Cheyenne Weekly Leader Highlights Various Local Notices
The Cheyenne weekly notes election timing January 14, a $6,922.24 school budget, burglar arrests in Plattsmouth, post office creation at Fort McKinney, and postal route changes via Fort Laramie to Deadwood. It mentions 533 pupils, a gun incident, a bottle invention, and other regional items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheyenne
L. C. McKinney
Silver Cliffs
Deadwood
Smith
Jones
Rawlins
Laramie City
Fort McKinney
Albany County
Chas
A. Snider
Summit
Colorado Springs
Chicago Inter Ocean
Seth Bullock
Hillsboro
Ohio
Reddy
Seth
Fort Laramie
Charles Hayes
Baptiste Pierre
Pierre
Hayes
Albert Day
Boulder
Young Day
Wyoming Territory Delivers Downey as Delegate in 46th Congress
Official canvass at Governor Hoyt's rooms confirms Stephen W. Downey won a majority of Albany County votes for the Wyoming Territory delegate seat. Downey declared elected to the U S House for the Forty sixth Congress. Reports also note local building projects and church construction in Cheyenne. A prisoner protests innocence as trial concludes with testimony from Mrs Simmons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cilyenne
Wyo
Wyoming
Territorial Board of Canvassers
Territory
J. W. Hoyt
Congress
Albany County
Stephen W. Downey
L. Pease
House of Representatives of
United States
Wyoming Territory
Gro. W. Frenen
Ter
Arctic Expedition Leader Moves Toward Franklin Relics
Lieut. Frederick Schwatka of the Third Cavalry sails from New York on the Bothen on a year’s leave to lead a party into the Arctic in search of Sir John Franklin relics. Capt. Tyson reports the Eothen reached Hudson Bay last August and Schwatka’s group landed on Depot Island near Cape Fullerton. The expedition’s goal is feasible and promising, with the crew in good condition aboard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick Schwatka
Third Cavalry
New York
Bothen
Arctic
Sir John Franklin
Tyson
Lizzie P. Simmons
New London
Hudson Bay
Schwatka
Depot Island
Cape Fullerton
Rowe
Eothen
Capt
Trial of Martin Cook in Deadwood Arouses Strong Interest
The Cook murder trial in Deadwood drew immense crowds as the court discussed possible new trials and pardoning power. Cook confessed surprise at his arrest and claimed he was misled by bad company, naming Mrs. Simmons as a villain and describing actions around the door lock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin IL. Cook
Deadwood
Callison
Black Hills
Cook
Almanac Calendar and Local Notes Highlight Community Utility
The Leader promotes its Bergen patented almanac calendar as a practical year‑round gift featuring astronomical data, weather tables, laws, distances, and time zones. The note also mentions a missing man case near Cheyenne, describing a 40 year old tall man with sandy complexion and reddish facial hair. authorities are cautious but no blame assigned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leader Printing Company
Bergen
New York City
Herschel
Wlmanac
Fetterman
Wyoming
Greene
Cheyenne
Albany
Fort McKinney Post to Rise as New Northwest Fort
Mr A J Roberts arrived in Cheyenne from Fort McKinney three hundred miles northwest at the base of the Big Horn range. He reports excellent weather and that government buildings will be finished by year's start. Carpenters led by Preshaw are in good health and the new fort is to be one of the handsomest posts in the northwest as settlement accelerates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort MccKinney
A. J. Roberts
Cheyenne
New Fort McKinney
Big Horn Range
Preshaw
Roberts
New Fort McKin
Hibbard
W. H. Hibbard
Cheyenne & Black Hills
Deadwood
Cook—Callison
Callison
Cook
L. M. Loring
U. S, Army
Department of the Missouri
St. Louis
Wesley Merritt
Fort
D. A
Europe
Jefferson Barracks
West
McCook
Washington
Columbus Barracks
Ohio
Army Normal School
Thomas M. Anderson
Tenth Infantry
Quartermaster’s Department
Pollock
E Co
Ninth Infantry
Fort McKinney
Cheyenne Depot
Lieut. Green
U.S. Army
Balkans
Secretary of War
St. Petersburg
Stoughton
Fifth Cavalry
Fort Laramie
Fort Russell
Suspect in Fort Fetterman Stage Robbery Brought in
Deputy Sheriff John Donoghue and a prisoner named Frank L. Greene were moved from Denver to Laramie City. Greene, a New York native and part owner in a toll road between Central City and Deadwood, denied involvement in the Fort Fetterman robbery as he was transported under sheriff authority for questioning and custody.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Donoghue
Albany County
Laramie City
Denver
Fort Fetterman Road
Donoghue
Nottage
Frank L. Greene
Fort Fetterman
Greene
Leader
New York
Black Hills
Central City
Deadwood
Cheyenne
Chugwater
County fund for schools distributed amid local notices
The county regular fund for school support was distributed. Reports from Rev. John Y. Cowhick and C. F. Miller show $8,922.28 allocated to school use across several treasurers and districts including Cheyenne, Horse Creek, Granite Canyon, and Fort Laramie, with pupil counts listed for districts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Y. Cowhick
C. F. Miller
P. Hamma
O. P. Goodwin
Treas
Isaac Battlegun
A. Gilchrist
Cheyenne
Horse Creek
Egbert
Granite Cafson
Fort Laramie
Allen McGinnis wedding at A M E church
At the A M E church on Thursday evening December 6 1878 Rev H H Lucas joined Miss Hannah Allen and Mr William McGinnis in matrimony. The church was crowded by numerous friends and McGinnis is noted as a leading colored man in Cheyenne.
Chattel Mortgage Foreclosure Sale in Cheyenne
Abraham Hershfield’s 1878 chattel mortgage secures 267.48 with interest and costs. Default triggers foreclosure by sale of personal property at A LH Reed & Co warehouse Cheyenne on January 8 1879 at 2 PM. Mortgagees W B Clapp and O Young.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abraham Hershfield
Cheyenne
Laramie
Wyoming Territory
W. B. Clapp
O. Young
Bohman & Co
A, Lh, Reed & Co
Eddy and
Fifteenth Streets
Wyoming
W. B. CuApp
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Weekly Leader
Plattsmouth
Omaha
Wm. B. Vickers
Pitkin
Republican Press of
Colorado
Denver News
Frank Greene
Fort Letterman
Post Office Department
Horse Head
Neb
Cheyenne and
A. R. Converse
Territorial Board of Canvassers For
Leopold Kabis
Devoe
Eighteenth
Ransom Streets
R. B. Horrie
L. Brown
A. E. Hawes
Simmons
Maj
E. L. Pease
Carbon County
I. L. Pease
N. L. Pease
Sweetwater
THE
Leader Almanac Calendar
Billy Stephenson
George Wiverly
Texas Cattle Rangers
Redington
Sidney
I. H. Coles
Hammond
South Platte River
Mr. Sheidley
Irwin
Red Cloud
Darrow
David Stubblefield
John Martin
E. M. Coates
Fourth Infantry
Francis Woodbridge
John Gibbon
Seventh Infantry
Gen. Sheridan
United States Circuit Court
New Orleans
Thomas B. Dewees
Second Cavalry
National
Burnside
Army
Reno
Chicago
Henry Douglass
Fourteenth Infantry
Fort Cameron
Utah
John Murphy
S. C. Kellogg
George K
Winter
Caleb Hf
Carlton
Sidney Barracks
J. J. Marston
U. S. Army
Camp Robinson
Nash
Indian Bureau
Department of the Platte
Marston
Egon A. Koerper
Maud Granger
Connecticut
Norristown Herald
Tregster
Bellaire Phonograph
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