Meekly Leaken Local Leaflets Crowded Black Hills Travel
Local leaflets note crowded G B H. daily stages for Black Hills travel and rapid growth in Cheyenne. New brick blocks rise near First National Bank. Dr L B Joseph expands practice. A ten pound boy arrives for Brother Yerbey. amusing misadventures and city notes mix with emigration quirks and local commerce.
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Black Hills
Helphenstine & Durbin
First Nationa Bank
L. B. Joseph
16Th Street
Laramie Sentinel Beavers and Court Actions Page
Fort Sanders hosts a general court martial led by Surgeon Bennett A. Clements for military delinquencies. J M Brown trapped a 118 pound beaver near Sheep Mountain. The Second Cavalry battalion conducts movements in Montana and Wyoming as officers depart for Camp Brown. D T Smith, a fugitive, escaped via improper arrest in Frisco, undermining habeas corpus actions and leaving authorities to retreat to Dakota.
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Fort Sanders
Bennett A. Clements
J. M. Brown
Laramie
Sheep Mountain
Second Cavalry
Montana
Fort Ellis
Ultimo
Brisbin
North
Col. Brackett
Fort Saunders
Fort Steele
Wind River Country
Mail service award for Bismarck to Deadwood route
The Post Office Department awarded a temporary contract for tri weekly mail between Bismarck Dakota and Dead wood South Dakota in the Black Hills. Service will run in sixty hours starting May 1st and continue until September 30th when permanent service for four years will begin. Monroe Salisbury of the Cheyenne and Black Hills Stage Co secured the contract at $14 000 per year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hills
Post Office Department
Bismarck
Dakota
Deadwood
Black Hills
Monroe Salisbury
Cheyenne and
Seekers for separate Black Hills territory form a convention
A large, harmonious Black Hills meeting urged secession from the current structure and backed a new territory. An address to Congress outlined settlers' wrongs and the need for a separate territory, with Ion J. B. Chaffee named to press the cause in the Senate. Delegates Maginnis and Corlett thanked for favors.
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DrEapwoop
C. T
Black Hills
Hills
Congress
I. New Territory
Ion
J. B. Chaffee
U. 8
Colorado
Senate
Maginnis
Montana
Corlett
Wyoming
Shooting Affray at Custer in April
To the Editor of The Leader a letter reports a lively shooting match in lower Custer between Carmichael and Dunlapp. Five shots fired with Dunlapp receiving two severe but non fatal wounds. The quarrel stems from an old grudge between the men. PROSPECTOR
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Custer
the Leader
Carmichael
Dunlapp
Prospector
Death by morphine overdose ends saloon keeper life
Henry Bell a temporary saloon operator on Eddy street bought 24 grains of morphine from Addams and Glover drug store. He spent the night at a lodging house, appeared well before dying the next day from self-administered morphine. The coroner ruled death an overdose. Bell, in reduced circumstances, had told his wife he would not return if he could not feed his babies.
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Henry Bell
Whitehead Block
Eddy Street
Addams & Glover
Denver
Glover
Western Union Telegraph Office
Lewis
Bell
Talbot
Mayor Fisk Vindicated in Cheyenne Council Report
Cheyenne council committee reports exoneration of Mayor Fisk from charges following suspension. The committee states they are justified to reinstate him as presiding officer of the court. Report signed by AuG GuiCK G CO Strairon Andrew Ryan W P Davis. Meeting adjourned to Monday, April 30.
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Fisk
Cheyenne
Board of Trustees
City of
Guick
G. CO
Strairon
Andrew Ryan
W. P. Davis
Edward
Gold rich district grows as Golden City blooms
Maj Reno asks delay in presenting court martial case to the President citing new mitigation evidence. In the Black Hills area, Golden City rises rapidly with placer claims and a four mile quartz lead near Pleasant Valley showing free gold. Custer gains mining activity with Red and white quartz ledges, several claims staked, and miners moving toward Golden City and Castleton.
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Golden City
Jus
Fielding
Pleasant Valley
Gay Brothers
Guyville
French Creek
Charles Hamilton
Rapid Creek
Custer
Custer Park
Bowman & Schleming
Hayward
Castleton
French
Battle Creeks
Spring Creek
J. A. Couch
Golden
Doze & Decker
Those Terrible Tramps In Nevada And Prairie Storms
Report of four tramps overrun a Central Pacific train at Halleck Nevada causing conductor Case to be pitched off the moving train. He walked to Deeth and Wells for rescue. He vows vengeance against dead head travelers. Also relates a smallpox case northwest of the city and a man who died of exposure during a prairie storm, with burial yet to occur.
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Union Pacific
Central Pacific
Case
Halleck Station
Nevada
Wells
Deeth
Ife
Colorful Colorado Clippings on Trains and Trials
Air brakes have been applied to K P passenger trains as the Kansas Pacific switches to Kansas coal after Erie supply failure. Cattle thieves will be tried at the current Denver district term, drawing statewide attention amid rumors of easy convictions. Locals report armed bands heading to the Denver Pacific train for Deadwood. Grasshoppers are advancing early, with main army expected by April 25, threatening crops while wheat and corn face risk. Water rights filings under canal two total over two hundred eighty acres each, totaling around 10,000 acres in crops, with prospects termed highly encouraging as government efforts loom. The Grasshopper Commission is expected to act but may not have left Washington yet, likely delaying work until fall.
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K. P
Kansas Pacific
Kansas
Erie
Denver
Penver
Denver Pacific
Greeley Tribune
Grasshopper Commission
Washington
End of the Sioux War Signals Massive Surrender
The article reports rapid surrender of Sioux bands at agencies as Crazy Horse leads 2000 Cheyenne to Red Cloud Agency. It notes depopulation of arms and ponies, predicts Sitting Bull's shrinking force for spring, and contrasts Indian and modern warfare advantages while detailing lingering tribes and renegade scouts.
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Sitting Bull
Crook
Crazy Horse
Red Cloud
Desert
South Africa
Asiatic
Russia
South
Red Cloud Agency
Black Hillers in the St. Louis Fire
Jennings in St. Louis when the Southern hotel burned recalls rushing in to wake occupants and guide escapes to a ladder. He describes two strangers carrying a heavy valise and 600 pounds of dust from Deadwood, one returning for the gold and vanishing.
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Jennings
St. Louis
Ilills
Deadwood
Bill
A Puzzle for a Foreigner Verses on Dumplings and Plough
The fragment describes a foreign flavored puzzle about making dumplings for a cough and boiling until hot yet not heavy. It mentions going off to the plough and boys fending off with a bough while a black mare drinks at the trough. The piece reads as a rustic verse with household and rural imagery.
Deadwood mining activity and new bank plans reported
R R Williams finds good pay in diggings behind Main Street. No. 2 and No. 11 claims employ up to 12 men with sluicing. No. 21 firm Rawson & Co. widens gulching on bedrock. McCauley and Burch dig on No. 23, 10 men, plan to double. Brown and Thum buy bank site and build a bank building. Several other lodes and new stamp mill at Bobtail Gulch. Castle Creek growth and talk of expansion tied to the Longmont extension.
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R. R. Williams
Main Street
Wheeler
Messrs. Rawson & Co
Frederickson & Co
Brown & Thum
Stebbins & Co’s Bank
No. 23
Discovery
Anthony McCauley
Burch
Andrew Wibleare
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Meekly
Leaken
Carey Block
Yerbey
Surveyor General Office
Cmeers
Constantinople
Dyer’s
Whicher
St. Paul
Shaw
Nebraska
Chicago
Gottstein & Idelman’s
Camp Robinson
Gen. Mackenzie
Charles A. Johnson
Fourteenth Infantry
Stebbins, Post & Co
Philadelphia
U. S. Mint
Col. Meginnis
J. N. Laurie
Pratt and
Caroline Streets
Black
the Post
Laramie Sentinel Shearings
D. Tom Smith
D. T. Smith
Maj. Lunt
San Francisco
Smith
Frisco
United States
Black Hillers
Maj. Reno
Reno
War Department
Frairie
Bill Rowland
Rowland
Buckley & Co
Florence
Floorman
Cora
W. W. Andrews
Castle Creek
Sitting, Bull
Hoodoo
M. W. Rowland
Alpha
Messrs. Cornell, Williams, Arnold, Winters & Co
Loveland
Colorado Central Road
Jay Gould
Longmont
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