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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1912
Page
6
The Cheyenne Indians fall 2 to 1 to the Laramie Gems in a sluggish Pioneer Park contest. Laramie scored in the fifth and eighth while Cheyenne's lone run came in the sixth. pitching and fielding were shaky on both sides as the Gems claimed the win.
Union Pacific announces weekend excursion fares for Laramie and Rock River area. Round trip tickets priced at one five and one third, valid for return until Monday. Limited time offer to promote future fishing frolics. readers urged to plan weekend trips.
President Bob Brown of the Vancouver club confirms a telegraphed deal with Philadelphia for outfielder Dodo Brinker to rejoin the Vancouver team. The reported price is 4000 pounds. Other text references a beauty parlor ad appear incidental.
The morning slate showed Brooklyn beating Boston 8 to 6 with Kent, Rucker and Phelpa on the battery for Brooklyn. Philadelphia trimmed Washington 2 to 0 as Seaton and Moran, Marquard and Myrma pitched. The American League saw Boston defeat Washington while Philadelphia and New York were shut out in later matchups.
Indianapolis 0 Toledo 3 Kansas City 7 Milwaukee 6 Minneapolis 6 St Paul 0 Columbus 1 Loulavilles 2
St Joseph defeated Topeka 3 1 in a two game set. Des Moines won both games against Lincoln 7 0 and 0 2. Sioux City bested Omaha 3 1 in the first game and 10 6 in the second. Denver fell toWiehita 0 7 in the first and 6 Výobi in the second.
Lawrence manager Louis Pleper announces that the New York American club paid 7000 for Hay Keating of the Lawrence team, a record price in the New England league. Governor Foss' father George B Foss of Chicago is reported ill at home due to old age and a weak heart.
The American entry list for Olympic athletics, prepared by James B. Sullivan, shows 460 events entries across 28 disciplines, with selections to be ratified by cable after the Cambridge tryouts and a June 16 Waldorf session. The record notes largest entries in the 400 meter dash and smaller in javelin, with totals listed for each event.
Bird's Rounders trounced the Deliverymen yesterday afternoon by 37 to 5 after nine innings. Brown started pitching for the Drivers but was relieved after the third. Rodgers finished the game. Kinney led the Rounders with three home runs and two doubles, while Morton and Stevens held the batteries for the Rounders.
Washington May 10 Senator Hitchcock Nebraska declared that one billion dollars a year is extorted from Americans by industries under the protective tariff system. He cited Cummins figures of 100 million excess profits and claimed protected firms net a further billion annually. He named iron and steel makers as taking 300 million beyond their due and referenced Andrew Carnegie as an example of wealth distribution. He also noted labor import claims and critiqued Roosevelt era trust positions while predicting Democrats gain control and tariff reform. The Hitchcock corporation resolution passed without action.
Finlanders Tillie Golden and Katherine Anderson, living in San Francisco on four dollars a week, leaped from a cliff into the sea after a week ending with hunger. Tillie drowned. Katherine was saved by a rescuer and life savers after a half hour in the water.
Friends of John Young of Glenrock report his mighty partner suffered a heavy defeat in a first round bout with Jose Willard in Fort Wayne Indiana last week. Young was knocked down in rounds three and six and counted out in the sixth, a hard blow for supporters who knew him as a giant in physical form.
New York May 2 0 Martin Sheridan discus thrower withdraws from the American Olympic squad citing business engagements. The report notes his decision will keep him from a long stay in Stockholm. A separate classroom exchange mentions a pupil asking about smallpox and another answering about having had a scar.
Yale's squad with coaches and trainers left New Haven for Galea ferry to finish training for the Harvard races next month.
Peter V. Johnston of Kalamazoo Michigan died at his home from an apoplectic stroke. He was a famed late here driver with a long career including driving the trotten Johnston & mile in ten seconds on a Chicago track.
Mayor William J. Gaynor defies rigid legal forms to end graft on street corner newsstands serving cripples and widows. He retitles a license in his name and orders bureau chiefs to wink at small legal violations, provoking aldermen who threaten action but back down to preserve control and revenue.
Wyoming Democrats urge continued state governance citing records and call for tax reform federal land policy change and direct senate election. They back water protection irrigation, eight hour day labor rules, convict-made goods labeling, and recall provisions. Republicans push Taft renomination and endorse Warren Mandel and good roads while praising national leadership.
The speaker argues Republicans offer platform empty of pegs while Wyoming people, like others, demand progress. They will achieve change by aligning with the Democratic party as they are coming to support it.
Denver authorities report peace on the Denver Laramie and Northwestern railroad dispute as four resigning directors are replaced. Col. William F. Green becomes president, W. W. Garwood chairs the board, and a financial plan aims to raise 16 percent stock assessment to reduce debt.
In a brief item from the Free Press, Falih, a local dentist from Weal Test, plans a routine visit to Velleville without expectant pain as part of a light community note.
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