Dance-house owner savagely maims mistress during desert captivity
Special Dispatch from Dovetas Wyoming details a brutal eleven day ordeal starting near Casper. Lee May known as Dodge dragged Lou Polk through sand hills for seven days and nights after a quarrel. She endured starvation exposure and a brutal nose amputation, while May taunted her and fled with stolen horses as sheriffs closed in.
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the Sun
Dovetas
Wyo
Lee May
Dodge
Casper
Lou Polk
Douglas
May
Natrona
Converse
Jayoux
The Railroad War Sends Rates Down Across the Plains
Plastering in Denver offices sets $7 rate to Chicago and lower fares to St Louis while Kansas City and other cities move tickets to Denver cheaply. Roads offer premiums to scalpers. express battles unfold over Santa Fe tracks. National Ticket Agents meet in Denver on August 22 with a grand entertainment. Union Pacific announces one fare to Pueblo. The Denver train ran late while the eastern remained on schedule.
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Denver
Missouri Pacific
Santa Fe
Chicago
St. Louis
Kansas City
St. Paul
Missouri River
Colorado Springs
Wells Fargo
Colorado Midland
Springs
Denver & Rio Grande
Midland
National Ticket Agents Association
Union Pacific
Pueblo
Denver Arrests Delay Over Requisition Papers
Denver officials have not removed Jones or Sterling, arrested at the depot by Marshal Schnttger, due to inability to secure required papers from Governor Cooper before the train to Cheyenne yesterday. The marshal also seeks the man in Springs for larceny, sharing the same charge.
First Class Ball Team Forming for Local Season
Arrangements are underway to form a league with visiting clubs paying small guarantees and hotel costs. John Chase raised about 350 dollars to start a strong nine, while Riner and Johnson donated land for superior grounds. Rawlins plans a June 13 game as part of the buildout with grandstand plans in the works.
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Rhodes
Cheyenne
Greeley
Rawlins
John Chase
Riner & Johnson
Rawlins Club
Our Feathered Visitors and the English Sparrow Threat
The Cheyenne region sees a rise in birds due to trees and sod with about 100 species now present. English sparrows arrive, upsetting native birds, damaging nests, and reducing caterpillar control, leading to calls for extermination, bans on imports, and potential bounties. Frank Bond, resident naturalist, works on Smithsonian skull drawings and life like bird watercolors.
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Frank Bond
McCown
Maryland
Cheyenne
Missouri
United States
Wyoming
Bond
Smithsonian Institution
Washington
Struck Uranium Ore Near Bald Mountain Mine
Louis von Davier located a tunnel southwest of Bald Mountain revealing a green brown ore named uranium. Texas state geologist valued it as uranium and Germany praised samples sent for appraisal as potentially rich. Contact with German capitalists and the imperial consul in Chicago seeks full facts on quantity, conditions, materials, and transport proximity.
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Newcastle Journal
Louis von Davier
Bald Mountain
Texas
Cavier
Germany
Chicago
Embarrassment of Riches for New Jersey Schools
New Jersey holds a substantial school fund of four million dollars that must be used only for public schools and only a portion of the annual income is available. Officials struggle to invest the money as the state constitution protects it and debates hinge on whether to fund schools via local taxes or a larger endowment.
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New Jersey
Devec
Oil Movement and Belle Fourche Claim Sale
The Sundance Republican reports Joe Smiley sold his pre emption on the Belle Fourche to B S Bently for 300 dollars. It is believed the Rapid City Oil Company purchased it as they have a well over a thousand feet deep on the claim and speak of promising prospects of a rich strike.
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Sundance
Joe Smiley
B. S. Bently
Rapid City Oil Company
New Street Cars For Cheyenne From Wichita Visit
Mr. T. A. Kent returned from Wichita Kansas with six new cars destined for Cheyenne street railways. The cars are handsome in design and will arrive in a few days. While away he also toured the Denver works of the Silver-Lead Soap company and praised their exhibit. He advocates establishing a similar plant locally.
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T. A. Kent
Wichita
Kas
Cheyenne
Kent
Denver
Silver-Lead Soap Company
John Allen's First Legal Victory Story Told
Private John Allen of Mississippi recalls his court tale after the Civil War in Tupelo. He defended Pompey the enslaved man by invoking Julius Caesar to the magistrate Johnsen, winning acquittal and earning a warning to stay away from the court.
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John Allen
Mississippi
House of Representatives
Singer Cox
Allen
Tupelo
Pompey
John
Mars John
Johnsen
Supreme Court
Old Commonwealth
Supreme Court of the United States
Julius Cesar
Old-Fashioned Tooth-Pulling
A vivid reminiscence of pre anesthesia dental torture. The narrator recalls the brutal forceps era, a patient clamped to a chair, teeth being ripped with brutal method, a cry of agony, and the shocking sight of blood in the dentist’s basin.
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Eseculapius
Burlington Tree Press
How Chickens Are Pattened in Factory Fattening
The article describes a method where a chicken or duck is placed in a cylinder for three weeks and fed a cornmeal patent food via a small pump into its crop. The process leaves the bird paralyzed by inertia, producing white, tender flesh and extreme fattening.
Cheyenne Plans $100000 Steel and Nail Works Bonded
Cheyenne officials discuss a proposed steel and nail works plant costing over 100000 to be built immediately with a 15000 city bonus and 50000 of city stock. The project would produce over 20000 pounds of nails daily and bolster local prosperity as Denver and Omaha investors show interest.
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Denver
Colorado
Interior Company
Lincoln
Colonel Gadd
Omaha
New Brick Company
Messrs Kelley and
Jeffrey
Keefe
G. B. Griggs
Board of Trade
York
I. R. Holmes
Pacific Slope
Sound Country
Holmes
Bridges
Cheyenne
Bunco Games
Messrs
I.I. Gadd
Aspen
Leadville
Pueblo
Colorado Springs
A. R. Whitely
A. KR. Whitely
HV. Bartlett
Leader Queries Budget Authority on Maverick Bid
The note questions a statement that Judge Carey bid five dollars a head for mavericks at a city meeting last month. It claims no mavericks were bought by Cary or any price. mavericks were purchased by Irvine for J. M. Carey & Bro under instruction, paying five dollars per head while Carey and Manager David were away.
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Carey
Cary
Dender
Mr. Irvine
Cheyenne Advertising Boosts Western Wealth Prospects
The piece argues Cheyenne's strong advertising since the Union Pacific era shaped eastern and European views, shifting from a tough frontier image to a gateway for vast Wyoming wealth. It highlights mining and cattle booms, board of trade efforts, and oil prospects drawing capital toward Casper and the region’s undeveloped riches.
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Cheyenne
Union Pacific
Europe
Missouri River
Great Salt Lake
Black Hills
East
Board of Trade
West
Great West
Wyoming
Pennsylvania
Casper
Bismarck comments on France Russia war risks
In a Paris interview Bismarck says sentimental French anger over losing Alatee Loraine could shape events. He argues Russia would devour France if it crushed Germany and notes Germany as Western Europe’s bulwark against Russia. He warns a Germany Russia war would be the greatest mistake yet nearly impossible.
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Paris
de Sous
Bismarck
Alatee Loraine
France
Russia
Germany
Europe
Novec Oremya
St. Petsersburg
Austria
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Inter Ocean
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Classica
Atshie
Atlanta Constitution
Largo
Cheyenne’s Advertising
Bisemarck
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