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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1913
Page
2
In Rawlins Wyoming Timothy Kelley official court stenographer for the third judicial district died on Christmas night from pneumonia at the hospital three hours after contracting the disease. He had visited friends and clubs earlier that evening, disregarding his cold. His body is with the undertakers awaiting relatives.
Two men arrested in Rawlins linked to last Friday night burglary at a Laramie travery store. Franks Holgin, 22, from Monteno New Mexico, and Alexandre Ribera, 24, San Diego California, spoke with Mexican accents and claimed the store was robbed last week.
The man says Ribero is a friend met in Cheyenne and that he alone stole due to being broke. He admits most loot was in handkerchiefs found in a Rawlins Mexican rooming house where the men stayed. Holgin wanted full blame but the sheriff says he wavers, calling them old accomplices. Trial date not fixed.
Lawrence Salisbury attempted suicide by poison as sheriffs prepared to seize a team of Shetland ponies to satisfy a claim. A boarder knocked away the poison, but both suffered burns from the burning drops on lips and throat and on his hands.
F K Gerb had both feet badly frozen Christmas Eve while walking from Lost Springs to the Ed Snow ranch northeast of Lost Springs. He lost the trail, stepped into a spring, wetting his feet above the shoes, and trudged on in freezing conditions. He reached the ranch in snowbound barefoot and was brought to Manville the next day to recover.
Deep snow slows Paola mail with only one delivery since December 3. Visitors from the east arrive in Wyoming to visit relatives while residents make rare trips to Cheyenne, with several Paola residents attempting the three day four horse journey. Verna Vollock travels to Cheyenne to spend holidays with her parents as Mr and Mrs Haskell host Christmas dinner for Mrs Haskell’s sister and husband.
Hudson Wyoming dispatch reports Theoré 4, a hen owned by J. M. Taylor, laid an extra large egg Monday measuring eight and a quarter inches long and six and a half inches in circumference and weighing four ounces.
The roundup covers humorous and odd items from Chicago and nearby places. Ernest Holstein’s plea about stealing eyes as Christmas gifts led to parole. In Moran Kansas a high school case centers on a principal’s remark about a student. A divorce case in Chicago involves a wife and her alleged lap incident. Jersey City notes report a violet scented note about an inheritance and its impact on a parks director.
Reports from Yonkers New Jersey and Smithtown detail social notes. Ralph Herman seeks a home life partner finding Miss Rose Beechman of Westchester agreeable. Smithtown Messenger editor Robbins criticized for printing a flawed program. Leader’s new display type praised for late but welcome arrival.
In Boulder Colorado on December 24 a mysterious illness endangers deer and elk on the Chau taukua reservation. Six deer have died and ten more plus three elk show signs of the malady. Professor Kingman of the agricultural college suspects septicamera and warns few animals may be saved. An exchange notes silver is less valuable than eggs.
The opera and vaudeville star Fritzi Scheff wed George Anderson, her leading man and manager, in New Rochelle on Wednesday. Rumors of their engagement circulated after her February decree from novelist John Fox Jr. was filed.
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