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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1920
Page
2
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 conviction. Details are unclear due to garbled text.
The Wyoming construction industry reached a consensus to set a new eight dollar per day wage for carpenters to stabilize the market and meet state building needs. Contractors reported that demand across towns from Gasper to Rawlins supports year round work and price stabilization, citing federal district guidance on housing shortages and material costs as justification.
Charles D. Carey urged volunteers for a Frontier show to raise funds for the Chamber of Commerce and urged no passes. A. D. Kelley toasted the effort, urging urgent housing for machinists and praising railroad needs. W. C. Deming described Cheyenne as a transcontinental air hub with plans for pay loader flights and a 200 acre field, inviting city support for a hangar.
Peter Collins of Massachusetts will address the audience at the gymnasium on Bolshevism. Albert Crowland outlined plans to aid farmers in dairy cow placement this spring with the first car load of short horn cows arriving by Thursday and sold by the Chamber of Commerce locally. J H Walton presented figures on the Gyhenne Creamery's 1919 activity noting 736000 pounds of butter and 50000 gallons of ice cream produced and over 285000 dollars paid to farmers. The industry now spans about 150 miles along the Union Pacific and reaches to Cody on the Burlington.
Miss Arnold, convinced by a Denver board session she communicates with the dead, drowns an ouija board in a lobby scene at a train station. Arnold, her brother, and onlookers witness her fixation on the so called messages as she plans to leave town for more contact.
Charles W. Riner of the Wyoming Fuel and Feed company departed for California to visit several points including Mare Island navy yard at Vallejo. His son Major Clarence Riner commands the marines there.
Judge J. H. Burgess of Sheridan departed yesterday afternoon for Denver and is expected to return to Sheridan on Friday.
Dr Bulgin spoke last night about motive over deed and the need for higher standards in Cheyenne and in California churches. He compared evangelists to conscientious surgeons, used jokes between points, and defined ghost versus corpse to clarify morality, drawing laughter and approval from about half the tabernacle.
A playful scene in the film In Old Kentucky at the Amuse theatre features Anita Stewart and an elderly colored couple on the lawn as part of a ballroom celebration. The couple’s cottage lounge pose and affectionate humor draw laughs with a simple, natural performance.
Yi D. Colburn, attorney for Burns and a member of Laramie county's lower house delegation, attended legal business in the city yesterday before returning to Burns by motor.
Copenhagen dispatch says a general strike in protest against the new ministry will begin at noon Wednesday. Officials expect it not to become nationwide before Thursday morning.
Paris Kentucky March 30 a mob of about forty men abducted Grant Smith 40 and took him from police to a wagon. They hanged him to a telegraph pole near Mays Lick Fleming County after he disappeared two months ago following alleged assaults on Ruby Anderson 44 of Flemingsburg. He was arrested in Michigan last week.
The Supreme Court will hear two Prohibition era cases on the constitutionality of the search and seizure clause. One involves liquor owned by Charles Romano of Sheridan, where the lower court held the clause unconstitutional. The other concerns liquor owned by Theodore Peterson of Douglas, where the lower court ruled the clause 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 her, she will tour the Pacific coast visiting Los Angeles San Francisco Vallejo Portland Seattle and Tacoma. Their children 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 resigned. Haas has years in the post office inspection service and recently based in Denver. Larsh, postmaster since 1913, will remain for several weeks to supervise final reports before departure. Haas’ appointment, highest in the civil service exam, will be permanent later.
Funeral services for Mrs. Lucretia Roberts wife of Charles E. Roberts are held at St Mark's Episcopal Church at 2 o'clock this afternoon conducted by Rev. Charles A Bennett. The choir with Charles Hunter sings hymns, railroad shop crafts attend in a body. Pallbearers are C B Stevens A M Beebe L Brady P Gary Elmer Day and J Harcleroad. Interment at Lakeview cemetery.
After a two week illness William Farrell aged 79 died at his East Twenty second street home. A Cheyenne pioneer he resided in Laramie county for 52 years leaving a widow three daughters Mrs Charles Hirsig Mrs Pat Welch and Mrs Whilstine and five sons Frank Warl Thomas John Leo.
Lieutenant Omar Niergarth, army aviator missing a week from Carl Strom Field, was located today by search planes at a fishing camp in Argadia Florida. Authorities said he was in good health and did not report details of the accident.
Former Wyominrite Ben Gravington, longtime Hartville district resident, visited Cheyenne yesterday while en route from Idaho to Texas, continuing his travels toward Dallas.
The state announces a 1500 page Wyoming Compiled Statutes 1920 to be published with bids due by April 45. Three thousand five hundred copies will be produced with 3000 in full sheep binding and the rest in morocco.
Cope Linn a taxicab driver charged with bootlegging entered a plea of guilty in the district court was denied yesterday Linn had pleaded not guilty when initially charged Frank Jones the complainant in the Linn case and four other young men who pleaded guilty to violating the state prohibition statute have not yet been arraigned for sentence.
John B Burns a long time resident of the Fort Laramie district is in Cheyenne for business. He is well known to many old timers and yesterday enjoyed exchanges of reminiscences with friends here in town.
Mrs Laura Hobbs, declared mentally unsound last Saturday and reported missing Monday noon, was found yesterday afternoon at a friend's home where she had stayed since her disappearance. An attendant had accompanied her as she departed for the Evanston state hospital last night.
Mrs. T. Joe Fisher reports her brother Nicholas J. O'Brien, general manager of the Orient railroad, died in Texas several days ago. A nephew of the Tate O'Brien of Cheyenne, he was well known in the city and many residents regret his death.
The Senate restored the $240 yearly bonus for clerks in federal offices after the appropriation was eliminated in the House. Information from Senator John B. Kendrick confirms the reversal of the lower chamber’s action.
Henry Slim Wayenob, once a city police officer, was arraigned before Judge W. C. Mentzer and pled guilty to violating state prohibition law. He was fined $300.
Services at St. Mark's Episcopal Church will be held this evening at 8 o'clock with the rector delivering the address.
News from Los Angeles reports Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks wed in a ceremony conducted by Rev. J Whitcomb Brougher of Temple Baptist Church. Early details of the couple's whereabouts and reception were not available.
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