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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1914
Page
13
Heavy traffic concerns push city officials to pursue a steel traffic solution. The proposal aims to alleviate congestion by reinforcing key routes and improving load handling. Officials emphasize rapid deployment and long term stability amid urban growth.
J A Ottman assistant division engineer inspects the Wyoming division as crews replace worn steel. Most of the second track will receive new rails while old iron goes to branch lines and sidings. Additional gangs will extend work to branch routes and westbound lines across the division.
Dean E. A. Burnett told about 450 cattlemen at Beef Producers Day at the Nebraska College of Agriculture that feeding at home is the only solution to baby beef scarcity. He argued beef can be profitably grown on high priced land if roughage is used well and good management is applied.
C. A. Beach chief clerk of the railway mail service in Cheyenne departs for Omaha to confer with Superintendent Reed on Union Pacific main line mail distribution. He seeks to regain mail formerly on his lines now assigned to the Southern Pacific or secure an equivalent redistribution if unsuccessful.
St Mark s Guild plans a fine musical program for an evening reception and dance at the Parish House tonight. Public invited with a 25 cent admission. William Conrad Mills, newly acclaimed vocal instructor from the Arizona School of Music, will perform several solos.
Kidnappers of Warren McCarrick aged 7 from Philadelphia failed to hand the boy to Philadelphia detective Helen Bates as agreed in Buffalo. Bates predicted the child would be released within 48 hours, a forecast not fulfilled as the night wore on.
William Conrad Mille a noted Phoenix choral director and tenor arrives in Cheyenne for a concert Friday under St Mark's Guild at the Parish House. His prior Cheyenne appearance earned praise for his lyric tenor, clear enunciation, and refined stage presence in oratorios and dramatic numbers. Sanitary Home Laundry.
Local passenger agents report Cheyenne travel heaviest Wednesday in months, likely due to June 1 summer rate changes. Officials anticipate continued growth, with western travel heavier than past summers as eastern points implement the new fares and reports from Denver and other locals corroborate the surge.
The St Marks Guild hosts a musical event at the Parish House on Friday night featuring William Conrad Mills director of the Phoenix Choral Society. The Phoenix singer Mills is lauded by the Arizona Republican and praised for drawing a record audience to the Arizona School of Music, overflowing onto Central Avenue as the audience applauds the choir and soloist.
The exploring party to Cheyenne cave yesterday faced four showers and one half storm. All participants praised the country’s beauty and noted excellent feed as conditions improved.
Local notes report many residents and visitors moving through Cheyenne. Entries include deaths in Douglas, legislative candidate J. F. Milligan, travelers returning from Kentucky and Illinois, and various arrivals from Wheatland Lander and Torrington. Deserter case and vagrancy arrest noted alongside service calls and advertisements.
Bandits dynamited the Rexford Montana post office safe and wrecked the general store today. They obtained 358 dollars and are believed to be the same gang that held up the Great Northern train at Rondo.
Leonard Broderick travels to Kentucky for summer, while W L Berry and Miss Theodore McKew are noted in Cheyenne and the Union Pacific offices. Railroads prepare for a record grain crop by overhauling cars, with 107 steel passenger cars ordered from Pullman. Denver Union Terminal Railway hires C C Post to lead depots work. A nationwide rail strike vote looms as 98 western railroads fail to agree with 65,000 engineers and firemen on wage hikes and conditions. 98 percent expected to back a strike.
Quebec June 3 authoritative figures place the Empress of Ireland death toll at 1,002 with 465 survivors. Most survivors are crew members. About 100 passengers were taken on at Rimouski, altering previous tallies.
Italian aviator Cevasco is drowned in Lake Maggiore when the hydroplane engine bursts during a flight. The accident occurred at Sesto Calende, Italy, on June 3.
Sandusky Ohio June 3 Tony Janus local aviator announced plans to attempt a transatlantic flight for a moving picture concern.
A letter from N A DeKay Salt Lake City to Thomas Heaney Jr manager of the Capitol Avenue theatre Cheyenne confirms a strong vaudeville bill for Salt Lake City May 30 1914. The Empress act features the Four Qs Thornton Corlew Stamm and others praised for English humor banter singing and headlining appeal.
A severe electrical storm in Minneapolis destroyed a Catholic church and a factory. St. Charles church and the nearby parish house occupied by Rev. F. J. Lang were burned. City fire apparatus were all engaged in combating the blazes.
Chicago resumes building operations as about 50 000 workers rejoin the job after the end of a three week strike by 2500 brick makers. The city returns to normal productivity following the stoppage.
June 3 report says the yacht Resolute, under perfect weather, beat Stanitle in the second trial for the America's Cup defender race against Lipton's Share rock IV.
Father J. J. Murphy, 43, a popular Catholic priest in Oregon, and former Detroit American League baseball player, died Monday night. He left college for major league baseball, later entering the priesthood, and moved to Oregon two years ago.
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