Anniversary of American Independence noted at ninety three
Readers are told the independence anniversary is ninety three years old, not ninety two, as some claimed. The note is part of a broad mixture of local and national items, including rail news and donations from George Peabody to multiple institutions.
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Sacramento
Gilmore
Folsom
Cal
N. Bugbey
Natoma
Pacific Railroad
California
United States
C. P. Huntington
John Conneas
Bughey
Indians Raid Wyoming Mines Spur Frontier Tension
South Pass reports a band of Indians raiding Hamilton and Atlantic City areas, driving off about 14 horses and mules and capturing 35 head from Atlantic City. A dog aids in recovering one mule. a later encounter with miners and a government escort leads to combat, with no fatalities but loss of livestock and scalps.
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Hermit’ Creek
Mills & Engler
South Pass Avenue
Mundy
Bowth Pass City
Wyoming
Taberdasser
South Pass
Sweetwater
Indiana
Hamilton
Atlantic City
Es White
Smilth
Enue & Anyailey
Wind River Valley
Valle
Cavanen
Arasly
Watch Presented in Illinois Railroad Shop Quips Aboard
A Brunswick Maine resident who worked daily long hours paid morphine for his wife over fourteen years then delivered a speech in a Illinois railroad shop when presenting a watch to the timekeeper. The toast praised good timekeeping and tenure with a line about keeping as well as workers have treated them for many years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brunswick
Maine
Illinois
Western traveler asks man to guard wife during distress
A sharp old gentleman sits beside his wife in a crowded car and asks the young man beside her to watch that woman while he goes to another car because she has fits. The incident highlights travel etiquette and concern for a passenger in distress.
Fourth of July Across the Pacific Coast and Aerial Ship Trial
Reports from San Francisco and Washisatox describe Fourth of July celebrations with parades, salutations, and flags, while San Francisco tracks the aerial ship Avitor trial under cover. Cuban battles near Halguin with American casualties are noted, and New York holds a patriotic parade as Chicago’s Conkling reports Pacific Railroad progress by daylight.
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San Francisco
Avitor
Sam Fuaxdeco
Wm. H. Seward
McCoppin
Pacific Coast
Washisatox
Jordan
Halguin
Meet
New York
Roscoe Conkling
Secretary of the Interior
Pacific Railroad
Ooe
Senator Conkling
B. F. Wade
Indian Appropriation Act Details for 1860s Tribes and Settlements
A formal act appropriates funds for the Indian department including pay for 11 superintendents and 59 agents, subsistence for tribes in Idaho Idaho Territory and Oregon on Fort Hall and Siletz/Klamath reservations, and payments to commissioners. It authorizes president appointed commissioners to oversee disbursements, outlines conditions on treaty observance, and extends prior Minnesota costs for suppression of Indian hostilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
House of Representatives
United States of America
Congress
Indian Department
Superintendents of
Indian Affairs
Idaho Territory
Oregon
Fort Hall Reservation
Snake River
Tke Siletz
Klamath Reservation
Secretary of the Interior
Pottawatomies
Indian Peace Commission
J. W. Bowler
M. Wilkinson
United States
Arickarees
Gros Ventres
Kansas
Great and Little Osage
Indiana
W. 8. Harney
Niobrara Township
Nebraska
Fred
Bet
Treasury Department
Superintendent of
Mien
Minnesota
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VOL. IL
JONAL
Whitten
Whitehead & Corlett Keeneys
Belicitors
Eddy Street
Cheyenne
Palmer, & P
Feo
Palmer & Johnson, Attorneys
Edward M. Lee
Post Office
W.T
Seour
A W. B. Steele
George W. Ford
Attermey Ait Law
Rogers & Co's Bank
Cheyenne, We
I. W. Cook
Rat Door Eaat
Cheyene
Chord
Office
Wn Sensaine Tr Tyenme
W. H. Biller
Tho. J. Street
Miller & Street
Attorneys At Law
Dekota
G. Adams & Co.'s
South Side
Seventeenth Street
W.g
J. W. Hutchinson
Geo. H. Russell
Old City Hall
Viino
Galbraith
Aizteenth Street
G. W. Corry
M. D
Union Pacific RK. R. and Wells, Fargo & Co
Lee Imihia
Oca
Seven
Lu Reet
Centrelituyg
Thames Street
Betwg
Daily Leader
Ian Wreming
Pussisned Daily
Srcept
Bonday
HY N. A
R Advertiaf
F. A. Hall
Orme
Eddy Strest
Hotels
FORD
Ells Jae
Bell House
Correr Elterestra
Beli
Karns
Lreyerne
GATES
Hotel Garni! Restaurant & Lodgings
George Peabody
The
Cese
Peabody Institute
Baltimore
Harvard
Yale
Sa. Danvers
Bo Bonda
Tne
Ford House
Marltt Geo, D
Fogleson 4 CO
Telegraph
Uae
L. Murrin & C0
Cheyenne Market
Germania Hotel
Capa Senay Marcia
Eagle Brewery
Fifteenth Street
Mil
Ferguson
Cheyenne, Wyoming
Beno & Wehr
Ordpresort Cve Ts
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