Wyoming Convention Closes With Civil Service Reform Debate
The convention ends after a day of harmony with civil service reform sparked by ex governor speeches. A schedule merges the territory into a state framework. signatures begin on the constitution. committees form to push statehood and secure adoption by voters in November 1889.
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Hoyt
Clark
Preston
Morgan
Knight
Jessie Knight
Coffeen
Teschemacher
Ile
Wyoming
Ale
Capitol
Holden
Chaplin
Carroll
Convention
Campbell
Washington
Messrs. Riner
Conaway, Elliott
Organ
Potter
Warren
Johnston
Hay
Arapaho Mission Work Showcases Indian Progress in Wyoming
A SUN interview with Father Kuppens details Arapaho life on the Fremont county reservation. Indians are farming, building homes, and adopting irrigation for 19,000 acres with a $4,000 canal, needing more funds to finish. Two hundred children attend school and are taught reading and writing, while moral views improve.
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PN. Kuppens
Arapahoe
Fremont County
Cheyenne
SUN
Arapahoes
Sharp Nose
Black Cole
Wyoming
Vanity Fair Social Glimpses 1886
A social notes column from Vanity Fair details gatherings and club meetings in Cheyenne and Laramie, including Mrs Carey and Mrs Potter, the Beta Circle on American literature under A. K. Lewis, and a constitutional convention dinner. It mentions suffrage progress, a new president of the Ladies and Relief Society, and light satire on social norms. The piece ends with humorous asides about a nihilist house maid and domestic life.
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Vanity Fair
School For Scandal
J. M. Carey
C. N. Potter
W. W. Story
Henry George Society
Dinner at Cheyenne club marks convention gathering
Members of the convention dined at the Cheyenne club house with a formal menu and toasts. President Brown presided toastmaster H. E. Teschemacher led speeches honoring guests, Wyoming and its leaders, and the judiciary. An impromptu glee club performed as hours passed into the night.
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Brown
H. E. Teschemacher
Messrs. McCandlish
Palmer
Elliott
T. B. Adams
C. N. Potter
United States
A. C. Campbell
Territory of
Wyoming
John W. Hoyt
C. D. Clark
Fremont County
D. A. Preston
M.C. Brown
J. M. Carey
Willis van DeVanter
H. A. Coffeen
N. Morgan
Eliott
G. C. Smith
Pow Harvey
C.D. Clark
W. C. Irvine
J. A. Johand
M. ON. Grant
A.B Conaway
M. McCandlish
J. A. Casabeer
Mark Hopkins
Louis J. Palmer
C. A. Campbell
A. D. Kelley
Edwood Meade
P. C. Organ
Thomas Reid
George W. Fox
H. G. Hay
E. J. Morris
FB. Teschemacher
P.M. Foote
HG. Nicker Won
J. L. Russell
J. A. Riner
Murritt
I. Glafcke
Adama
J. ©. Baird
WE. Chaplin
Andrew Gilchrist
L. D. Ricketts
W. A. Richards
Norman B. Dresser
BE. A. Stack
Yelton
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Tie Sun
Congress
Judge Brown
Jeffrey
WLVG
AIM Warvitt
Russell and Clark
Committee On the Legislature
Quin
Arapahoe Agency
Paradise
Earth
Laramie
Chicago
Meywane
S. Kellner
Cor
Seventeenth and
Eddy Streets
Beckwith Commercial Company
A. C. Beckwith
A. V. Quinn
John A. Beckwith
Treas
G. H. Goble
General Merchandise
Evanston, Wyo
Rock Springs, Wyo
F. E. Warren Mercantile CO
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