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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Sun
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1889
Page
16
The Wyoming legislature advances bills on lands and roads while pushing for faster committee action. The house passes measures on district court seats, oaths, and probate powers as the council considers health board and health regulation. A resolution urges immediate reporting of pending bills, and primaries and county bond refinancing receive attention.
Pipe laying on the Fort Russell sewerage system advances with three blocks laid on the reservation near Camp Carling. Materials are on site to finish the mains by the tenth instant and connections will begin immediately after. Water works construction starts on or before the tenth. Keefe and McGarvey are praised as reliable contractors.
Messrs. Bogue and Appleton of the Union Pacific engineer department were in Cheyenne yesterday. They indicated a large shop construction season, enough to satisfy high expectations, and announced forthcoming viaduct plans to be advertised.
The legislature debates bounty on wild animals and coyote exemptions while passing several measures including an election bill. An examiner of public accounts is proposed and a commission to revise revenue laws is authorized. The council members discuss bonds for cities and missing provisions prompt committee referrals.
The council notes absence of Leggett Kenney Stotts and Traburg. Notices of bills include roads and highways act, treasurer duties, leasing of school and university lands, and banking capital stock revision. A bill to amend session law 1888 and related reading actions follow amid amendments and committee negotiations.
Marshal Carr reports grave doubts that recently found remains are Scott the murderer of Miss Ryan. Remains are decayed and key identifying points are missing, delaying full recognition of the culprit.
In a rural rail car tale a stranger accused of horse theft is revealed as a man who killed another. After a mistaken lynching near a tree, locals discover the truth, apologize, return the horses, honor the widow, and the narrator later marries her.
Dress explains that standing tall with chest forward, back flat, and shoulders aligned creates an aristocratic carriage. English and American women can achieve this by years of vigilant posture, keeping muscles firm to prevent waist and hip sag. Avoid slouched walking and bent stairs to protect heart and lungs.
A Montreal court ruled a man must pay $1 damages for attempting to collect a debt at a factory after declaring that a debtor’s domicile is where money can be demanded. The decision holds that asking for money on the street constitutes assault.
A London banker recalls a Philadelphia Press piece estimating 300 million dollars, measuring its scale in silver dollars. He notes the figures suggesting the money would fill freight cars, stretch across continents, and form a cube 35 feet on each side, weighing over 10,000 tons.
A sharp-featured woman on a Seventh Avenue car tried to dispute a five cent change after paying with a fifty-cent piece. She insisted the conductor had given her wrong change, prompting multiple passengers to weigh in with “Did you ever?” as the conductor searches for the missing coin. In the end a five-cent piece drops from her dress, and she mocks the conductor as the car nears Thirty-fourth Street. passengers express relief.
In a Boston Record observation a locker clerk notes how twenty-two of thirty women inspect and recheck letters at a post office slot. Some forget stamps or add addresses, while one leaves with the letter un Mailed.
A Philadelphia Inquirer report describes a dog on Chestnut Street entangled by a rope tied in a slip knot around its neck. The dog repeatedly freed itself by biting the rope and jumping as onlookers watched its determined escape from strangulation.
A shy passenger on a Columbia River steamboat abandons his old trousers in a window drop, they drift and alert passengers to a staged dust-up. A mistaken cry of man overboard ensues as crew search, only to recover the owner’s name from the garment revealing the prankster's identity.
The Brooklyn Eagle laments the new shaking hands ritual as grotesque yet it spreads through society. It describes the stagey sequence where a woman extends her arm and a man guides the handshake before both retreat, noting its Punch origins and recent New York adoption at Mollinter hall with 1,400 guests.
Attendees at a Kane Falls banquet gathered for an evening event and heard a closing remark admitting uncertainty about a key distinction. The remark sparked discussion among those present about clarity and interpretation of the topic.
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