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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1877
Page
14
A lively column notes crowded G and B H stages to the Black Hills, new brick blocks and homes rising citywide, a ten pound boy birth for a government surveyor, and quirky items from Cheyenne to Camp Robinson. It mentions Mrs Crazy Horse, Eli Perkins, and a drunken man kicked downstairs after misdirected alarums.
A general court martial sits at Fort Sanders for military delinquencies with Surgeon Bennett A Clements presiding. J M Brown reportedly bagged a 118 pound beaver near Sheep Mountain. Fort Ellis battalion moves under Major Brisbin, while other companies disperse to Forts Steele and the Wind River country. D T Smith escapes gallows due to faulty arrest paperwork, habeas cases delay extradition as Dakota marshals contend with improper warrants.
The Post Office Department awarded a temporary contract for tri weekly mail service between Bismarck Dakota and Deadwood Black Hills. Service will run sixty hours starting May 1 and continue until September 30, with permanent four year service to follow. Monroe Salisbury of Cheyenne and Black Hills Stage Co. secured the temporary deal at 14000 dollars per year.
A Miss convention of Black Hills residents favored a separate territorial organization. Representatives from all areas attended a large harmonious meeting. An address to Congress outlining settlers' wrongs and need for a new territory was adopted unanimously. Ion J. B. Chaffee, U S senator from Colorado, named to press claims in the Senate. Delegates Maginnis of Montana and Corlett of Wyoming thanked for favors. The movement trains toward success.
In Custer on April 13 a shooting quarrel between Carmichael and Dunlapp left Dunlapp with two severe nonfatal wounds after five shots. The dispute stemmed from an old grudge.
Henry Bell, a saloon keeper in the Whitehead block, bought 24 grains of morphine at Adams and Glover drug store before retiring to a Western Union lodging room. He died next day from self-administered overdose. 13 grains remained. Bell, in reduced circumstances, had recently closed his saloon and mourned for his children. County coroner ruled the death accidental.
Cheyenne April 17 1877 the committee of the whole reports Mayor Fisk fully exonerated from charges and recommends reinstatement as presiding officer of the City Court. The council adjourned to Monday April 30th after adoption of the resolution.
Maj Reno seeks delay in presenting his court martial case to the President citing new mitigation evidence. In mining news, Pleasant Valley reports a four mile quartz lead showing free gold. Custerites sink shafts near town with several claims staked. Gold Nill, Gold Trill, and other prospects draw many gold seekers toward Golden City, Castleton and Hayward as drain ditches advance and bedrock tests await.
Report from Halleck Nevada describes Conductor Case falling from a moving Central Pacific train while ejecting four tramps. He walked to Deeth and Wells, vowing vengeance on malcontents. Separately a smallpox case northwest of the city led to a tent shelter, while Bill Rowland, drunk during a fierce prairie storm, wandered naked and perished. rescuers have yet to bury the bodies.
The Kansas Pacific uses Kansas coal after Erie supply failure. Cattle thieves will be tried in Denver district court, sparking state-wide interest. Grasshoppers hatch early, with main army expected by April 25. Wheat crops strong, water rights over two hundred under canal two, about 10 000 acres in crops. Government Grasshopper Commission may delay but is expected to act by fall.
The era of the Sioux war ends rapidly as bands surrender at agencies and Crazy Horse leads 2000 Cheyenne to Red Cloud Agency. The piece reflects on the value of arms and ponies, the decline of tribal power, and the complex loyalties of tribes amid U.S. military campaigns.
Jennings recalls a St Louis hotel blaze when two strangers aided escapes from the fifth floor. They carried a heavy dust of 600 pounds of gold in Deadwood dust, debated dropping it, and one man vanished returning for the gold as others descended toward a ladder reaching from the fourth window. The tale ends with the missing man and the other stranger unseen.
A puzzle lyric describes making dumplings of dough for a cough remedy and sending the speaker to the plough. A request that the dumplings be boiled but not heavy or tough is followed by note that the boys must keep the files away with a bough while a black mare drinks at the trough.
Reports from Deadwood detail vigorous mining operations across multiple claims with 12 to 18 workers, sluicing and gulching on bedrock, and a new bank building planned by Brown and Thum. Highlights include a Florence mine purchase for 50,000, ore assays showing 39% lead and 674 ounces silver per ton, and a stamp mill on the Gold and Terry lode in Bobtail Gulch.
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