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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1911
Page
2
A sheep wagon owned by J. L. McIntosh near the Sage Hen range burned under unclear circumstances. A stranger rode by, later vanished, and tracks were lost. The herder suspects arson but notes long‑standing cattleman and sheepman peace.
Sheridan March 10. Alpert Cox captured near Grass Montana by Deputy Veach and brought back to face charges for stealing a Hayes horse from Monarch last Saturday night and then taking a horse from Burt Edgeton near Ranch Eater. The pursuit spanned several days over a large territory. 60,000 Theatre Projected: A. J. Hamy, manager of the Kirby Opera house, has left Sheridan for unspecified duties.
Chicago promoters report plans to borrow $60,000 to erect a new and modern theatre in the city and pledge to return shortly to begin construction. The theatrical man promises Sheridan the new building and notes expected arrangements will start soon. Fails to capture prisoner as deputy sheriff’s extradition battle continues with George Crins sought for a $2,500 theft.
Frank Molli day was chosen president of the Laramie Chamber of Commerce by the newly elected board of directors. An executive committee was chosen including J. M. Christenson, Carl Ralfe, J. B. Winslow, Willis Jenson, and D. O. Merrick.
Casper march 10 announcement notes seabies tay appeared among Walton sheep with one affected. No sign of big disease seen, after years of ravaging flocks in the state, in Wyoming.
President Gibson of the United Mine Workers of America organizes a local union in Lost Springs with good membership. Also notes Pioneers monument finishing in Casper with expected unveiling next month by Northwestern Railroad officials.
An advertisement touts Pape's Cold Compound as a guaranteed cure for grippe and severe colds. It claims three doses every two hours to end symptoms, while asserting no genuine medicine contains quinine and that the product costs over fifty thousand dollars in three years of research.
New York March 11 prisoners at Queens County Jail hear from George Jones a tall elderly survivor of the Crimean War. He is Cameron Terrace Woodside born and raised in New York a religious worker and prolific author with over three thousand poems.
Edward James Hurrell four years old fell into a sewer at East End Avenue and was swept 200 feet. Police Lieutenant Michael Mulhall and Lea Kelser climbed into the sewer with a lantern, fought through snow and slush, and rescued the child amid strong odors and darkness.
In Biddeford Maine Probite Judge Nathaniel Mobbs refused to grant a special administration for Maine in the estate of Mrs Sarah Bull widow of Ole Bull. Ole Bull's daughter Mrs Olea Bull Vaughan contests the will alleging the estate diverted gifts and curios to Indian doctors and philosophers.
A late 19th or early 20th century advertisement touts Bromo Quinine as a universal remedy for cold symptoms claiming rapid relief. Signature attributed to B W Grove appears in faded text, with bold promise to “weed the world over” and cure a cold in a single day.
Members of the Alaska road commission party surveying the Nome to Seward route arrived in Seattle and reported locating the body of John Olson, a prospector, on the trail near Distakegt sixty miles from the Iditarod late in January. Olson’s body was found frozen stiff on a sled in a slitting attitude.
The survey team of eight men and a caravan of forty dogs left Nome on February 25 to test a 512 mile route along the Kuskokwim and Iditarod. They camped in bitter cold with temperatures up to sixty below. Prospectors crowd tributaries. whisky and tobacco plentiful amid a reindeer slaughter plan instigated by Eskimos.
Shanghai dispatches describe intensified famine in China with a traveler counting thirteen corpses in thirteen miles and missionaries reporting bark and leaves eaten mixed with millet chaff as relief. Dr. Cochrane cites three million starving across the afflicted region and one village of hundred families losing a third to hunger and pestilence.
Snow fell as people lacked shelter and clothing. The Chinese relief commission of Cincinnati's chamber of commerce raised one thousand dollars and cabled it to Shanghai through the American Red Cross.
Garnishment proceedings started in St Paul against Mrs. Caroline Sperry who fled to St Louis and remarried her ex husband. Harry N Sayre claims $1500 loaned to her plus board and room for over a year. garnishment documents served on Security Trust Company.
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