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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1917
Page
10
A coroner jury blames the locomotive for a wreck near Granger involving a freight train with sheep and cattle. Several injured, one dead, as the fire and debris spread across the caboose area and surrounding cars.
Cloudy conditions with a 24 degree mean temperature for the date. Highest and lowest swings report 54 mph wind from the west and 42 degree low after early morning. Precipitation totals unclear with references to inches and melted rain.
The piece criticizes Ban Johnson and sports leaders for seeking exemptions to draft, arguing athletes across baseball, boxing, football, and other sports showed patriotism by serving. It honors Johnny Poe and Hank Gowdy as early war volunteers and notes many athletes in service, with calls to continue uniting sport and liberty efforts.
Three Germans including a noncommissioned officer and a civilian official were executed for treason in Germany after being exposed as Allied spies. Dr. Roos led the cell, aided by Joseph Schnitzler and Albert Strudel, with espionage conducted via invisible ink and coded newspaper lines. The plot supplied military and economic data to neutral Switzerland, with rewards offered and accomplices later tried.
GREELEY Colo Nov 39 Thirty six pint bottles of whiskey were seized from two Mexicans by Ault town marshal Steve Sheets as they alighted from a Cheyenne train. The men refuse to name themselves. They hid the stock in bedding rolls and were sober at arrest. They say they have worked in Nebraska and stopped in Ault to visit friends. They will be taken to the county jail in Greeley.
Douglas Wisconsin reports a surge in home building with hundreds of houses planned for spring. contractors face a labor shortage as they push ahead with new apartments and the Smith building near the post office moves toward completion. Bank plans for a new banking house are denied by Vice-President Davis.
Amsterdam dispatch reports a large socialist demonstration in Budapest Sunday urging peace and an armistice. Speakers warned democracy must use all means to end the war and denounced victory by force of arms, calling for a general strike.
John R. Lawson won the referendum for president of the Colorado state federation of labor with 45,470 votes to 4,578 for Albert Carpenter. The Denver count confirmed Lawson’s victory in the organized labor election.
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