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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1910
Page
13
Telegraph briefs report fires in Colfax Washington and other cities Sept 14 detailing losses, population shifts, and local official plans. Notable items include Thornton fire in Colfax with about 100000 dollars in damage and various short notes on civic matters from Springfield Illinois to Denver irrigation discussions.
A railroad yard cinder pit was emptied with shovels and filled with water as new candidates for heaven were immersed. The scene combines industrial cleanup with a symbolic ritual, marking a peculiar posturing toward salvation.
In San Antonio, Texas, cactus forage is rising in use as a stock food. Dr. David Griffith from the U S Department of Agriculture demonstrated prickly pear as a valuable supplement to grass feeding, showing it can fatten steers at about 3 1 2 cents a pound. Mills grind prickly pear for mixed stock feed, boosting dairy and beef production in the region.
The Douglas Good Roads Club urges Wyoming residents to back a bill in the next legislature to use convict labor for road building, aiming to replicate Colorado’s system. The brochure cites 300 convicts on Colorado projects and argues outdoor work improves morals, seeking wide civic and business support.
Colombo reports government entomologist Mr. B. E. Green and colleagues visiting a locality where Achatina fulica snails are abundant. Five feet of a cocoanut trunk carried 227 snails, while 450 snails were seen on a ground block four yards away. Snails described as spiral, three inches wide with hard shells in cream pink and slate blue, with the largest weighed about a pound.
Washington dispatch reports Inspector General Garlington warns the field army is unprepared for field service due to a lack of senior officers. He cites battalions with no field officers and batteries led by lieutenants with little experience, condemning absent captains as a major professional disease.
Clifford Garr a fifteen year old from Portland Oregon who recently arrived in Cheyenne was arrested for flashing a pistol and placed with rancher Fred McDermott near Glendo. He disappeared with a horse, was found thirty five miles from the ranch, and is being returned to custody or the state humane society for placement.
An advertisement extolls La Faves Reconstructive Remedy as a cure for indigestion and liver disorders. It claims proper liver function improves digestion heart action brain and nerves, warning of sickness and death without relief. Palace Drug Store is listed as agents.
The Atlas presents Paul Hinkle a comedy singer and dancer from the Orpheum circuit delivering imitations and stories. Bootley and Bentley perform a comedy musical act with magical instruments. Prof. Dian spins the wheel for moving pictures and Little's Little Orchestra provides late music.
Knoxville Tenn Sept 14 The Appalachian Exposition in Knoxville and the Appalachian region opened today after eleven months of preparation. The event includes a street pageant this morning and formal exercises at the exposition grounds with addresses by Governor Patterson Mayor Helskell and President William J Oliver of the exposition pipe.
James McLachlan, a bartender, shot his wife in their West Sixteenth Street home last Thursday and then wounded himself. He was moved from St. John’s Hospital to the county jail by Sheriff Hughes despite a bullet still in his body. He left the hospital a week after the incident and walked to the awaiting car without speaking to bystanders.
An 18 year old, Mantkowski, was killed in a Wisconsin incident described as a dispute over a fee. Authorities report he was hit on the head with a stone weighing about ten pounds, with details stemming from a local altercation and ongoing news coverage.
In Jefferson City on September 14, Missouri Republicans adopted a platform with a leaning toward pensive ideas after a bitter fight over endorsing the tariff law and a mention of Roosevelt as the establisher of Conservation. Both platform measures were adopted as the Democrats held a scheduled platform without debate.
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