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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Sun
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1890
Page
13
Prairie flowers bloom in spring, with star shaped cactus beauties and Star of Bethlehem among others. Describes yellow Elyssum cross shaped blooms and crucifer family plants, plus leguminous species like sweet pea, buffal o clover relatives, and blue pulmonaria portraits. Ends noting white pixie and related phlox family forms.
A translated note from Eugen D Alussi dated May 16 1590 proclaims Willian Knabe Cary as the best pianist in America and offers an unsolicited testimonial for artistic purposes. The writer mentions frequent efforts to become acquainted with planes and praises the famed craftsman in New York.
In a grimy room an editor resists a young poet's request to read his poem claiming no time. The verses depict sea air and a roguish maiden and end with a violent line about a bard buried on the ebony pave. Ray Brown in Chicago Post.
Report describes vast frog populations in Louisiana marshes near New Orleans. Interview with J C Holmes of New Orleans discusses potential profits from a large frog farm and selling frog legs, noting pools and bayous host immense numbers and even crowds of frogs surrounding campsites.
A deranged note describes pygmy camels in western Persia praised by locals for small size. It mentions Berlin presenting two animals to a municipality. The largest stands twenty seven inches high and weighs sixty one pounds, the smaller being four inches shorter with no weight listed.
The Mountaineer notes disappointment among lodges and tepees as the promised Messiah does not appear after a year of anxious awaiting. The medicine man who predicted the coming Spirit is blamed for folly and may retreat from prophecy.
The post office department orders new sixty foot mail cars of the latest improved type to run out of Cheyenne on the Oregon Short Line. This change will benefit Cheyenne by allowing clerks to devote more time east on the mails for this point and shift most Short Line work to that run.
An unclear fragment references a commalince incident in a city with an image or map, noting responsibility not yet determined and no sponsor identified. The readable text offers limited details and no official names or dates.
Catherine Whitcomb transfers lot 1 block 387 to Eliza Walker for 7000 dollars. Albert Chapman and Belle Chapman convey undivided half of lot 8 in lot 163 to George R Goodland for 800 dollars. Homestead certificate No issued to Elizabeth Schalk for part of section 28 township 67 range 67.
Nine grading outfits and about forty men passed through the city en route north as Burlington begins work on its Buffalo branch in earnest.
The Carbon county court continued the Bonticou case until the fall term while all other docket cases were dismissed.
The New York Tribune column argues that agricultural hardship is not caused by protection. It cites Fort Dodge figures comparing 1880 and 1890 prices for farm implements and goods, showing sharper declines in buying costs than selling prices, implying tariffs did not plunder farmers.
Cheyenne's cemetery receives extensive improvements with drives and ornamental plantings. Sexton Hastings oversees tree plantings including 150 spruce pines and cottonwoods along main avenues, plus central flower beds. Notable graves include the Jackson murder memorial and the petrified man Coffey grave exhumation. About 900 burials to date, including removals from the old cemetery, with improved record-keeping under the permit system.
Wyoming statehood prompts concern for vulnerable women. The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union proposes the Mite Shield Cottage at 1417 Warren Avenue to provide a safe home for friendless women. A meeting is set for Tuesday at 3 p.m. in the Methodist Episcopal church parlors to plan the project led by Anne C. Northrup, president.
Ira W. Pendleton, Denver real estate man and banker, pursues closer Denver Duluth ties. He cites a proposed coalition of Duluth St Paul Sioux City and Union Pacific to run freight and passenger service directly between Duluth and Denver, highlighting the shorter 970 mile route via St Paul and Sioux City versus 1041 miles to Chicago.
Charley Rastaetter, a Douglas businessman who vanished about six weeks ago, has been located in a Washington hospital and is described as violently insane. A Baltimore sister was informed by his brother, and local Odd Fellows plan to check his condition for possible return home.
George Thompson of Fort Collins suffered brutal injuries from a Norman stallion last Friday. He attempted to secure the animal to a hitching post, then sought help at a nearby club, but the horse overpowered him. The animal trampled the man, tore his clothing, bit fingers, and swung him to the ground before leaving him exposed in the street.
Salt Lake Tribune reports Chief Engineer Bogue of the Union Pacific oversees seven thousand miles of road with six hundred engineers and a thousand laborers. His scope includes Fort Worth system overhaul Utah extension Utah Northern reconstruction Coeur d Alene work Wyoming and Northern line Cheyenne shops and Puget Sound extensions including a Columbia river bridge. Friends say he has the temperament for a great army engineer officer.
Charles L. Rauner issues printed copies to Secretary Meldrum. The house journal runs 460 pages while the council journal from Leader office spans 975 pages in a creditable specimen of bookwork.
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