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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1920
Page
11
Vera Muraviova, cut off from her parents by the 1917 Russian Revolution, organized a unit to help 70 refugee girls. The group cared for younger children and were aided by the American Red Cross in Vladivostok before traveling to Petrograd with 780 Russian children.
Governor Cox defends his wartime and postwar positions, urging U.S. entry into the League with necessary reservations to preserve American interests. He denounces prohibition questions as false and asserts oath to the Constitution while challenging his Republican opponent to provide clear answers.
A late night fire at the state capitol coal room caused by spontaneous combustion damaged the building. Firemen could not reach the blaze initially, so laborers shoveled out coal to allow chemical extinguishing methods to work. The subterranean section near the north wing sustained damage.
Senator Kenyon questioned moves around recruitment while Attorney General Palmer faced scrutiny. The record notes a witness did not know of any official meeting on battleships and mentions a Saturday deadline for a DOJ employee voucher list covering San Francisco convention travel.
Police linked to a homicide in Los Angeles after the body of Benton, 46, a mining promoter, was found in a room he rented. Evidence included a pistol shell of wrong calibre and blood stains. The room held letters and a Bible recording two marriages. Benton had two wives, the second named Dollla Mae Winters.
Cheyenne’s Fortieth Blue Lodge was instituted in a dance hall at the temple in honor of Grand Master and Mrs. W. O. Wilson. The ceremony featured officers of Rocky Mountain Lodge No. 40 with Judge William C. Mentzer as master and a large gathering of Masons and their ladies attending.
In Cheyenne at 4 am Thursday officers raided 605 West Lincoln Way, capturing two complete distilling plants, eleven barrels of mash, sugar, yeast, and other items used for illegal liquor production. Licota, alleged proprietor of the operation, arrested and fined $200. accomplice Raimo held on related charges.
A Sacramento warehouse of the California Packing Corporation on the riverfront burned late Thursday. Officials estimate losses around 1.5 million dollars with about 300,000 of canned goods stored. About 200 female workers in the adjoining cannery fled in panic as flames spread.
The Laramie county tax list is advancing and the county treasurer will soon accept tax payments. Hunters expect a southward duck migration as cool weather persists. A brick silo is rising at the Arnold Rick homestead near Sloan’s Lake. Gus Johnson, visiting from Manville with his Chayenne roots, will remain in Sweden for months. Brisk winds scour sand and gravel from streets affecting road quality. Portable school houses arrive to ease crowded public schools. Fire Chief John Healey of Denver, head of the International Association of Fire Chiefs, toured with T Joe Cahilly. W H Morgan, sought in Sidney Neb on a sarcany charge, was returned by Patrolman Poland. The fire department responded to the state capitol yesterday.
A smouldering fire in the coal bunkers, caused by spontaneous combustion, required removal of a sizable quantity of coal before crews could reach and extinguish the blaze.
In San Francisco on September 23 a 90 year-old counterfeiter named William Smith alias Robert Bossom received a one year jail term and a one dollar fine after pleading guilty in U S district court. He was arrested in San Jose for trying to pass counterfeit ten and twenty dollar bills hoping for better treatment in jail.
The Cheyenne Chamber of Commerce organizes a booster excursion Thursday at 8 o'clock. About fifty automobiles carry local business leaders to Carpenter Hereford Grover with lunch in Pine Bluffs, returning via Burns Hillsdale.
The Montana state board of health urged cleanliness to curb a dread disease after doctors reported Patrick Sullivan a miner contracted anthrax from a new shaving brush. Sullivan was hospitalized two days after using the brush and later died.
Eddie Kane, 18, of South Omaha, stole a revolver at a lime quarry camp near Horse Creek station, traveled toward Cheyenne, and was caught by Cheyenne police chief B Clark within 30 minutes of arriving. The gun was found on him as he reached town. Mike Gatti, with Kane, claims innocence but anticipated benefit from the sale. Kane admits no link to other missing property.
Fred Parke of Sidney Nebraska, a football star and boxer, rejoins the University of Wyoming and will be reassigned to the Cowboys. He recently fought Denver’s Manley at Scotts Bluff, knocked out the referee after a disputed call, and issued a challenge to fight again.
Readers are advised to obtain Parmint double strength from a druggist and mix 1-4 pint hot water with a little granulated sugar. Take one tablespoonful four times daily to relieve catarrhal deafness and head noises, open nostrils and stop mucus drip. Easy to prepare, low cost, pleasant to take.
New York Sept 22 Franklyn D Roosevelt will tour Kansas Missouri and Colorado the week of October 4 with stops including Lawrence Salina Colorado Springs Pueblo Fort Collins Greeley Boulder Denver and Des Moines Iowa He will also visit Sedalia and Kansas City Missouri while in the region according to Democratic headquarters.
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