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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1911
Page
2
F. J. Thomas nearly froze while camping in a remote site used by Clement Ayers freighters. He lit a camp stove and was blown clear by a hidden dynamite stash Abbott left in the stove for safekeeping, a mishap that injuries him and led to a hospital stay.
Sheridan, Jan 21 Captain and Mrs. Washington Rawlins marked their fifty-eighth wedding anniversary at daughter Ella Arnold’s home. Their sons L. T. and Frank W. Rawlins attended with families, while daughter Mrs. George Fox could not be present. Mrs. Rawlins, formerly Nancy Butler, married January 1863 in DeWitt Iowa. he served in the Civil War with an Iowa regiment and is 76, she also 76, both in good health.
Local reports swirl over the migration of a southern opossum into this area where it was captured in a trap set by George Evans, a regional trapper. The mounted specimen has drawn curiosity among residents.
Denver report notes Racell Reynolds of Lusk Wyoming receiving an award, with sparse OCR detail surrounding the event and participants.
A junior contestant won the afiver cup for the best steer but the animal was later killed and entered in a different carcass contest where it placed third. The winner was Lernolds, a youth from Reynolds ten years prior who lived on his father’s cattle ranch near Womba all the site. A separate note records detective Pendergraft’s prison sentence for grand larceny connected to a baggage track valve theft on the Union Pacific platform. Also, Union Pacific reportedly plans to renew work on the North Platte to Medicine Bow line, crossing Colorado & Southern near Bordeaux, Wyoming.
A compilation from several towns reports injuries from runaway wagon incidents in Newcastle and a platform collapse in Kivanston injuring James Warburton. Other items note new owners of the Upton News Letter, a destroyed Sutherland ranch home by fire, and various local births and deaths. Also listed are Wheatland election plans for a company captain and a mine back injury in Evanston.
Annie B. Horton Sebas, widow of former Continental Savings Bank president Schas Sebas, turned over to the bank receiver property valued near $104 000. The bank, placed in receivership weeks earlier, was found to hold all Schas real estate deeded to it before the president's death by his own hand.
Washington June 2 Major General Leonard Wood ordered a general re organization of army field training to reduce the annual practice marches from seven to three. The first march by companies lasts three to six days, the second by battalions three to six days, and the third by the entire garrison six to ten days, with training spanning April 1 to November 1.
A reader is advised to keep Pape's Diapep sin on hand to aid digestion and ease sour stomach, gas, and nausea within minutes. The ad extols harmless digestion, urges reading the pros and cons, and mentions stomach ailments and general relief claims.
McAleater Will Din, formerly deputy sheriff at The, was accidentally killed while hunting near Jan. 21. He reportedly dragged a shotgun through a wire fence, leading to his fatal injury.
Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans reflects on life and contentment while resting in Chicago between traumas. The fragment notes his uncertainty about whether a peaceful life yields to many people and hints at ongoing contemplation.
A speaker contemplates moving from Washington to California to settle by the ocean and resume business interests. He extols the lasting honor of commanding battleships, noting presidents rise and fall while an admiral serves as long as pension rules permit, unaffected by political tides ashore.
At the Colorado State Retail Merchants convention in Greeley resolutions urged closing of saloons on Sundays and Sunday hours for grocery and butcher shops. They called for changes to factory inspection and estate laws to allow grocers to file claims with undertakers and doctors, and supported garnishment of officer salaries. The group opposed the parcel post law and direct wholesaler sales to consumers, while endorsing the pending post district law.
A well known city business van visits breakfast tables as lush California oranges and new orange knives attract buyers. The thrifty wife reads a newspaper ad offering spoons and knives free with a brand of fruit, prompting her husband to buy theatre tickets and inspiring neighbors to join the orange buying spree.
Telegrams signal statewide railroad interest in a publicity meeting to be held in Cheyenne on January 28. Secretary Pearlstine of the Industrial club reports messages from business representatives including Vice President A. D. Parker of the Colorado & Southern indicating attendance by proxy or remote participation.
Corpus Christi January 21 children at play found Nastra Martinez a Mexican buried under a cactus with head crushed. Police seek a man and two women last seen traveling to Mexico connected to the case. The report also notes agricultural advice on alfalfa pests and other local notices.
Kansas City report says Professor G J Hunter of the University of Kansas claims a found method to kill grasshoppers. The Jan 21 dispatch notes the breakthrough aimed at agricultural damage in Kansas fields.
Louis Walker, shot last Friday by Isobel Phelps, a toilet articles demonstrator, dies from wounds. Mrs Walker is not seriously hurt. Phelps is charged with first degree murder. She boarded with the Walkers and says they attempted to injure her, with suspected mental imbalance.
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