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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1918
Page
2
Local market advertises pansy plants for Decoration Day next Thursday and a wide array of fresh produce. California hams and yams, smoked sausages, apples, bananas, strawberries, lettuce, celery, beans, and other vegetables featured with promo prices. Also promotes men’s work shoes at four dollars and claims to pay top market prices to farmers and ranchers.
An old advertisement offers a mail back trial package from Foley & Co. in Chicago. It promises four sample products for coughs digestion and kidney issues, along with a cleansing cathartic. The offer requests a cutout, name and address, and mail to the stated Chicago address.
J Albert Stefansson and his expedition expect return to inhabited regions this summer. The Polar Bear rests at Barter Island, with Stefansson likely reaching Nome in August after overland travel from Fort Yukon to Dawson and the Yukon River to Skagway. Bernard eyes an Atlantic route from Melville to Newfoundland, while Amundsen’s Gjoa rests in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.
Mrs B K Walling from the state board of health visited Fort Col lings city jails and county infirmaries and found the interior conditions of the city jail and public institutions unsanitary. She prepared a report urging condemnation and immediate action to reform.
The piece urges Allied intervention to free Russia from German control. It argues Russians seek American aid, warns of Prussian dominance if unchecked, cites Bolshevik censorship, and calls for U S printing support, education exchanges, and rapid, decisive action beginning in Siberia to restore democracy and mutual alliance against Germany.
Mrs. Richard Lewin known as Ethel Beare died aboard train No. 41 while traveling from Arizona to Sheridan. She had recently sought treatment in Arizona for health reasons and died en route to Weston County. Burial occurred in Sheridan after arrangements in Edgemont. She was born in 1897 in Weston County and left a three year old daughter, a husband, mother, sisters, and a wide circle of friends in Sheridan.
In Rawlins Wyoming on May 24, Union Pacific shop employees painted a fellow worker yellow for alleged anti American remarks about the Red Cross and the war. The man Loco Locaviteh an Austrian employed six months was marched to the post office and turned over to the sheriff after refusing to support the Red Cross.
A young Carter Oil worker was killed at Pilot Butte Wyoming when struck by a fast revolving walking beam crank as a drill was lowered. The man, likely named Frank Bandlin or W. C. Jones, died instantly with severe head and shoulder injuries. He left a wife and several children in Los Angeles. A second report from London recalls Pvt Joseph Barry shot by a German guard after refusing to fetch coffee in WWI.
Wye May 24. A man named Schroyder from Los Angeles was driving through Wameutter when his automobile strayed onto Union Pacific tracks at the crossing and was struck by a west bound freight, dying instantly. The accident occurred last Tuesday and the details are reported in Rawlins.
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