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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1912
Page
16
A Wyoming speaker urges early settlement of Cheyenne contiguous lands, warns of private ownership hindering growth, and calls townspeople to unite in building the city with rail and fort support followed by wholesome industry and food. The piece also notes Governor Marshall's Indianapolis speech praising cooks over governors and addressing women.
The governors' convention in Richmond voted 14 to 4 to repudiate Governor Blease of South Carolina over lynching remarks. Four governors backed the sentiment but abstained from reprimanding a colleague. Carey of Wyoming denounced pleas for a white male supremacy claim.
Pending assembling of peace delegates in London Balkan allies draft joint demands on Turkey and exchange communications to define mutual obligations. Formal acceptance for all powers to send delegates to an abdicated conference not yet received. Greeks press campaign on Chios and Jnuina with ships patrolling near Dardanelles. Vienna reports Serbia installing batteries opposite Orsova on the Danube.
Democratic senators secured an early advantage by blocking an executive session to consider Republican presidential appointments in Washington D.C. The move marks the initial skirmish in the ongoing information access dispute.
Congressman W. T. Taylor was stricken with appendicitis and is in grave condition in Denver. His wife is recovering from an operation in an adjoining room. His daughter has just recovered from an operation for appendicitis.
Washington reports say Wall Street seeks to adjust to a possible change in anti trust policy under President Wilson while Attorney General Wickersham denies new attacks. He states his office will push current cases to completion and ease the transition for the next administration. He notes Wilson inherits more trust cases than prior administrations.
A visit to Oriskany Falls New York reveals a transforming town where a small dam and power-house supply electricity to a farm setting. Cows are milked by electric power while machinery handles cream, butter, vacuum cleaning and sewing, showing three years of successful electrification.
Denver’s Chamber of Commerce forms a 100 member knockers committee to curb negative talk about the city and state. Volunteers will visit known critics, urge quiet, and collect notes in boxes for public shaming and potential consequences.
In Kansas City Kansas at a women’s suffrage meeting a member reports asking her six-year washer woman about votes for women. The seamstress says politics don’t interest her and she leaves it to her husband who believes women should stay at home.
Reading about desert flights shows that at 1000 feet a clear view is possible while fog often hides the ground if higher. Bomb tests reveal damage is hard to gauge from a single plane, so a second aircraft follows to assess aftereffects. The Case also features a dialogue about a landlady named Mrs Pruner amid a personal confession about a woman.
The meat of yarded poultry is more tender than that of free range fowls due to extreme muscular development in the latter.
Larned Kansas December 6 town council tacked a for rent sign on the Ford calaboose suggesting it would serve as an admirable chicken house. Ford has had no inmate for the cellblock in two and a half years. Rival routes between Ford and Hugoton are noted. Nearby Grand Rapids Michigan December 6 an unidentified body, likely a crew member of the schooner Rouse Simmons, was found on Pentwater beach with wreckage drifting ashore. Read Leader Want Ada Wyoming.
The condemned Willie Luis, a Chinese man, was executed at San Quentin after anti capital punishment leader J M P Christeson disrupted the gathering with a protest citing Christ and thou shalt not kill. The note mentions his prior reprieves and that his mother remains in China.
The condemned man at Folsom State Prison walked to the noose without fear and addressed spectators. He requested his favorite dish chicken and ragtime music, had two guitarists, a cornetist, and a tenor perform, and asked for a phonograph with records including Bryan's Immortality speech and Always Keep on the Sunny Side. In Arkansas, two masked robbers held up a southbound train near Malvern, shot a passenger, and forced others to jump from the moving train. One suspect, Joe Willis of Fort Smith, was arrested. The theft amount remains unknown.
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