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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1910
Page
6
A Cheyenne reader urges women to vote on November 8 for Judge Carey, praising his honesty and moral leadership. She calls for women to support a candidate she believes will benefit Wyoming and set a trustworthy example for children.
Notice urges unregistered voters in the city and Laramie county to register by the October 27 28 dates to be eligible in the November election. Between fifteen hundred and two thousand voters have not registered. Registration books are at Dineen's garage Industrial club and Court House annex.
The notice proclaims a large Democratic rally described as a big meeting with every voter in the state invited and able speakers to present facts on state matters. It urges attendance from all political affiliations.
A letter contends settlers were betrayed over escrowed funds held by American Trust & Savings bank. The writer denies recognizing the recipient as a settler representative without trusteeship proof and explains no deadline was set for prosecution of work or for state engineer permit cancellations. The money purportedly will be returned by the bank when water delivery times align.
New York authorities arrest Ben J. Duveen and Henry J. Duveen after seizing an art collection valued around 10 million dollars at the Duveen Brothers gallery. They face charges of defrauding the government on three consignments valued at about 28 thousand dollars. A separate report describes a Chicago arrival scene involving a woman charged with bigamy and her ten-year-old daughter Olive, including alleged multiple marriages.
John K. Toner, Republican candidate for governor, swore out a warrant for the arrest of B A Van Valkenburg, editor and president of the North American company, charging criminal libel. Hearing set for Friday. attack on Toner's business integrity began October 13 and continued daily.
Captain Robert B. Peary Arctic explorer did not report for duty as a civil engineer after his leave expired. Acting Secretary Winthrop said assignment was undecided while Peary had a decade long leave to pursue exploration. The record notes a claim about a friar from Oxford discovering the North Pole in 1260.
Chicago oct 24 it is easy to get a husband says Mrs Allee Eckel Goodwin Graham Young Hoskins a woman who has been married three times since last January She says matrimonial bureaus fail to furnish good looking men and she could keep marrying if she used the agencies detectives confront James Young who identifies as her third husband
Judge William Franklin Padget 57 a native of Evansville Ind died after weeks of stomach illness at his home 520 West Twenty second Street. Funeral services will be held at his residence with I C O F rites and interment in I C O F cemetery Wednesday afternoon honoring a highly respected Cheyenne justice of the peace who had served twenty years here. His death surprised many friends after a period of poor health and a southern recovery tour.
The longtime Cheyenne barber and public official died while serving as coroner after earlier roles as justice of the peace for precinct No. 2 and two terms as coroner. He had a widow and three children, including George Padget of Ogden Utah and daughters Mrs. David Merna and Mrs. 8. P. Stevenson.
Personal Mention Atty Wilfrid O Leary left Bisalok bed yesterday and came downtown to his office but returned in the evening threatened with pneumonia. C L Beatty Pine Bluffs banker was a business visitor in the city yesterday. Thomas McCafferty Jr returned from Chicago and expects his father to visit Cheyenne within the month. Thirteen year old James McCafferty is quite ill at home. R J Stine of Douglas was among arrivals from the North last evening. Miss Bessie Miller has returned from Saratoga. Louis Kirk has secured a position in the United States surveying department and will work in New Mexico.
Fair conditions expected Tuesday and likely Wednesday with notable temperature changes, according to the meteorological report.
Center Colorado October 24 politics reach a new stage as Sagnash county Republican and Democratic candidates sign a strict pledge to ban election day spending and transport of voters. The agreement requires candidates to stay within their precincts except for essential needs with opponents’ consent and forbids use of teams autos or other conveyances to bring voters to the polls.
Leigh Rhodus known as the candy bandit was arrested in East St Louis and confessed to killing Dr William F Michalis of Chicago on August 6 during robberies in Chicago and St Louis. He described robbing drug and grocery stores and claimed his wife knew of the crimes.
An ad promises eighteen years of experience with tungsten lamps, motors, dynamos, and vacuum cleaners. It guarantees all work and offers prompt service, urging readers to call or have the technician call them to save time and money.
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