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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1878
Page
8
The August 22 1878 issue reports church attendance in Cheyenne with new pastors and social wit about churchgoing. It notes Deseret baseball in Salt Lake and a fraud warning about Lorenzo Stenhouse. Local posts alert Big Laramie and Corlett offices, gas prospecting, a Denver painter's jail death threat, and hailstorm reports from Bear Creek with livestock losses.
Wyoming shows growing wool production and expanding cattle protections with improving stock from Mexican and crossbred Merino lines. M. E. Post reports 2 306 sacks shipped totaling 641 108 pounds and $96 429 08 paid with shipments to Philadelphia and Boston.
Wallace reports that four Indians attacked him Thursday night at his ranch near the mouth of Hay creek about twenty five miles from here and drove off his stock. Gen Bradley orders a cavalry company to pursue and investigate though some doubt his color of the thieves.
The Union Pacific Railroad sues the City of Cheyenne seeking to restrain tax collection. Judge Fisher took the matter under advisement after hearing evidence yesterday afternoon. City officials had given notice by publication on completion of assessment rolls.
Professors C E Blydenburgh and J G Murphy arrived from New York and took rooms at the Inter Ocean Hotel. Both are Columbia School of Mines graduates with top honors in 1877 and 1878. They deny a fixed appointment as Wyoming Territorial Assayer and may set up an assay office in Salt Lake City if Wyoming does not materialize.
Justice of the Peace deputized Thos Keenan as special constable to seize a suspect south of Hat Creek. Keenan pursued the thief with two men in a wagon, fired after the rider when he did not halt, and the thief was killed by three shots. The dead man’s identity remains unknown. John Madden and John McGork corroborate Keenan’s account.
Cherokee Bob visited a Sixteenth Street liquor store and asked if trade dollars were accepted at par. The dealer consented, served drinks, and listens as Cherokee recounted Sioux adventures. He left after refusing to pay, claiming no money and only asking about trade dollars.
Board of Directors met at H B Kelly residence with O P Goodwin D B Shaw present. Proceedings of the prior meeting read and approved. Bids for a new school house opened and the contract awarded to McKeeney and OConnor. Building to be completed by November 1.
Mrs John Collison was found murdered in bed in Deadwood on August 20 1878. Her forehead showed a heavy instrument's pounding and investigators report no clues or motive yet.
General William T. Sherman arrives by train from Omaha and visits military posts, meeting officers and discussing permanent headquarters, with plans to travel to Denver Colorado Springs Santa Fe and the Navajo reservation. He criticizes Ohio congressman Bounding Banning and remarks on cattle and sheep interests and Cheyenne youths forming guards. The piece notes Yankton fields and Maj. J. G. Gasmann’s management and a depot site opposite Bijou Hills for Spotted Tail Indians.
The Spotted Tail Indians marching toward Rosebud halt seventy five miles from the Missouri river and may stay a month. Two thirds oppose the move, driven by a few chiefs led by Spotted Tail. A missionary says five hundred dollars could have bought peace, but government costs dwarf the price. About a thousand have split off for excursions, while Missouri river tribes bathe in the sun with only blankets off. Government urges Santee surrender.
A man claiming to be Dr. G. L. Thomas is held on forgery charges in Laramie City for cashing checks by forging signatures of Col. W. Downey and G. Weisner. The Sentinel labels him an opium eater with a forgery habit, noting prior similar acts in Cheyenne and Denver under the alias Prof. Morrice. He is described as having a Dne address and being a first class vocalist.
John J. Moore a former postal clerk on the Laramie City to Green River route was found guilty of stealing a $5000 package of Canada money from the mails. The trial ended with the jury verdict at dawn and sentence pending. Government officials led the case amid strong prosecutorial and defense performance.
Telegraph dispatch reports Col. L. D. Ingersoll, renowned author and journalist, chosen as War Department Librarian in Washington. McCrary praised his merits and offered the post without solicitation. Ingersoll’s Indiana birth, Iowa law and journalism career, and Washington writings noted. Daniel Ingersoll linked to notable Ingersolls. appointment described as excellent judgment.
Triumph of science proclaims SOZODONT a botanical preparation with wondrous efficacy in preserving and beautifying teeth, rescuing them from decay and making them white as alabaster. It claims to remove unpleasant breath from catarrh and bad teeth and to be a fragrant antiseptic sold by druggists and perfumers.
After months of study chemist J. G. Allan announces Allan's Anti-Fat. The remedy claims to reduce a corpulent person by three to six pounds per week and is described as harmless and effective. Sold by druggists for 20 cents.
The department of the Platte lists two general court martials to meet at Camp Brown August 22 1878 and at Fort Sanders Wyoming August 20 1878 for trial of prisoners. Details include officers appointed for the courts and additional members from the Fourth Infantry and other posts.
Married notices from Mankato Minnesota August 14 1878 report Katie E Hobart and E L Pease a known Democratic politician. Another Cheyenne Wyoming August 18 1878 records Maggie Tierney and George W Hoyt wedding at the Presbyterian parsonage. A horse thief shot by Sheenan at Hat Creek is identified as William McConnell tied to a Deadwood burglary and Cheyenne escape.
A treatise extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a remedy for indigestion constipation and biliousness that oppresses the brain. It claims the tonic cheers refreshes and invigorates the brain and nerves while regulating digestion and bilious secretion and promoting orderly bowels and urine.
Every family in the West is urged to use Brown's Blackberry and Ginger as a safe reliable diarrhea remedy with a fifty cent bottle price. Brown's Vegetable Liver Pills are promoted for liver and bilious diseases. Brown's Arnica Salve is recommended for inflammation and healing old sores. Available from Addams & Glover and Hurlbut Bros. in Cheyenne.
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