Notable Visitors and Local Business in Cheyenne News Briefs
Frank Foldotsey, ex assistant coroner of Denver, visits Cheyenne en route to Camp Wright. Casper’s A. K. Stewart, Laramie’s Wesley Jonson, Cokeville’s Joe Kinney, and Pine Bluff’s Matthews stopover for business. Lovell Motor Company files $50,000 capital stock. box rent due notices at Cheyenne post office. Ralph Connor named notary public.
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Frank Foldotesy
Denver
Cheyenne
Camp Wright
Wesley Jonson
Laramie
Cheyenne Land Office
Lovell Motor Company
Secretary of State
Burleson Denies Government Bias Against Unions
Postmaster General Burleson releases a letter to Secretary Wilson denying discrimination against union members in government controlled telegraph and telephone work. He accuses agitators of stirring unrest and says both union and non union employees receive equal consideration. He faults Professor Frankforter for not consulting the wire centre board to learn the facts.
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Enew York
Burleson
Wilson
Frankforter
Wyoming's Basket Record Excellent
LARAMIE Wyoming March 29 With the regular basketball season closed Wyoming completed a six win season in eight games beating Greeley three times Mines twice and Colorado School of Mines once The Cowboys led 178 to 132 in total points and will return five players including most of the lineup except Buchanan The post season game with Denver University was set for Friday night DES MOINES March 20 Tako bill defeating professional boxing in Iowa was voted down 59 to 41 by the Iowa board ending the season for the sport.
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Laramie
Wyo
Denver University
University of Wyoming
Wyoming
Greeley
Colorado School of Mines
Jetter
Buchanan
Cowboys
Ageles
Aggies
Mines
Associated Pres
Des Moenes
Iowa
Iowa Board
Prisoner Returned From Denver on Larceny Charge
Special Deputy Sheriff Lon Davis brought Merritt to jail yesterday after returning from Denver. Merritt faces a larceny charge as the primary accused in the case.
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Lon Davis
Denver
Merritt
Naturalization Class Reopened At High School
The naturalization class was reopened at the high school building last night after being discontinued for several months. The notice includes contact details for W. W. Undertaking Co and references a cough and cold remedy with Grove’s signature on each bottle.
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B. W. Grove
Bank Bandits Confess in Wyoming Trust Robbery Plot
The trio Gonzales Hernandez and Delgardo planned to rob the Wyoming Trust and Savings bank using gunny sacks and a Ford car for escape. They recruited Mrs Gonzales and Mrs Delgardo for supplies and the men were arrested within hours after the failed attempt.
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Dicate
Delgardo
Wyoming Trust and Savings Bank
Hernandez
Gonzales
Fort Collins
Woolworth Store
Debeardo
Gonzalés
British financial agent jolts trade with sterling withdrawal
Washington March 20. Sudden British government withdrawal of its purchase in this market of sterling exchange after three years provoked a violent rate decline in London and disarray in allied capitals. J P Morgan & Co issued a brief statement saying action aligns with other governments to resume normal business. Sterling fell from 4.76716 to 4.71 with demand bills at 4.70 and sixty day bills at 4.08.
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Washington
Sterling Exchange
London
J. P. Morgan & Co
Morgan
Today in History Highlights From 1866 to 1917
Notable anniversaries recount figures and events from Benito Juarez birth in 1866 to 1917 wartime political actions. Entries reference Duke of Portland British leadership, King Louis I abdication, Brigham Young capture, US Marines in Honduras, McCurtain mine disaster, Zeppelins over Paris, Russian front setbacks, and a Wilson call to gather in an extra session.
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Benito Juarez
Mexico
Duke of Portland
Louis I of
Bavaria
Brogham Young
United States
Honduras
McCurtain
Ohio
Zeppelios
Paria
Dvinsk
Iia
Dent Wilgon
Steel prices fall 14 percent after steel industry agreement
Washington reports a new price schedule reducing steel quotations by 10 to 14 percent with immediate effect. Basic pig iron at 22.76 per gross ton, four inch billets 37.60, two inch billets 42.00 per ton, merchant bars 20.70 per hundred, and structural steel 2.46 per hundred. ore unchanged unless freight rates change.
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Associated Press
Washington
Lake Erie Porta
War Board
Gary
United States
Steg! Corporation
First Case of Sleeping Sickness in State Is Fatal
LARAMIE Wyo March 20 John W Klein of Omaha connected with the hotel department of the Union Pacific died here yesterday of what state health officers declared was exactly the so called sleeping sickness He arrived from Omaha Monday night went to bed at 11 o clock and never awakened His room was broken into Tuesday night and he was found partially paralyzed and asleep Physicians were unable to arouse him
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Laramim
Wyo
John W. Klein
Omaha
Union Pacific
Daylight Saving Time Ordered by Union Pacific
W. M. Jeffers of Omaha general manager of the Union Pacific posts a notice to railroad men that clocks must be moved forward from 2 to 3 a m on Sunday March 30 in accordance with daylight saving law. The plan, used last year, caused no railroad disturbances and did not alter timecard figures.
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W. M. Jeffers
Omaha
Union Pacific
Timecard
Bailey says Democrats abandoned principles in heated Newark address
Former U S Senator Joseph Bailey of Texas denounces the Democratic party as lacking democratic principles and vows not to vote for candidates from any party that reduces liberty or raises taxes, speaking in Newark on March 20.
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Associated Press
Newark
United States
Joseph Bailey
Texas
County Road Work Begins On Laramie County Highways
The county commission began dragging and grading roads with a Fordson tractor and a King drag on the Yellowstone highway south of Cheyenne. Work will extend to the Lincoln highway and feeder roads at Pine Bluffs and Burns, then to other main county roads. Chairman Warren Richardson notes the major effort and low costs over four years have yielded significant improvements.
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Laramie
Yellowstone
Cheyenne
Denver
Colorado Line
Pine Bluffs
Burns
Laramie County
Warren Richardson
Board of Commissioners
Drilling Near Laramie Reaches 880 Feet in Harris Sands
Wyoming Spindle Top Oil company reports drilling at the back door of Laramie has reached about 880 feet and is expected to hit the Harris sands soon. The well sits on section 32 within a 4 320 acre tract in Big Hollow district near townships 15 and 16, ranges 74 and 76, six miles from Laramie.
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Laramie
Wyoming Spindle Top Oil Company
Big Hollow
Butte Editor Charged With Aiding Government Overthrow
Butte Mont March 20 James Fisher editorial writer for the Butte Daily Bulletin was arrested on a federal immigration warrant. He faced a preliminary hearing on charges of advocating overthrow of the United States government and posted a $1000 bail. Fisher, who came from Canada in 1915, allegedly told miners Our day has come the day of revolution.
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Associated Press
Butte
Mont
James Fisher
Butte Daily Bulletin
Department of Immigration
United States
Fisher
Canada
Allied Leaders Clash Over War Reparations Frontiers
At Paris on March 20 President Wilson Premier Lloyd George and M Clemenceau held talks from 3 pm to late evening to resolve knotty issues on war loss reparations and the German frontier. Agreement grows on reparations while main dispute centers on what Germany can pay with claims totaling about 40 million dollars.
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Associated Press
Paris
Wilson
M. Clemenceau
David Lloyd George
Germany
Former Newspaper Man Dies While in Country's Service
Captain Griffin Cochran of the United States army, formerly with the expeditionary forces in France, died of pneumonia near Tours on February 22. A Kentucky resident and Cheyenne native, he worked for the Wyoming Tribune for years and was a well known editor. His wife Mary Evans of Lexington, Kentucky, predeceased him.
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Griffin Cochran
United States Army
France
Tours
Alfred Cochran
Thermopolis
Captain Cochran
Kentucky
Cheyenne
Wyoming Tribune
Mary Evans
Lexington
W. C. Deming
The
Tribune
Cochran
Powder River Soldier Wounded Slightly in Action
The latest army casualty list includes Private John W. Brambaugh of Powder River Wyo listed as slightly wounded in action.
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Powder River
John W. Brambaugh
Powder River, Wrc
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City News
Cabill
Uolliday
A. K. Stewart of
Casper
City
Holts
Huckfeld
Winkbiner
Roy J. White
Plains Hotel
Joe C. Kinney
Kinney Oi! Company
Cokeville
I. T. Eopy of
Percy Laycock
Wanuneta
Mrs. C. EB. Howard of
Tlawline
A. C. Campbell
Carper
T. PF
Algeria
Ed. W. Burke
Child and Animal Protection
Charles Bellamy
Auto Tiro
Frisios Auto Company
Alde
Frank W. de Castro
Lak
Nuttery
Plains Auto Co. Olstt
the Matthews
Pine Bluffa
Co. T. Croutor
Wheatland
Reach of
Torrington
Ross Lambert
Rock River
J. Garrett
Superior
Normandie
Frank F. Sinon
Mrs. Sinon
J. C. Howser of
Douglas
Roy MacVeagh
W. C. Ardman
Chaplin Reaterday
Ralph Connor
Joe Dolan
F. W. Wilmot
Shoshon
Sisstings
Lusk
Pierce
Utah
Davis
W. W. D Undertaking CO
PHONT
Harry B. Henderson
Hernandes
Asalat Delgardo
Henderson
Gonsales
Thompson
Clifford Sewall
Sewall
Embery
District Court
Mentzer
Rawlins
St Mable
Jeffers
Joe Bailey
Denver Road
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