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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1919
Page
9
Mrs Arthur Capper wife of the newly elected Kansas senator has arrived in Washington to join her husband and take an active part in society affairs. The capital life will be new to her as the wife of an ex governor.
Washington reports that government control of telegraph and telephone properties ends at midnight tomorrow. Postmaster General Burleson issued orders for the return under a congressionally approved resolution signed by President Wilson ten days earlier. He said public opinion will determine how the trust has been met and defended his management amid criticism, adding a final remark about the Postal Telegraph company as officers were ousted months ago.
Washington July 30. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers urged President Wilson to curb living costs by government action or higher wages. Warren Stone and the advisory board presented the Cleveland meeting conclusions and met with Director General Hines who supported government steps to lower costs.
A leasing bill affecting government owned lands moved forward after a Senate public committee session. Republican Senator Goat of Utah drew the measure which aims to replace earlier failed attempts. Chairman Smoot announced daily committee meetings to push the bill.
William Pester arrived in New York from California after thirteen years in the southern deserts. He advocates living on five dollars weekly with no haircuts or shaves, possibly adopting stocking loss as a fad. He poses with a handmade ironwood guitar from his desert home.
Isaac N Bard Cheyenne pioneer and Wyoming pre emption claimant died after a long illness last night at age 77. A Boonville New York native, he arrived in Cheyenne in 1867 to help build the railroad and remained a leading elder among the state’s early settlers. Funeral arrangements will be announced.
Harding Ohio centers on intra state rivalries as two potential presidential candidates emerge from the same state. Notable figures and party insiders rally around differing paths. The dynamic tests party unity and signals shifting regional influence ahead of nominations.
Zurich July 30. A Vienna rumor says the allies demanded the unconditional resignation of the Budapest Soviet government in response to talks over Soviet withdrawal led by Bela Kun. Dispatches from Basle and Berlin report Hungary proposed Colonel Cunningham withdraw the Soviet and form a new government, sent to the Paris supreme council.
Lieutenant G H W Ticer and Lieutenant W Clayton, in charge of military police at Cheyenne, have been discharged. Lieutenant Paul C Boylan takes over his duties. Ticer heads to Salt Lake City, Clayton to his ranch near Tulareza, New Mexico, a ranch of 6090 acres with 250 cattle and 160 horses, in an area growing as an oil region.
Premier Clemenceau as peace conference president sent a note to the German delegation protesting German sales of national property in Schleswig where plebiscites will decide union with Denmark. The note warns such properties are security for the German indemnity and that Germany will be held responsible for proceeds.
Representative Kahn of California introduced a bill directing the postmaster general to establish and operate air mail service between New York and San Francisco. He proposed creating a nationwide air mail route to speed cross country deliveries.
Casper Wyoming July 30 Ed. J. Riggs assistant cashier of the Wyoming National Bank shot and killed himself at the home of Rev. W H Bradley pastor of the Presbyterian church. He was dejected after receiving a note from the fiancée breaking their engagement as he arrived for dinner.
Jack Dempsey meets film stars Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin in Chicago. Fairbanks lifts the heavyweight champ briefly to show strength as a stunt gesture, but the plan to lift them both ends without risk.
The dominion government sale today decided to buy and market the Canadian wheat crop of 1941. The crop will be sold at prevailing world prices and the surplus proceeds will be distributed among participants.
Chicago amid a four day race war saw Governor London mobilize state troops at Mayor Thompson’s request. A three mile square red zone on the South Side barred entry and searched residents for weapons. Incendiaries targeted negro homes as mobs roamed, with officials calling conditions ominous and Negro leaders warning of privation as trains faced disruption. Continuous clashes were reported at 68th Street and Racine Avenue.
Attorney General Palmer, in Washington, states recent race disorders in cities like Washington and Chicago arose from local conditions, not Bolshevik influence. He notes some Bolshevik propaganda seen among Negroes in the South and mentions money and literature spread to effect it.
Dr George B White for the American Committee for Relief in the Near East alleges Turkish authorities killed about 250000 Greeks along the Black Sea coast by parboiling in baths and abandoning them to die of pneumonia during winters 1914 16 and 17. He cites mass deportations from Sinope to Cape So and mentions 15000 survivors in Thafra with many orphans.
F E Whitcomb files a Johnson County district court suit in Buffalo Wyoming claiming 26000 damages for humiliation and mental suffering after E B Metcalf allegedly entered Whitcomb's bank and called him A d n dirty Hun and other epithets in view of bystanders.
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