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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1916
Page
14
Daily Market Report from Denver reports liberal cattle offerings and an active market with prices steady to higher. Beef cattle show good demand with fat steers $8.25 to $8.75 and cows up to $7.85, while calves and bulls firm. Feeders and stockers remain in strong demand at steady prices, and native and southern stock alike move well.
Receipts mix across hogs cattle and sheep with market weakness. Prices shown for hogs and pigs range from about 7.75 to 9.90 per hundredweight, cattle including native beef steers and westerns listed around 5.40 to 9.50, and sheep with lambs and wethers near 6.90 to 11.75 per hundredweight.
Cheyenne Wyoming March 16 1916 notice that stockholders voted to dissolve the corporation Phebus and McCoy Incorporated after disposing of all property and paying debts and obligations. Executed by Edgar McComb president and E K McCoy secretary with notary Ruth H Kingham witnessing. The document includes stock and commodity price details from the era and legal dissolution formalities.
Many readers seek desirable bourses and wonder why advertisements for vacant houses appear in the Leader. The note explains why the paper carries ad columns for housing and how readers can use them.
Notice of foreclosure sale by Cheyenne Realty Company against John T Grigsby and Nora Fay Grigsby on Lot One, Block Twenty One, Park Addition Cheyenne Laramie Wyoming. Sale set for May 26, 1916 at 10 a.m. at courthouse front door, Cheyenne. Attorney fees of 100 dollars plus costs.
General Pershing relies on two chief scouts R. J. Boyd and Ted Houguton as he pursues Villa. Boyd is a desert veteran who knows northern Mexico and its people deeply. Houguton has spent much time in Mexico and shared similar frontier experience.
William Pu Bois is listed as an architect at 1614 Capitol Avenue in Cheyenne Wyoming. Local business directory entry notes firm presence and address for professional services.
Department of the Interior announces a contest against Homestead Entry No. 012782 filed by Shelby C. Allen of Cheyenne. Roy L. Wilson asserts failure to reside cultivate or improve the land in sections 10 and 13 N range 68 West of the 6th Meridian. Allen must answer within twenty days after the fourth publication, with proof of service.
The page lists multiple train arrivals and departures including No. 9 00 pP and No. 10 Pacific Limited with times in Cheyenne. It also carries a public publication notice from the U S Land Office Cheyenne Wyoming dated April 17 1910 about Villa Mahuffy claiming a 160 acre homestead and three year proof deadlines, with names of witnesses.
U S Department of the Interior Land Office Cheyenne Wyoming May 1 1916 Notice Charles F Smith of Hearse Creek Wyoming filed a desert land entry in 1912 Serial 08337 for a section in township 1 N range 68 W 6th meridian He now gives intent to make four year proof to establish claim before the Register and Receiver Cheyenne Wyoming on June 5 1916. Witnesses A Andrews and others listed from Hearse Creek Wyoming involved in the proceedings.
Arnold Rick of Cheyenne Wyoming filed intent to prove up a homestead claim for land described as Serial OT244 in section and township 14 north range U west, principal meridian, before the Register and Receiver at the Cheyenne land office on June 14, 1916. Witnesses named include William M Swinbauk Everett Meo Gickie Charles M Irwin John Rick all of Cheyenne and John Rick of Albany Wyoming.
County Treasurer Ray K. Olds announces payment of Laramie County funding bonds numbers 26 through 30 at Union Trust Company New York. Interest ceases after May 11 1918. Cheyenne Wyoming May 11 1918. Federal Land Company Prairie farm lands for sale with crop payment plan.
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