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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1912
Page
2
Sheridan residents push to break retailer price fixes by forming meat markets selling ranch products directly to buyers. Boone Jones and other local ranchers back a quiet study showing retailers form a close trust and reap larger profits, aiming to challenge widespread price controls.
Rores Wyoming February 5 deputy game warden C P Sorenson reports plans to ship four cars of elk calves about ten months old from Jackson Hole to a point in the Medicine Bow range. Calves to be fed hay at a ranch until snow clears before release. Sheltering arrangements with county and forest officers to prevent destruction. Legislature may raise shooting out of season to felony with prison term as deterrent.
John W Smith sues in Billings for 26000 for injuries near Sheridan on November 16, 1941. Burlington Freight alleges jarring of a caboose due to road employers carelessness causing fractures and ongoing incon venience and financial loss. Matthew Callahan seeks 50 000 for spine injury near Newcastle in September 1909 while foreman of a Burlington out train. coupling broke and a collision threw him against a seat causing permanent injury to his back.
C Corwin pleaded guilty to embezzlement at a special District Court session last Friday. He was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary after being arrested in Cheyenne and brought to Green River, having posed as a Northwestern Land Co salesman and collected hundreds of dollars on land contracts later repudiated.
On a reservation ranch near Kinnear James Barquin shot Jim Date in the left leg during an argument. Dale then struck Barquin with the gun, rendering him unconscious after a brutal beating. Dr. Cognwell attended both. Barquin’s injuries were worse. Barquin faces a preliminary hearing before Judge Rock with many witnesses subpoenaed for both sides.
Edwin Colthorpe suffered a painful accident while handling a dynamite cap the cap exploded and a hole was driven through his hand. Dr. Geo Harris dressed the wound and the county patient was moved to Basin Hospital for care.
In Riverton last Saturday morning Laura Lord died after a bridge on her dental appliance became displaced in her throat while she slept. A well known dressmaker, she had worked in Lander for years. Her death leaves several children motherless. funeral services were held in Riverton on Monday.
Reports announce incorporation plans for a Wyoming town, a large majority vote, a Miss Bonita Reed from Lusk operated in Omaha for appendicitis, Newcastle mill operations shifting to home product, a half horsepower elevator at Laramie warehouse, Shriners state convention in Rawlins with rail rate support, A Sthiser & Son laundry sold to Kell and Herman Abraham, a potential Manville cold storage creamery, Evanston Commercial Club to host an April minstrel for development funds, Basin relocation for B J Sullivan, early talks of a canning factory led by Frank Gepeu, and Sheridan hosts推动 rolling and loan movement underway.
Lingle advances a building and loan project following Cheyenne and Laramie plans. J D Wugate designs a two story business building box 20 feet in dimensions. Sheridan mayor bans liquor sales in the red light district. Cody seeks a creamery with ranchers promising 210 cows for the venture.
The clipping records multiple marriage announcements from towns like Encampment Sheridan Casper Lander Newcastle and Pedro detailing brides and grooms such as Mr Jobin Ang and Miss Margaret Nielkell plus Mr George Magel and Miss Maud Chapman. Major Davy Gordon’s California wedding is also noted. Separate notices report births in Lander and Casper and a crime arrest in Held for Crime involving Mc Neill tied to property sales.
A Methodist minister from Kanaan begins duties at Barna. Mr. Chris Hite and Mina Elthea Sasaions of Garland wed Thursday. Garland forms a poultry association drawing local interest in chicken raising. A son was born to Mr and Mrs Ben Medius of Rock Springs recently.
Ernest Heasenius was arrested Sunday afternoon at his wife’s grave as her casket was lowered. He admitted to physicians and police that she fell from a balcony and died from the fall, but a postmortem showed strangulation as the cause. The head wound occurred during a kitchen struggle.
United States District Attorney Charles W. Miller and aides plan to present a true bill for nearly fifty men to a grand jury. The proceedings were held in secrecy with no nonparticipants allowed on the third floor of the Indianapolis Building. Burns and his operatives supplied the information for questioning witnesses, and officials say escape is unlikely.
Six children perished in two adjacent houses burned in a fatal blaze. Fire officials say the flames engulfed the homes in a matter of minutes, with neighbors reporting frantic attempts to rescue the youngsters. No cause yet determined, investigators probing possible accelerants.
The message references an uprising of rebels on the Mexican border. Yu le Sam is determined to protect U.S. border interests, with troops at Fort Russell in close proximity to the scene of action.
In a Prom Page 1 continuation Optimian discusses in the presence of Vickers and De. L. W. Bertnee the dying man who says he has given up hope of recovery. He suffered asthma tuberculosis and Bright's disease, with doctors once unable to offer any hope of recovery.
The house bill extending to Bureau of Mines employees the right to receive compensation from the government for injuries incurred on duty was approved by the Senate and now goes to the president.
A quantity of dynamite, caps and fuses was found today in a vacant factory near a viaduct built two years ago by the American Bridge Company. Workmen cleaning the place alerted authorities and electric lights and guards remained on duty during the investigation.
William B. Johnstone a former Union Pacific employee based in Omaha is accused in Denver of wholesale thefts and numerous marriages. Authorities say he likely has at least a dozen wives across several cities, with about 4000 items found in his rooms and many photographs showing intimate relations. His Denver wife testified she did not know of his infidelities or stolen goods.
Superintendent Jeffers handled Rawlins rail matters while Kingsford’s jurisdiction expanded to Ogden under new division limits. P S Hlggins became chief clerk in bridges and buildings, and L A Saver moved to road master duties. K Satona named Wyoming station foreman. A W McDuffie assigned to Evanston to Green River district. A mine rescue train went north toward Sunrise. Union Pacific earmarks half a million for territorial advertising as part of a 1 200 000 publicity fund for 19 2. Wyoming and Denver offices coordinate.
New York February 5. Reports say Ad wit Hawley left an estate of 40 million dollars but the will cannot be found. The document was prepared in 1903.
Washington D D C Feb Mins arthena Harrison daughter of Ma Hussel B larrigon and granddaughter of President Benjamin Harrison married tonight to Harry A Williams Jr of Norfolk Virginia.
In Burns, Massachusetts on February 5 two children of Charles Jackson perished in a house fire that destroyed the building while they were alone with a neighbor.
A meeting of all Cheyenne manufacturers and dealers in home made goods is urged for eight o clock Wednesday evening at the Industrial club. The purpose is to discuss plans for a Made in Cheyenne exposition to widen markets and advertise Cheyenne made goods, with a committee to arrange details and receive suggestions. Wr HW Vaughan, Chairman.
Washington February 5. Milton W Blumenberg, discharged as official stenographer of the senate Lorimer committee, testified that the stenographic report by J B Sheridan was manufactured. Blumenberg called the notes fake and said no man could make them out. Other stenographers and experts were summoned to testify.
Mystery still surrounds the assault on Mrs. A Jones as two black soldiers are suspected but the real culprit remains uncertain. County attorney, sheriff, and police have examined them, gathering evidence and outside testimony to build a case. Gibson’s alleged similar crime adds to the investigation as a cap found at the Jones home is linked to Wilson. A preliminary hearing will follow as testimony is woven.
Tax Commissioner Jonn McGill plans a Tuesday trip to Rawlins to press Carbon county board of commissioners for a joint stance with Routt county on sheep taxation straddling Colorado and Wyoming. Routt seeks year round taxation in its county, risking seizures of Colorado livestock crossing the line for full year taxes. McGill aims to avoid double taxation and secure a fair tax split for all counties involved.
A list of newly appointed post masters across Wyoming counties includes Lewis E Klein Lookout Albany county Lydia E Steele Cora Fre mont county Auva Ellis Junc op Laramie county Siunle P F Horton Dale Creek Albany John H Kiughers Salem Laramie county L M Stewart Stewart Laramie county Mea Nettle Barker Warren Converse county Jimmie Lee Welch Fort Mackenzie Sheridan county Mee Laura Bry ant Burlington Big Horn County Park C Spencer Thayer Junction Sweetwater county Thomas Wright Pathfinder Natrona county
New York police questioned Charles M Dickinson after the explosion that killed Mrs Helen Taylor in her apartment. Investigators say the bomb was manufactured by Dickinson and used in the murder discovered Saturday.
The estate board of equalization met yesterday and adopted the 1912 livestock valuation schedule. It lists values for cattle, sheep, horses, swine, and other stock by category, naming members Hon. John L. Baird as president and KR. B. Forsyth as secretary, with Frank L. Houx and John Schuneman as clerks.
Cheyenne branch of the International Typographical Union endorses leaders for national posts. Fred Harker of Spokane is named president, J M Duncan of New York vice president, with Geo R Merrit and Dan Delaboyd as delegates to the AFL. Trustees for the Union Printers Home include Wal ter E Ames and Pleas J Wright among others. The group supports a Cheyenne manufacturers show and reports other locally important business.
Rumors spread in Cheyenne that Col Steever had been shot while Col Seaver, in command at El Paso, Texas, was involved. Late last night Lieut Steever confirmed the report as unfounded, easing concerns among his friends in Cheyenne.
In Judge Petit’s courtroom Michael Gluckman was ordered released while eight months of preliminary detention loomed for a minor charge. His lawyer faced censure for neglect of duty.
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