Market Quotations and Currency Rates Reported
Market quotations show Sterling at $3.8746 and Francs at 12.90 per dollar. Marks are at 2.44 cents, with money market movement noted as 0.8 percent.
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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1920
Page
11
Market quotations show Sterling at $3.8746 and Francs at 12.90 per dollar. Marks are at 2.44 cents, with money market movement noted as 0.8 percent.
Liberty First 34s listed at 91.04 and 4s at 85.60. Liberty Second 4s 84.62 and 4%4s 86.80. Liberty Third 4448s 88.80 and Fourth 434s 86.08. Liberty Fifth 4%s 95.72.
In New York copper remains steady with iron and tin also unchanged. Lead sits at 8.50 and antimony remains unchanged while zinc remains steady. Hast St. Louis shows no change.
In Denver on July 28 dealers offered higher butterfat prices due to demand and scarce supplies. Shippers receive 62 cents at stations and 56 to 68 cents direct. First grade butter at 67 cents with a likely advance. second grade 53 cents. Poultry prices rise with wholesale hens at 39 cents. eggs hold at 49 to 52 cents. Vegetables steady with a tilt toward lower prices as supplies rise. Apricots arriving in large volumes while gooseberries and strawberries are past season.
Raw sugar in New York opened 10 to 20 points lower under scattered liquidation by commission houses. By midday, prices rallied to the previous night’s close on covering.
Livestock report shows native grass steers offered and sold near steady prices with weights affecting value. Cattle quotes range from 9.75 to 11 for common to good grades, with medium cows at 7.25 to 8 and stock cows 5.50 to 6.60. Hog receipts noted as moderate.
Around 400 head were on offer with pork among the top bids at $15 for one load of choice hogs sold to a small killer, while bulk hogs brought $13.75 to $14.50. Light pigs mostly $12, butchers steady around $12.50 for quality stock. Sheep see lambs at roughly $14.50, medium kinds $14.25 and up, ewes $7.50 to $8 for select lots.
Receipts in Chicago: cattle 7000, hogs 16000, sheep 17000. Cattle opened steady to strong on choice steers with best yearlings at 16.75. hogs unevenly higher 10 to 25 cents, top 16.60. western lambs steady, natives weak to 25 cents lower, top 14.75. Prices given for various categories: stocker cattle, canners, veal calves, and sows.
Omaha July 28 cattle receipts 8300 market steady on all classes. Hogs receipts 11000 market active 25 to 40 cents higher medium and light butchers 14.25 to 15.00 top 15.26 packing grades 13.50 to 14.00. Sheep receipts 17600 killing classes about steady top lambs 15.40 feeders up 10 to 15 cents, best sale feeding lambs 13.75.
Minneapolis notes flour at 70 cents to lower, in car load lots family patents quoted at 13.50 to 13.55 a barrel in 98 pound sacks. Bran at 45 dollars. Chicago price table shows No 1 red wheat 2.66 to 2.68, corn 1.40, oats 0.78 to 0.79, rye 2.04 to 2.07, barley 0.95 to 1.06, timothy seed 30 to 36, pork nominal, lard 18.75, ribs 16.75 to 17.25.
Yesterday's Wild West sports roundup lists top times in calf roping led by Sam Garrett and King Merritt, plus relay results with Darrell Cannon and Bob Lee. Steer bulldogging crowns Paul Hansen and King Merritt, while steer roping shows mixed times for several competitors. wild horse race finishes with Wyatt Webb first and King Merritt third.
Roach Lloyd Carroll and Hugo Strickland hold their places after Roach debuts with Boxer in a rough frontiersman contest. Sexar rises on hind legs amid sharp taunts while Pale Face and Boise Kid push hard. Currié Nation shines as Kan supporters cheer a dramatic finish.
The article describes a Wild West show with rough riding, wild horses, trick riders, and stunts. Will Rogers is absent due to personal reasons, Red Sublett fills in, and the crowd enjoys weather and spectacle as the show nears its finale Friday with a parade and anticipated attendance from Tim McCoy and possibly William J. Bryan.
The crowd watches a peaceful Dance of the Firelight as Arapaho warriors shed war gear for beaded moccasins and eagle feather adornments. Drums rise and fall while squaws and papooses join the rhythm. At mid dance Yellow Calf orders a crowd spectacle with Crowlvdnee staged before pale-faced spectators.
The Crow inspired dance depicted battle scenes by warriors with high leaps and war whoops while squaws cowered nearby. Cameras filmed the spectacle as thousands watched the vivid fire lit performance. Adjutant General T. J. McCoy joined with a hoop dance impressing the audience.
About $1 200 in jewels stolen from D Miller store after he notified the sheriff and police. A drag net was launched with telegrams sent to nearby towns and trains watched, but no arrests yet. Miller had no robbery insurance and faces total loss unless recovered. thieves reportedly studied the store layout. Wednesday’s robbery was the first in seven years, with prior diamond heists in the same period.
Baseball scores from a multi league slate show New York beating St Louis in 14 innings 6 to 5 and Philadelphia over Pittsburgh 5 to 4 in the second game. Cleveland routed Boston 8 to 0 while Detroit defeated Washington 6 to 1. New York also posted a 5 to 1 win over St Louis in one matchup.
The State Leader sold 650 copies on Wednesday making it an extraordinary record for a small city newspaper with no sensational news.
Indians from the reservation join Frontier Days activities with a hockey game and visits to downtown sights. Brave visitors slip away from guards while dances unfold as squaws and bucks mingle with paleface tourists in the dance circle.
Gossip claims a white woman, abducted as a child after her parents' death in a raid, has lived among Arapaho Indians. She is said to be married to a chief and speaks only the tribal language, with hair lighter than typical.
Two thousand Fuji textile firm workers in Tokio struck after the company refused to recognize their right to organize. The Tokyo cable to Nippu Jiji reported the action as an acute issue for Japanese labor relations.
After a Frontier Performance on Wednesday afternoon several boys showered cushions at attendees in the grandstand. Deputies will be stationed in the stands tomorrow to prevent a recurrence. The event draws distinguished guests and the disruptions must end.
Berlin July 28 The Reichstag approved by a large majority the government Spa agreement with representatives of the Entente. The accord aims to settle postwar issues and restore relations among the allied powers.
A Kentucky reader from Mayfield, James Carmen, reports good health after using Foleys Kinney Pills. He states the medicine helped kidney and bladder issues causing sore muscles and rheumatic pains.
Visitors flock to Frontier Park after meals as church ladies report record evening crowds. Bread, pies, and leftovers sell at reduced prices with the YWCA cafeteria also busy. When it closed after eight on Wednesday night, 352 people had been served. Restaurants stay crowded and lunch stands see strong patronage.
The Barkalow Brothers check stand in the men’s waiting room reports a boom with Frontier guests. Regular stalls filled Wednesday and luggage spilled onto the waiting room floor with overflow to the depot platform lining the entrance in stacked grips.
Congressman Swope of Kentucky urged a federal plan to bar entry by any unassimilable immigrants to Pacific states, arguing loyalty and patriotism should decide who enters. In Tacoma, Willis R. Lebo testified that Japanese workers aided the Northwest economy through small fruit and vegetable production, while M Yoshida of the local Japanese association provided land, business, and population figures.
Frontier visitors split their day with pleasure in the afternoon and evening while mornings are filled with appointments with dentists doctors lawyers and tailors. Business is brisk in mercantile houses and federal state and county offices report more out-of-town patrons.
Detroit police identified a body found in a New York trunk as Mrs. Eugene Leroy and sought further city reports on possible husbands. Allan A. Tatum refused to accompany officers from Birmingham, aiding the investigation. Judge Cotter issued a warrant for Leroy alias C J Wood Fernandez for first degree murder. In Birmingham Lieut Don B Smith conferred with Tatum, who later declined to accompany officers to Detroit or New York.
Doorn Netherlands July 9. Former German Emperor William maintains a small court at Doorn larger than at Amerongen with about 40 German staff and a Dutch barber called in for grooming. Military order surrounds the residence and William is seldom seen.
Outside the wire fence of his estate villagers call his 40 hectare cage. The former crown prince William has paid visits to Count Bentinck at Amerongen and, from day to day, sees few new faces, mostly his daily associates, due to his mother’s illness.
The Frontier committee and the Chamber of Commerce urge Cheyenne residents to list available rooms at the accommodation headquarters in the Chamber of Commerce building by telephone 95. With rapidly growing visitor numbers, current accommodations are insufficient and more rooms must be secured for the crowd arriving today.
Evening crowds filled carnival streets with playful prizes of groceries and fruit baskets. Western cries from costumed performers mingled with jazz dancers as visitors from across regions roamed the glow of dance halls and ice cream parlors.
A Tuesday Tribune note claiming Simmons Hardware of St. Louis would give Daisy Parsons a silver mounted saddle is incorrect. The Frontier Association is the actual gift giver, with the saddle destined for Parsons.
Funeral services for 3-year-old Benjamin McLerran, son of Mr and Mrs Benjamin McLerran, were held at the Marly-Bricker Brothers parlors at 10 this morning. Interment followed at Lakeview cemetery. Lawson Robertson questions whether current American athletes will top Stockholm marks from eight years ago.
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