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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1920
Page
10
The Cheyenne Chamber of Commerce hosts a second Get Together Dinner with meal tickets and early birds getting in. Committees plan to reveal bombshells and mines of ideas after the meal, with brief, pointed comments to spur civic work and few speeches.
Indiana tornadoes killed at least thirty six people across Jay and Allen counties with homes and barns destroyed. Rebuilding began as telegraph and telephone service slowly returned and damage estimates remained unavailable. Local reports placed fatalities between Flint and Fenton Battle Creek and Nashville with additional deaths near Hart Mulliken and Lansing.
Reports say ten and nine persons were killed in separate incidents. Property and livestock losses were extensive. Fort Wayne hospitals care for 25 windstorm victims, with several expected to die.
A March storm swept eastern Colorado causing thousands of dollars in damage to three railroad lines entering Denver and to telegraph and telephone networks. Wind estimates reached 65 miles per hour as poles were blown down along the Union Pacific routes between Oakley and Ellis in Kansas and Sterling to North Platte in Nebraska. By tonight each line reported one telegraph route open and schedules resumed.
George Duncus confessed to stealing a Buick touring car from Dinneen's garage and burglary. George KR Gunther admitted part in the theft but pleaded not guilty to burglary. Cope Linn pleaded guilty to bootlegging but no sentence was set.
Rock Springs Wyoming March 29 workers in the mines will observe a holiday next Thursday with the entire working force laid off. Speeches and a parade will highlight the anniversary celebration of the eight hour day granting.
The Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corporation completed the purchase of 640 acres including a recently finished well in Section 19-46-63 Osage field, paying 200000 dollars. Sellers Gold Medal Oil Co to resolve title disputes and deliver without licenses. T F Algeo led negotiations for Sinclair in Wyoming.
Locals here object to a State Leader circulation claim that Pedro Talentino, conductor of a local orchestra, was formerly an instructor at the Philippine Conservatory of Music and that he was elected provisional treasurer of Capiz province. They note the conservatory is recent and the Capiz treasurer’s post is appointive, not elective.
Rock River Wyoming March 29 The Associated Oil Company reports trouble at its Nock Creek field. The Section 42 well is caving badly at 2800 feet. No 2 section well is standing with tools lost and drilling halted on the Section 6 well due to lack of a crew.
Diamonds and sample jewelry valued at 20 000 to 25 000 were stolen from Clyde Smith jewelry store in Torrington Wyoming. Investigators say two men entered three trunks belonging to traveling salesman J Washburn of an Omaha jewelry concern and escaped in an automobile. Much of the loot came from Washburns trunks.
Mrs. G. W. Cass of Wastburke Vermont will be brought to Cheyenne for burial. Funeral services were held in Vermont and burial here will be private. She was formerly Miss Sadie Ballinger of Cheyenne and left eight years ago to live in East Burke. She died of pneumonia with survivors including her husband, five children, parents Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Ballinger, a brother Dudley of Lander, two sisters in Pasadena, and siblings Karl and Lola Ballinger of Cheyenne.
Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at 4 in St. Marys Cathedral for Mrs. Teodra Gonzales who died Saturday. Interment followed at Mount Olivet. She was 30 and survived by husband Aureliano Gonzales and four children. The Ted family lived at 414114 Capitol Avenue.
ROCK SPRINGS Wyo March 29 Joe Subitch is in custody as part of a scheme where Mike Yovitch and Mike Begovitch paid 2300 for water thinking they bought whiskey. Two more arrests are expected.
Preliminary population figures released by the census bureau show city by city changes. Listings include Yankton, Bonham, Bryan, Corsicana, Hillsboro, Kankakee, Beardstown, Hoopeston, Wheaton, Clarinda, Waupaca, Marshfield, Winona, Little Falls, Whitehall, Elkins, Sisterville, Winchester and St Augustine with 1920 counts and 1910 comparisons.
The Fashion showcases the measureograph, the first automatic cloth measuring machine, in Cheyenne. The device, known as the measureograph, automates fabric measurement, marking a notable advance for the local fashion trade.
A local store purchased a cloth price calculating machine to speed sales. The device computes costs accurately and expedites handling of transactions, improving efficiency in pricing goods for customers.
WORLAND Wyoming March 29 Alvin Reesey a farmer was thrice impaled by prongs of a manure spreader and dragged several hundred feet before stopping the team He suffered injuries not serious unless infection develops and was taken to a local hospital for treatment
Encampment Wyoming March 29 George Evans a former Encampment resident who recently killed his wife in New Britain Connecticut and then took poison and killed himself Evans had lived in Encampment until June previous to the incident authorities report Evans shot his wife to death and then cut his own throat after swallowing poison
Newcastle Wyoming March 29 Adam Rockwell 27 a former serviceman was killed when dragged into a saw at Rudlock ranch near Four Corners His sleeve caught and despite struggles he was drawn into the saw before the engine could be stopped His body was nearly cut in two Rockwell was among Weston county men who enlisted and served in France.
HONOLULU March 22 Princess David Kawananakoa sister in law of Prince Kuhio Hawaii's delegate in Congress was greeted upon arrival after two years with leis placed on her shoulders a Hawaiian band at the dock and singers singing traditional songs of the land, marking a ceremonial welcome.
Saturday night weather threats failed to deter a large turnout for Sunday's festival. W H Owens served as marshal as a mile long parade proceeded downtown to the tabernacle for an afternoon service. Dr Bulgin lectured on Wine Women and Gambling and Mrs Lewis addressed women on Broken Homes and Broken Lives.
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