataloging is finished. J N Wilson of the sheep board traveled north. State charities and reform officials headed to Colorado. State Examiner Henderson offered insurance insights. Incorporation filings included Sheep Mountain Farming, Sheep Mountain Irrigation, and Royal Placer, with operations in Carbon and Albany counties.
Dr Wise of Covington performs a prank with a pencil claiming to write any color. He tests indigo blue on Theodore Hallam then struggles to spell ecru, ending in laughter and a remark about forgetting the word. Local reader note promises updates in The Leader.
WANTED To buy clean old tags at Leader office. FOR SALE two seated top carriage in good repair Union Mercantile Co. FOR SALE Household furniture 507 East Eighteenth street. FOR SALE Fresh milch cow Inquire 2619 Thames Street. FOR SALE 450 piano for 300 cash Inquire at Leader office. FOR SALE Four lots in gold location Inquire at this office. Eight residence lots in east town Maxwell and Twenty first and Twenty second streets Inquire Albert Chapman real estate agent. Three lots on Twelfth Street near Thames Inquire Albert Chapman. Cut flowers Mrs Glafcke phone 646
Nicely furnished rooms available with electric light and janitor service. $5 a month upward. Inquire Warren Emporium. Also listings at 306 West Sixteenth Street and 2017 Evans Street. Contact via Warren Emporium for details.
CUT FLOWERS AND DESIGNS for weddings parties and funerals at Chap TMin's greenhouse corner of Eighteenth and Central avenue Hot and cold baths 15 cents at Padgett's Barber Shop Sixteenth Street M GORHAM Tennessee's old reliable Horse Shoer has moved his Blacksmith and Horse Shoeing shop to Charley Rogers' old stand corner Thames and 17th streets Here better prepared to do all classes of work than before He offers $5 reward for any interfering horse that he cannot cure by shoeing
In North Carolina during Senator Simmons race an opposing millionaire flooded the state with campaign buttons bearing his image. Lacking funds, Simmons adopted persimmons as his emblem, leading supporters to wear the fruit and chant We are all Simmons men. The tactic boosted his popular appeal and aided his victory.
A Philadelphia Record reader with a slight stammer argues that stammering may be cured or masked, noting that profanity seems to soothe vocal effort. He suggests foreign speakers learn swear words easily and can glide past difficult sounds by prefacing them with profanity.
A fragment quotes a character asking about the term bete polr and a response noting it relates to the beet-mugar trust and that the reader should not be disturbed while reading. The passage cites Cleveland Plato Dealer as speaker.
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