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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1910
Page
9
John A Dix, from a long Democratic lineage in New York, is making a strong bid for the governorship as Roosevelt and Stimson contend for the role. Indications point to Dix leading the Democratic ticket for the first time in years.
Jacksonville reports a immense hurricane damage in the peninsula south of St. Augustine and Tampa. The storm cut communications for over a day, with 70 mile per hour winds near Mayport and widespread flooding in St. Augustine. Properties valued in the millions are reported lost.
The State Leader reveals a vast conspiracy in Wyoming to grab ceded Indian lands. It alleges misuse of water rights, public office corruption, and a plan to force a derisively low price for 1,150,000 acres amid irrigation schemes. A narrative warns readers to act now.
In New York on October 18 the Elissa In land cutter Immigrant carrying President Taft and notables tangled with the Erie ferryboat Goshen in a dense fog off Franklin street. Captain Page reversed engines and veered to starboard to miss the other craft by only a few feet. Also aboard were Secretary Nagel Otto T. Barnard and Prof. W. C. Osborne as Taft toured Ellis Island and inspected immigrant conditions.
In Chicago on October 18 a mad bulldog sprinted through a St. Bridget’s parochial school classroom-foaming at the jaws and sending forty students to desks. Sister Josephine confronted the animal and drove it under her desk where it yelped until all children escaped.
Dr H H Crippen asserts not guilty as murder trial begins in Old Bailey. Lord Chief Justice Alverstone presides with a large bench. Miss Ethel Lenove, accused as accessory after the fact, absent for arraignment. Prosecution led by Muir with dramatic opening. Witness Long testifies about clothing purchased for Lenove.
Meager details from wire dispatches report Wellman and crew forced to throw overboard ballast to reach land. They launched a life boat from the airship and were picked up by Trent steamers. They will arrive in New York tomorrow as the America crewed airship continues to recover.
Cheyenne recorded its first snowstorm of the fall of 1940 last night. Flurries began just after 8 p.m. and lasted about twenty minutes as temperatures rose to 40 degrees by 9 p.m. A late drop near 11 p.m. brought the storm to life again, with indications of a heavy fall by early morning before fading as the snow melted.
Denver, Oct 18 An extra session adjourned after enacting a railroad bill creating three commissioners with $4000 salaries to decide rate fairness and oversee freight and passenger service. The bill includes a reciprocal demurrage clause. The session, costing nearly $100,000, approved initiative and referendum direct primary and registration and railroad commission bills but rejected headless ballot and bank guarantee measures.
Washington reports that 30 hundred acres of coal lands in Wyoming were withdrawn from entry today. The move closes vast tracts to prospecting and development by private entrants pending further policy action.
About seventy five office holders and candidates joined private members of the Young Men's Republican club as hosts for residents of Fort Russell at Keefe hall. Speeches were given by Meregary Mentzer Pierce Deming Land Taylor Kennedy Chatterton Kelley of Cheyenne and Wilson of Fort D. A. Russell.
Adolph Busch, the St. Louis brewer, has spent 500000 to recreate Banbury Cross and its surroundings on his Pasadena estate. The project centers on the nursery rhyme motif loved by his grandchildren, featuring the old woman on a white horse.
Report from St Louis on a long balloon voyage for the James Gordon Bennett cup. Seven of ten balloons started yesterday remain aloft at night. Six are over Lake Michigan area, others near Lake Huron or Canada. no American entries observed.
The article outlines the Wind River valley history from Indian possession to opening for settlement. It notes a 1904 treaty transfer to the United States, then a 58th Congress act guiding sale and settlement under homestead and other land laws with set per acre prices.
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