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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1902
Page
3
The item lists KB A Black as editor and proprietor with Robert Mickel as business manager and George H Evans as city editor, outlining the newspaper's key staff roles.
Civic groups plan for Memorial day events tomorrow morning while the town observes the long summer vacation. Col Copeland arrives from Harrisburg as Governor Richards hosts guests.
Union Pacific California Express Car No 3 sped through Como after a bridge fire started ahead. The train crossed the burning span with no derailment as a section gang battled flames and braced the bridge with cribs to restore safety.
Twenty five Rawlins inmates moved to the old Laramie prison to ease overcrowding and work in garden duties for both institutions. Laramie awarded a new Star Mall route contract to Training of Laramie after a bid revision. A Decoration Day concert and Boulder baseball schedule are announced with ticket details.
From Evanston a year long dispute over section 27 township 15 north range 118 west ended as United States Land Agent Forbes and American Consolidated Oil Company officials allowed the derrick to be set for drilling on the former Union Pacific well site. The acquisition strengthens the company's holdings and ends controversy from the original strike by Union Pacific prior to patent.
The All American Bowling Trio will tour the western states after selection from the Chicago tournament. Sam Karpf of the American Bowling Congress seeks dates on the route with Wyoming towns Cheyenne Laramie and Rock Springs likely to host a contest. Letters to Sam Karpf in Dayton Ohio. A railroad project at Fort Steele drives 600000 ties onto freight cars.
John K King check clerk for Union Pacific died at his home in Rawlins Wyoming after a ten day illness. Niles Callahan contractor for the Laramie Plains line shifts camp to Reed ranch near Centennial and will resume railroad construction at once.
Uie Moulder baseball team welcomes the Colorado champions the Boulders for three hard fought games against the Indians. Kid Glaze will twirl for the visitors. John Kroell arrives to bolster the Indians with Eddie Logue joining tonight. Games start at 3 o'clock.
A special dispatch from Bvanswo reports the district court session in the city where Attorney J. H. Ryckman won four divorces for plaintiffs. Lizeley B. Graff received a divorce from John K. Graff with custody of three children and $25 monthly alimony. Winnie Byrne was separated from Joseph W. Byrne with custody of five children and an equal property division worth $8,000. Lou Ridgrove was divorced from William Ridgrove with custody of one child. Winnie Southwick was granted a divorce from George M. Southwick on grounds of non-support.
Next Monday the new gravel pits at Peterson in the west district of the Wyoming division will begin operation for the summer. The company will have three pits along the line and use a large steam shovel to employ about 200 men for excavating gravel and ballast the roadbed. The Castle Rock hill track will be ballasted and extend to Echo.
A Denver based Peerless Directory company plans a thorough house to house canvass in Cheyenne to collect names and occupations for a new city directory. They will tour residences and businesses, sort notes alphabetically, and print a larger, improved edition with annual updates.
A bicycle crash near the Masonic temple left P. Davis severely injured after the other rider swerved left. The rule to keep to the right is cited as preventing such collisions amid traffic.
A Tribune snippet recalls a heated exchange where a man demands return of a scarf pin claimed as security for a loan. The jibe about being “Sioux” and “Pawnee” triggers the start of open hostility.
Classifieds listing jobs and sales including a sober experienced barber, a good cook, rag buying at Leader office, a $450 piano offered for $300 with terms, four lots and three lots near Thames with Albert Chapman as agent, decorative cut flowers, eight east town lots via Chapman, multiple for rent furnished rooms at 417 West Twenty-first and 306 West Sixteenth, and furnished rooms with electric light and janitor at Warren Emporium.
Miscellaneous note lists cut flowers and designs for weddings parties and funerals at Chaffin's greenhouse located at the corner of Eighteenth and Central avenue. Also mentions hot and cold baths at Padgett's Barber Shop on Sixteenth Street priced at 15 cents.
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