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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1877
Page
5
The Weekly Leader promotes its weekly edition and its printing shop offering Commercial Job Printing of every kind. It touts new type and presses and promises fast, affordable work including cards bill heads letters and posters.
A letter and supporting statements reveal doubts about Woodruff’s murder conviction for the Freel tragedy. Advocates claim suppressed telegrams and trial interference affected the outcome while urging executive clemency, with testimonials from peers and a witness letter by W. W. Conver. The piece notes community agitation and a call for fair treatment.
Prominent California capitalists offer bold takes on Black Hills mining with calls to invest in Homestake and Consolidated Homestake. Quotes mention De Smet mine as the world’s biggest and suggest Homestake could be worth ten dollars per share.
Wm. T. Shaffer of the Green River Courier visits with Come again. Capt. Jas. Lang of Georgetown, Colo., seen in Rawlins. Henry Wagner opens a large stock in Odd Fellows building praised for low prices. Ute Indians camped near Split Rock with plenty game and hopes for a new agent. Saloon license up from 25 to 50 quarterly angers merchants. Three teams leave for Snake River with heavy supplies. Odd Fellows plan a grand Christmas ball at Railroad house. R. K. Bickford, Chicago lumber dealer, bankrupt liabilities 115000. U. S. Treasury to prepay January interest without rebate next week. Washington officials close for holidays. Taunton savings bank enjoined. assets 1,404,513. liabilities 1,353,763. War Spirit from Greenock wrecked near Mississippi. masts and boats lost. towed to New Orleans.
An east coast crowd may push for smaller forces but Bozeman honors Captain Browning and his company of the Seventh Infantry returning from the Indian war. The unit suffered heavy casualties at Big Hole Pass with ten remaining to march to Fort Ellis, followed by a grateful public reception. The piece notes pay withheld since June and later jests on theatregoer nuisances.
A listing from the Laramie County Stock Growers Association detailing officers in Cheyenne and member ranges across Chugwater Sabile Pole Creek Bridger’s Terry North Platte Camp Clark and Scott’s Bluff with a note that all cattle on the range bear a left hind wattle and right shoulder mark.
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