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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1913
Page
15
A vintage guide presents fish sandwich ideas for lunch and school meals. It covers lobster and salmon sandwiches with bold condiments, a sardine relish, and tips to assemble multilayered forms with lettuce and cheese.
Market report from Denver lists prices for wheat and hay. Wheat figures show choice winter and spring around 60 per bushel, oats various regional quotes, barley in feed and malting categories. Hay prices include South Park and Colorado upland, prairie, alfalfa, and straw with multiple quality grades and per ton quotes.
A historical timetable lists East and West bound trains with arrival and departure times by number and line. Notable services include the Overland Limited California Oregon Los Angeles Fast Mail and regional routes among Denver Cheyenne Portland and Milwaukee with multiple daily slots.
Loveland Colo May 16 A county records shows 83 year old W J Faulkner applied for the first hunting and fishing license of the season in Larimer county He keeps a summer home on the Big Thompson river and is the oldest man ever granted a Larimer county fishing license.
The Cheyenne city council passes an ordinance prohibiting selling or giving tobacco, cigarettes, or liquor to anyone under 18. Violators face a misdemeanor fine of 5 to 25 dollars or up to 30 days in jail, with the measure taking effect after mayoral approval. Signed by Mayor D. W. Guia and City Clerk J. J. Showalter.
In Denver cattle yards a fair run with southern stockers and a trainload of western fed cattle en route east. Beef cattle show steady to slightly dull demand with steers $7.00–$7.80, cows in fair demand, feeders and stockers active, hogs about steady at $8.40–$8.45, and sheep and lambs selling well with 83 pound lambs at $8.00 amid strong inquiry and riverside price alignment.
Kansas City and St Joseph report cattle receipts with steady to strong markets native and southern cattle priced from 4.50 to 8.15 per cwt. Hogs show steady to strong with feeders and packers bidding up to 8.45. Sheep receipts around 3 000 to 6 000 with mixed prices for muttons and Colorado lambs.
Exchange notes show wheat and corn quotes with mixed bids and delivery months. Prices list hard winter and white wheat, rye and oats in July and September cycles, with rough figures and market activity at the Kansas City grain exchange.
Monks of Mount Athos plan to send the imperial robe and gem studded crown of Byzantine emperors to Athens for King Constantine's coronation. The robe weighs ten pounds and is covered with beaten gold, while the crown may become the permanent Greclin crown.
A special election in Cheyenne will be held June 24, 1905 to decide adopting provisions of Chapter 4 and-related amendments for city government. It covers mayor and two commissioners terms, and petitions thresholds for initiative, referendum, and recall. Mayoral proclamation dated October 1912 signs D. W. Gull.
May 15 cattle receipts 1 500 market steady native steers 7.00 8.75 cows and heifers 6.00 7.75 western steers 6.75 8.00 Texas steers 6.00 7.40 cows and heifers 5.00 7.50 calves 7.00 10.00 hogs receipts 11 000 market steady heavy 8.15 8.30 Webt 8.50 8.95 pigs 7.00 3.00 bulk of sales 8.20 8.30 sheep receipts 1 000 market steady yearlings 7.00 7.50 wethers 5.50 7.00 lambs 7.85 8.35 Chicago May 16 hogs receipts 18 000 market steady to a shade higher bulk 8.60 8.10
Weather data shows extremes for the date with high of 88 and low of 27 in 1880. For the same date last year the high and low were 43 and 37 respectively.
Washington report notes May 16 indicating Wyoming may see Funk Saturday with showers in the southwest portion. Sunday is expected to be dry.
In Pueblo Colorado at 9 pm Mike Owens was arrested after two plain clothes officers spotted him crouching behind Henry Falkenstein’s store with $140 in receipts. A police tip warned of the planned hold up, prompting vigilant surveillance at First and Main streets and the quick arrest as Owens approached the grocer from behind.
A terse note touts confidential information value and promotes The Sherman Co and The State Leader as the preferred ad medium in Wyoming. Advertisers urged to try the service.
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