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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1919
Page
5
Two recently discharged men confessed in police court to giving liquor to soldiers at the union station. Each man was fined 30 dollars after the afternoon proceedings.
In Judge Swainson's court yesterday afternoon nine individuals were fined 25 each after arrests earlier in the day. The group, largely Mexican, faced legal penalties for public intoxication and related offenses.
Final release delivered to a member of the local board in Lara mie county. The document includes General Crowder’s appreciation of board service. Women of Chattanooga Tenn. gain first municipal election voting opportunity in June. Isobel Klein of Clarksville honored as the state’s only practicing woman attorney in Arkansas.
Basin area rancher J M Montgomery left for a three year world tour after recounting his farming success. He purchased the ranch in 1907, produced $34 600 in crops last year with a net profit per acre about 699 40, and over five years averaged more than $20 per acre from farming plus livestock. He credits feeding crops to stock on the land and notes sugar beets yielded the most profit, with some acres clearing up to 90 per acre. He predicts Basin land near easy filing points will be worth 800 per acre and pay interest on that value.
Two Chinese men arrived in Cheyenne seeking a laundry location and a new shop, while plans for plastering the new courthouse top floor move forward. Local ads promote auto services, window glass, baby carriages, and popular music lessons, as Plains Hotel staffer Marek returns from service in France.
Twelve year old Billie Meniger son of Judge Willian C. Menatier constructs a working vehicle from improvised machinery. He uses bicycle motors wheels and a simple steering setup to power a small mock car named the NCH. The craft took weeks and will gain a proper head in the future.
A damaged notice reports a pow sale for a Shudebaker touring car described as 1048 model. The fragment mentions an address 108 18th St and the phrase for Kent Taree ree, but details are unclear.
A vehicle struck pedestrian Hecker on Seventeenth Street and Capital Avenue yesterday. The driver sped away after the impact, leaving Hecker with nine injuries and at home care arranged by the driver.
Clyde Hackney of the Plains Mercantile Company was acquitted in police court yesterday after three eleven year old boys testified they bought liquor there. The bartender and others said the boys never entered the establishment. William A. James defended, City Attorney Wallon prosecuted.
A box car theft yielded a pair of shoes a pair of trousers and four cast iron shelf brackets. Police report no arrests yet as no clues to the thief have been secured and the investigation continues between Laramie and Cheyenne.
Eyewitness accounts relay brutal acts by Turks Kurds and Circassians against Armenian women and girls. Many were separated from families exchanged or sold as slaves while others endured beatings starvation and tattooing in the Syrian desert. Relief agencies report 15 homes for refugees established in Asia Minor and ongoing efforts to shelter the survivors.
Col. William G. Ball oversaw the bakeries supplying daily bread for two million U S soldiers in France. He received two rewards including the Legion of Honor from France and a U S recognition for his wartime service.
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