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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1919
Page
8
Unusual sight of two locomotives pulling trains from Cheyenne to the east observed in Union Parish yesterday. Doubleheaders used on eastbound freights due to snow trouble east of the city. Westbound runs commonly use them. on eastbound trips they are infrequent but necessary.
The state board of law examiners met at the capitol to consider bar admission applications. Members listed include Alph Kimball, Lan der, William BD. Noss, Cheyenne, P. Arnold, Jamie, William L. Walls, Cheyenne, and Thomas W. LaPlviche, Sheridan.
Mission Apartments at Capitol avenue and Twenty first street were handed over Tuesday by Mark Chapman, agent for the syndicate that erected it, to Dan C. Barksdale who had purchased it a few days earlier.
Arrivals from Glendo 35 miles north of Cheyenne report a steady downpour that lasted five or six hours before precipitation changed to snow. Ten inches of snow fell in the storm that swept Wyoming Sunday.
Fritz Marquardson formerly of Denver, now in Cheyenne, is reported in critical condition after a sudden collapse Sunday night in his room at the Cheyenne Private Hospital Annex. His wife arrived from Denver last night.
Agricultural Agent Erle G. Reed announced the Laramie County Farm Bureau will move meetings from the first Saturday of every other month to the second Friday. The next gathering is scheduled for June.
Cheyenne counts oil town dreams as Cactus Petroleum abandons the Round Butte test after drilling through three sands and finding only water. The firm considers moving tools to a site near Horse Creek, about thirty miles northwest, where another well is under way near Horse Creek station on the Colorado and Southern line.
A trainload of soldiers bound for Fort Russell is due to reach Cheyenne from the east. The unit will transfer to Colorado and Southern tracks for de trainment at Fort Russell siding. A second troop train headed for the Pacific coast will pass through the city today amid recent demobilization and snow disruptions.
The Cheyenne Fort Russell street railway blockade eased yesterday after about forty eight hours with no car traffic. Cars had avoided the line as automobiles used the track as a highway and packed slush against the rails causing freezing and halted streetcar travel until ice was cleared.
The state highway commission met at the capitol yesterday with all members present. They discussed a broad road building campaign contingent on voters approving a proposed $2,800,000 highway bond issue. Board members listed include M K R Johnston president L R A Condict Yo seph C Kinney Lee Roy Laird and W BR Weeks.
Tracks and animal footprints spark imagination in a playful mystery feature. Read today and study tomorrow and Friday for a light old time mystery puzzle that invites readers to guess what animal made the prints.
Potter Nebraska men hire L M McDaniela of Douglas Wyoming to sink a test well sixty miles east of Cheyenne. Work to begin within sixty days, according to the syndicate.
A Sunday blizzard halted plows and sped snow drifts that soon blocked roads and streetcars. The storm slowed rail travel from Cheyenne to Nebraska as westbound trains ran late into Monday night and Tuesday morning, with schedules disrupted by drifting snow.
An April social gathering labeled Thursday initiation drew attendees to a smoker and general festive atmosphere organized by the committee.
Chief Waler Tender B A Clary at the navy recruiting station 212% West Linevin Way has a list of 36 questions and answers about war risk insurance policies held by army and navy members. He will answer questions from insured men about conversion provisions. Mr Clary reports ten enlistments in the district last week.
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