Old Cheyenne Show Opens With 10000 Fans At Frontier Park
Ten thousand spectators packed Frontier Park for the sixteenth annual wild west show. The day featured thrilling events from a half mile pony and army officer races to bulldogging and a steer chase ending with a dramatic finish. Two accidents marred the program as Scout Mash and Corporal Weeden suffered injuries but remained on site. Ed Eddy the clown drew laughs while the Irwin sisters dominated the cow pony race.
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Scout Mash
Cleveland
Okla
Charley Irwin
Weeden
Ninth Cavalry
Hardy
Rush
Irwin
Buffalo
William Manders
United States Army
Nicholson
Irwin Girls
Cheyenne
Patline Irwin
Joely
Win
Jack Red Cloud
Jno
Redfern
Cowtoy
Frank Lemonds
Mash
Ed. Eddy
Sells
Curley McGuhen
Kid Moore
Hare
Tiny county clerk wins state attention in Wyoming
James R. LeMarr, 29, the smallest and youngest county official in Wyoming, serves as county clerk of Sweetwater County. He credits his win to a native-son stance, jokes about desk legs, and plans for re election while backing John Kendrick for senator and Woodrow Wilson for president.
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Wyoming
Pz” Emery
James R. LeMarr
Weetwater County
Sweetwater County
Mr. LeMarr
John
Kendrick
Woodrow Wilson
Mrr. LeMarr
Thomas LeMarr
Rock Springs
Cheyenne
Westminister College
Salt Lake City
Union Pacific Railroad
James
Frances Wayne Says Society Headliners and Cowboy Busters A Reunite at Big Show
Cheyenne Wyoming August 14 East meets West as Cheyenne hosts a grand Western show in Prouder park. The event unites Sioux dances with tourists bands banners and tri colored bunting while crowds arrive for a four day program beginning today and continuing through Saturday. The pageant promises a revived sense of frontier heritage with reenactments and Western contests under public gaze.
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Frances Wayne
Denver Post
Cheyenne
Wyo
Wyoming
Arry Ponte
Prouder Park
Dying man stabbed after tickler incident near telegraph office
Bert Rogers of South Platte Neb lies at St John’s hospital in serious condition after a man and a middle aged companion confronted him when he allegedly tickled a woman. Crowds separated the men but Rogers was stabbed. Police pursue a local suspect as Frontier festivities continue. Police, with twenty officers and detectives from Denver Salt Lake City and Omaha, report calm crowds and three arrests for drunkenness.
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Bert Rogers
South Platte, Neb
St. John’s Hospital
Western Union Telegraph Office
Seventeenth Street
Utomobile Pitral
Tadk
Almets
Shoels
Denver
Salt Lake City
Omaha
Frontier Program Events Second Day Attract Wide Sioux Contests
The second day lists numerous events including Fancy Shooting by Captain Hardy and daughter with Mr. Rush Razee, half mile Cowpony and Indian races, polo pony dash, military maneuvers, Ladies Cowpony race, Indian War Dances, Potato Race, trick roping, buffalo harness driving, Bulldogging, Squaw Race, Denver Post Ladies Relay with a $400 purse, Branding Contest, and World Championship Bocking, open to all and with substantial purses and cups.
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Captain Hardy
Rush Razee
United States Army
United States
Fort D. A. Russell
Denver Post
Regardiess
AuRel
Sioux To
Hold Up Attempt Foiled Near Rock Springs
Special to The Leader reports Roth Springs authorities stopped an alleged plan to rob a Union Pacific pay train near Rock Springs. Carl and George Steadman were arrested after overheard discussions of the scheme. George was jailed in Green River while his brother remained in county custody.
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Stralh
George Steadman
Green River
Cheyenne Feature Films moves to build studio in Cheyenne
Frontier park sighted yesterday as Cheyenne Feature Films and local concerns took moving pictures. Charles Irwin acts as park events director and president, J F Carroll as general manager. Otis B Thayer head producer. A B Weller secretary. They plan to erect a Western studio here, bringing government troops and cowboy subjects to local screens.
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Frontier Park
Cheyenne Feature Films Company
Moving Picture
Charles Irwin
the Park
J. F. Carroll
Selix Moving Picture Company
Otis B. Thayer
Selig Company
Cheyenne
A. BP. Weller
Carroll
Astoa
Astor Heir Born After Titanic Heroic Death
Mrs Madeleine Force Astor gives birth at 8:15 a m to John Jacob Astor the third, named for his father, heir to $5 million of the Astor fortune amid Titanic disaster fame and a fortune reportedly totaling up to $9 million for the newborn.
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New York
Madeline Force Astor
Col
John Jacob Astor
John Jaco Astor
Astor
Frontier Days Signal Corps dazzles crowd with field station drill
Army Signal Corps units perform a rapid wireless field station setup and disassembly at Frontier Day festivities. Captain William Mitchell leads the company. Lieutenant Henry Moyer commands troops amid a grandstand display. A trooper suffers a dislocated shoulder. ambulance transports him to hospital.
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Co. ‘1
Signal Corps
Frontier
William Mitchell
Henry Moyer
Fort Russell
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Nicholaou
Chapin
Mitchell
Enwor
Firat Claw
Inman
Cheyenne State Leader
Howse
Tts
Snoelly
Monard
Tread
Secon
Teama
Bfs
McAliaier Weeden
D Troop
Nile Hebwes
Smith
Kennedy
Johnson
George
Rooke
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