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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1917
Page
13
Local notes list visitors fromChicago Pueblo Kansas City Salt Lake and Los Angeles plus residents traveling to and from Cheyenne Includes Miss Nancy A Mack named notary public and several visitors staying at the Plains hotel Marks of small town columns with short business and social tidbits across various cities backed by local services ads.
Hailey was in Cheyenne from Laramie on business yesterday. Charles J. Lackey, known to many Cheyenne residents, is here on business from Big Piney. Parallello Man from Channes 1. Congen from Pocatello visits Plains. J. J. McDonald from Salt Lake spent yesterday in the city on business. The Thompson Motor Company installed a new Ford electric sign on Central Avenue.
National League results show Boston 4 over Chicago in game one and Boston 4 over Chicago in game two. New York 7 defeats Pittsburgh 3. Cincinnati 2 beats Brooklyn. Philadelphia 6 defeats St Louis 0. American League Chicago 7 over Boston 1. St Louis 1 defeats New York and other imperfect entries include Chelena 4 and Philadelphia 5 with unclear remaining scores.
Omaha men J. H. Pas and J. F. Peterson traveled from Omaha for business in Cheyenne while Minneapolis and Chicago visitors, including K. T. Lame and J. M. Trapp, were noted. J. Kronenberg from Chicago stayed at the Plains hotel as did R. M. Ferguson from Fort Collins. F. G. McIntosh, of Franklin Pennsylvania, and J. K. Moore Maran of Oklahoma were listed among yesterday’s guests and travelers.
Harry Lambert of Jackson Michigan faced Clayton Byers Pacific coast champ at the Coliseum. Byers won 125 to 10 in five frames after betting he would run thirty in the first two. Byers opened with forty and followed with thirty five. Coliseum match signals upcoming championship bout. manager seeks a challenger in Denver.
Boston consulting engineer Dr. Victor Alderson has been tendered the presidency of the Colorado School of Mines in Golden at a $6000 annual salary. He previously led the school for fourteen years before retiring amid trusteeship tensions and has not yet stated whether he will accept.
Shortly after midnight police investigated a West Twenty-first Street house after a family heard a moan on the roof. A bicycle rider alerted authorities. Officers searched two adjoining roofs with no climber found. Police doubt the same man behind earlier Cheyenne burglaries was involved.
Senator Pittman’s bill to open 200000 acres of government land in western states for lease, believed to contain sodium potassium, was favorably reported today by the Senate Public Land Committee.
Washington wired Werner Reed and George W. Musser, federal mediators appointed in the Leadville dispute, directing them to Gallup New Mexico to attempt to prevent a threatened coal field strike. The message arrives as tensions rise among miners and operators amid labor unrest.
In Austin on August 2 the Texas House debated impeachment moves against Governor Ferguson. A substitute resolution proposing a speaker pro tempore was rejected OS to A, leaving rules that no temporary speaker be elected. The decision allows the speaker to preside or appoint a temporary chair, affecting the impeachment inquiry.
New York authorities from the Department of Justice opened an inquiry into alleged marriage brokers supplying women as wives to men trying to evade military draft. The investigation seeks to determine if such arrangements violated draft laws or national service regulations.
Washington August 2 Comp troller Williams announced national banks at the last call June 20 held resources totaling 316.10 million or 2.22 billion dollars, the highest ever recorded, exceeding the June 6 figure by 11. State Leader Oessified ada bring resulta.
Provost Marshal General Crowder declared that a marriage contracted after a registrant was called for examination does not create a dependency status that would grant immunity from conscription. The ruling was announced in Washington D C amid efforts to structure exemptions during wartime.
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