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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1910
Page
9
The article describes James A. Patten caring for his frail brother George W. Patten in Evanston. It notes George W. Patten’s long tuberculosis signs, his recovery needs, and James A. Patten’s devoted role as caretaker amid his own earlier nerve-racking market ventures in wheat, corn, and oats.
Pueblo county plans to dictate at the Democratic state convention Wednesday with a 69‑man delegation. The party aims to press its influence on the gubernatorial race between John F. Shafroth and B. L. Jefferson as both candidates seek Pueblo support.
Oyster Bay Sept 12 Theo dore Roosevelt pledged to fight the bosses upon returning from a western trip. His name will be presented to the Republican state convention, said Lford C. Cristom president of the New York county Republican committee after hours with Roosevelt. Griscom added Taft and Roosevelt are in perfect accord.
A Minnesota senator served on the investigation panel that recommended removing Secretary of the Interior Ballinger. The committee examined Ballinger's conduct and advised leadership to pursue his ouster.
Six men claiming affiliation with a Persian religious cult were arrested in Chicago yesterday as police broke up a water service on Leake Michigan. About forty men and women were involved, with worshipers being lowered into the water. Ringleaders protested as authorities intervened and prisoners later preached sermons in their cells.
Phoenix observers report unofficial figures showing Democrats poised to hold a majority of 52 delegates at the constitutional convention. The result reflects strong party support in Arizona as votes tally.
Reports from San Rafael California Nahant Massachusetts La Crosse Wisconsin and Jacksonville Florida detail five deaths and several injuries from car crashes. Victims include Florence M Pardee eldest daughter of former Governor George C Pardee and others identified by location and brief description.
Gold bullion valued at 57500, part of a 170000 consign ment from the Washington Alaska Bank of Fairbanks to the Dexter Horton bank of Seattle, was stolen on a ship between Yukon ports and Seattle. Boxes showed intact seals at Seattle assay, but one contained lead pigs instead of gold, indicating on board robbery. The ship route involved Dawson White Horse and the Humboldt steamship, with the heavy loot weighing 260 pounds and insured by a new company.
Mrs. Nella Singer of Tremont Place shoots a burglar on her back porch in the 2224 Tremont residence. After the shot she searches the yard, finds blood on the sidewalk, and keeps a lookout with her revolver until patrolmen arrive. She says she hopes she did not kill him.
Mrs. Sarah King of Brooklyn won a tall silver cup as the 100 yard hobble skirt champion of Greater New York at a North Beach, Long Island outing. A stashed race featured hobble skirts and ropes for those unprepared, with the winner finishing the distance in seven lumbies.
Charles E Town representing the insurgent faction narrowly defeats Julius Caesar Burrows in Michigan for the Senate nomination battleground. The contest has been heated and has stirred leading Michigan Republicans for months.
Newark New Jersey report tells of Charles M Webby a Mount Freedom farmer who, while plowing, found four old copper coins. Two dated 1747 show a horse head and shield with Nora Caeca rea. Another coin from 1848 bears mint age, and a 1778 English copper completes the set. Dealers appraise the four coins at an average of 200 each.
Ban Francisco. Sept 12. W H James, New York explorer, returns claiming irrefutable proof that Dr Cook faked the tale of climbing America's highest peak. The party listed includes Professors Parker and Cant, Belmore Byrne, Herman Luker, Merle Lavay, and others from Tacoma to Alaska.
Rev. Cortland Myers in Boston denounces Newport society as low, citing jewels valued at tens of millions worn by women during weekends. He contrasts religion’s decline with high society excess, mentions Roosevelt and Bryan, and remarks on Mayor Fitzgerald’s improving condition.
In Seattle on September 12 A J Wolffe pulled an unconscious weight from a float on Lake Union. The weight proved to be the body of seven year old Edgar A Reese son of widow Bertha A Reese. A brother was rescued from Green Lake a week earlier.
John Scanlan known as Walt Mason, 44, artist and writer, is believed to have taken his own life in his studio to relieve an internal ailment. A searchman found the body after several days without contact, confirming a recent death with health failing for months.
Chicago dispatch reports Representative Chester W. Curfla and Dr. William Hi. Reid, both Ni pola assembly candidates, boasted their bid after repelling three women from a burning four story building at 4 West Dord Street. The pair received an ovation from supporters.
A Chicago jury indicted the Chicago Packers in a case involving political names and a Hamilton club event. The report notes Roosevelt absence and Lorimer presence, with a lobbyist atmosphere around a cancelled invitation and a debated political scene.
Federal grand jury returns three indictments against ten high officials of Swift Armour and Morris packing concerns. Charges include combination and conspiracy to monopolize live stock purchases and meat sales across the United States and methods to fix costs to raise prices. Individuals named include L F Swift Edward Swift Charles H Swift Francis A Fowler Edward Tilden Ogden Armour Arthur Meeker Thomas J Connor Edward Morris and Loula Heyman.
Early returns from 499 of 628 precincts show Republican B. M. Fernald leading Democrat W P Pisistr, with 64 281 to 61 080. Maine trends toward a large Plaisted victory for governor as Democrats sweep Congress districts and anticipate a Democratic state legislature and US Senate race gains.
Rock, Ark. Rept. reports returns show majorities in favor of the initiative and referendum amendment and large pluralities for the Democratic state ticket.
Meeker Colorado September 12 The jury in the Joseph Williams murder trial found Williams guilty in the first degree for killing Everett Baker a fellow lumber camp worker The verdict was delivered Sunday and Williams will be sentenced today
Denver report details the suicide of William C. Radford son of a San Francisco mining heir after a farewell note and a diary page. He expressed love for Mrs. Husch later identified as Nelle Busch wife of George Kingsbury Busch of St. Louis. The Denver scene began with a letter to Mrs. N. G. Bughe.
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