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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1911
Page
2
Meeteetse Wyoming January movement forms Rough Riders unit with local horsemen ready to drill and equip themselves for government service, aiming to present a strong community military option. Also reports a Sunshine dispute settlement and a Gooneberg fire destroys Robert Baird’s ranch home with $2,000 loss.
Mayor Kimball reports the $45,000 water and sewer bond issue has been sold and the funds will be deposited in a local bank by February 1. A first class civil engineer will oversee the system rebuild. The State Leader adds results.
Sheridan Wyoming January 27 18 year old Madeline Sullivan of Chicago marries Plenty Hawk a full blood Crow Indian. The couple live on Soap creek where he owns a ranch. Mrs Plenty Hawk becomes mother to five children from his former wife. Local opinion is skeptical with warnings of trouble from both white and Crow communities.
Two car loads of cut stone from Bedford Indiana were shipped to Casper Wyoming for a Pioneer monument by the Natrona County Pioneer association. The thirty foot high obelisk will stand on the site of the old Oregon trail now owned by the Chicago and Northwestern Railway, which granted permission for erection.
Meeteetse Delao Keefe and four companions were seriously injured in a coal camp explosion caused by a miner lamp spark. Casper National Bank window shattered by diamond in Vandala. Harney Cypey Coal seeks rail links with Chicago Northwestern for mine-to-main line access. Phillpoft arrives in Casper to supervise Franco Wyoming works, drills will start on titty wells. Emily Butler dies at sixty nine after long Casper residency. A stallion from the Twle ranch valued over 1000 dollars dies after arriving at a lively stable. Wyoming visitors are noted in Weaver region.
Dr and Mrs Wilson of Douglas and Mrs Hemmenway of Casper are guests at the Albany hotel.
Eastern girls seek western husbands and mail letters to postmasters. In Chester Pennsylvania two 15 year old girls Lydia M Grayson and Bertha A Powers, both telephone operators, request dresses of cowboys as suitors.
Berlin January 27. The brother of former President Castro of Venezuela, with the ex-finance minister, visits Germany after time in England, Holland, and Belgium. He reportedly seeks backing for a revolution in Castro’s favor, but attempts to obtain vessels for insurrection failed.
Dr Frederick Gwyer of Cornell University Medical College announced free care for injured dogs cats and other pets at the Animal Hospital and Dispensary funded by wealthy donors. The facility will treat patients previously limited to the Lafayette Street clinic run by the New York Woman's League for Animals led by Mrs James Speyer.
New York January 27 Persian consul general H H Topakyan says Persia will face a great tragedy if Husgia and Britain continue their outcry treatment. He cites a government letter charging breach of faith and reports Persia plans to borrow 70 million dollars in the United States to ease debt totaling about 74.76 million. The aim is to deny excuses for interference in domestic affairs.
The league offers free care for afflicted animals brought from New York City. Upon intake, a porcelain-lined tub bath precedes diagnosis with careful examination. no operation is performed unless necessary. The hospital, linked to university surgery and labs, provides for one hundred animals.
Nine riderless horses with hats tied to their saddles were found on the riverbank near Ciudad Porfirio Dias across the river from Fagie Pass. The animals were believed to be those used by rurales who had left ten days earlier for river patrols. It is unclear if the riders were killed in last Saturday’s clash near San Carlos or ambushed by insurgents.
Captain von Hintze formerly attached to the German embassy at St. Petersburg is appointed minister to Mexico succeeding Carl Buenz who will go to Constantinople as the German member of the administration of the public dealt.
Tonight the Colorado Agricultural College team faces C A in a preliminary basketball game. A dance follows after the game in Keefe Hall. Reporter notes include a local legal item about Francis P. Heney, aged 60, and his wife Sue San Francisco, linking to a Texas revelation tied to the Maldings case.
Denver reports Madame Luisa Tetrazzini, hailed as a leading soprano and successor to Adelina Patti, will appear at the Auditorium next Wednesday night. She will be paid 2,500 for each of thirty American concerts, a heavy guarantee Denver’s Robert Slack secured, marking Denver as a major musical center. After San Francisco, the diva's itinerary includes Oakland Los Angeles Denver Kansas City and Chicago as Western stops.
The funeral of David Graham Phillips was attended today by scores of prominent men from arts, letters, science, and nuance.
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