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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1919
Page
7
Walter Bates facet is drawn for The State Leader by M ManUS, detailing a political or editorial feature with local significance. The piece highlights Bates and the publication's stance, shaping reader interest in upcoming actions and community impact.
Cleveland detectives Peter J. Mock and John W. Walker pursue Boehm who escaped on an east-bound train near Rock River Wyoming. Boehm swapped into the officers clothing, took $63 in cash, a watch, and handcuff keys, then vanished at Rock River as the train stopped. Sheriff Smalley offers a reward for recapture. Boehm, 27, 5 feet 10 inches, had broken jail in Cleveland.
In Newcastle Wyoming a Mike Heary Oil Company crew allegedly moved a drilling rig off land staked by a Sheridan syndicate in the Osage field. They drove ground workers off the site and killed two syndicate horses. Fifteen men reportedly invaded the road from the Heary camp to move the rig by trucks. A second Sheridan syndicate is the Osage group involved.
The legislature enacts a carbon black law restricting manufacture of liable gas extraction within ten miles of any incorporated town unless the gas’s caloric value is utilized. The Pure White Lead-Shorman Co. operates under the new rule amid state-wide testing of the law’s validity.
For sale a house five blocks from the city with bath furnace heat and cement cellar. Newly listed with updates and features awaiting a new owner.
The nomination of Leslie A. Miller of J to the collector of internal revenue for the Wyoming district, separated from Colorado, is before the Senate. Confirmation is expected within days. Miller, a prominent Democrat, has ties to the state land office and Kinney Oil, with the Wyoming office to be housed on the building's fourth floor. About twenty five staff will be in Cheyenne. Alabama Shoe Sherman Paint Co.
Pillar of Fire evangelists from Denver begin special meetings tonight in the hall at Seventeents and homes. Services start at 7 30 each evening and will be denominational free with gospel preaching. Public is invited to attend.
Fred Bohnstedt has bought the residence of S. Ross at 1613 Evans Street for 5500 dollars and will move in as soon as possible.
Webb Melphie of Kansas City and Sagan Kelley of Cheyenne are matched for a ten round bout after a recent fight ended with Kelley sustaining a hip injury. The Hassell smoker in Fort Russell will feature the main bout Monday night as the prime event.
Articles of incorporation for Dan Joe Mining Co show capital stock of $500,000 and shares par value 1.00. Directors for the first year are George W. Bates Kara i Godfrey John Sheehan Perry Guthrie Charles Enerick Pred May and W D Lamb all of this city.
Newlin returned from a four day tour of northern and central Wyoming reporting favorable financial conditions and booming business in the communities he visited in his official capacity.
In Ruffalo Wyoming a freight box weighing twenty tons was moved on a rough 50 mile highway from Holt drug store to Kaycoe. The box was brannt (burned) at Kaycoe by the same company, raising questions about the transport.
More than half of the eleven townships in the Buffalo district, withdrawn two years ago and recently restored to entry under the Geary act, have now been filed upon at the land office. Over 200 claims recorded, with 396 claims of 640 acres each in the restored area.
A newly discovered feasible route will shorten the Buffalo to Gillette highway length to about 46 miles, traversed and approved by Miole Highway. The project cuts bridges and grades, improving travel compared with the air distance near 60 miles.
City is ahead 380 in forfeited bonds after several defendants failed to appear and had their bonds forfeited. The irregular ihnen and scattered phrases reflect a court docket update with names and partial details awaiting clarification.
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