Brisbin Book Assailed as Stock Glorification Western Trade
The weekly Leader notes General J G Brisbin's Brisbin stock growing book printed by J B Lippincott Co. It criticizes inaccurate Cheyenne figures and dated drives while calling marketing bias and poor illustrations. It mentions eastern investors, mining activity near Hurtville, and Hartville smelter progress with Bartletts and Montgomery heading works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. G. Briokin
J.B. Lippincott & Co
Philadelphia
Great West
Bosler & Irving
Kosler & Irvine
A. H. Rees
George A. Sexight
Gilbert A
Sturgis
Saile
Ford & Irvine
Robert E. Strahorn
J. W. Hoyt
Brisbin
Lippin
Denver Exposition Gains Order and Eastern Visitor Hopes
Exposition in Denver shows improved management at the main building with bustling crowds and bright exhibits. Attendance includes many eastern visitors as weather stays pleasant, while police report arrests of two suspects linked to liquor sales to Indians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Lews Editors
Lribune
Legout
Liores Lowi
Newa
Dr Hayford Welcomes First Child in Laramie
The Laramie Sentinel reports Dr. Hayford has become a father Saturday morning with the birth of a baby. Nye comments that young men often revel over their first child but will grow accustomed to it as time passes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Journaliet
Dr. Hayford
Laramie
Potato Show at Union Pacific Display for Nebraska State Fair
The land department of the Union Pacific railroad plans a special potato show with grain and fruit displays at the Nebraska state fair. A committee will publish cultivation methods and yields from top potato varieties, with comparisons to offerings from Colorado Wyoming Utah Idaho and Montana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Land Department of the
Union Pacific Railway
Nebraska
Colorado
Wyoming
Utah
Idaho
Montana
Deluge floods Laramie. streets, cellars inundated
Friday afternoon a heavy one hour rainstorm drenched Laramie with hail and sheets. Ditches filled and box sewers overflowed, flooding basements including Bintz drug store, the post office block, and Bath building where goods were damaged. B street cellar caved in.
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Laramie
Bintz’ Drug Store
Bath
Bintz
Times
Cheyenne Council Members Debate New York Park Plans
Bohemia feature notes Will Lisscher's Confessions of a Bohemian and criticizes Cheyenne leaders. Alderman O'Brien praises New York optics and proposes a lakeside park with swans and gondolas, while Alderman Mulllgar suggests practical, economical boat options and shares frustration with extravagant plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheyenne
Denver
Timothy O'Brien
New York
Wyoming Exhibit at Denver Themed Display Progress
Governor Hoyt discusses the Wyoming exhibit at the Denver fair noting slow attendance but expectations of a large after completion. The display features a coal shaft, iron column, mineral cases, asbestos petroleum kaolin and other minerals with carpenters shaping an ornate front. The exhibit aims to surpass all others in mineral variety and agricultural prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoyt
Ferguson Street
Wyoming
Denver
Iron Mountain
Lake Superior
Sweetwater
Unita
Artesian Wells in the Great Plains and Intermountain West
The North American Review discusses Dr. C. A. White's report on artesian wells from the Arkansas to the South Platte. He concludes bore-scale irrigation on the plains is impracticable due to geology and limited recharge, while intermountain valleys offer better prospects with plausible well success and broader development potential.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North American Review
C. A. White
Geological Commission
Rocky Mountain Country
Arkansas
Fort Lyon
Colorado
White
Great Plains
Plains
South Platte
California
Rocky Mountains
Agaipet Sualatow
Denver
Cheyenne
Carson
Kansas
Moneta
Grimat
Pueblo
Utah
Salt Lake
Tooele
PahVant
Escalentes
Bear
Postal Service Failure on Union Pacific Route
A Cheyenne post office report details a green clerk on the Union Pacific line delivering mail after a 55 hour shift, paying high hotel rates, and earning 60 a month. Letters and newspapers missives travel east to west causing widespread delays, with accusations of inefficiency and theft among post office officials.
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United States
Cheyenne
Omaha
Ogden
Nebraska
California
Union Pacific
Cheyenne Postoffice
Broad Plains
Post Office Department
Leaven
Ptate of Affaire
West
Texas Fever Fears Hit Pennsylvania and Cattle Quarantine Plans
In a published interview James H. Sanders, secretary of the pleuro-pneumonia commission, warns Texas fever has reached Pennsylvania and is highly fatal yet not as dangerous as pleuro-pneumonia. He cites frost as only temporary control and notes the commission lacks power to regulate cattle movement. Act of Congress prompts treasury to study quarantine stations at major ports as Chicago reports record Texas cattle arrivals.
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James Hi. Sanders
Texas
Penn
Sylvania
Sanders
Congress
Secretary of the Treasury
French
New York
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Boston
Portland
Department
Treasury Cattle Commission
Chicago
Mr. Sanders
Quebec
Troop Arrival at Fort Rascal Stationed under Mears Moll
MareTroops Company I th Infantry arrived in this locality under Captain Frederick Mears and Lieutenant Peter G Moll. They were recently stationed at Fort McKinney and will take station at Fort Rascal.
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Mare
Andrews and McKean Head West From Penna to Wyoming
A. C. Andrews and Mr. McKean of Pennsylvania depart this afternoon by team for Wyoming. Col. James Andrews, father of C. B. Andrews, will join them at Rock Creek.
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A. C Andrews
Mr. McKean
Penneyivania
Wyoming
Col
James Andrews
C. B. Andrews
Rock Creek
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Weekly Leader
Hurtville
Messrs
Bartlett
London
Montgomery
Leadville
Hartville
Supt. Jou
H. Bartlett
Colorado Sauter
Deniwer
Louie
Port Waahakiy
Laramib City
Marsh
Bohemia
Pomeroy
L. Visscher
Visscher
Magic City
Laramie City
Fort Collins
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Ing
Promt
Ion
Union Paciflic Railway
Thayer
Green Hiver
Rawlins
Fort Bridger
Fort Thornburgh
Department of the Matte
Wallis
Union Maene
Fisies
Neuntala
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