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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1902
Page
3
The item lists the newspaper’s branding and staff roles including editor proprietor A Slack, business manager Robert Mickel, and city editor George H Evans, indicating a standard front-page masthead.
Short items report residents traveling for studies and returns home. Leane Brookhart heads to Ann Arbor for school while Charles Cahill returns from Lara mie to attend the Harris case. Buffalo forms a new loan assoc. A minor injury at Messicks store is noted. School election interest rises as voters support candidates. A pension bill for Oliver Kerr passes the House. Pendergraft resigns from Cheyenne shops, skipping Indians season. Six smallpox cases at Aladdin pest house with fifteen exposed. Burglaries add three new prisoners to county jail. Saratoga sees two-city tickets in election. Green River district court opens with potential Cope land murder case. Turner hall hosts a charity ball for Indian ball team. Newcastle names Horton mayor candidate and Daling Stubbs council. Sheridan hatchery distributes 120,000 eggs to northern counties. Stevenson Schmitt bowling result favors Schmitt by 85 pins. Senior class anglers bring in trout from Silver Crown trip. Morrison announces Walcott to Grand Encampment railroad will start promptly. City council to consider tree protection on Ferguson street and boulevard. Colorado and Southern officials tour Cheyenne and Northern branch. road praised. Wyoming Industrial convention proceedings urged to be shared with out‑of‑state friends. Wyoming board of charities officials inspect local Colorado institutions. Fire department responds to a small blaze at Rev Kuo’s residence. minor loss. Pan‑American circus car arrives, announcing May 20 performance.
Mrs. Mary B. Graves has been appointed seamstress at the Shoshone Indian reservation school in Wyoming.
Partly cloudy tonight and fair warm Tuesday for Cheyenne. Rain has been widespread since yesterday across the middle and southern Rocky Mountain region to the Mississippi with heavy totals in Oklahoma 1.48 inches St. Louis 1.76 inches Davenport 1.08 inches. Temperatures run above normal from the Rockies to the Atlantic coast while west of the Rockies readings are cooler. Maximum 60 degrees minimum 40 with 0.04 inch precipitation.
E M Gibson, wealthy sheepman of Douglas and Glenda with ranches nearby, recounts a daring theft in Omaha where notes totaling 24000 were stolen from his grip. A negro, ignorant of negotiable paper, burned the valise contents on the white man’s advice, destroying most of the notes though 8000 worth remained duplicable. Nebraska pole line from Budgeport to Guernsey nears completion. Representative Mondell seeks three days for irrigation bill consideration starting May 12. Mrs Myers improving after San Antonio visit. Granger surveying party planned for summer led by Hopkins Clark, Cheyenne.
Johnson county cattlemen stock ranges with eastern bred cattle to fatten and ship eastward next fall. L A Webb and Dave Gammell returned from Texas with two trainloads: 1000 head of grade cows and calves and 1490 spayed helfers. Other stockmen plan similar purchases and feeding on local ranges for fall shipment twice as far as prior seasons.
Sheriff Smalley returns from Denver with J J Tobin charged with burglarizing Arp and Hammond store two weeks ago. Deputy Snow brings McDonald and Fallend accused of robbing Herman Aman home. watches recovered. All three arraigned before Justice Becker, plead not guilty, bound over to district court in $200 bonds each.
Cheyenne sees an unprecedented rush as Mes Sicks store opens a dissolution sale with prices often below cost. The event continues while stock is cleared and shoppers flood the doors.
The Grand Encampment Herald reports a contract to enlarge the Boston Wyoming smelter from 100 to 500 tons daily. Mining engineer T H Tracey from El Paso plans to obtain machinery in New York after visiting Denver. The upgrade follows a October contract between Ferris Haggarty Copper Mining and Southern Wyoming Tramway to deliver 600 tons of ore daily, with work to start soon and finish by September.
A journal on a freight train broke down last night near Kimball delaying trains Nos. 1 and 101 until morning. It took six hours to clear the track. The ladies of the W R OC plan a New England supper on May 16 from 5 30 to 7 o'clock at A C U W hall followed by a social dance.
John K. Jeffrey is named manager of the Ferris-Haggarty mine at Grand Encampment after serving as Laramie county clerk. A sensational divorce in Rawlins ends with Ole Nelson of Fort Steele granted a decree. alimony of 5000 dollars is sought by Mrs. Nelson. Grand Encampment votes two city tickets for May 18 with Citizens and Peoples tickets listing mayors and councilmen. John Apperson heads to Cody as consulting engineer for the Cody Salisbury canal project to reclaim 36000 acres at a cost of 250000 dollars.
A group of about forty boys aged 14 to 18 gathered Sunday afternoons by the lake to play ball and drink beer. Neighbors expressed indignation as beer drinking continued for two Sundays, with residents threatening action to curb it or involve the Law and Order League.
The physician in charge says Jess Eads, badly mangled by cars last week, shows remarkable vitality and may be out of the hospital in two weeks. He lost a leg and an arm and suffered multiple fractures.
Union Pacific has deployed workers to remove railroad tracks in Carbon and to dismantle the line from Allen Junction. The move affects local rail service and infrastructure, with crews concentrating efforts along the urban corridor and connecting routes.
U S district attorney T F Burke and Judge Lacey left for Chicago and St Paul to attend private business as the Teller case goes before the U S circuit court of appeals in Chicago. J C Teller was sued by the government for cutting 150000 feet of railroad ties on public domain, a judgment against him was returned and the case appealed.
A standings list shows six teachers vying for popular vote in the box-seat contest for The Taming of the Shrew at Hanford. Miss Middlekauff Miss Miller Miss Cleland and others appear with varying vote counts as the adjourned Boulder Presbytery meeting installs Rev. H. E. Brunda in Saratoga Wyoming. Stock arrives for Vreeland and Gregory store and Pacific Express opens an uptown money order office at Cheyenne Cigar Factory.
A 40 by 100 foot corrugated iron storehouse has been built at the state penitentiary for the broom factory to store broom corn and unsold brooms. Hon. T. T. Tynan of Cheyenne and Dr. C. H. Soller of Evanston are appointed delegates to the Chicago charities and reforms conference on May 28.
The pension bureau lists Wyoming pensions for Albert Caribon Rawlings and John Hicks Jackson with $6 and $12 increases. A Notice of Final Settlement for the Estate of Maurice P. Dinneen names executor William J. Dinneen and sets a June 10, 1902 court date in Cheyenne for settlement objections.
Listings include wanted old rag at Leader office, for sale express wagon and horse, fresh milch cow, piano priced at 450 with 300 cash, four to eight real estate lots by Albert Chapman, three lots on Twelfth near Thames, and nicely furnished rooms with bath at 216 East Twenty-third street plus rental ads for rooms in brick blocks at Warren Emporium.
Destructive fires last week engulfed Mrs Hooper’s Sundance residence wiping it out with a $3000 loss. The Bradberry ranch nearby also burned with a $2400 loss and no insurance.
Sealed proposals for the construction of stone crosswalks in Cheyenne Wyoming will be received by the city until Tuesday May 6 2008 at 8 pm. A certified check or cash of 250 accompanies each bid as a warranty of entering a contract and furnishing a bond. The city reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Bids should be marked Proposals for the Construction of Stone Crossings and enclosed. Lome B A Abry City Clerk.
Cut flowers and designs for weddings and funerals offered at Chan's greenhouse on the corner of Eighteenth and Central avenues. Also motif and cold baths advertised at Padgett's Barber Shop on Sixteenth Street for 165 canta.
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