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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1914
Page
12
Mrs Ver Beck discovers a telegram to her husband from his confidant and plans to confront him at the theater. She shadows him to see if he will meet the “widow” and ends up at a performance of The Merry Widow, unsure if her husband sees through the ruse.
Governor Craig and Judge J C Pritchard, as university trustees in Raleigh, spurned a $50,000 offer from the Rockefeller Foundation for the Y M C A unit. They cited the institution as a state entity and rejected outside aid despite trustee discussions of other schools receiving Rockefeller funds and a prior alumni pledge plan.
Endive supplies a popular salad green though underused. Reads like a vintage recipe guide outlining Endive and Tomato Salad with French dressing, Endive and Potato Salad, Endive with Grapefruit, and a German Endive Salad with bacon fat, onion juice and vinegar.
Ed Walsh the famed White Sox pitcher arrives in Chicago from Meriden Connecticut and plans a brief stay before heading to Paso Robles California for training. He aims to regain his peak form with an early start.
General Freyre Andrade of Havana announces a decree allowing free betting on baseball games. Public wagers had not been permitted since American occupation began.
Miss Myra Benson traveling from Tacoma to Manila asked her Tacoma parents for permission to marry Leroy N. Knettle of Pomeroy, a Shriners excursion acquaintance. Her father replied to use her own discretion. the following wireless stated she was married and happy. She is a former Smith College student.
New York February 6 All social clubs that are incorporated fall under the income tax law according to Commissioner W. H. Osborne of internal revenue. He says Congress did not intend to tax such groups but left them in by oversight, making them taxable.
Robert Knight of Weld county died of pneumonia while attending the miners convention in Indianapolis. His widow and parents, Mr and Mrs Thomas Knight, left Longmont to accompany the body.
Clifton Pinchot former U S forest chief was formally invited to run as the Progressive candidate for U S senator from Pennsylvania to replace Bolero Penrose. The invitation came from a unanimously adopted resolution at a Washington party leaders conference in Harrisburg on February 6.
Chicago Feb 6 Stockmen and stock shippers in the middle west secured a major break as the Interstate Commerce Commission agreed to take up the issue of railroad liability in shipments. The Supreme Court previously affirmed a mandatory liability clause at 50 dollars per head, with added freight rate penalties. Shippers fear protracted losses from stock damage or death during transit, and expect the commission to settle the matter definitively for all time.
United States officials in Vera Cruz deny a plot as they confer over the war situation. A wireless dispatch from Tampico reports rebels massing for an attack, expected reinforcements arriving February 8, and rebels destroying a water tank 15 miles upriver from Tampico leaving three days of city supply.
In Washington the house seated Rep. J. M. C. Smith Republican of Michigan after overruling Claude Carney’s contest alleging fraudulent ballots counted. Smith takes seat as the chamber resolves the partisan dispute.
Walter H. Page the American ambassador spoke in Newcastle on the Monroe doctrine and the Mexican situation. He affirmed the United States seeks no new territory or European rule in the Americas and would defend self government for the continent even if necessary with a military presence, a protectorate would not be acceptable. A separate note reports a duel between horses in a barn ending in their euthanization after both suffered broken legs.
Evans Feb 6. With sharp shoes and teeth the two standard bred horses of J K Kimsinger engaged in a fatal clash. The incident, described in terse notes, highlights a deadly duel between two horses owned by Kimsinger in a rural setting.
The Packey McFarland versus Mike Gibbons boxing match is moved to March 9 in New York after a delay. Billy Gibson, Garden Athletic Club manager, postponed the original February 12 date and intends to resolve the matter in Chicago with Eddie Reddy and Mike Gibbons.
Federal Judge Dooling issued an order allowing operation of disputed oil lands. The court held that when non production causes injury, the wells may run and receipts offset production costs, with revenues impounded until title is finally decided.
A New York supreme court jury ruled a Barnes law meal sandwich qualifies as meat and grants a Sunday liquor drink. Justice Philbin reversed the ruling, setting aside the verdict and declaring the sandwich not meat for liquor eligibility.
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