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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1919
Page
13
Cheyenne brief items list visitors and locals in town for business or leisure. Names include B J Roberts Casper Oscar Swanson Lander J N Henderson Rawlins V Morgan Diamond A E Peterson Pine Bluff W C Thomas Laramie Wm Qsumion Wheatland and others. Mentions Plains Hotel guests, auto service, repairs, and weekly dances at Wheat Growers Inn.
A compact advertisement urges selling Liberty Bonds after checking Herman Goldblatt at 30 percent and lists Lincoln Way address. It also promotes an A W O W initiation and a Thursday May 15 smoker event with Rock River lot sales and a contact phone number 53.
This date shows 50 degree mean temperature with 58 degrees at 4 30 p m and 43 degrees at 6 30 a m. Maximum wind velocity reached 47 mph at 7 50 p m. Precipitation data include rain and melted snow with January total 3 70 inches and yearly total 4 71 inches.
Local army recruiting station accepts enlistments from George Lehman Ulysis G Stickney John H LaVier William M Batchelor Henry W Snowerdly Florian T Polire and Carl Benitez. Lehman reenlists for France and says two days on a potato farm in Greeley will offset service time while abroad trains in France. Polire enlists in the Mawailan Islands cavalry unit and Benitez joins for Asia Siberia. Stickney joins construction division in the United States. The rest enter service in Europe and will be sent abroad.
A mortgage license was issued yesterday to Albert L. Diver and Marion Gertrude Tower of Stewart Wyoming. The bride is sixteen, so guardian consent was required before the license could be issued.
Walter Brown of Lander pleaded guilty in U.S. district court to assault and battery. He was fined 825.00 for a quarrel two months earlier on the Sho shoni Indian reservation, apprehended there, released on bond, and appeared at this session to enter the guilty plea.
The War Game Community Service, leader of the Soldiers and Sailors club, will install a cookie jar in the club to supply home made cookies for soldiers on leave or passing through town. Local secretary F W Forssell asks residents to donate and arrange pickup by calling 667. The article notes home made cookies are preferred by the boys.
A new baseball team has formed at Fort Fussell under Lieut. G R A Farmer at post headquarters. Comprised of top post athletes, the squad seeks games with local teams and invitations them to arrange match dates by contacting Lieutenant Farmer at post headquarters by mail or telephone.
Senator Francis E Warren and son Fred Warren pledge 25000 dollars to Laramie county hospital bond fund to name the new county hospital Francis Warren Pershing Memorial in memory of Senator Warren’s daughter. The gift, to be split over two years, follows Wyoming 1917 and 1919 statute authorizations.
Union Pacific Railroad sues in U S district court against Laramie County and City of Cheyenne to restrain sale of Union Pacific real estate for a 1918 tax balance of 3433.17 dollars. It argues 1917 building contract violated state constitution by creating debt exceeding taxes and that 1918 levy to pay that debt exceeded legal millage limits.
The text notes that the city building levy and eight mills limit were unrelated as they funded public debt and interest. It states the Chicago Burlington and Quincy railroad and the Colorado and Southern paid their proportional taxes, accepting their legality without disputing the county and city building levy.
Timothy J. McCoy of Thermopolis was appointed adjutant general of Wyoming by Governor Carey and will assume duties tomorrow the 15th. He succeeds W. K. Weaver and has a salary of 3000 dollars annually. McCoy, a discharged major, was lately in officers training and commission, one of the state’s youngest adjutant general appointees. The law requiring two years of service was amended to require any military service instead.
W K Weaver notes McCoy’s eligibility for the Wyoming adjutant general post after lawmakers consider a statute change. Governor delayed action until last Monday. Weaver, who will be succeeded tomorrow, had five sons in World War I service, with one son dying in naval service and two wounded.
The state board of charities and reforms led by Governor Carey will inspect the Casper state hospital the Lander home for the feeble minded and epileptics the Thermopolis hot springs reserve and the Worland Industrial Institute. After these inspections all state facilities except the Sheridan branch hospital will be inspected.
A Chekiang assembly message dated May 10 at Hanchow urges Chinese negotiators to resist signing the protocol over Tsingtau. It expresses dismay that Japan alone controls the disposal and says China may withdraw from the council if needed.
A tornado struck nine miles southeast of Amarillo late this afternoon destroying several barns and outhouses. Hail and rain accompanied the high winds but officials report little damage and no loss of life has been reported. Governor Carey appointed N Michaelson of Dixon a notary for Carbon county.
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