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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1917
Page
2
Reports from Sheridan Torrington and Goshen County describe mysterious airborne lights nightly over towns. Residents cite fast moving glows, possible enemy balloons or aircraft, while officials dismiss known bases and question the threat level.
Mere M. Lawson returns from New York City after a week with her son serving as a young naval officer. She has another son in the navy now in France, and she has received letters and a telegram from him. He will be in Cheyenne for several days as a guest of Major and Mrs Samuel A. Smoke at Fort Russell and the Plains Hotel. her home is in Kansas City.
L. A. Broderick announces the night school telegraph class at Cheyenne High has fallen from fifty to twenty five. With a national rail and government telegraph operator shortage, students are urged to return. Two teachers are available and Western Union instruments are now provided by the school board.
Cheyenne youths who shovel walks for locals convened to raise rates. They announce new prices: twenty five cent jobs rise to thirty cents, fifty cent jobs to 55 cents, and one dollar jobs to 1.05 dollars, citing higher candy prices. The move reflects cost of living pressures among city youths.
Report claims Wade Hamilton was lynched by three men in Rock Springs last Wednesday after an alleged assault on three women. Prosecutor Fred Johnston told Governor Houx by letter that he had determined the lynching occurred.
Reports say three white men removed Hamilton from the Rock Springs jail with several other prisoners present. Authorities, per the governor's request, are seeking the trio to arrest them. No prisoners were molested or freed. See Hobbs 2 Muckfelt for a square deal in furniture opposite Plains Hotel. B-utt
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