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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1909
Page
3
Readable notes describe First Congregational and Methodist services with choruses and soloists, and a Presbyterian program featuring Miss Marie Buchanan. A quiet Christmas eve wedding in Cheyenne unites Miss Mattie Repp and Mr. Harry Ulrich at the Presbyterian manse, while social events and home gatherings color the holiday week.
The night shift of the local police entertained Chief Mane wal, Night Sergeant Embry, Jack Hiteahaw and reporters with a surprise midnight Christmas feast. An elegant turkey dinner awaited the invited guests after a prompt midnight assembly at the station.
Industrial Club committees finalize a three day program for the Wyoming Wool Growers Association meeting January 3 and 4 at Keefe hall. bands, an orchestra, a theater show, a smoker with boxing, and musical luncheons will entertain flockmasters and visitors with multiple performances at Capitol Avenue theatre and Keefe hall.
In fierce fighting, women armed with rifles endure trench warfare and one is wounded and hospitalized. Many prisoners are boys under sixteen. General Gonzales, defeated government commander, joins General Estrada and eats insurgent rations. Zelaya quits Managua and heads to Corinto with a small guard after a night-time retreat.
A 90 pound man calling himself a former famous jockey is detained in Sheridan Wyoming after a cold exposure episode on the Omaha to Sheridan trip. Found unconscious from cold and hunger he is in police care and talks of racehorses owners and his former property as he recovers from presumed insanity.
Gould Brokaw testified today that while ill he offered to take back his wife if she stopped accusing him of infidelity and calling him names. He said he would wish her a merry Christmas and a happy New Year if she complied. The exchange is tied to a divorce claim and a plea to create favor for the defendant.
Five people were wounded in Wagoner Oklahoma after a confrontation between J. M. Collier and Sheriff James Childers. Collier allegedly forced the sheriff to run along a road at gunpoint and then followed the sheriff and his brother home. A battle ensued leaving Collier probably fatally wounded and Mrs. Childers, her husband, and his brother injured.
In Colgate Oklahoma on December 24 Samuel F P Woods a Santa Fe engineer refused to reveal a Christmas package to his wife triggering a family quarrel. Woods choked his wife then followed her to a neighbor's home with her brother George Holland where Woods opened fire. Holland returned fire killing Woods.
Five men are believed dead and seventeen injured after an engine explosion at the Rock Island shops in Shawnee Oklahoma at noon Today. Names Kerr and Johns among the known dead. The blast wrecked the shops and hurled machinery. Kerr’s body found three blocks away and fragments of Johns found on neighboring rooflines. Officials monitor remaining employees as guards enforce order.
Cannon City Colorado December 22 Louis Dressler a Denver convict who escaped yesterday morning was recaptured in the city last night but was shot in the arm by prison guard Charles Harkin Dressler is serving a two to four year term for burglary
In Louis on December 24 M Dwight Fortner was found guilty of uttering a forged $12,000 check signed by Henry Co Tulley. He received a two year penitentiary term linked to an attempted sale of an apartment building owned by Tulley.
The Detroit audience heard La Follette accuse Senator Aldrich of supplying Michigan with favors in exchange for political influence. He claimed Aldrich kept Michigan powerless in the U.S. Senate, describing a subservient, traded influence dynamic.
Tomorrow morning at the First Presbyterian Church Mr Hills preaches on Universal Peace. Youth group led by Mr Scott meets at 6 30 with topic Our Responsibility For Home and Foreign Missions. Evening service features special choir music with Miss Marie Buchanan assisting. Mr Hills will speak on Christmas in History.
William J. Bryan, in Jacksonville for several days with threat of pneumonia, has sufficiently recovered to depart for Miami today. He plans to continue to Cuba and South America after reaching Miami.
A Canadian Pacific passenger train with twelve coaches derailed near Chapleau Ontario when rails spread apart. Of about one hundred passengers onboard fifty were injured but none believed seriously hurt.
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