Weekly Leader highlights 1879 Cheyenne items and transfers
The Weekly Leader notes a January 14 city election and a guarded treasure coach run Cheyenne to Deadwood. It reports 533 pupils at Cheyenne Public School, $6,922.24 in next year’s funds, a Fort McKinney post office, and local incidents from gun mishaps to burglaries. It also mentions Denver and Deadwood personalities and postal route changes via Fort Laramie to Horse Head with Cheyenne Black Hills stage co. consolidation.
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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
Wm. B. Vickers
Pitkin
Republican Press of
Colorado
Denver News
Frank Greene
Fort Letterman
Black Hills
Post Office Department
Horse Head
Neb
Cheyenne and
Downey Declared Wyoming Delegate After Territorial Canvass
In CILYENNE Wyoming Territory the territorial board of canvassers met at Governor Hoyt's rooms to certify the delegate election. Stephen W Downey won Albany County 6456 to 3862 for L Pease 1041 majority 1041 and is declared elected to the Forty sixth Congress. Other notices mention local improvements and a Catholic church project.
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 led by Lieut Schwatka sails for relics of Franklin
Lieut Frederick Schwatka of the Third Cavalry received a year’s leave to command a party into the Arctic to seek Sir John Franklin relics. Capt Tyson reports the expedition’s progress with the Eothen in Hudson Bay and Depot Island near Cape Fullerton. Tyson says Schwatka’s plan is feasible and likely to succeed.
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 Murder Case
The murder trial in Deadwood draws intense crowd as Martin Cook faces death sentence for killing Mrs. Callison. He shows nervous strain in court while defense arguments consider a potential new trial and pardon options, with Cook claiming innocence and naming Mrs. Simmons as a bad influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin IL. Cook
Deadwood
Callison
Black Hills
Cook
Leader Almanac Calendar offers new scientific content for year
The Leader promotes a Bergen patent almanac calendar as a useful gift with twelve monthly sheets plus six pages of data. It includes statutes of limitation, interest laws, travel distances and times, postal rules, and Herschel weather tables, praised for its compact, clear design. The piece also mentions a missing man in Wyoming and defends Albany county authorities amid suspicions.
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Leader Printing Company
Bergen
New York City
Herschel
Wlmanac
Arrival from Cheyenne Describes Fort McKinney Progress
Mr A J Roberts reached Cheyenne reporting good weather at Fort McKinney three hundred miles northwest at the foot of the Big Horn range. Buildings underway should be finished by year’s start. Preshaw and carpenters from Cheyenne are in excellent health. Roberts says the new post will be among the handsomest in the northwest as development proceeds.
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Fort MccKinney
A. J. Roberts
Cheyenne
New Fort McKinney
Big Horn Range
Preshaw
Roberts
New Fort McKin
Billy Stephenson
George Wiverly
Texas Cattle Rangers
Redington
Sidney
I. H. Coles
Hammond
South Platte River
Mr. Sheidley
Irwin
Red Cloud
Darrow
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
Sheriff Aids Denver Hunt In Fort Fetterman Robbery Probe
Deputy John Donoghue arrived from Laramie City to Denver to gather clues on the Fort Fetterman road stage robbery. He brought back Frank L. Greene, arrested in Denver on suspicion of involvement, who denies guilt and claims New York origins and Black Hills toll road ties. Greene says he was in Cheyenne until last month and only briefly in November on business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fetterman
Wyoming
Greene
Cheyenne
Albany
John Donoghue
Albany County
Laramie City
Denver
Fort Fetterman Road
Donoghue
Nottage
Frank L. Greene
Fort Fetterman
Leader
New York
Black Hills
Central City
Deadwood
Chugwater
County school fund distributed and local notices given
The county school fund totaling 8922.28 was distributed among treasurers for districts including Cheyenne Horse Creek Granite Canyon Fort Laramie and others with pupil counts listed. The Cheyenne and Black Hills telegraph topic centers on the Cook Callison tragedy showing a motive linked to relationships and a high bail for Mrs. Boughton.
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
Hibbard
W. H. Hibbard
Cheyenne & Black Hills
Deadwood
Cook—Callison
Callison
Cook
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 to Mr William McGinnis. The church was crowded by friends as Cheyenne’s prominent colored citizen Mr McGinnis gains a most excellent wife.
Chattel Mortgage Foreclosure Sale Notice in Cheyenne
Abraham Hershfield of Cheyenne Wyoming Territory mortgaged personal property to W B Clapp and O Young on October 10 1878 for 267 48. Default triggers foreclosure sale of described items at A L 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
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
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Leader Almanac Calendar
David Stubblefield
John Martin
E. M. Coates
Fourth Infantry
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
Army Normal School
Thomas M. Anderson
Tenth Infantry
Quartermaster’s Department
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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