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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1920
Page
12
The article notes farm property value in the United States rose from 1900 to 1920, doubling by 1910 and again by 1920. It compares these values to total capital in manufacturing, railways, and mining, citing an 85 billion dollar 1920 estimate and implying continued strength in dry farming despite percentage shifts.
Weathers shut down mountain routes as mud and rock slides block roadbeds. Silverton loses train service since February 25, but residents report no suffering. A passenger train stalled at Osian for hours as crews work to clear the Denver & Rio Grande route toward Durango. North of the plains, Nebraska and Kansas blizzards delay eastbound trains while Minnesota reports multiple wrecks and one fatality near Farmington. Oil fields in Wichita county suffer $450,000 damage with 50 derricks down and seven injuries.
World heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey and manager Jack Kearns posted $1,500 bond each with a U S commissioner in Los Angeles to appear in San Francisco March 20 to plead to an indictment charging conspiracy to evade the selective draft.
The list of visitors includes B G Atkinson Fred L Ball Mrs Fred L Ball Samuel H Beck H M Chisholm Mrs H M Chisholm Sam W Emerson Mrs Sam W Emerson Charles L Fish B P Forbes Mrs B P Forbes George B F Glass D W Godvett Julius Guggenheim Mrs Julius Guggenheim Yywm M War die Mrs Wm M Hardie I K Heller J B Hill G M Huber Mrs C M Huber W G Hurlbert James L RB Jappe John Jaster Mrs John Jaster H B A Kellum W H Kelly George W Kinney Brewster P Kinney Mrs Brewster P Kinney Henry F Klein Mrs Henry Klein Tom Knight George W Kortz Mrs George W Kortz EB Lawrence O Kf Leopold Mrs C F Leopold George K R McKay F S Macoureck Mrs F S Macoureck Samuel R Mason George H Miller Mrs George H Miller Winter Morrison Wm H Phillips M D Mrs Wm H Phillips Theodore Poplowsky Mrs Theodore Poplowsky Mrs Christine Sages ser A B Ries ter Mrs A B Ries ter L Ritzman Mrs L A Ritz man CG G Sankey Elmer J Sapp H L Schoenberger B S Schulte Jesse Seidman Sidney Seidman Charles F Seifried Mrs Charles F Seifried Henry A Taylor Clarence R K Terrill Miss Nina B Terrill Wm J Van Aken Clarence P Walker Sidney S Wilson Mrs Sidney S Wilson Following the banquet the Cleveland boosters will leave for Denver on the 3:25 train.
Government census data reveal 53,274 telephone companies operating 28,827,188 miles of wire enough to circle the globe 1156 times. 11,716,520 telephones linked by 21,175 public exchanges and substantial private exchanges. 22 billion messages sent. Employment reaches 262,729 with 65 percent women. wages total 175,670,449. plant value 1,492,329,015. American system credited to private initiative, with more telephones than the rest of the world combined.
The text argues a country without capital cannot progress. It asserts hundreds of millions labor under immediate consumption, with no surplus to fund machinery. It stresses the need to save annually to fuel national industrial expansion and raise living standards for future stability.
Billy endures a ring master parade role in a circus setup with animals, stepping ladders, and cart races. He wears a clown suit and mask, rides a pony and zebra, then works as a mason with a hod before the show ends with a chaotic race featuring dogs goats and carts. Tomorrow Billy visits town again.
Stockholm March 4 The lower house of the diet approved Swedish membership in the League of Nations by a 152 to 67 vote.
Paget explains that four states Oklahoma Texas Louisiana and Wyoming face tax gains as an oil company with headquarters in Denver pays as much of its taxes as the court decision requires. Blackmer notes states with wells will reap hundreds of thousands in revenue from the ruling.
In irons, 34 crew members are guarded by bluejackets as Justice Department agents bring them to Norfolk for arraignment before a U S commissioner. Dispatches from Hamilton Bermuda say mutiny occurred February 5 after their articles expired, with the captain claiming they must sail to the United States port of discharge. The Poughkeepsie had been to Hamilton in distress January 22.
A potato special car arrives in Cheyenne at 6 20 this afternoon under the Chicago Burlington & Quincy line and the state university department of agriculture. It will be open to visitors near the Burlington station. A public meeting with experts is planned at the Congregational church tomorrow afternoon. Farmers in town for the exhibit will receive free admission.
In two hours of debate Representative Tinkham's resolution passed 162 to 124. The inquiry targets the attorney general's involvement in fixing 17 and 48 cent per pound Louisiana sugar prices and any immunity for profiteering. Democrats say the move masks GOP leadership failures while Republicans blame AG actions for rising prices. Louisiana's Martin notes the crop could only feed the U.S. for one day.
The project features a wide central section with wings, a 70 by 428 foot building seating 2000, and ongoing siding and roofing by volunteer workers led by Mr. Lewis. He directs the operation as a military officer would lead a campaign. Tonight Mrs. Lewis known as Ethel Evans Lewis leads a choir rehearsal at the Methodist church for a 800 voice evangelistic choir beginning Sunday for about a month with Mr. Lewis directing music and Mrs. Lewis as soloist and pianist.
The article notes a proposal to limit hog operations in the city due to nuisance protests at Mayor Ko P. Taylor’s urging. Current rules allow ten hogs per person with restrictions, but commissioners seek tighter controls rather than a full ban. Also mentioned are auto top making ads by Hobbs Huck feldt Finkbiner and Chamber of Commerce arrangements. The potato car will showcase varieties, seed grading, storage, marketing, and disease prevention practices.
Privates Rice Masters Steele and Wendt escaped from the guard house at Fort D A Russell last night. Two guard members were placed under arrest pending investigation of their actions. Private Wendt was captured in Cheyenne by Major Richards and Captain Murray with Sergeant McFarland. Police aided the search as officers watched trains to prevent the escapees leaving the area.
In Detroit on March 5 a federal jury found three of six defendants, Grant Hugh Browne of New York and former officers Superious Nicholson and Lester Waterbury, guilty of conspiracy to defraud the government in Army salvage purchases. The case centers on graft involving army surplus materials.
The Great Western Sugar Company offers a sliding scale bonus paying over 12 dollars a ton for beets if seaboard sugar sells above 411 dollars per hundredweight. Eligibility requires factory output totaling 5,500,000 bags in 1920 1924 and an average net price above 11 dollars in November December 1920 and January 1924.
Mrs. Margaret M. Scouten a Canadian missionary in East Africa and mother of two was detained at Hills Island and ordered excluded as likely to become a public charge. Her missionary husband died last year and an appeal was filed with a missionary society seeking admission under bond.
Sioux City street car strike ends at 2 o clock. workers at the Sioux City Service Company power plant return to work after securing part of their demands.
Reno report states five competing Nevada telephone companies have been bought by Bell Telephone. Public service commission application filed for merger permission with property valued at five million dollars.
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