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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1920
Page
10
Incomplete dispatch from the Associated Press notes gunmen and a rooftop shooting incident. The fragmentary copy references public service, timing and legal notices, with unclear names and places due to damaged text.
The passage argues that Washington Crojat and California face slowed growth, underpopulation for their size, and barriers to white immigration while suggesting ample Chinese and Japanese labor could fill empty lands. It notes women of eighty for suffrage and mentions New York's 106 registrant as likely the limit.
Experts estimate five million houses are needed in America to house the population efficiently. Private capital is shrinking from housing, cites high material costs, labor, land prices, and cautious bankers. Public capital, used in wartime and adopted abroad, may be the solution as authorities conclude the way to get houses is to build houses.
The essay notes a shift from iron and wooden fences to unfenced lawns in fashionable areas. It recounts the iron fence trend of 1888 and a countertrend of removing fences, predicting many once deemed necessary features will later be seen as unnecessary.
A garbled early 20th century report suggests Pu Yi the former Chinese emperor, age fourteen and imprisoned in Peking, wishes to visit the United States. It notes he could play baseball, enjoys comic pictures, has an English teacher, and would be a ordinary boy if permitted.
The October term of the Lara mie county district court opened yesterday with several Cheyenne hunter parties in the big game country. The October session of the board of oners of Lara mie county will this morning. Local notices mention real estate and insurance contact by J. A. Kirkpatrick at 1831 Carey Ave.
A patchwork of road conditions is reported across Lincoln to Sterling with good stretches at Lincoln North Platte Julesburg Sterling and Casper while Pine Bluff Cheyenne and Laramie show mixed grades. October 4 1920 Cheyenne Wyoming forecasts and Salvation Army note 12600 trained workers sent to France 85 percent women.
Weather bureau data shows 24 hour period ending 6 pm. temperature 44 73 20 for 6 am 12 pm 6 pm. Relative humidity 53 20 23. Wind NW 8 SE W. Means indicates actual mean temperature 58 degrees, 2 degrees colder than prior day. Highest 75 at 3 pm lowest 41 at 4:30 am. Precipitation none last 24 hours. total since January 1 14.09 inches. normal 12.24 inches.
Casper Wyoming October 4 The Wyoming State Federation of Women's Clubs endorses measures for compulsory education English literacy and citizenship for foreign born and native born residents. It backs naturalization for women married to aliens and calls for education and public health reforms including tuberculosis care and full-time county health officers. The federation supports the Shepard Towner bill and higher salaries for county superintendents, stresses the link between education and democracy, and mourns the loss of secretary Mrs Fred Wycke.
In Cody on October 4 Emil Moore offered to crank a balky car for Mrs. W A Raider. The car kicked him, breaking both bones in his right forearm. Mrs Raider then tried cranking and fractured her right wrist. Both were hospitalized and the car was repaired to run smoothly afterward.
In Gillette Wyoming on October 4 a nine year old boy named Paul Norfolk found a blasting cap and probed it with a pin. The cap exploded injuring his right hand severing his thumb and part of his index finger.
In Kemmerer Wyoming on October 4 a midnight ice cream share at Miners hospital sickened six nurses. The nurses O Leary Roletto Robinson Crone Ehelmola and Gravitt were treated with emotional tone stomach pumps and others, except Polkington who did not eat, were made patients. One nurse who had just undergone appendicitis required a second operation but is expected to recover.
Ten thousand sheep stranded in lower pastures as two feet of snow falls in the forest near Afton Wyoming on October 4. Local herders report the winter storm blocking grazing and movement of flocks.
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