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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1911
Page
14
Local notes report the seamon Bock beer season opening, basketball court setup at Central School, handmade trunks at Cheyenne Trunk Factory, and Robin Redbreast sightings signaling spring. New car purchases, building morale work on the Dyer building, spring real estate transfers, and a Cheyenne marriage license are recorded.
London outlines a plan to build a new bridge to honor King Edward. The changes would beautify both riverbanks, shift Charing Cross Station and Hotel south, and extend the Processional road from Buckingham Palace down the Mall to Trafalgar Square and onto the south bank.
The city chain gang worked along Fifteenth Street to clean the business district. Assessors report steady 1911 property assessment filings flooding the county office as deputy staff progresses. Industrial club distributes Cheyenne improvement leaflets to boost business district growth. Cleansing Clemen Reservoir pump house allows full gravity pressure during emptying for fire safety.
Snowmelt is slow in the Crow Creek upper watershed with little stream flow. The headwaters of Middle Crow Creek show rising river levels diverted for irrigation below the point. Advertising notes: Guy Stoddard and his flying machine generate publicity for Cheyenne after a Denver Republican photo and Cheyenne date line describe the airship and builder.
The suspect linked to two arson attempts near Willian Schroeder’s Baal sixteenth residence was turned over to county authorities on a warrant issued by Justice Bu wards following a complaint by Chief Ed Schosl. Fort Russell tensions and Cheyenne family involvement noted as officers report patrols.
Letters to Houston residents warn of border prospects with troops kept near the border for at least six months. Wyoming and Colorado agencies market Dactyle calculating machines to tax assessors. A son is born to State Veterinarian Dr. Davis’s household in Sheridan, aligning with his deputy Bateman’s home. An Oregon Short Line wreck leaves Kinport in partial recovery at his East Twenty-second Street home. Soldiers depart Fort Russell to rejoin front-line units at Fort Sam Houston. Civil service exams announced for Cheyenne Federal building including modeler and map engraver positions with salaries listed.
G C Arnold of Providence reports a Franklin runabout traveled 36 000 miles in four years nine months at a cost of 0 288 per mile including gasoline oil repairs and tires He kept a log showing gasoline 18 59 repairs 388 74 tires 221 81 per mile costs 0 0001 0 0120 and 0 0073 Respectively The daily average 18 20 miles and under 60 cents a day The car proved economical with minimal oil expense and tours to Providence area towns were made before the record ended
A fragment describes a lake near a home with speeding boats and a gang of men culling ice on one side, hinting at a tense scene by the water. The text preserves a sense of disorder and possible conflict without preserving full details.
Canadian officials report favorable views on an arbitration treaty among the United States and Great Britain. If negotiated, it would likely be submitted to Parliament for approval, or the Canadian government would secure its assent in principle as a fixed element of British policy.
News records 125 deaths from a wave of wrecks in the western upper Atlantic during fall and winter. One Gloucester schooner Ella M Goodwin with ten aboard may still be afloat in ice fields. In six months about 100 vessels wrecked or sunk, many from New England and Newfoundland, with $1 million in losses.
State Veterinarian declares scabies in Converse Natrona and Laramie counties. Prohibits cattle movement into or from nonquarantined areas from March 15, 1911, until further notice. Executive proclamation signed in Cheyenne with state seal.
RAGS WANTED good clean rags needed at the Leader office for reuse or sale.
All county warrants issued from July last to August specified will be paid at the office of the county treasurer March 28th or as soon thereafter as possible. Interest ceases on that date. Luke Breatin Luke Voorhees, County Treasurer. 22 24 26 28.
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