Indian Raid Death Toll Reported in South Pass Paper
A copy of the April 1870 South Pass News lists 27 murdered in Sioux Cheyenne and Arapaho raids near South Pass City. It notes a punitive expedition, mentions Captain H. G. Nickerson and local officers, and details frontier living costs and ads. The fragile issue, Volume 1 Number 56, passed through several hands and may be donated to the Wyoming Historical Society.
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H. G. Nickerson
Hamilton
Joseph M. Carey
United States
Esther Morris
J. P. Irwin
H. G .Nickerson
Union Pacific
Omaha
Sacramento
California
South Pass
Graux
London
Wiesbaden
Germany
Mr. Gratix
Brussels
Belgium
Prospecting for copper at Ferris Haggarty mine
Joseph Smith ER Parkinson and J T McShane have secured a three year lease on the Ferris Haggarty mine sixteen miles from Encampment Wyoming. They begin prospecting the old workings for a rumored rich copper ore body said to have been found there long ago and then covered up.
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Wyo
Joseph Smith
ER. H. Parkinson
J. T. McShane
Ferris-Haggarty
Ure
Explosion at Sublet No 6 Mine Kills Eight Miners
Coroner's jury in Kemmerer Wyoming cannot fix responsibility for the No 6 mine powder explosion on July 26 that killed eight miners. No eyewitnesses survived to testify. State Mine Inspector Sneddon testified the accident likely resulted from powder contacting a fiery substance. verdict notes explosion occurred while a keg of powder was being opened.
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Kemmerer
Wyo
No. 6
Sublet
Robert L. Sneddon
Farmers Invited to Observe Labor Day in Wyoming
For the first time in Wyoming organized labor invites farmers to participate in Labor Day celebrations on September 6th.
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Wyoming
Thief Girl Caught to Serve Two Years
In Kemmerer Wyoming Miss Mollie Collins captured Dutch Miller at gunpoint at midnight after his escape. Miller, a carnival follower, was arrested for grand larceny involving several hundred dollars in merchandise and will serve from two to four years in the penitentiary.
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Kemmerer
Wyo
Dutch” Miller
Mollie Collins
Chinese and Mexican Alliance Completed
Wyoming's anti miscegenation statute apparently does not apply to marriages where Chinese and Mexican are the principals. The county clerk issued a license for the marriage of Charles Mong Sing, Chinese, and Miss Leonor Alquiler Mexican.
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Sheridan, Wyo
Wyoming
Charles Mong Sing
Leonor Alquilar
Family Injured When Automobile Turtles at Brid ge
ENCAMPMENT Wyo July 31 A Ford car overturned at Cherokee bridge Brownless lane injuring William Null his wife and their three year old son. They were pinned beneath the car until passers by H G Kiddoo of Omaha and K P Nickell Jr of this place freed them. All are expected to recover.
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Wyo
William Null
Cherokee Bridge
H. G. Kiddoo
Omaha
K. P. Nickell, Jr
Warning on gallows as Caldwell faces execution
In Anniston Alabama on July 80 E C Caldwell a former Army sergeant and Black man condemned for the murder of a streetcar conductor two years ago warned a crowd of about 2500 against whiskey cigarettes and carrying pistols before his death on the gallows.
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Anniston
Ala
E. C. Caldwell
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NFAR
PSS
Commercial Banking
Citizens National Bank
Cheyenne
Ford
17Th Street
Ford Motor Company
Branch
Pine Bluffs Motor Co
Pine Bluffs, Wyo
Cheyenne State
Associated Press Service
Father
Satterfield
Cheyenne State Leader Tribune Building
Federal Street
Cheyenne, Wyo
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