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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1919
Page
10
The Salvation Army plans a two story hostel at 4 West Seventeenth Street with an open house party Tuesday night. Captain Robert Vena Lan of Denver will oversee the program as the upper floor is prepared for guests and the building is presented in the wartime French style.
The design calls for a first floor lounge with reading matter games and recreation devices and a rear lunch room. The plan outlines a focus on student leisure and nourishment within the dormitory facilities.
The University of Pennsylvania won the Child's cup race on Lake Carnegie today at Princeton. Princeton finished second with Columbia third in the event reported by Associated Press.
Nathan Straus writes that funds raised for Jewish relief abroad are inadequate and urges the Central Committee for Relief of Jews Suffering through the War in New York to increase giving. He cites refugees’ misery, unemployment, and health decline, stressing urgent, broader donations.
Paris May 17 The monument committee invites President Wilson to dedicate the site at the mouth of the Gironde for a memorial to American wartime intervention. The committee hopes he will follow Lafayette’s route from Pointe de Grave when returning to the United States. Wilson thanked the committee and said he would consider the invitation.
Clear conditions with a high of 71 degrees and a low of 37 degrees. Temperature averages 57 for the date with a normal mean of 54. Wind from the southwest at 20 mph. Precipitation since January 1 totals 3.70 inches, normal 5.02.
John Litzky was found guilty of selling liquor to an Indian on the Shoshoni reservation, fined 100 and sentenced to 60 days in county jail after a petit jury verdict in federal court yesterday. Pred Schilling pleaded guilty to tampering with parcels post packages, fined 500 and costs totaling 524.99, paid and released.
Casper Wyoming May 17 The Blackstone Petroleum company abandons its oil sand search in the southern Salt Creek area and moves to drill on its section 6 39 78 lease after purchasing a Midway coal rig camp and equipment. The Staley lease will be developed next with drilling contracted to Mike Foley.
report from Kemmerer Wyoming notes a Baum oil well on a lease from the Cretaceous Co. with Charles Lackey handling the contract. spudding aimed within a week, target depth 1000 feet, progress hoped within 60 days. location cited near the NW quarter of section 12, township 28.
Lt Col BE Hall, former chief of the air service technical section, returns from France to Berkeley and reports Cadillac cars gave better service than any other make in France. He drove extensively at the front and in bad weather, averaging about forty miles per hour, with no car trouble. He says Cadillacs were unavailable to be delayed and he could not recommend any improvements. He even bought one for his own use on arrival.
Paris reports conclude German indigignation over peace terms is not wholly spontaneous. Temps notes Berlin drops of protests over Berlin May 9 aimed at a peace of violence and pillage rather than destruction of the armed forces. Protests were printed May 4, three days before the treaty presentation.
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