08 Mar 1912
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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1912
Page
1
Wellington reports Captain Scott has reached the South Pole, with Amundsen confirming the claim amid rival expedition attention. The news provokes UK and global reaction as details unfold from New Zealand and Norweigan sources.
Washington reports minority leaders Fordney and McCall attack Chairman Underwood's free sugar proposal. They label the majority plan an admission that free sugar would wreck the domestic beet and cane industry and place control with refiners. Critics warn revenue loss could require new direct taxes and challenge constitutional validity.
Colorado Springs reports the death of Mrs. Joseph Thayer Tutt widow of C. L. Tutt at her Coronado Beach winter home. The Tutt family were prominent socially and financially in the Pike's Peak region for years. Tutt was a millionaire mining man and smelter operator with interests in Cripple Creek and Utah. C. L. Tutt died in 1906.
The Special Coupon Offer expands the 16,000 club and stirs interest in the Bok of Five New Yearly subscription. The State Leader promises 26,000 extra votes per five subscribers, with no limit on the number of Clubs of Five. Each group adds to regular votes and invites readers to join the 10,000 Club as well, page 2 continuation.
Washington March 6 The New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor found a ~25 percent rise in prices for ordinary household goods over one year. A sample grocery bill shows increases in bread butter tea coffee sugar eggs tomatoes potatoes corn codfish oatmeal beans rice onions cabbage cheese and canned salmon. Retailers report higher costs across most items, with wholesale up at least ten percent and some staples nearly doubling. The report says the trend applies nationwide beyond New York City.
Five were killed and sixty injured when the Continental Limited derailed on the Wabash near Redwood bridge two miles west of Lebanon Indiana. Cars left the rails some toppled into a creek. wrecking and relief trains rushed to the scene as fires were lit along the tracks.
Telluride Colorado March 7 Edwin Thomas is believed dead after Gimarron and Seventy-Six snowslides roared through Marshall basin at 8 40 this morning. The slides swept three Smuggler Union Mining company houses, burying Edwin Thomas and leaving Mrs Thomas unhurt beneath snow. Sixty Smuggler Union men rushed to the scene to rescue survivors including Mrs Frank Galla and three children, Mrs Tony Andriatti and two children.
In Cheyenne early this morning at 1:30 William Rucker private Ninth Cavalry was stabbed to death at his wife’s home on Went 24th. Mrs Rucker was detained and gave vague explanations claiming to know nothing of the crime. She said she went downtown to find her husband after his pay and possible drinking. The victim was found on the porch with bloodied clothes, stabbed to the left side. Mrs Rucker remained in custody as authorities investigated.
The Senate ratified the general arbitration treaties with the United States England and France by a 76 to 3 vote after stripping a clause critics said would limit the Senate's treaty making power. Amendments limit arbitration on alien admission to the U S and related issues and send remaining differences to the Hague for possible settlement. The outcome leaves the treaties effectively in limbo pending talks with England and France.
A Manhattan home burned today while Mrs. G. H. Worden visited a neighbor. Her daughter Gladys, three, died in the blaze and May, five, inhaled smoke and flames and is in dangerous condition.
En route from Fort Wayne Indiana to St Louis two unidentified men travel with a pull nan porter and two other unknown males while Mrs A G Good and Mrs Grant are listed as en route to Kansas City. Local authorities seek identification.
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