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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1911
Page
12
The item from the Daily and Sunday Star Leader features a mosaic of editorials and notes on current events. It touches on Taft and Roosevelt tours, Mexico’s Diaz, Wyoming grasshoppers, suffrage debates, and frontier days, mixing playful commentary with political observations.
The piece weighs rumors of U S troop and fleet movements toward Mexico amid the Mexican revolution. It rejects sensational reports of Japanese aggression as unfounded, notes possible U S intervention to stabilize Mexico, and argues racial prejudice fuels calls for conflict while recognizing Japan and China balance power without obvious motive to clash with the United States.
A discussion of long serving lawmakers termed lame ducks who, after years in public life, struggle to define post congressional work. Many lack clientage or clear life work plans and turn to federal service, with some financially strained while attempting to adapt to new roles. The piece argues they deserve sympathy over ridicule.
Cornell Duffle Nenparetl argues against long tenure in Congress noting some experience helps but excessive years can hinder lawmakers. He believes a moderate tenure allows return to private work while extreme service risks becoming a lame duck.
A Washington correspondent recalls Senator Elking and Senator Elkins discussing tainted money. The tale contrasts Elkins’s skepticism with a wealthy magnate who admits his fortune carries taint. Bige Brown and Bill Hurst are named in a street encounter about a horse for sale.
In Wilmington, John H. Williams a Black man was jailed after stealing small items to eat and received ten lashes and one year in prison. White man John Senn also pleaded guilty to theft and got a similar sentence. Solomon Laws and Charles Stevenson faced whisking and prison terms for clothing theft and rubber junk. The victims were to be whipped next Saturday.
The United States Reclamation Service celebrates its dams, with the Salt River project in Arizona featuring a large Roosevelt dam to honor the president who signed the enabling act. Phoenix visit March 18 to 20 will dedicate the dam, ahead of the 19th National Irrigation Congress in Chicago December 6 to 9. The structure stands about 280 feet high, 235 feet long at base, and 1 080 feet at top, costing around 3.5 million dollars. It will form a lake extending twenty miles, capable of flooding 2 000 square miles a foot deep, reclaiming land for about 25 000 farms and up to 125 000 people, with per-acre yearly crop values of 50 to 125 dollars.
Governor Wilson moved to reappoint William B. Dana of New York to the Palisades Interstate Park commission but executive session revealed Dana had died. Wilson withdrew the nomination and asked that it not be recorded. Also noted is the first straw hat sighting of the season on a Washington promenade, worn by a young man with a blue polka dot band.
The article notes a famous woman from Bunker Hill, Minnesota, who years ago rejected public behavior and now sees the arrival of the Harem Skirt as vindication. She claims the style has proven she was right and that she would live to see it emerge.
Notice announces teacher certificates exam in Cheyenne Wheatland Torrington at high school buildings starting 8 40 a m on March 31 and April 1 1911 with sessions listed by subject across Friday and Saturday return and signatures by County Superintendent Mamie HB Heffaron. The notice also references a separate Madagascar claim involving gold and diamonds and a 64 year old Mrs Horne linked to the late Dr Cowie bishop of Auckland and a past secret syndicate attempt to develop her properties.
London reports Mrs. Eisabeth Horne a spiritualist and flat earth preacher faced $17,000 in damages after being accused of fraudulent representations about alleged concessions in Madagascar. She reportedly collected around $150,000 under the pretense of a concession to exploit believers.
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