Numerous Short Items Highlight Late 19th Century News
The column mixes scattered notes from Utah mills and Denver violence with political appointments, scientific curiosities, and frontier travel. It mentions Heiler shooting his son in law E. Fryer in Denver, Hayes naming W. G. Town as land office registrar, Arizona’s Gov Hoyt’s prior post, blue glass used against insects, Black Hills shipments, and a fifty-strong gold-seeker party. It also includes humorous vignettes about romantic poetry, a Cheyenne sausage test with blue glass, a missing person inquiry about Lizzie Norris, reports of attacks on Cyrus Green’s party, editor mortality commentary, Reno crime, a Cheyenne shopper seeking a back brace, and local advertising emphasis on LEADER’s circulation and services.
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Utah
Heiler
Fryer
Denver
Hayes
Hon
W. G. Town
Evanston
U. S. Land Office
Guv. Hoyt
Arizona
Territory
Bristol (Conn
Black Hills
Land of Gold
Samuel Gripper
Ottumwa
Iowa
Lizzie Norris
Cheyenne
Mr. Gripper
Col King on the Black Hills Finds Rich Quartz Declares Vast Ore
Col A L King, back in Chicago after visiting the Deadwood region, reports large quartz quantities and easily worked ore in the Black Hills. He estimates mining costs per ton at five dollars and believes undeveloped ores in the Big Horn and Yellowstone areas exceed Black Hills findings. Placers yielded 3 million dollars last year and many discoveries await government protection to be worked this year.
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Col
A. L. King
Chicago
Black Hills
Deadwood
Col. King
Big Horn
Yellowstone
Castle Creek Mining Update From Castleton Gulch Diggings
April notes from Castleton describe Castle Creek’s busy gulch as a growing town with stores hotels and new houses. Reported bedrock depth makes mining hard yet paydays reach ten to sixty five cents per pan in Castleton area while Hoodoo Gulch yields unusually pure gold. Mail arrives twice weekly via Harlow's express and Tam LEADER news is eagerly awaited in Blue Grass.
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Castle Creek
Morutuh
JonAn Guicu
Black Hills
Custer
Dakota
Castleton
Castle
Rapid
Bed-Rock
Montana
Hoodoo Gulch
Rosebud
Harlow
Express
Tam Leader
Cheyenne Stage Lines and Telegraphs Highlight Local Enterprise
The Lincoln State Journal notes Cheyenne offers the best stage line to the Hills with daily service, carrying ten to fifteen passengers and fifty pounds of baggage per person. It cites the telegraph as the only line directly connecting Ebony Mounds towns and praises local stockholders and business men for backing the venture. The Leader, Wyoming’s pioneer paper, is lauded for its strong printing office and prompt AP news coverage via H. Glafcke, delivering Chicago and New York reports quickly.
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Lincoln
Neb
State Journal
Cheyenne
Ebony Mounds
Daily Leader
Pioneer Paper of
Wyoming
H. Glafcke
Leader
Associated Press
Chicago
New York
Dooley's Yeast Powder Wins Public Trust in Baking
In a current era of intense competition the best product ultimately wins public favor. Dooley's Yeast Powder is recognized as the highest achievement in baking powder amid widespread claims and fortified competition.
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Dooley
The Horse Creek Horror Plain Statement From Corizon or Morse Creek
A local letter defends Mrs Jackson and disputes Tom McCuaig and McArthurs account of the Jackson killings. It recounts alleged school-board tensions, harsh teaching claims against Miss McArthur, arson accusations, and threats against Jackson. It notes missing cattle, violence, and the deceased man's upright character.
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Horse Cripk
Norman McCuaig
Jacksons
McArthurs
Dalton
Fishers
Brewster
Jackson
McCuaig
Mr. Chase
D. Clark
O. P. Goodwin
J. B. Jackson
Mr. Jackson
Corizons
Nlorse Creek
One-armed Ann Ferguson Found Dead in Thames Street Home
A coroner's jury ruled Anna Ferguson alias McDonald died from alcoholic and opiate poisoning in a Thames Street bed. Suspicious circumstances prompted arrest of a male suspect who was released. the body was buried the following morning.
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Anna Ferguson
McDonald
Ann
Thames Street
Mystery dug-out found near village rumor of hidden cache
Evanston Age reports a concealed dug-out discovered by Tom Murphy and Ben McCall on a hunting trip. The cache allegedly held numerous items and much whiskey, suggesting a former robber rendezvous abandoned eight to ten years ago. Full details promised soon.
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JA Hilliard
Hilliard
Evanston Age
Tom Murphy
Ben McCall
Origin of Man Lies in Childish Interrogation in Cheyenne
A Cheyenne socialite visits a friend recovering from a recent birth. Her four year old son Charlie teethes out a string of naive questions about babies, even offering to fetch "photographs" and baby items. The girl, alarmed, warns him off in a stark moral frame, and he agrees to keep quiet while admitting he enjoys babies in general.
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Cheyenne
Charlie
Mail service contract moves Black Hills links forward
A Washington dispatch reports the Postoffice Department awarded M T Patrick a 17000 dollar contract for six weekly mails from April 20 to Sept 30 between Sidney Nebraska and Deadwood South Dakota. The plan adds three routes to the Black Hills with further lines from the Missouri River to the hills via Sioux lands. Proposals from Bismarck to Deadwood are invited until April 20.
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Washington
Postoffice Department
M.T. Patrick
Sidney
Neb
Deadwood
Black Hills
Kearney
Cheyenne
Wyo
Missouri River
Sioux Reservation
Bismarck
Tort Pierre
Niobrara
Reynolds Court Martial Findings Sparked by War 1876
The War Department reviews the Reynolds court martial verdicts. Reynolds is found guilty of conduct prejudicial to good order and military discipline and disobedience of orders, with a one year suspension later remitted by President Grant. The report notes related charges against Captain Noyes and remarks on mail service and local city events in Cheyenne including new church rector and a birth.
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Joseph J. Reynolds
Third Cavalry
War Department
Crook
Lodge Pole Creek
M. T
Reynolds
Henry E. Noyes
Second Cavalry
Noyes
Grant
Tea Guesses For $20 Gold Piece At Nichols Store
In Greeley a saloon and gambling ban led a merchant to host a corn kernel guessing contest with a quart bottle as the stimulant. Patrons who paid one dollar in tea purchased a guess. three contestants matched the 2,675 kernels exactly and shared the $20 gold prize.
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Greeley
Tribune
Nichols
Miles and the Indians surrender talks near Tongue River
In February a delegation of about thirty Cheyenne and Sioux chiefs arrived at Tongue River cantonment to seek terms for surrender and protection under the government. General Miles outlined conditions requiring arms and ponies to be given up and relocation to a government reservation. By March 18, 160 warriors and sixteen chiefs gathered to hear terms, with nine staying to show good faith while the rest moved to the Little Powder council with Spotted Tail to decide their future course.
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Miles
Wolf Mountains
Tongue River Cantonment
Spotted Tail
Cantonment
White Bull
Ice
Hump
Little Powder
Spotted Tail to Camp Sheridan as hostiles dwindle
Telegram from Fort Laramir reports Spotted Tail will reach Camp Sheridan by April 23 with Minneconjous Uncapapas Nobows and Crazy Horse forces converging toward agencies. Gen Crook and staff plan to meet the Indians, who are demoralized and poor in both ponies and provisions.
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Fort Laramir
Spotted Tail
Sheridan
Crook
Bourke
Schuyler
Camp Sheridan
Sitting Bull
Lieut
Clark
2D Cavalry
Aids
Red Cloud Agency
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Adamie
Eden
Reno
Nev
Turn
Tim Leaper
Rocky Mountain
W. W. Seely
Horse Creek
Origin OF
Man
Delaware
Daily Mail
Quster
Deadwood City
Uncle Sam
Bowman
Joseph R
Ferguson Street
N. B
Ditto
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
F. W. Tomkins
18Th Street
Mr. Myers
Marks & Myers
Miles and the Indians
LO Land
Orferi
Tim
He Dei Peri
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