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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1883
Page
1
Advertising contracts and subscription rates are listed by the Daily and Weekly Leader. Rates cover daily and weekly editions, with prices per line for classified ads and official notices, plus discounts for longer runs. Publisher is J. B. Morrow of Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Notice to subscribers warns that overdue figures on colored labels show payment time and overdue subscriptions will be discontinued after this issue. The paper, claiming to be the largest weekly in the Rocky Mountain region, requires cash in advance on subscriptions.
From the Daily Leader items note a new Knights of Pythias lodge planned for Buffalo. Other notes report cattle shipments at Chicago stock market, a Cook County murder case motion likely to grant, profits from Laramie building association, Utah asphalt discovery, and various Wyoming business and crime items.
Henry Walker buys graded cattle from Iowa while the American cattle company expands with purchases in Colorado Springs and Holmes near Fountain. Editorials warn of a looming lawsuit involving Senator Dorsey and Palo Blanco cattle, as cattle shipments rise in Texas and disputes over fenced ranges spark talk of forceful takeovers by fence cutters driving toward a free range policy.
The report urges unity between the Dubuque and Prairie cattle companies and local residents to resist foreign encroachments. It notes Denver capital and investors from New York and London pouring millions into stock and ranches as the year ends, while warning against unscrupulous mining schemes repeating in cattle matters.
Mr Dorsey, owner of 105000 stock, accuses the company of gross mismanagement after claiming more than 200000 has been received over two years and that he has not drawn any dividend. He seized the property to push a settlement and dismissed superintendent Charles D Woolworth. Prominent Pennsylvania politician John W Bosler is a large stockholder with Woolworth representing him. Dorsey cites expenses of 61000 in the last fifteen months versus 12000 in the prior year.
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