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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1920
Page
10
Omaha dispatch reports Private Lee ter Duncan, who deserted from the San Francisco army, was pardoned by a central division headquarters after his court martial. The note cites mitigating circumstances and the prior orders to report to Hawaii.
The industry agrees on a new eight dollar daily wage for carpenters with full year work prospects. Contractors say the raise aids statewide building needs by stabilizing costs and enabling year round labor. They cite a federal district bulletin urging financing readiness, price stabilization, and expanded material supply and distribution.
Charles D. Carey urged volunteers to donate at least one day of work on the Frontier show. The effort aims to save money and fund development through the Chamber of Commerce. A. D. Kelley toasted the event and highlighted railroad housing needs for machinists.
Apel 5 Peter Collins of Massachusetts spoke at the gymnasium on Bolshevism. Albert Crowland outlined plans to assist farmers with dairy cattle this spring and announced the first car load of short horn cows would arrive by Thursday and be sold by the Chamber of Commerce to local men. J H Walton presented figures on the Gyenne Creamery in 1919 selling 736000 pounds of butter and 50000 gallons of ice cream while spending over 285000 with local farmers, noting the industry’ s reach along the Union Pacific and to Cody on the Burlington.
Miss Arnold, convinced by apparent spiritual communications, toured New York with her brother and later joined a Denver board session. Doctors warned her mind could fail if the messages stop, yet she remains certain she talks with the dead and boards an outgoing train with an ouija planchette.
Charles W. Riner of the Wyoming Fuel & Feed company left for California to visit his son Major Clarence Riner who commands the marines at Mare Island Vallejo. He plans to tour several points of interest during the trip.
Judge J. H. Burgess of Sheridan left yesterday afternoon for Denver and is expected to return to the city Friday.
Dr Bulgin spoke last night on motive over deed and praised Cheyenne standards while joking about a California woman who offered a five dollar gold piece by mistake. He compared evangelism to a conscientious surgeon, entertained with homely humor, and explained the ghost versus corpse distinction, drawing hearty audience applause from about half the tabernacle.
A humorous scene titled In Old Kentucky features Anita Stewart at the Amuse theatre this week. An elderly colored couple dancing on the lawn provides light relief after the Kentucky handicap victory ball. The two play to type with gentle, risqué humor and natural grace.
Yi. D. Colburn an attorney with Burns and a Laramie county representative in the lower house was in the city handling legal business yesterday. The party returned to Burns by motor in the evening.
Copenhagen report confirms a general strike in protest against the new ministry will begin at noon Wednesday. Authorities expect it not to become general before Thursday morning.
Paris Ky March 30 a mob of about forty men seized Grant Smith 40 as he was being taken to jail. They forced him into a car and carried him along the Maysville Lexington Pike to Mays Lick Fleming county where he was hanged to a telegraph pole. Smith had disappeared two months earlier after alleged assaults on Ruby Anderson 44 of Flemingsburg. He was arrested in Michigan last week.
The Supreme Court will hear prohibition related arguments in two cases. One involves liquor owned by Charles Romano of Sheridan who challenged the search and seizure clause as unconstitutional in the lower court ruling. The other concerns liquor owned by Theodore Peterson of Douglas where the lower court upheld the clause as constitutional.
Frank Gallivan of the Cheyenne Transfer company left for San Diego to join his wife Mrs. Gallivan who has been in Southern California for months. Accompanied by Mrs. Gallivan she will tour the Pacific coast visiting Los Angeles San Francisco Vallejo Portland Seattle and Tacoma. The children who accompanied Mrs. Gallivan returned to Cheyenne with their nurse.
An insane patient from Pine Bluffs was brought to Cheyenne yesterday and is detained pending an Inquiry into his mental condition.
William G. Haas of Cheyenne will become postmaster tomorrow succeeding Walter L. Larsh who resigns. Haas has long served in the post office inspection service with Denver headquarters and topped the civil service examination. Larsh, postmaster since 1913, will supervise final reports for several weeks before Haas’ permanent appointment.
Funeral services for Mrs. Lucretia Roberts, wife of Charles E. Roberts, will be held at St Mark's Episcopal Church at 2 PM conducted by Rev. Charles A. Bennett. The choir and Charles Hunter will sing hymns loved by the deceased. railroad shops crafts will attend in a body. Pallbearers are C. BE. Stevens, A. M. Beebe, L. Brady, P. Gary, Elmer Day, and J. Harcleroad. Interment follows at Lakeview cemetery.
After an illness of two weeks William Farrel aged 79 years died Tuesday morning at his home on East Twenty second street. Farrel was a pioneer of Cheyenne having resided in Lara mié county for fifty two years. Besides his widow he leaves three daughters Mrs Charles Hirsig and Mrs Pat Welch of Cheyenne and Mrs Whilstine of Thermonpolis and five sons Frank and Warl of Cheyenne Thomas of Bellevue Nebraska John of Kimball Nebraska and Leo of Denver.
Lieutenant Omar Niergarth, an army aviator missing for a week from Carl Strom field, was found today by search planes near a fishing camp at Argadia Florida. Details of the accident were not reported and he was said to be in good health.
Ben Gravington, a pioneer resident of the Hartville district in Wyoming, was a Cheyenne visitor yesterday, traveling from Idaho to Texas.
The Wyoming compiled statutes of 1920 will span about 1500 pages with bidding due April 45 in the governor’s office. Three thousand five hundred copies will be issued, including 3000 full sheep binding and the remainder in morocco leather.
Cope Linn, a taxicab driver charged with bootlegging, entered a guilty plea in district court, but the judge denied it yesterday. Linn had pleaded not guilty earlier after the case was filed. Frank Jones, the complainant, and four other young men who pleaded guilty to violating the state prohibition statute have not yet faced sentencing.
John B Burns longtime Fort Laramie district resident visits Cheyenne, sharing reminiscences with locals and continuing his familiar business in town.
Mrs Laura Hobbs, judged mentally unsound last Saturday, disappeared Monday at noon while en route to Evanston state hospital. She was found yesterday afternoon at a friend's home where she had stayed since her disappearance, and was traveling with an attendant to the Evanston institution last night.
Mrs. T. Joe Fisher learns her brother Nicholas J. O'Brien general manager of the Orient railroad dropped dead in Texas several days ago. He was a nephew of Tate Nicholas J. O'Brien of Cheyenne and known by many residents of this city who regret the news.
The Senate restored a $240 yearly bonus for federal clerks after the appropriation was cut by the House. Information from Senator John B. Kendrick confirms the revival of the pay supplement for clerical staff in federal offices.
Henry Slim Wayenob, once a city police officer, was arraigned in district court and pled guilty to violating the state prohibition law. Judge W C Mentzer fined him $300 for the offense.
Evening services will be held at St. Mark's Episcopal Church at 8 o'clock with the rector delivering the sermon.
Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks wed in a ceremony performed Sunday by Rev J Whitcomb Brougher of Temple Baptist Church in Los Angeles. Details about the couple were not immediately available.
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