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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1911
Page
14
City notes report a new cement sidewalk in front of the Dyer block on Seventeenth Street near Eddy. Reservoirs at Granite Springs and Crystal Lake are filling. Lake Minnehaha is rising after water from nearby lakes was released.
Notice records two tax sale purchases by the undersigned. Land acquired includes Lot 6 7 Bee 6 Town 27 Range 65 Acres 320 7 in Laramie county for 1907 taxes with costs and interest. Redemption on each parcel will expire in June 1931 and the purchaser intends to apply for a deed.
Doyle and Halleck complete two new cottages on East Twentieth Street north of Minnetoka park. A hospital death and burial are reported in Cheyenne. A new 20 foot high brick kiln rises near Park addition at Cheyenne Brick Co. Court House wiring advances to power the building by week end. A German firm distributes automatic sharpeners to Cheyenne offices. Turkey Red Hard Wheat flour offered at 20th and Thames with delivery by Red Lawrence and Carr.
John Gordon of the government experiment farm works at the state dry farm station north of the city preparing soil for spring.
Allene Flaser, a Mexican sheepherder, was struck by a fast mall train while walking along Union Pacific tracks and died several hours later. He leaves a large family in Mexico.
Notice of purchase of Realty at tax sale and intention to apply for a deed. The land described in Let 1, Sec 4, Town 28, Range 67, Laramie county Wyoming was taxed 1907 for W. T. Vaugham. Sale occurred in 1908 for $48.63. deed applied for June 6, 1911.
Martini, a watchman at 426 Past 110th Street, claimed De Martini fired twice at him with a revolver during a card game. De Luca, examined by a physician for a slight abdominal scratch, saw De Martini surrender at the station. He was jailed on a felonious charge as officers recovered flattened bullets from De Luca’s pocket.
Poughkeepsie resident Hoar, after 36 years of voting at the polls, seeks citizenship papers amid reflection on his long political record. A fund is raised to honor him with a brass tablet marking the spot where he voted, while officials recall peat-smoke memories and his emotional pledge to the Declaration of Independence.
Baltimore May 16 quote from Dr. A. M. Shipley compares kidney transplantation to a plumber’s job calling it a dying art. The piece frames the surgical work as practical yet challenging, reflecting medical debate of the era.
Louis De Luca of 2126 First Avenue told Lieutenant Hammond at the 104th Street police station that two bullets fired at him lodged in his trousers after he claimed his muscles repelled the shots. He said he had quarreled with Lodis De.
Irwin Norcross a mining engineer, after fifteen days lost in the snowbound Sierras, arrived in Oakland. He had built a cabin in Madera County to study claims and, when food ran low, flipped a half dollar to decide which way to travel toward Lane, Inyo County, and the Carson & Colorado line.
Ithaca March 16 Mrs Gertrude A Martin dean of the Cornell women’s dormitory said no ban on colored girls in Sage College. She advised two applicants to seek rooms elsewhere and noted a former colored student was unhappy with surroundings. A graduate letter claimed two colored girls lived at Sage and were well liked by most, though a few Southerners held aloof.
Notice is hereby given that at a tax case held by John Schuneman in Wyoming on the th day of June 1908 the undersigned purchased land to wit N E 14 of Sec 11 town 247 range 68 acres 160 Laramie county Wyoming for the tax of 1907 cost 41 73 including interest penalty and costs paid by Wm Slhow Miller Neb that the date when redemption of said property from said will expire is June 6 1911 that the undersigned will apply to the county for a deed to said land on June 6 A D 191k
A Philadelphia report records zero passenger deaths on 136 million travelers on the Pennsylvania system in 1910. It covers lines east of Pittsburg and Erie for 1908 1909 and 1910 across several routes and notes 371 858 277 passengers in three years with only one death in a wreck.
Kansas City reports scientific notes that Cleopatra wore a hobble skirt in hieroglyphics on newly found Egypt blocks. The article jokes about her walking, journeying on barges, and attendants Charmion and Octavia, noting a theory of suicide linked to tighter fashions.
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