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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1919
Page
12
A visitor recounts the Cheyenne Fruit Company's large scale operations with warehousing and refrigerated rooms. The article argues Cheyenne could become a major distributing center for Wyoming and surrounding regions, citing carload shipments and direct access to eastern and western markets.
A party of fifty men sails from San Francisco toward the Arctic in the Casco, seeking surface gold and rich ledges. Led by L. S. Merik, the venture blends miners, bankers, and seamen, with Robert Louis Stevenson echoed in the voyage’s romantic suspense.
Wartime articles describe wrist watches as essential to soldiers and civilians, shifting fashion and utility. Jewelers note demand rises while the war effort standardizes timepieces as practical tools, reshaping industry and public perception of personal accessories.
A soldier named Blond stationed at the Presidio for two years is listed among thirty individuals. The text also mentions a dog named Pat of the north, possibly a Nuseian wolf hound, picked up at the city pound and linked to great‑grandparents who tracked through snow in the Are tle.
William Rinner, who killed Ote Merrill in Sheridan during a jealousy driven crime in March 1917, has been pardoned and released from Hawlins penitentiary. The motive centered on alleged infidelity that divided two families living near the Oseir Weltner ranch in Montana. Rinner, angered by Merrill allegedly taking his wife, reportedly fired as Merrill drove by with Mrs Merrill in a car.
A man named Rinner shot Merrill three times on Merrill Street after a dispute with Mrs. Rimmer and J. M. Moore nearby. Sheriff Wolfs undersheriff Pinner demanded surrender. Rinner yielded gun and was jailed. At the next term Ainmer pled guilty to murder in the second degree and received 90 years in the penitentiary.
Sheridan resident L. Green, long in the ranching business on Beaver Creek, has just returned from Indianola Illinois where he attended a friend's burial. Twenty eight years ago he and two close friends pledged yearly banquets for life and to support each other in hardship. Last Christmas the banquet occurred in Indianola with five friends present, two having died.
Basik, Wyo. 20 A.M. Bars change heads Ge Oohre Company building a camp in anticipation of an active season this summer northwest of Rasin. Is reported down 1450 feet with a cave hole and pipe past the cave. The Hed Rover Ol company southwest of Dreytun is shut down for a few days while Frank Nateman recovers from injury. Occidental Ol & Gaw near Fyron abandoned its hole at 200 feet and is pulling caging. Tomman Mountain near Rowlington drilling around wood. Baker Co Midden dome near Worland around 2200 feet with notable trenching as the sale proceeds.
The State Leader reports receipt of The Long Range Sniper, a newspaper issued at Hohr-Bendorf Germany by the 66th Field Artillery Brigade of the American Expeditionary Forces. It notes the 68th Field Artillery under Colonel Burke H. Sinclair, largely Wyoming National Guard, as part of the 66th. The issue was mailed by First Lieutenant W. F. Wright of the 144th.
The passage notes four friends gathering with Mr. Green who is in his seventies and in good health, all enjoying life’s pleasures together during the year.
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