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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1910
Page
10
Gillette dispatches report brakeman John P. Stine, a well known rail road worker, ran atop a Burlington freight train. He lost footing and was run over as the train moved at speed. The body was interred at the local graveyard.
Rock Springs reports an eight mile Union Pacific branch to Reliance to serve two large coal mines and new camps. In Th u r b e r a mining accident claims Beveridge’s life. A Wyoming winter sheep estimate predicts over 2.5 million head wintered, with 1.25 million lost last year. A 6 year old girl sustains a fractured skull in a wagon accident near Irma Flat. A gun accident near Rock Springs injures a man but not fatally. Remains identified near Sheridan as Thomas J. Jones. Fire destroys a Dupont ranch barn at Lander. A forest fire threatens Mexican creek country. Sunburn prevention lotion advertised.
Anthony Pollock prize money, long unused in Paris, awaits a claimant. Clark asserts a device to save ships from sinking by using an air pump system and inflatable bags along double spars around the hull. The prize began as fifty thousand dollars, reduced by two thousand over fifteen years.
Nurses will examine all absentees returning to school before room entry to detect evidence of infectious or contagious diseases. The note discusses potential changes affecting Johnny's participation next term and general nurse duties.
Spokane dispatch reports two hundred Idaho militia were dispatched to St. Joe to combat a forest fire menacing the town. The blaze sweeps timber near the city and a parallel effort of 200 militiamen fights the fire along the Bovinne branch of the Milwaukee railroad moving north. Fires on Marble Creek south of St. Joe add to the danger.
In St Louis on August 29 a school board hires five nurses to visit homes of absent students to verify illness before excusing them from school. The plan aims to curb truancy by proving sickness with nurse assessments, keeping children in class.
Sheriff Hughes and Chief Smalley released about twenty suspected criminals detained during the Frontier Days celebration. Pocket-picking cases were reported as crowds left the event.
The Democratic state convention will meet in Sheridan Wyoming on Tuesday September 20 at 10 a.m. to nominate candidates for governor secretary of state auditor treasurer superintendent of public instruction justice of the supreme court and U S representative. Delegates are apportioned by county based on votes for Hayden M White in 1908. Delegates will be chosen at county conventions and county chairs urged to issue calls.
President Taft's letter to W. B. McKinley, head of the Republican congressional committee, urged Republicans to set aside divisions and support party principles in the upcoming congressional race. He argued loyalty to the 1908 party platform would secure effective backing for the candidates.
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The president says Republicans of all factions should await new evidence before changing tariff rates. He notes Profett's plan for congressional action and discusses tariff commission investigations. He stresses educating the public to dispel misrepresentations obscuring major issues and promises.
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