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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Sun
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1890
Page
3
A meeting of about seventy five Cheyenne real estate men in the opera house block voted to form a city wide real estate exchange. Theodore Menges urged unity and advertising to showcase Cheyenne’s resources, with projections of rapid growth and a 100,000 population in ten years.
Cheyenne forms real estate exchange with officers named President C W Riner Vice President Theodore Menges and Treasurer A D Kelley. Committee to draft by laws and locate headquarters appointed with offices to print constitution and file articles of incorporation. Ventures include Eastern excursions and optimistic plans despite heavy snow and rain hindering operations.
A wave of Wyoming runaways unfolds as Charles Raestetter vanishes from Douglas and J P Gorder leaves Rock Springs for Denver. Ellen Smith of Newcastle deserts her husband Francis Smith and their nineteen children with a man described as a brac ing cutter. Smith hunts for his wife and suspects Colorado as her new home while residents debate statehood population.
Casper editor J A Casebeer reports on Natrona County prospects with a surge of capital and settlers expected. Oil developments expand around Casper creek and Etway, with Pittsburgh firms drilling and artesian water found. rail excursions planned to publicize Central Wyoming's mineral wealth.
A Rock Springs, Wyoming resident travels to Denver to locate P. J. Gorder missing for over a week. Officials warn against deception by private detectives who drained funds and produced a photo, while Gorder’s past includes a troubled marriage and a note claiming he would be dead when found.
A Trinidad message reports a strong chance the town will advance a major advertising project. Negotiations shifted from A. A. McKnight and partners to local leaders F. R. Miller and W. P. Caruthers who will manage the deal. The plan calls for property valued at 86,000 to be donated, with a total option of 1,900,000 and an extended term from twelve to eighteen months. Denver backers would spend 50,000 to promote the effort, with a final donor gap of 10,000. Theodore Menges surrendered his firm’s name to the Cheyenne Real Estate Exchange in recognition.
Report from Wexton County Democrat notes two pistol shots in Newcastle after a late evening. Frank W. Mondell general manager of Kilpatrick Bros. & Collins is wounded by a revolver shot fired by John Hines proprietor of the St. Elmo Hines. Mondell is said to have a flesh wound and is not expected to suffer serious injury.
DeBarthe, an energetic progressive newspaper man, will publish a larger paper in central Wyoming that aims to boost development of its vast resources. SUN congratulates progressive journalism as vital to the territory. Fish and Commissioner Miller start planting 1,000 trees near the hatchery at Laramie.
Arbor day exercises were held in public schools with students naming two trees each room. Central school listed names such as Governor Warren and Wyoming and Forty third. west end planted a pine for Sanford Thomasson. Seventeen trees at the west end and twenty three at central. convent school added fifty trees. Donations came from H. H. Ellis and Owen McKay.
The No 4 coal mine at Rock Springs was closed to smother a persistent fire after a gas explosion injured eight or nine workers, including pit bosses Dave Thomas and Ed Evans. No deaths were reported, though the fire could burn for months and the damage figure is not yet known as the mine was sealed and 300-plus workers faced unemployment.
Bayou Sara notes ten crevasses along Pointe Coupee levee with the Fanny Rich breach pouring six feet of water. Need Morgansea crevasse is fifteen hundred feet wide sending 50 000 cubic feet per second into low lands. Texas reports heavy rains flood Trinity river and damage bridges railroads and warehouses. Steamer Decotah rescues many from flood districts while relief boats prepare to return to New Orleans.
The piece proclaims May Day actions challenging President Gompers order, highlighting international demonstrations and domestic labor solidarity. It notes widespread plans across workplaces and unions seeking an eight hour workday amid political tension.
Curiaco notes on April 24 that Joseph Greenhat, a leading socialist agitator turned tenement inspector and health statistician, projects 223000 wageworkers in Chicago to be idle or striking on May Day. The figure excludes Hyde Park Lake View Cicero Lake Jefferson. Lake alone adds 35000 affected. Of the total, 199000 are men and 24000 women. 11500 firms are involved.
In Savana April 24 the AFL plan to limit the eight hour demand to carpenters expands as other trades begin to demand May 1 eight hours. Gompers urged charity to carpenters first, but many unions refuse and plan action with bosses in a joint conference. A strike likely to be called off by Saturday if new master employers’ association reacts.
Gladstone resumes debate in the Commons on the land purchase bill urging caution over its complexity and potential cost to taxpayers. He questions the £3,000,000 pledge and notes opposition from Irish members while discussing landlord interests and Ireland’s debt.
In Washington on April 25 a substitute to the Jones Silver bill was introduced. It allows any person to deposit silver bullion or both at a U S mint or assay and receive coin or certificates at set rates. It would make deposits receivable for all U S taxes and lawful tender for debts.
Helena Montana April Min states the creditors of the state are in session as the legislature meets. The court decides the action to recover state printing adversely to the Publishing company.
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