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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1910
Page
5
Telegraphic briefs report fires in Colfax Washington that almost destroyed Thornton’s business section with estimated losses near 100 000. Other notes include Springfield Illinois population rise to 51678, Ballinger visit to Denver irrigation talks, Keene’s pneumonia recovery in Lexington Kentucky, and assorted local items across the Southwest and Northwest.
In the rail yard a cinder pit was cleared with shovels then filled with water and new candidates for heaven were immersed. The brief action suggests a ritual or symbolic cleansing tied to a religious or ceremonial event.
In San Antonio Sept 14 ranchers use prickly pear cactus as stock food. Dr David Griffith proved its value as forage comparable to sorgum hay. Mills grinding cactus mix with cotton seed meal fatten cattle at about 3 1/2 cents a pound. Dairymen report success using cactus in summer rations.
The Douglas Good Roads Club urges Wyoming lawmakers to adopt a Colorado like system using convict labor to build broad state highways. A circular letter notes about 300 convicts already work on the project and argues outdoor labor improves morals, calling for legislative support and citizen cooperation.
Colombo reports government entomologist B E Green and agents C T D Vigors and Plant returning from a locality with abundant Achatina fulica snails. Five feet of a cocoanut trunk bore 227 snails. another site yielded 450 snails from a four yard block. Snails described as three inches broad with a thick shell in cream pink and slate blue. Largest snail weighs about a pound.
Washington reports Inspector General Garlington criticizes the army for officer shortages and outdated methods. He notes artillery battalions headed to the Philippines with no field officers and second lieutenant led batteries. Bell calls the field army unprepared for field service and urges more senior officers to replace those on detail.
Fifteen year old Clifford Garr, without parents, traveled from Portland to Cheyenne. He flashed a pistol and was placed with State Humane Society, then sent to Fred McDermott’s ranch near Glendo. After逃, he rode a horse, disappeared, was found thirty five miles away, and is returned to the authorities for possible school or state humane care.
An advertising notice promotes La Faves Reconstructive Remedy as a cure for indigestion and liver disorder. It claims digestive, cardiac, and nervous benefits as essential to health and happiness, with Palace Drug Store as the agent.
The Atlas opens tonight with Paul Hinkle a comedy singing dancer and Ed Hamlin late of the Orpheum circuit performing imitations and stories. Bootley and Bentley present a magical instruments act. Prof. Dian at the wheel contributes moving pictures and spark. Little's Little Orchestra provides late music.
Knoxville Tennessee September 14 The Appalachian Exposition opened after eleven months of prep with a street pageant and formal ceremonies at the exposition grounds. Addresses by Governor Patterson Mayor Helskell and President William J Oliver marked the event.
James McLachlan the bartender who shot his wife last Thursday on West Sixteenth Street and then shot himself was moved from St. John’s hospital to the county jail by Sheriff Hughes. Despite a through bullet wound he walked from the hospital to the awaiting car and showed no reaction to the prospect of life behind bars. On arrival at the jail the slain woman’s relatives stood outside the entrance.
An 18 year old Mantkowski was killed in Wisnewssi after being struck on the head with a stone nine pounds during a dispute over a fee. The incident drew attention from local and national news outlets.
In Jefferson City on September 14, Missouri Republicans adopted a reforming platform with a pensive tone after a bitter contest over tariff law endorsement and Roosevelt’s conservation role. The party finalized both major planks, while the Democrats presented a scheduled platform with no debate.
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