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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Sun
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1889
Page
16
Cheyenne voters show strong support for the constitution and statehood. T B Adams elected to the House from Laramie County as returns come in. Snowy, slushy streets hindered turnout but city figures reflect a clear majority for the constitutional measure and statehood.
Total votes tallied show precinct 1 with 151 in favor of the constitution and 35 against. Altman leads for representative with a majority of votes. Precinct 2 records 635 total with constitution figures missing. precinct 3 shows 192 votes with a constitution majority of 576 and Adams and Altman listed for representative.
In Laramie County and Fort Laramie readers report scattered vote tallies for and against the constitution. Names such as Henry Altman and Thomas B. Adams appear with varying majorities across locales including Chugwater Mink Wluves and Iron Mountain, reflecting a polarized regional result.
In Laramie a constitution vote drew a strong majority despite freezing weather. A single ballot was challenged as a narrow margin determined the result.
In Green River City and nearby areas voters approved the constitution by 130 to 22 and 178 to 3 in Lander. Hurrah for statehood drew 220 yes and 4 no at another site while Evanston reported extremely cold weather keeping ballots light with 170 for and 5 against the constitution.
The brick for the machinery foundations has been ordered. Tin work on the machine shop roof is nearly complete. Two car loads of crushed stone arrived for the transfer table masonry. P. S. Cook expects to start laying the water main today. Grading for tracks and coal sheds is advancing with about twenty teams at work. The blacksmith shop roof is being laid and tinners will begin work there soon.
Paymaster Whipple and clerk W A Holmes report a large oil rush around Lander Utah and fifty mile south locations. A new town Timbuctoo has formed on Reed's farm near active wells nine miles south of Lander. Governor War ren owns two corner lots as outsiders flood the county to file oil claims amid four railroad survey parties planning the Pacific Short Line route.
An east bound freight collided with a following section at Granite Canon on an icy descent at 6:30. Two cars plunged off the embankment, four burned, injuring Mr Millard Mhivani and others. About half the sheep aboard the lead section died. Brown died? injured and taken to Cheyenne hospital while crews escaped.
Sheriff Sparhawk hunts four alleged murderers in Fremont County after a young man was found shot and left by the road. The four travelers pursued him, borrowed a saddle, and boasted they would stop his stealing by killing him. The body was found near Myersville along the Union Pacific line.
A manager prominent in Allen road affairs states no chance for another split in the Union Pacific combine. War is unlikely. only a bankrupted rival would contest, and rail officials feel a satisfactory solution to pooling limits since the interstate commerce law. Yet caution remains as public influence can still intervene, per Chicago Tribune.
A group of Lincoln gentlemen met with County Attorney Royal D. Stearns to organize the Lincoln Petroleum Land and Mining Company with $2,000,000 authorized capital. Officers include President J. W. Winger Vice President A. S. Raymond Secretary RD Stearns Treasurer Jacob Rocke General Manager Alexander Halter. Directors: Winger Halter Rocke Meyjck Hall. Articles to be filed Monday in Omaha.
The new jury system, tested in the Dakotas, allows a majority of twelve jurors to verdict criminal cases. Nine of twelve can decide, a departure toward Prussian practice, with punishment scaled to the voting majority. Proponents say it could work well if paired with intelligent juror qualification.
A writer tours Evanston and commends the institution under Dr WA Hocker, the superintendent, noting steam heating electric lighting and modern sanitary features. The building displays orderly management and patient care, with strong praise for Hocker’s businesslike conduct and devotion. The Mountainers
The English syndicate bought the Minneapolis flour mill and the Northwestern elevators for 6 290 60 dollars, signaling continued English capital inflows. Over the last eighteen months English investments have grown, benefiting America by stimulating industrial development without losing American dollars.
A sweep of fortunes and social scenes on the Pacific coast highlights Miss Jennie Flood and Miss Tessie Fair, heirs to mining wealth. The piece details grand mansions on Nob Hill and Menlo Park, lavish jewelry, and the public fascination with their lifestyles, while noting family ties to cattle, railroads, and banking.
The Cheyenne Cottage company transfers lot 42 block 385 in Cheyenne to Charles A Worden U A for 3000 dollars. A United States patent for 280 acres of desert land in section 14 township 12 north range 68 is filed for record by Lida Canfield of Laramie county.
A fragmented snippet from a local column discusses Boutierner and Misa Gond inheriting amiability from a father-in-law, highlighting themes of family virtue and gentleness in social life. The text reads like a literary aside on character and kinship.
Lionel Burnett son of Mrs Hodgson Burnett spends last summer with friends near Atlantic while Vivien travels Europe with his mother. Vivien, thirteen, is described as a difficult heir to the Burnett estate who resists velvet suits and curls. The narrator, an American republican, recalls the sibling’s remarks about Vivien and his mother and notes Vivien’s stubbornness and fondness for books and mischief.
A Alexandria correspondent reports farmers still profit from Civil War salvage nearly twenty five years after surrender. A box of relics includes bullets musket balls brass epaulettes sword hilts buttons and more buried years ago from Manassas Port Republic Droleriessourg and Virginia battlefields.
The Rawlins Court concluded the trial of Joseph Freitman a Carbon butcher for killing Miller another butcher. Freitman was acquitted with defense by Judge Brown and H S Groesbeck. Judge Van Devanter now tries Patrick Golden for killing a Rawlins shoemaker by throwing him out of doors and dumping the body in a creek.
The county clerk issued a marriage license yesterday to W. E. Dinneen and Miss Kate Tierney, both residents of this city. Mitt McCabe of New Brunswick offers $5 to anyone troubled with bloody flux who takes Chamberlain’s Cough Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy per directions and recovers promptly. Over a thousand bottles are sold daily and the remedy is claimed to cure colic, cholera morbus, dysentery, diarrhoea, or bloody flux when directions are followed. sold by B. B. David.
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