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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1912
Page
2
The Big Horn River has risen three feet eight inches in four days, causing extensive irrigation ditch damage and, most of all, railroad disruption on the Burlington between Basin and Thermopolis. The Sherman Co. faces losses amid the high water.
Loramie Wyo June 15 22 graduates from the University of Wyoming across Liberal Arts Agriculture Engineering Music Normal School and more receive diplomas. Prof Justus F Soule and Aven Nelson complete 25 years of service as the university honors Dr Charles O Merien and announces Clyde A Duniway as the next president with gifts of a silver pitcher and loving cup.
Wool rules moved at Casper last week listing buyers and lots with quantities from 7 000 to 75 000 pounds. Names include Trollope Willis Weeks Co Moshland Co Diamond Ring Sheep Co Silberman Son Dewey Gould Brown Adams and others with prices from 1 to 18 12 cents.
Roy Alford foreman of the U P back shops and Miss Irene Daley were married this evening in Rawlins Wyoming. They will visit Utah and Colorado points. Miss Daley is the daughter of a prominent Carbon county shoemaker.
Army commissary in Seattle prepared thirty thousand haversack rations and shipped them to Kodiak in the volcano region aboard the steamship Admiral Saminson which sailed tonight.
Mr. EB R Shipp state fair commissioner asks counties to cooperate in securing minerals for display. Excerpted letter requests exhibits shipped to Douglas by September 20 with freight paid. Natrona County has funded its gathering. Casper is the contact for interested parties.
Miss Carmelite Romero of Fort Steele Wyoming and chauffeur Albert Waterfield wed May 14 in Santa Ana and moved to Los Angeles. Waterfield died days after the ceremony leaving Romero grieving beside his body at their Temple Street apartment as her mother from Wyoming arrives.
Sheridan Wyoming June 15 Mrs Jon EF Micks panicked by news that her nine year old son Donald Hicks was drowned in Big Goose creek. The cart and horse involved, near the city pound by the Sheridan brewery, were swept downstream after the horse tripped and panicked. Crowds attempted to rope the horse as it struggled, but the animal and buggy were lost in the current. The animal died at Fifth Street after a brief, frenzied effort to reach shore. Wool rigiateg The Sherman Co.
In South Norwalk Connecticut on June 15 Emma Treward eight was attacked by the largest eagle seen locally. The seven foot wingspan bird gripped the girl by her dress and tried to fly away before her father forced it to the ground with a shotgun.
A comic caption portrays a wife scolding her husband for promising to gratify her every wish upon marriage. She retorts that she would have preferred not to marry him, highlighting a humorous marital disagreement.
An uneven OCR recounts sage tea claims to darken hair using sage leaves once practiced by grandmothers. It promotes Wyeth’s Sage and hair remedy as a modern ready-made option from druggists, asserting benefits for hair shine and scalp issues with a money-back guarantee.
The Laramie County Fair association starts planning for the 1912 Wheatland fair to be held September 17 18 and 19. A top feature is a stirring wild west show with promising aerial exhibition by a local aviator. Agricultural livestock exhibitions and premiums aim to surpass prior events in Wyoming.
Major G. Cecil Hoult, a renowned English war correspondent, told Rawlins crowds that Wyoming and other western states have the finest women in the world. He is gathering data for a new U S book and will visit more Wyoming cities, sending impressions to London papers. He also praised Australia and England in his remarks.
Stockmen with cattle near Cat Tall are notified that the Alee Kirkbride dipping vat will open for dipping on June 20 1912. State Veterinarian B F Davis issues the notice.
A 1912 Indian motorcycle ad touts a free engine clutch allowing speed control from 4 to 60 mph by clutch adjustment. It highlights variable power feed and magneto options on the four horsepower single and seven horsepower twin models. Distributing agents for Cheyenne and surrounding counties promote F. O. B. Cheyenne Rubber Works at 171 Elly Street.
New York says Harry Naughton, a Toledo lad, was found as a stowaway in a lifeboat aboard the steamer Finland shortly after sailing with the American Circus team. Col Robert M Thompson paid his fare and the boy remained aboard until Sandy Hook. He claimed to have ridden the Twentieth Century Limited from Toledo to New York and joined the Finland unseen.
Fort Lupton Colorado June 15. The contract for the building of the state armory at Fort Lupton has been let to Mrs C B Frink of this city. The building will cost $10000.
A civil action has been filed in Los Angeles against Wolainstant Jones and manager Tom Jones by George Baie, a house mover, seeking 50000 damages after Baie alleges they ran him down with their auto last January, causing the amputation of his left leg.
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