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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1921
Page
6
Cheyenne is Wyoming’s capital and largest city at the intersection of two transcontinental rail systems and major auto highways the Lincoln and Park to Park. A municipally owned water works provides mountain water 25 miles away. The town is a division point for air mail near Fort Russell and serves as an important jobbing center.
Market quotations show stock and bond movements with brief notes on grain and produce prices. Live stock and wool trends appear alongside financial and commodity updates, reflecting daily trading and market sentiment.
New York stocks rose amid better tone as automakers restart operations, copper shares led advances though some weak issues declined. Stude baker hit a new recovery high at 48 with a 1 5 point rise, while American Smelting and Inspiration saw notable gains as rails and specialties climbed. Chicago grain prices also posted modest moves with no major shifts in other commodities.
Prime mercantile paper unchanged. Sterling demand 3.68 percent, cables 8.6344. Francs demand 5.98, cables 6.00. Guilders demand 1.90, cables 32.00. Lira demand 3.60, cables 3.52. Mark 1.88 demand, cables 1.39. Greece demand 7.30. Montreal 145 percent discount. Time loans steady, call money steady with high 7, low 7, ruling 7, closing bid 6, offered 7. Last loan PMID.
In New York on January 6, the metals markets show domestic silver unchanged with foreign prices at 6853 and Mexican dollars quoted in the market.
Wheat prices shown for No 1 hard No 2 hard No 3 spring and sample spring. No 2 mixed and No 3 mixed with varying bids. Corn quotes include No 3 white No 4 white No 2 yellow and No 8 yellow. No 2 mixed and No 3 mixed priced. Oats bids listed for No 2 white and No 3 white.
Hogs receipts 9,000 in Omaha with prices $9.10 to $9.26 top. cattle receipts 4,300 with steers steady to up 26 cents, veals strong to $10.50. sheep receipts 4,000 with lambs 25 to 30 cents higher and bulk $10.60 to $11.25. Chicago cattle and hog markets show steady to lower hogs. Denver reports 1,700 cattle and strong hog demand with top cows $7 and hogs $8.50 to $9.26.
Estimates from Investor and Trader detail the 1920 national income about 78 billion dollars or 700 dollars per person. Key figures include capital wealth 500 billion dollars and annual farm products value 16.026 billion. Organization notes reference 1492 start and 1776 independence with later expansions.
For 24 hours ending 6 pm Cheyenne Wyoming shows temperature 46 at 6 am 27 at 6 pm with mean 42 and change 2 degrees colder. Highest 66, lowest 27. Precipitation 0.00 inches. Wind SE SW NE, velocities 38 20 232. Humidity 65 47 24. Normal temp 26. Average wind 9.3 mph yesterday.
A February 11 conference in Chicago will act on a plan to form a national live stock and meat council to promote meat consumption. Officials from livestock groups, packing firms, and state and federal agriculture departments are invited.
The secretary of the interior authorizes Western States Oil & Land to take oil from its well in the Salt Creek field section 6-39-78. Proceeds are impounded pending a government lease. after lease issues, funds are released to the company after royalty deductions.
The second anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt death marked by laying the corner stone of the Roosevelt House on 28 East Twenty sixth street. The Roosevelt Memorial association sponsors the project to inspire youth and promote good citizenship. Attendees included Mrs Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt Jr, Mrs Douglas Robinson, Major General Leonard Wood, Ambassadors Jusserand De Marchionne De Alencar and General Nivelle.
Mrs. Douglas Robinson on behalf of the Roosevelt family pledged furniture and furnishings from the old Roosevelt home for use in the house. Simultaneously friends paid tribute at Oyster Bay placing wreaths on the president’s tomb and organizing the Roosevelt Pilgrimage to visit the grave annually.
Master Gardiner Botsford eight years old will live six months a year with his father A M Botsford once an actor and six months with his mother now married to Botsford’s friend Raoul Fleischmann. Botsford refused to block his wife’s happiness after she left New York for Reno and wed Fleischmann, his college chum.
Dublin reports that on January 6 general orders authorize the release of prisoners from Trish, with official confirmation expected shortly. The move marks a notable development in local security policy and civil administration.
Freeman's Journal states directors Hamilton Howards and Martin Fitzgerald will be released from prison tomorrow for medical reasons. Fitzgerald and Howard were sentenced in December to six months for spreading a false report intended to cause dissatisfaction.
In Washington today the Senate debated Herbert Hoover’s European food relief program amid charges that some relief supplies were diverted to the Polish army. Senators Hitchcock and Kellogg defended Hoover, while Senator Reed renewed criticism. Hitchcock credited Hoover with a world renowned humanitarian achievement and said no relief was diverted to Poland.
In Houston in January a bankruptcy hearing opened against General Oil Company and a $20,000,000 trust company. Federal Judge Hutchison denounced opposing attorneys for obtaining a prior injunction that he said muzzled Cox and associates from asserting federal representation of the company. Cox and associates, who formed the company, back bankruptcy actions while opposing M. McDonald, the receiver appointed by Judge Harvey. The motion picture industry pledges $2.5 million to aid starving European children.
A botanic feature in Washington DC is identified as the so called mother in law plant. The described spines cause the tongue to swell and render speech impossible for nine days. The plant pictured is likely the only one of its kind in the country.
Nathan Behrin official reporter for the New York county supreme court breaks his own world shorthand speed record with 279 words in a minute at a New York State Shorthand Reporters' association contest. His prior mark stood at 278 words set in 1913.
Douglas Vickers, MP and at a Vickers shareholders meeting in London, said the armor plate plant may receive large orders from Japan in the coming year. He noted the British government urged maintaining the plant for potential future use and suggested government help with its maintenance costs.
Caribbean Sea editors report that many congressmen favor the purchase by Uncle Sam of the twelve Pearl Islands, a strategic group at the Pacific end of the Panama Canal now owned by Panama, potentially expanding U S influence in the Caribbean.
Chicago Jan 6 The Koo Koo Klan asks courts to assist a membership drive. The group can meet only with four members but currently has three. The Klan comprises inmates jailed for failure to pay alimony.
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