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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1912
Page
4
Soldiers at Fort Row settle a yearlong boycott over ten cent fares. The plan united business interests and readers, with four days of free rides offered but rejected. A conference between The Leader and The Tribe helped end the boycott and a mailway rail strike settlement pace is set.
The National organization of traveling men began a New Year boycott of tipping to waiters porters and other service staff. They frame tipping as a borrowed, outdated burden and hope others may follow, though no stir has occurred yet.
Thomas M. Patterson urges selection of multiple routes through Ito as the Ricky Mountain News backs a continental highway. The piece highlights Colorado, Wyoming, and New Mexico as key states in the envisioned transcontinental network.
Patterson argues for promoting all three Colorado routes to advertise benefits across the state. For the auto tourist, the fastest continental crossing favors the Union Pacific corridor through northeastern Colorado, offering easy grades, nearby railway access, and proximity to Yellowstone Park, Cheyenne, Laramie, and the Mormon Temple city route through Wyoming and Utah.
In a column the Leader long pushed Charles W. Burdick as a successor to Judge Hook and as a possible Supreme Court pick, but new word says Warren plans Burdick for Circuit if Hook goes to the high court. Wyoming voters resist machine politics in federal judicial appointments. Francis E. Warren faces a likely Senate defeat amid the controversy.
The Rawlins Republican article argues Pat Sullivan may become Chairman of the Republican State Committee. It recalls Sullivan’s opposition to tabling a Warren resolution and notes his progressive Republican leanings. It also mentions Willie Deming as a possible chairman and remarks on a harsh winter benefiting winter wheat.
Collection of disjointed lines and quips ranging from politics and personal life to weather and humor. Lacks a central event or identifiable figures, presenting brief observations and whimsical notes with no cohesive narrative.
Hank Hankins was seen at the corner of Seventeenth and Capitol in a weary state, wearing yesterday's suit and puffing a cob pipe. He spoke of a Tribune contest controversy and claimed a reporter misdated Abraham in a story about Warren, Polliver, and Barrow. He implied delays from a Washington dispatcher and headed toward Goose Neck holler.
Lieut Erlenlotter departs Battery D for F Battery. Shadwell becomes D Battery Guidon bearer. Sergt Moeller promoted to Q M Sergt from corporal. Horseshoer Putnam of Battery F to South Carolina to re up in cavalry after finals. Private Fleury to Ft Riley Kansas. Henry with E Battery. cook demanded by 1st Sergt Colvin. Sgt Casey of Battery F acts as first sergeant. Shine Wright from Eleventh Infantry Ball team cause mischief in Batteries quarters. Benjamin Jones discharged from Co I signal corps returns to Buckeye state. Corp F H Groff seeks news at quarters. Knickerbocker quartet entertains Battery D. Joe the Blacksmith hosts a keg. In Company K Sheeney Mike to Ft Riley. Mike Milch aims to be a baker. Corp Houghkirk of Co I sick with fever. Sergt Mirtz of Co H furloughs for three months to Rockyford Colo.
Citizens consider attending the Fork L.A. Muswell athletic meet as street car service is asked to be arranged. The letter questions manager officials about transportation arrangements for spectators.
Centerville reports Richard Olson Richards publicly announced as a progressive candidate for United States Senator pending the Republican primary next June.
The C & 8 road paused travel to Orin Junction due to a heavy drift of snow fifteen feet deep and about 1,500 feet long on the approach. Three to four engines were pulled from service during three days of bucking the drift, and officials expect the rotary plow to break through by today.
Fragmentary lines suggest a reflection on political virtue and meekness, with references to end outcomes and ward dynamics. The garbled wording hints at a newspaper item discussing public figures and governance themes.
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