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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1912
Page
5
Frank B Roach announces candidacy for sheriff subject to the August 20 primaries in Laramie County Ariels Zuith seeks Democratic nomination for county commissioner for a four year term subject to the people's primaries in August in the same county.
A mixed page lists shop services and local moves including Millen’s watch repair at 1709 Carey Ave Denver and a band director election in Cheyenne. It notes marriages license for Ray Schuyler Thompson and Miss M Haywood of Pueblo, new parsonage construction, a new water commissioner appointment in district No 1, and various land office entries and professional moves around Denver and Cheyenne.
President A. H. Marbel of the Stockgrowers National Bank travels to Pocatello Idaho on a business trip. Union Pacific passengers to Oakland and Los Angeles are Mrs T Fink and D C Brown. H R Millard oversees dipping of sheep in Nash outfit at Milldale. Governor appoints Mrs Meda Wilson and G A Taylor notaries public. Mrs Wannamaker and others visit Portland. Miss Little returns to Ogden. Colonel Abner Pickering assigned to the Eleventh Infantry. Rabies cases show no progress. Pasteur treatment available if danger noted.
Walter C. Krug faced district court trial for alleged involvement in the May murder of Samuel Shickling in the tenderloin area. Private Peace pleaded not guilty on the same charge as jurors were being sought. William Gibson was convicted of assault with intent to rape. Fred Knox admitted robbing the Roundup Saloon. Attorney J. Warren Jenkins urged rapid proceedings due to distant witnesses and county costs.
The Interstate Commerce Commission ruled that grain freight rates from Minnesota North Dakota South Dakota and Northern Iowa via Duluth Superior to the Atlantic coast by lake and rail were not discriminatory against Omaha compared with Chicago routes. The commission found some Dakota south routes unjustly discriminatory against Omaha and ordered rates to Omaha lower by at least 1.5 cents per hundred from September 1, with the Omaha grain exchange filing the complaint.
William Jennings Bryan challenged the Democratic National Convention alleging Wall Street seeks to control the party and dictate its nominee. He contrasted the committee’s candidate with Kern, praised Kern’s Denver platform stance, and urged delegates to resist plutocratic influence and defend the people’s cause.
A crowded Democratic convention scene in Chicago unfolds with Norman E. Mack presiding as delegates struggle for order. The sequence includes barbed commentary from Sullivan and a late-arriving crowd, John Allen arriving in a white necktie, and Cardinal Gibbons delivering the invocation as the body is finally brought to order.
A mob nearly severed Mrs Jordan s head but a sheriff escort in a car tried to take her toward Hawkinsville to avert a lynching. The lynchers pursued in another automobile and dragged the prisoner from officers tying ice to a tree.
In Los Angeles a man identified as Lewis Corey, married with a Lima Ohio wife, shot himself in a hotel room after his attentions were spurned by a young woman named Gertrude Blake. The episode followed a claim of engagement dating to June 14, with Corey allegedly denying prior marriage. His death occurred at the Hay Ward hotel.
The narrative recounts a man who, after a woman refused marriage due to his heavy drinking, threatened to kill himself. It notes Corey had lived in Los Angeles three years and was the son of C. il. Corey, once superintendent of the C, H, D, railroad at Lima, Ohio.
A cartoonish Washington Star quip questions diamond value, joking that diamonds resemble iron in care and resemble wheels, implying shallow reasons for prestige rather than technical worth. The short exchange treats diamonds as objects of care and appearance.
In a playful exchange from the New York Glebe a father explains lineage to Willie calling himself a grandfather and pondering why people drag about ancestry. The fragment hints at family humor and generational ties.
Der'ne and Dleading are listed at 411 W 18th St with a contact number 517 W Lignia Veneer Sherman a. The text presents a partial, fragmented business note with unreadable context.
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