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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1883
Page
9
Weather reports and local business notes detail Cheyenne conditions with wind damage at Laramie and bright prospects for cattle shipments toward Medicine Bow. Reports mention ranch sales, new banks, a forthcoming Jamestown issue, and an incipient Wyoming growth wave, along with weather data and scattered crime updates.
A Winnipeg era style weather note from the Cheyenne Leader exults in Sergeant McGovern suppressing a blizzard. It reports barometric rise, a forecast of cold but clear weather, and promises of warm days to follow, with scores and local items on Sweetwater county traders and trains. rail drifts, town notices, and farm reports fill the page.
A Queenstown era note reports Dayton of Saunders County died from smoke suffocation while fighting a prairie fire near Valparaiso. Fremont Union Pacific depot ledger shows 7000 in ticket sales for week to April 4. Dodge County sees large tree plantings led by J W Love with 30000 saplings. Colfax prairie fire costs Ben Stubbert fourteen cattle, one horse, lumber, a corn crib and hay. Hastings area sees fatal accident when a team ran away and man was thrown. Springfield residents A J Fray and Fremont Smith sell mining interests in the Back bills for 140000, exiting Nebraska after three years.
Advice to mothers urges sending 80 cents to obtain Mrs Winslow's soothing syrup for teething children. Claims to relieve night distress, cure dysentery and diarrhea, regulate stomach and bowels, cure wind colic, soften gums, reduce inflammation, and energize the system. Promotes as the prescription of a renowned female physician and sold by druggists worldwide for 25 cents.
General Crook writes from Wilcox on April 17 noting return from Mexico and heavy workload. He requests greetings to friends in the Platte department and expresses willingness to hear from acquaintances. The letter lauds his service opening the Platte empire to cattlemen, miners, and settlers.
During a blizzard Col. W D Pease search for his scattered dairy cows and found one pair of horns sticking from a snow drift. An investigation followed and fourteen cows were dug out alive and in fair condition from the drift, confirming their survival after the storm.
Reward offered for the delivery of cattle branded ZS on the left side strayed from Pompin Creek Nebraska Bouin and Anp Western Hotel Cheyenne Make yourself healthy and strong Make life happy by using Brown’s iron bitters.
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