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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1908
Page
8
The notice lists subscription terms for the Cheyenne Wyoming Daily Leader dated September 5 1907 including rates for one year six months and three months with prices shown in dollars and cents.
A collection of brief Washington Star quotes touching rate concerns temperance and politics. It notes Senate House pay raises for army personnel and ridicules Aldrich 50 cent dollars while commenting on Roosevelt and regional loyalties amid national politics.
Former state university president Dr. F M Tisdel dismisses a Cheyenne Tribune report that he would sue for salary to end of term. He calls the story a deliberate falsehood and says no intent to file suit existed. The Laramie based dispatch attributed to G A Cook is deemed fabrication.
The Rawling Republic reports Carbon county’s Taft instruction at a harmonious convention with a full proceedings report. Forty three elected delegates did not attend in person and were represented by substitutes, according to the paper.
The Industrial Club of Cheyenne lists its 1908 accomplishments including securing the Trans-Missouri Dry Farming Congress, establishing Cheyenne as its working headquarters, preserving a favorable Denver Colorado and Southern Railway schedule, staging New York to Paris auto race demonstrations, and promoting Frontier Days development. It advocates a $150,000 hotel, a Cheyenne street railway, western materials in federal projects, and an advertising bureau in Denver for the Democratic convention. The club expanded membership, organized farm and travel initiatives, and pressed for improved roads, mail service, paving, sprinkling, and industrial cooperation with counties and railways.
The Laramie Republican praises H. A. Coffeen as a receptive candidate and notes he is the father in law of State Treasurer Gillette, suggesting this kinship helped his appointment by Governor Brooks to the university board.
City Clerk J. D. Wright purchases from L. E. Stone the insurance business at 221 West Seventeenth Street. Wright will run fire, accident and life insurance with Fred James assisting and will remain city clerk until February 1909.
Coroner T. Murray convened a jury in Jacksonville Florida to hear the inquest into Paul Lestus death after he was struck by Union Pacific Overland Limited train No 1. The jury ruled the death accidental and the railroad not liable, Lestus a trespasser at the time. His funeral will be held locally under the Jacksonville Eagles lodge, of which he was a member.
The funeral of Martin Bryant Boughton of Cody was held yesterday morning at St Mark's Episcopal church with Rev. R. L. Barris officiating. Many schoolday friends who knew him from Cheyenne attended, and floral offerings showed affection. Interment followed at Lakeview cemetery.
The Dick militia bill reported to the Senate sets the militia as all able bodied male citizens and those of foreign birth who have declared intent to become citizens aged 18 to 45. The president may call the militia ahead of any volunteer force and annual equipment costs are capped at two million dollars.
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