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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1914
Page
16
A city health official warns residents to boil drinking water due to algae and small insects from a dry season. Measures include screens over intakes. no filtration is available. The notice urges precaution to prevent typhoid and other diseases.
Huerta’s regime collapses and Francisco Carbajal is proclaimed president by arbi trators’ understanding. The move halves Villa’s hopes, preserves Huerta leaders’ exit, and signals constitutional reconstruction with U S recognition possible. Wilson and Bryan’s diplomacy gains vindication while political shifts ripple to figures like Frank Mondell.
The piece argues independents will drive the vote if parties push reform while records show inconsistent loyalties. It criticizes Republicans for past railways ties and questions recent progressivism as a tactic to regain voters, urging principles over opportunism.
The article notes broad bipartisan support for Secretary Lane's conservation bills at the current session. It emphasizes unlocking western resources with safeguards, limiting private giveaways, and regulating future development. Key measures include a water power bill, general leasing, Alaskan coal leasing, and a government road for Alaska to aid western coal needs.
Sheridan Enterprise argues that extending the repayment period for land and water rights on government irrigation projects from ten to twenty years would ease farmers hardship and promote settlement on desert lands made available at high cost.
Cheyenne relies on three reservoirs and a large natural spring feeding from a 75 square mile watershed. Granite Springs Lake and Crystal Lake reach 90 and 70 feet deep, with North Crow at 40 feet. 6 million gallons are consumed daily. Round Top holds 8 million gallons in two cement compartments, one recently emptied and cleaned. Authorities screen intakes to keep filth out. boil-water advisories urged for two months per Dr. Snyder.
A Washington visitor reports skepticism over a steel downturn in Pittsburg. Insurance agents discussed a plant slated to idle for months, with the manager denying losses yet confirming orders and a boss’s instruction to shut temporarily as laughter echoed the claim.
A historical note describes a woman in Silesia who bore 62 children, all surviving to adulthood. The offspring lived in open-country conditions with simple food from fields and forests, homespun clothing, and outdoor sleeping. They traveled on foot and led a hardy, contented life with few modern conveniences.
By Temple Sketches from Life property, real, personal and mixed, of investing monies, loaning, buying stocks and securities, borrowing and giving security, mortgaging and selling assets, all incidental to a general optical business. Board of directors to govern, capital stock $15,000, five-year existence, first managers Bertha B Agnew Floyd F Brower Lillian F Wells, principal office 223 W 17th Cheyenne Wyoming, agent D W Gill, secretary Lillian F Wells, attestation ys 16-17-18.
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