City Briefs from Cheyenne Local Items
Various Cheyenne notices on business, property, and public works. Topics include tax assessment progress, notarial appointment for J. Capen, Alta Vista addition filing, Bishop Keane mission trip to Sheridan, sidewalk completion on Seventeenth Street, reservoirs filling at Granite Springs and Crystal Lake, Lake Minnehaha filling rapidly, City Park cleanup, S A Bristol Printing winning a tax roll print contract, a Union Pacific worker fracturing an arm, a paint shop moving on Seventeenth to West Sixteenth, Merchant's Credit Association meeting tonight, and a real estate purchase at tax sale with deed potential June 6 1909.
Notice of tax sale purchases and deed intent in Wyoming
Notice of purchase at tax sales by John Schuneman and others. Details mention Lot 6.7 Bee 6 Town 27 Range 65 acres 320.7 Laramie county Wyoming tax 1907 costs 18.62 and redemption expiration in 1931. Another sale notes Torington Lot 1 Block 1 Laramie county tax 1907 amount 26.86. Redeemption dates and intents to apply for deeds follow per county treasurer rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Schuneman
Laramie County
Wyoming
D. C. Beaman
Denver
Gale
Cottages under construction and local notices in Cheyenne
Doyle and Halleck progress on two new cottages on East Twentieth Street north of Minnelwha park. A German pencil maker distributes automatic sharpeners to Cheyenne offices. Court House wiring advances with electric power expected by week end. Flour sale advertised at 20th and Thames with price per sack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doyle and Halleck
East Twentieth Street
Minnelwha Park
Court House
Eletric Mehta
Presents Sharpenere
Kansas
City
20Th
Thames Sta
Lawrence & Carr
Farm Superintendent Prepares Soil at State Dry Farm Station
John Gordon, Preparing Experiment Farm Superintendent, works at the government experiment farm north of the city to ready soil for spring at the state dry farm experiment station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Gordon
Government Experiment Farm
State Dry Farm Experiment Station
Tragic Train Death In Union Pacific Tracks Reach Local
Allene Flaser a Mexican sheepherder was struck by a fast mail train while walking along Union Pacific tracks and hurled from the rail sustaining fatal injuries minutes later. Leaves a large family in Mexico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rawlins
Mar
Union Pacific
Allene Flaser
Flones
Mexico
Notice of Realty Purchase at Wyoming Tax Sale 1911
Notice of purchase of realty at tax sale records that John Schuneman held the deed and the buyer acquired Lot 1 Block 4 Town 28 Range 67 in Laramie county for 1907 tax of 48.63 dollars. Property taxed to W T Vaugham. Deed application to county treasurer on June 6 1911. sale expires June 6 1811.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Schuneman
Laramie County
Wyoming
W. T. Vaugham
Man Surrenders After Alleged Shooting at Card Game
Martini, a watchman on 426 Past 110th Street, claimed De Martini fired twice at him with a revolver during a card game. De Luca was treated for a slight abdominal scratch. De Martini surrendered at the station. He faces felonious assault charges as authorities describe the evidence, including flattened bullets found in De Lucas pocket.
Alien voter gains citizenship after 36 years at polls
In Poughkeepsie a man named Hoar, who cast Democratic tickets for 36 years, applied for citizenship after decades of wait. A county subscription to honor the moment will fund a brass tablet at the poll spot, as officials recall his long voting history and the irony of delayed legal status.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poughkeepsie
Flebkill Landing
Dutchess County
Hoar
Kidney grafting framed as MEAC plumber's job
Baltimore May 16 Dr A M Shipley professor calls kidney transplant a dying to no living man analogy likening the work to a plumber's task in a dramatic statement about medical science and ethics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
A. M. Shipley
Bullet Proof but Shots Annoy Him
Louis De Luca of 2126 First Avenue told Lieutenant Hammond at the 104th Street police station that two flattened bullets bounced off his stomach muscles and landed in his trousers pocket after a quarrel with Lodis De.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
104Th Street
Louis de Luca
First Avenue
Hammond
Lodis de
Lost engineer saved by coin flip on Sierra trek
Irwin Norcross, a mining engineer formerly with the Norcross Investment Co, wandered fifteen days in heavy snows of the Sierras before reaching Oakland. Snowbound in a cabin shafted by February snows, he used a coin flip to choose a direction, guiding him toward Laws and the Carson & Colorado railroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oakland
Cal
Mar
Sierras
Irwin Norcoras
Norcross
Norcross Investment Company
Madera County
Laws
Carson & Colorado
Lane
Inyo County
COLOR LINE AT CORNELL ONLY KINDNESS SAYS DEAN
Ithaca March 16 Mrs Gertrude A Martin Cornell Universitys dean of the womans dormitory said there is no ban on colored girls in Sage College She advised two colored girls to seek rooms elsewhere claiming it would be unpleasant and added there was a previously unhappy colored student Sage College. A graduate letter questioned the charges noting two colored girls lived there and were well liked by most classmates though a few from the South stayed aloof.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cornell
Ithaca
Sage College
Gertrude A. Martin
Cornell University
James B. Clarke
Sage
South
Notices of Purchase of Tealty at Tax Deed
Notice states that John Schuneman Wyoming purchased land in Laramie county for 1907 tax, costs $41.73, including interest and penalties. Redemption expires June 6, 1911, and applicant Will Slhow Miller Neb will apply for a deed to the property on June 6, 1911.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Schoneman
Laramie County
Wyoming
Block 12
Sald En
John Schuneman
N. E
Wm. Slhow
Miller
Pennsylvania Road Kills No Passengers in 1910
A Philadelphia report states that of 136 million passengers carried on Pennsylvania lines east of Pittsburg and Erie from 1908 to 1910 none were killed in train accidents. Across 1908 1909 and 1910 total passengers reached 371,858,277 with only one fatality from a train wreck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania Road
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pittsburg
Erie
Pennsylvania, Railroad
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington
Northern Central Railway
Cumberland Valley
Maryland, Delaware and Virginia Railway
Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic Railway
West Jersey
Long Island
United States
Cleopatra First Woman to Wear Hobble Skirt
Kansas City reports a scientific claim that Cleopatra wore a hobble skirt in ancient Egypt as shown by hieroglyphics on newly found building blocks. The article notes Roman era travel on barges and comments on attendants and Charmion, with speculation about Cleopatra's fate and fashion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleopatra
Kansas City
Mar
Egypt
Anthony
Charmion
Octavia
Cleo
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Buechner Jewelry Co
Cheyenne
The
Hawkeye Cleaners
Carey
J. & Capen
Rock Springs
Thomas Heaney
Piatof
Alta Vista Addition
Lake Minnehaha
Keaneeaves
Sheridan
Dyer Block
Seventeenth Street
Eddy
Granite Springs
Crystal Lake
Minnehaha
City Lakes
City Park
S. A. Bristol Printing Company
William Hilton
St. John’s Hospital
David
Sixteenth Street
John Sehuneman
Wyowlng
Torington Lot
Wyowleg
Smith
Laramie
Penaristine
Union Mercantile Block
Wineks—Prock Andereon Hind Ay Bt. Johny Hospital
Cheyenne Brick Manufacturing Company
Park Addition
S. Jennings
Bent Street
McLaughlin
Baker
Welnitz
iIncorporation
Natrona Pipe Line and Refining Company
Chapman
Twenty-second Street
Capitol Avenue
Hartung Land Company
Inter Ocean
J. E. Hodges
North Carolina
Plains
Plains Hotel
William Hoshaw
Frank Johnson
Popp
Senate Bar
Carey Avenue
Salvation Army
Coliier
Sherman Ca
John Hoar
University, of Maryland
Maurice H. Richardson
Harvard
Shipley
Carey Ave
Rags
Jreader
AL Midy
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