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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1920
Page
2
Maryland returns show Major Leonard Wood leading with 14 663 votes to 7 113 for Hiram Johnson, a 7550 margin. Wood sweeps all counties except Allegheny and Washington, securing 117 of 129 state convention delegates and binding them to vote for him if he remains viable.
May 3 reports from Muscogee Oklahoma and Eureka Kansas describe a deadly Oklahoma tornado that leveled Peggs and left 51 killed and about 100 injured. Relief workers searched wreckage amid mud while a first trainload of injured arrived. In Eureka Kansas a separate tornado injured six people with possible fatalities.
Exports of wheat and flour from July 1, 1819 to April 23, 1920 totaled 160,813,000 bushels, down 82,580,000 from the year before. Much flour went to the AEF and relief administration. Wheat stocks on April 23 stood at 141,842,000 bushels, down 17,410,000 from the prior week but up 20,951,000 from last year.
Montreal May 3 The price of stove coal moved to 16 a ton an increase of 1 due to higher freight costs and rising miner wages. Dealers say the hike is necessary to cover costs.
May 3 Garrick Theater in London hosted a postponed performance of One Night in Rome. Miss Laurette Taylor received a standing ovation at curtain calls, while Ambassador and Mrs. Davis sat in a box draped with Anglo American colors as the show proceeded without incident.
Earnest Nath, 12, was struck in the leg when a pistol carried to bed by him and friend Teddy Poland discharged. The bullet entered near the hip, traveled down the leg, and caused only a light flesh wound. Dr. G Y Beard attends the boy as his family considers funeral arrangements for the firearm owner.
Delegates from both major parties are chosen today by county committees to attend the May 10 state conventions at Lander and Sheridan. Each party selects six delegates to the national convention and from now the Wyoming political scene will heat up as presidential candidate preferences are revealed and platforms and electors are decided.
Teodoro Granillos and his son Eusacao were both shot in the head during a Pin Town shooting near Bisbee Arizona. The bullets passed entirely through their skulls and they remain not bedridden, still able to tell the tale. The older man took a forehead wound and the son a side head wound that exited at the neck.
Pete Cordillo sits in county jail awaiting trial for Frank Jennings murder. His brother John Cordillo had earlier been convicted of manslaughter and both men had brief stints in the Wyoming prohibition department and Union Pacific Cheyenne shops before moving to Denver to face murder charges.
Police court records show eight men drunken Saturday night to Sunday, six fined and $187 paid in city coffers. Authorities traced intoxication to mixtures including lemon extract, perfume, hair tonic, liver medicine, and improvised home brew with unknown alcohol levels. Both arrestees claimed they drank only one listed product.
Tony Cordillo and nine others were seized after a late night party in Denver turned chaotic with wine, women, and a street fight. Tony was fined five dollars and handed to Denver police chief Hamilton Armstrong for further inquiry into the party’s red wine sources.
Walter Andrew Watson alias James RK Huirf, an alleged bigamist and murderer, was reported eager to lead a search tonight in the sands between Imperial and San Diego counties for the body of Nina Lee Delaney, said by officers to be one of his five victims.
United States army officers and soldiers were ordered not to enter Panama City by Major General G W Kennedy head of the Panama Canal Zone. The command followed Panamanian protests against U S plans to acquire part of Taboga island for canal defense.
Denver May 8 With the acquittal of William W Glawson of murdering Joseph Zuckerman by a jury in the west side court at 1245 Sunday afternoon the dismissal of murder charges against his wife Ina Glawson is a certainty and the filing of charges of assault to kill against Clawson in connection with the shooting of Jacob Zuckerman is a possibility Clawson came to this city from Cheyenne
General Calles mobilizes 6 000 troops in Sonora to march via Pulpito pass into Chihuahua and on to Mexico City after Juarez. Abel Rodriguez named provisional Chihuahua governor as rebel leadership arrives from Agua Prieta. El Godones garrison joins Sonora rebellion amid cross border reporting.
A strike of operatives in 37 cotton mills in New Bedford Conn today led union firemen to quit work tomorrow. Some mills closed for lack of workers while the textile council put the number obeying at about 15,000. Loom-fixers struck to force reversal of loom-care orders, with mills generally remaining open.
In London on May 3 a Commons announcement states six former German warships and 4124 submarines are allocated among the Allies. The United States receives Ostfriesland and Frankfurt, France takes Thuringen and Emden and 38 submarines, Japan gains Oldenburg Nassau and Augsburg, Italy gets seven submarines, and ships scuttled at Scapa Flow go to Britain.
At PRESIDED Texas on May 3 the Ojinaga garrisoned by 200 men of the 3rd cavalry remains quiet. Reports that the soldiers planned to join the revolt have persisted for days but no fighting is anticipated.
General Urbalejo, foe of Obregon, arrives in Juarez and confers with General Escobar. Local Obregonistas fear his hatred for Obregon could prompt an attack with Indian troops.
General Hugo Donzelman veteran Cheyenne attorney is reported seriously ill in a Denver hospital.
Warden in charge at Rawlins for over a year, W. H. Cap Brine died in Denver after a long illness. The 56 year old Texas native was known for firm but fair discipline and fearlessness. He previously killed a Mexican convict during an escape incident eight years ago near Rawlins. Funeral services will be held in Rawlins with interment near the penitentiary.
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