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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1911
Page
9
Diaz proposes a six month enforcement of the death penalty starting November 20 as the permanent congress reports a bill abolishing constitutional guarantees. The measure follows a long period of depredations since the revolution began.
In Laramie Wyoming at the district court March term William B Powell stands trial for horse theft. His mother Mary Powell faces arson charges for burning ranch property. Frazee, charged with theft of about twenty horses, is held for trial with bail set at 1500 dollars. The Yeager murder case, involving Policeman John Johnson, will also be called.
El Paso dispatch reports 16 Americans among rebels killed and 17 captured in the Casas Grande clash with Federal forces under Colonel Cuellar. Madero with 700 men attacked. 200 federal dead and wounded reported. Major Hayes’s band was wiped out after dynamiting the jail and cuartel.
An earthquake of considerable intensity was recorded at 12 04 this afternoon by the seismograph at Santa Clara College in California.
Falls from Beell in Duluth show Frank Goteh winning two rapid falls from Pref Beell. The first fall came in 26 minutes and the second in 22 minutes amid the fire incident.
Bronx zoo head keeper Paul Thuman narrowly escaped injury when a tame elephant named Gunda charged him during a corn paring. He escaped by tossing a live mouse from his pocket, a trick he says he uses to distract the animal.
In Viterbo on March 11 fear of Camorra revenge hindered jury selection for 36 defendants led by Enrico Alfano in a murder case. Despite threats of severe penalties, citizens refused to serve and the trial adjourned until Monday with no jurors chosen.
In Minnesota a massive earth slide at the Norman mine near Virginia traps thirty men. A 125 foot pit fills with avalanche debris extending 150 feet, leaving four survivors injured and three likely fatally crushed. Most victims are Finnish and Austrian workers with families.
In Bayonne New Jersey Policeman Russell tied three Chinese sailors queues after a struggle to prevent their escape from Twenty third Street and Broadway The men Wang Chin Sam Joe and Jo Man from the steamship Knight Errant were brought to Recorder Mara and later released to the ship's chief officer Peter Mdge who freed the knots and returned them to the vessel
Oklahoma City officials and street railway company leaders along with labor counsel reached a settlement to end the streetcar strike. The militia remains on standby, and cars are set to resume service Monday.
Gunner Thomas Allen, convicted of shooting Captain Peter Elliston from a barracks window, will be hanged Thursday in Canada. His appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada was rejected and the secretary of state wired the order. The official hangman is en route.
Fire devastates nearly the entire business district of Webber Falls Oklahoma. Ten buildings burned and only one storefront remains intact. The blaze originated in a drugstore with the cause undetermined, and losses are estimated around $200,000.
A man was charged with unlawfully firing his revolver in the vicinity of Bla Teenth and Thames at an early hour. He was identified as Fogal and placed under arrest by Policeman Hohnetedt, then taken to the city jail.
Edward Wolf aged 17 and William Haines aged 18 were involved in a derailment incident while traveling west from New York. Wolf severed limb injuries led him to shoot himself, the bullet grazing Haines’s neck. Haines survived with minor injuries.
Representative Underwood of the House Ways and Means Committee comments on President Taft’s proposal for an extra session. He says two tasks loom: pass reciprocity legislation and push tariff revision through the chamber.
Travel notices report Cheyenne welcomes the opening of the Plains Hotel with its new hostelry and lobby excitement noted in western circles and Denver hotel lobbies alike.
Fire sweeps the Muntwe hotel in Cincinnati during the early morning hours. Guests flee from upper windows and several people are injured as crowds gather outside. Fire crews battle the blaze amid panic and confusion.
New York report notes Edward H Harriman estate has paid over 2 million in inheritance taxes with Utah tax collected on Union Pacific holdings. Mary W Harriman’s check for 708 540 85 and 675 000 paid in 1910 indicate wide tax obligations amid ongoing settlements and further large payments expected. Charles C Tegethoff explains Utah tax due to railroad incorporation.
Shoshoni Wyoming March 11 Overcome by gasoline fumes while driving about twenty miles north of town Cafe Scott a freighter left his wagon bed in a deserted cabin and died Coroner Felser of Lander ruled the fumes from a leaking tank caused his death after investigation of the death scene.
Frederick Mussel of St. Paul aged eighteen was accepted into the navy after a heroic, improvised method at a local fire station. Firemen used a pole and rope to hang him up until his height reached five feet two inches, overcoming a quarter inch shortfall.
Two men named Hampton and Allen were arrested shortly before midnight by Police Sergeant Ewbry and jailed on a charge of insulting two ladies escorted by two gentlemen near the corner of Seventeenth and Eddy streets. One accused man was struck in the face by a gentleman during the incident.
In New York a shoe dealer named Abraham Levey warned the thief who nabbed forty shoes from a window Thursday night. A placard offered twenty dollars for the return of all shoes and promised the thief a matching set of twenty, pending verification.
Assistant Biologist E. A. Preble of the Agriculture Department arrived in Cheyenne to study elk populations in Jackson Hole. He is joined by State Game Warden Hudson, and they will confer with Governor Carey to gather information on the herd as Congress appropriates $20,000 for the effort.
Disorders marked the start of New York's second express drivers strike in a year. A mob stoned Adams Express stables and dragged non union drivers from wagons, releasing horses by slashing harnesses. The company posted a $5,000 reward for conspirators and $1,000 for assaults on employees.
Miss Susan G McComber a bookkeeper admitted robbing John Lane Pubiph ing company of 6000 and is charged with taking between 15000 and 19402. She was sent to the Tombs to defray bail as she sought time to care for her aged parents aged over 70 and 80. The plea to delay arrest until their deaths was refused.
Brasil Ind March 11 Michael Kelfner recalling a whipping by his former teacher James Tucker when 11 met Tucker yesterday for the first time since the day fourteen years ago Tucker had been acquitted on assault charges and Kelfner then attacked him calling back the old incident. Tucker was injured. Kiefner was arrested.
On the last day in Cheyenne for the Ninth United States Cavalry en route to Fort Sam Houston Tex two shooting incidents occurred. Private Moore of Troop K was wounded by a .68 revolver fired by Private Dyer of Troop I in a Troop I car at the Union Pacific depot. Moore was treated at Fort Russell hospital. A second incident on Carey Avenue involved a distracted fugitive trooper pursued by a corporal and private. the escapee was captured after a street chase and his revolver dropped, later recovered by a citizen and turned over to authorities.
State Attorney Burke obtained a subpoena for United States Senator Joseph W Bailey of Texas and Witness in the case against State Senator John A Broderick of Chicago. The probe concerns a July 14 1909 bribe of 2400 dollars in Brodericks saloon for William Lorimers election. Deposits and testimony relate to a deposit slip linked to the Chicago scandal and a missing record later presented in Washington.
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