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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1912
Page
5
A Cheyenne item page lists varied notes from repairs and shop openings to court pleas and travel. It covers guilty pleas by James Wheaton and Jack Careon, visits by Dr. Wright, a new haberdashery, street cleanup, road inspection, and local social notices including a G A R tribute and Masonry event.
Homestead Kattes Opal M De Ment of La Grange George W De Ment also of La Grange Viral Williams of Morrill Neb and Hattie J Mc Laughlin of Laramie filed applications for 420 acre homesteads at the federal land office.
The Chicago Milwaukee and Puget Sound company aims to build 140 miles of Montana extension this year to compete with Hill interests. Project cost is about 36 million dollars. The McDonald Opera Company passed through en route to Mana today. The U P will move the Flirting Princess to Laramie on the 16th. The B and B department of the U P repairs and decorates yard offices.
Superintendent W H Wahlen of the Southern Pacific based in Los Angeles passed through Cheyenne on No 4. C T Peterson traveled to Boone Iowa, via U P M Smelley rode U P to Birmingham Alabama. Sergeant Cager departed Cheyenne today for Baltimore. B M Kenack bought a ticket to Chicago over U P A W Bettus was bound for De Queen Arkansas on the U P.
A Fourth Field Artillery soldier attempted to steal a package of cigarettes from the Senate saloon on Sixteenth Street and Carey avenue. He fled east toward Capitol avenue but collapsed, was taken by a policeman, and later repaid the fifteen cents with a kindly loan from a boy in blue, ending the disturbance as artillerymen returned to the post.
The Albany hotel Denver plans a seven story fireproof annex with 120 baths to handle overflow. Completion and furnishing expected by July 1. Renovations include $150,000 in remodels and private baths in the original wing, bringing total rooms to 360 with 280 baths and 60 private toilets.
The twenty-second annual Scottish Rite reunion at the temple drew 40 members from across the state. Degrees conferred include Secret Master, ninth, tenth, fourteenth and fifteenth with multiple officers cited. over 200 attended a noon luncheon and a long list of class members is named.
A long hotel arrivals list shows guests from multiple cities including Denver, Lander, Casper, Wheatland, Cheyenne, and St Louis among others. A brief rural tableau closes with a child’s moral tale from the June Farmer's Wife about a precocious girl questioning duty and conversion.
Mr and Mrs Hen Sweet return from Idaho and Pacific coast trip. Sweet, park board chairman, says two amusement caterers will seek city council permission to operate at Minnehaha Park to boost public enjoyment.
The Studebaker Corporation outlines a major reorganization to standardize manufacture and improve service. Clement Studebaker Jr notes the car is no longer a toy but a vital life feature and warns against chasing fleeting trends.
Less than one hundred Cha tauqua season tickets sold. local committee aims for 800 to proceed. Eight hundred ticket pledge sought to guarantee summer Cha tauqua with $1,600 already pledged by public spirited citizens. Also reports a forest fire on the Columbia River Lumber company land and a new blaze near Blackberry Creek spreading toward Golden with potential losses in the hundreds of thousands.
Forest fires rage near Golden in the Breaky mountains endangering nearby communities. Reports describe extensive timber loss as flames advance through the region. No further details on casualties or damages are provided.
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