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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1912
Page
2
A blunt advertisement promotes Leonard the Clairvoyant at the Lyric Rooms above the Lyric Theater. It claims he can guide on business, marriage, law, health, and social aims, offering confidential private parlors and promises to convince skeptics.
May 11 Rawlins. A navy wireless test shows operators excel over merchant crew. George Durke, from this city, scored twice the average of Carpathia operators, the vessel famed for rescuing Titanic passengers.
William Hood native of Scotland and University of Edinburgh graduate died after a three day illness from ptomaine poisoning at his Meeteetse home. He had worked at the L A ranch about a week before falling ill. He came to America about 1885 and settled in the northwest with stock investments in Montana and later work in Billings.
May 11 a quarrel between two privates of Company H Eighteenth Infantry at Fort Crackensle near Sheridan ended in a fatal shooting. Daniel A Spain the company cook used a rifle to kill James Herrington after a fist fight. Spain was arrested and held in the guardhouse. No feud was known and both men were reportedly drinking.
J C Johnson of Edinboro Scotland and other Wyoming investors toured Laramie on Thursday night and visited Blackburn ranch. Johnson, recently named Swan Land and Cattle director, once ran Wyoming cattle from Laramie, later basing in Scotland while maintaining Wyoming stock interests. the party also included bankers and agents from Denver and Cheyenne.
Rawlins May 11 John C. Friend received a letter this morning stating an old government claim of 106 dollars has been allowed after 45 years. The original claim valued near 700 dollars arose from pioneer Indian raids that dispersed his ranch, seized mules and destroyed property. The claim had been allowed twice before but each time the government granted a new hearing.
Senator F B Warren introduced a bill to set aside up to four sections of unoccupied public land in Wyoming near Cheyenne for the Order of Owls to establish a sanitarium and camping ground. The plan allows temporary use under Interior control, with lands reverting to U S ownership after two years if no longer needed.
Deputy Marshal Lealle Buon and Frank Haselton traveled from Cheyenne to Bear Lodge country to serve subpoenas in a federal trespass case. The suit concerns a man grazing sheep on the Sundance National Forest Reserve without a permit.
A prominent California investor group led by W. M. Hurt and J. A. Endicott visited Cheyenne and Wolton to assess Wyoming oil prospects. They back the Wyoming Ervay Oil Co, planning extensive summer development and hoping to bring wells to market by autumn amid already opened wood wells in the Rattle Snake fields.
Prominent California and Nevada promoters back western development. Samuel Lockhard founded Goldfield and holds western interests. William Carter of the First National Bank of Los Angeles ties to both states. W. M. Hurt, company president, predicts Wyoming deposits as the world’s greatest and plans a large development outlay. Three derricks with five thousand foot capacity already owned, to be erected this month.
New York May 11 The divorce suit filed in 1910 by the wife of author Richard Harding Davis was discontinued by Supreme Court Justice Guy. The couple wed in 1899 and Davis proposed to Cecelia Clark by cable while he was in London and she was in Chicago. A London hotel messenger delivered the engagement ring.
A tornado swept Talladega Alabama killing three people and injuring many others. The city faced widespread damage and darkness following the twister. Local authorities report about seventy five thousand dollars in property loss.
Mrs. Robert Wilson of Rawlins has presented the Episcopal church with a motor to furnish power for the organ. Other items note Evanston plans for a three story hotel, a Casper booklet, Newcastle mayoral race, Wheatland delegates to Cheyenne, Lusk fire station move, Rawlins boy wins gold medal, 30 miles of Mountain States telephone line work, Dr Hamilton in diphtheria quarantine, and nurse examiner dates.
New Orleans reports a sunny day with clear skies as engineers, except in Baton Rouge where conditions stay critical, express confidence in flood protection and levee safety amid rising water concerns.
A Cheyenne Wyoming ad promises two second relief from eczema and itching using D D D Prescription soothing wash. Offers a trial bottle for 25 cents and a guarantee with a first dollar bottle paid if it does not stop the itch.
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