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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Sun
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1889
Page
1
A spirited endorsement of Wyoming’s constitution highlighting protections for settlers with land and water rights, limits on indebtedness and taxation, no foreign police, arbitration for labor disputes, and strong ballast for workers and schooling. The piece celebrates equal rights, fair franchise, and education mandates benefiting the common people.
The Boomerang of Friday reports that the glassworks has closed indefinitely with the co operative company failing to run the plant. A $4,000 donation proved insufficient as high freights fuel costs and a low Hallock Denver contract hurt profits. The piece suggests Hallock should acquire and operate the works to leverage eastern freight margins.
A Cheyenne land office list from October 17 records homestead patents granted to residents across Wyoming counties. In Laramie County: Simon Auer, David Clark, Christopher C. Casey, John C. Cantrell, Thomas Roe, Thomas Lowman, William Randall, Eli C. Thomas, Benjamin F. Whitehead, John W. Northcutt, Austin Sheek, Adam Ellison, Franklin Doughty, William S. Johnson, George T. Orm, heirs of Daniel F. Whipple, George W. Cooper, William E. Surina, Willard Birchard, John Schoen, George M. Slater, Evaline N. Carter. In Carbon County: Rowland Judd, Joseph H. H. Smith, Mary A. Sutterfield, Ellen P. Crapo. In Albany County: Newton Scrulock, Martha Reynolds, Jasper Whitely.
Major E P Champlin reports a letter from Judge G C Moody United States senator elect from South Dakota urging Wyoming admission to statehood. Moody describes his wish as significant and pledges to use influence in Washington and the Senate to aid Wyoming. Legal blanks for sale at the land office.
A Cheyenne club dinner honored Hon. Harrie Plunkett as Andrew Gilchrist hosted guests including notable locals. The piece sketches a birthday surprise for T. B. Adams, mingled with fashion notes from a Fifth Avenue tailor, and muses on boys at the Laramie County library, urging guidance in reading, plus a Merchants Carnival report and Crook County political optimism amid rail and coal prospects.
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