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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1902
Page
4
The item provides masthead details for ELEPHONE with editor proprietor B A Slack and business manager Robert Mickel and George H Evans listed. No further readable events or notices are present.
Short items note several ball games between Juvendly nines in the city yesterday. The Pan American circus arrives tonight for shows tomorrow. A Cheyenne journeymen tailors union likely to form soon. A civil service exam for photographic assistant on June 17. Seventy eight coyote skins presented for bounty at Rawlins Saturday. A strawberry and ice cream festival at First Baptist Thursday evening. Prof Beeler returned from inspection trip to central Wyoming oil fields. Over 200000 pounds of wool disposed of at Casper with 12 1 2 cents per pound average. Nat Baker elected mayor and P E Barber R M Collins elected aldermen at Lusk. Westbound trains delayed several hours due to Central Pacific trouble. Imperial Stock Company performs at the opera house tonight and again midweek. Charles Howson loses part of middle finger at round house. Omaha News runs Tom Horn page feature. First artificial love plant in the state operates at Sheridan with 15 tons daily capacity. New hard wood floor at Keefe hall’s dancing pavilion praised. Doncan Hines leaves for Trinidad to enter insurance and real estate. Invitation sent to President Smiley to address May meeting on forming state forestry association.
The Cody wool warehouse has received 1,000,000 pounds of wool with an estimate of 2,500,000 pounds to be received and sold this season. Utah Marble and Onyx Company files articles of incorporation to operate in Utah and Evanston Wyoming with capital stock of 100,1440 dollars.
Prose extols Edna Cooke as the most dashing and finished rider, noting her all time feats with the Great Pan American Shows in Cheyenne on Tuesday May 20. Local forecast for Cheyenne predicts showers tonight and warmer Tuesday, with a broad storm system bringing rain from the Dakotas to New Mexico.
Clark general manager of Hanlon Pacific Coal arrives in the city with Kin waft to inspect the Canyon mines. A. K Brad bury of Rocky Mountain Coal and Iron joins the tour. Indications favor an early resumption of operations, signaling good news for Evanston.
Mystic Shriners announce a ceremonial session in Cheyenne Wyoming from July 22 to 26 with a class of at least fifty candidates and a four day program. Judge J A Riner signs the circular urging forty petitions by mid June to prepare the program and arrangements.
A federal grand jury member said the Norton case would develop sensational features surprising to all. He refused to reveal what those developments might be. A telephone was installed at the Sherman hill tunnel for the watchman and linked to the dispatcher's office at Laramie. Current runs over barbed wire between the tunnel and Laramie.
A call from Irwin Mahon outlines the eighth annual International Mining Congress to convene in Butte Montana starting September 1 1902 with excursions to Yellowstone Park and Anaconda. The note stresses Buttes mining wealth and hotel capacity and urges coverage in the press to promote the event and advocate a US Department of Mines and Mining.
Eastern senators and representatives joined Secretary Root to Fort Washington for a practical display of the Huntington roster disappearing gun. Five shots were fired from a ten inch gun, propelling a 225 pound projectile over five miles. Senators Teller Warren Perkins and others observed the harbor defense demonstration.
A Michigan based meeting is set in Omaha to consider wage scale increases. Omaha workers seek 36 cents from 31 1 2, North Platte workers seek 37 from 39 1 2, Cheyenne workers seek 38 from 34, and west of here workers seek 40 from 35 cents.
Report from Encampment and Denver indicates a strong probability of merging the Boston-Wyoming Smelter Southern Wyoming Tramway New Rambler Ferris Haggarty and Wyoming Central railroad companies into a single 20 million dollar corporation. Joseph Seep and Charles J Collins listed as key deal participants with plans to extend the Wyoming Central beyond Encampment into Colorado tapping rich agricultural mining and stock-raising regions south and west of the Continental Divide.
Paul Weiss alias Johnson, a Cheyenne machinist brought back to Kansas City to face assault with intent to kill W. B. Walters, was fined five dollars and costs after the charge was reduced to simple assault. Weiss had a railroad pass to return for a settlement. Walters lost an eye in the fracas. Weiss is described as an exemplary local youth from a good family.
Mr. Shepherd of Denver is in the city arranging to begin oil work on a claim east of Fort Steele. His company will sink until oil is struck or the claim proves worthless. Buckley and Ryan again move on their well at Wolcott and expect to reach the third oil stratum soon. Rumors say additional teams will drill in nearby districts as owners pool claims east of the city. Thomas Harrington, an itinerant old soldier, reportedly suffered paralysis and rheumatism in the railroad yards last week, dragging him west toward Rock Springs.
Grand Toland and Minden have not yet joined but plan to before the season opens. The schedule lists games at Cheyenne North Platte June 7 8 July 12 13, Sheldon June 21 22 August 2 3, Kearney June 14 15 July 1920, and other fixtures across North Platte Shelton Cheyenne and surrounding dates.
Dr. Osborne and Dan Kinneman drove from here to Saratoga in three hours and 45 minutes, reporting 41 miles covered. Osborne praised the cast road conditions and noted the trip as splendid considering the limited spring travel on the route.
Henry Myers formerly of the city and nephew of dry goods merchant William Myers was killed last week in Gold Hill New Mexico by two Mexican miners. They seized him in the store cellar after he opened the door and stabbed him twice in the heart before fleeing with cash. A posse pursued them as telegraph reports reached Silver City. Myers left a wife and three children.
The Basin field in Big Horn county sees a surge of filings with about eight townships claimed totaling over 184000 acres. A single day recently brought in about 200 filings at the county clerk's office as locating and filing proceeds merrily.
A Washington dispatch reports 39 Hat Creek Wyoming stockmen and most residents petitioned the president to delay enforcing the order to remove fences from public domain until Congress enacts a grazing law. The administration intends to enforce the order but minimize hardship, especially where no complaints have arisen.
Readable text notes a collection of animals imported from the Philippines for a new menagerie. Details on species or origin specifics are not provided in the available portion.
Classified rental brief listing several notices. A five room brick house at 1715 Capitol Avenue is available from H. B. Patten. A nicely furnished room can be rented via 306 West Sixteenth Street. Other brick-block rooms with electric light and janitor service start at $5 per month, inquire Warren Emporium.
Advertises cut flowers and designs for weddings parties and funerals at Chaffin's greenhouse located at the corner of Eighteenth and Central avenues Hot and cold baths available and Padgett's Barber Shop offers baths for 15 cents on Sixteenth Street.
Cheyenne Lodges No 1 A F and A M meet on second and fourth Tuesdays of each month in the Masonic hall Visitors examined at 7 30 pm Acadia Lodge No 11 A F and M meets on the second and fourth Thursdays in the Masonic hall Secretary P S Cook Chas Werks
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