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Article fragment lists names and roles including Slack proprietor Rob ert Mickel business manager Groagh H Evans and city waiter with unclear context.
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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1902
Page
2
Article fragment lists names and roles including Slack proprietor Rob ert Mickel business manager Groagh H Evans and city waiter with unclear context.
The state supreme court will be in session tomorrow. Several Wyoming towns hold elections today amid fading hopes for many candidates. Governor Richards’ steers arrived from the neath. A. J. Mooney resigns as dispatcher at Laramie for Freeport Illinois. Elk Horn saloon owner Charles Lewis died yesterday and will be buried at Medicine Row. City elections proceed in over two dozen towns. Ex sheriff Ward of Cumberland reportedly inherits 10 000 after a half brother’s death. New transfer tracks rise at the Union Pacific freight depot. Union Pacific freight depot upgrades progress with a force of men. Nine hundred sixty acres of Fort Sanders oil lands east of Laramie are fired upon by locals. Elks welcome new members W H Butler J F Brown R F Rea my and E W Symonds. A patent medicine man claims to be Manzeta Montezuma. Two horses ran away, crashed into a tree, wagon damaged. Light wagering money flows in Cheyenne. Sheriff Richer endorsements move through the state. Superintendent Gray sails to Sioux City to recruit ministers. Inter Ocean improvements soon to begin. Ed Chase observes plans at the hotel. A fatal shooting in Utah leaves John Martinez dead and John Holland jailed for murder. Neighborhood children at the state house peek inside but risk injury on the way back down the steps.
Knox stiff hat for spring in a beauty. Call and see them. Vreeland and Gregory offer hats at 1614 Ferguson Street.
Public notice warns against dumping manure or fish in city alleys in Cheyenne and prohibits accumulation in stable yards or corrals for over four weeks. Violations violate Chapter 20 of the city ordinances. Dated May 12, 1902.
John 8 Woolley, noted temperance reformer, speaks on problems facing Americans. A former drunkard, he describes his voyage from darkness to warning others. Renowned as an eloquent thinker and orator, he has toured globally. The free lecture invites all including school groups.
A stream of quirky notes and jokes references a friend Jere and a Mental Friction club with odd bylaws. It lampoons political jobs, rule breaches, and a Cheyenne name riddle, sprinkled with humorous antiquated quips and misprints.
Janitor Mahar ie slowly recovers from injuries with lingering left arm loss questions. Judge Boott returns from a northern trip. Eleven prisoners remain in county jail as D B Brown travels to Guernsey. Guernsey vote favors incorporation 61 to 3. Calis arrive to help arrest wanted criminals. County board approves 350 for printing the state industrial convention book. A marriage license is requested by Carl H. Lester of Cleveland and Bertha F. Thompson of Cheyenne.
Ed Chase of the Inter Ocean hotel awarded to Grimes & Warren for six thousand four hundred forty two dollars and fifty cents to build a three story addition. Plumbing bid goes to C Nash & Son for one dollar twenty four cents per unit. Construction to start immediately and finish by August 10. Brick facade replacement deferred pending future plan.
Joe Deitrick a former Cheyenne boy travels from Cheyenne to New York to Guatemala and Bolivia to investigate mines owned by his uncle acting as special agent. He has globe spanning travel with his uncle a noted mine owner and plans to return to assess operations abroad. Judge Hayford receives frequent letters from his daughter Mies Franza Hayford in Chicago preparing her company for the fall and winter season with a road tour likely starting mid July.
Mahoney Bros move fast on the Lookout cut off west of Laramiée as the grade nears track laying in three weeks. A steam shovel and many dump cars toil in a deep cut while a large force works on a nearly completed fill east of the cut. Lookout station will shift to the new cut off with houses under construction for workers.
A. J. Vance of Rocky Mountain Bell says the exchange will stay in Cheyenne and be built this year. Wyoming extensions are advancing rapidly with Cheyenne tied to Casper by June 1 and crews pushing the Casper to Lander line toward completion.
The Leader received an initial copy of the Ranch News edited by C. B. Wantland of the Union Pacific land department in Denver. It contains Wyoming information. Smallpox at Laramie yesterday sent James Tupen and Warren Davis to the pest house in Laramie. both cases are high.
The Miller Cosgriff trespass case, of great interest to Wyoming sheep owners, is upheld by the Wyoming Supreme Court, stopping further appeal to the U S Supreme Court. The ruling allows owners or leasees of grazing lands to protect property from herded stock, clarifying trespass when boundary lines are not clearly distinguished. The decision affects state grazing revenue and is praised by stockmen statewide.
A strike on the Verde or Hinton property near Battle Lake reports an eight foot copper ore vein at 24 feet depth. Values run high near 40 percent copper, resembling Ferris Haggerty ore quality. The find, eight miles southeast of Battle, suggests any Battle Lake area could yield a productive ore deposit.
Property notice seeking inquiries about three lots on Twelfth street near Thames via Albert Chapman, local real estate agent.
Several young men in the city prepare to take an examination for cadets in the revenue cutter service of the government to be held June 16 17 and 18.
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