Colorado notes from Mirekiy Leader December 28 1862
Colorado notes report Gunnison baby show Fort Collins school attendance at 400 Weld county furnished 10200 beeves last year Methodist Denver to build church Colorado Springs to host a grand musical event Leadville public schools to be selected in January for funds. Nilsson to sing next Sunday in Denver over 400 of 500 Nilsson concert tickets sold. Uintah Utes restless after killing Indian policeman Critchlow. Greeley reports 42 buildings cost 100000. Mrs O W Bingley of Fort Collins attempted suicide saved by antidote. quartz vein found while digging well in West Denver. John Phillips Cheyenne cattleman in Greeley. Fort Collins man creates guessing bottle prize of flour. various local notes.
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Methodists
Denver
Colorado Springs
Leadville
Fort Collins
Weaver
Nilsson
Uintah Utes
Critchlow
Greeley
He Place
Jean Association
O. W. Bingley
Nebraska Towns Plan Dazzling Nebraska Culture Projects
Nebraska City serves as a hub for hog market activity in southern Nebraska while Hastings eyes a $35000 opera house. Kearney builds a canal to provide hundreds of horsepower. Blair begins sinking a pier for the Missouri bridge. Madison weighs a creamery project and Pawnee City seeks a wind jammer leader from New York City. Hall County reports teacher shortages as directors seek staff.
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Nebraska City
Nebraska
Hastings
Kearney
Neb
Missouri Bridge
Blair
Madison
Pawnee City
Gilmore
New York City
Critique of Alliance Standard Rail Trip Cheyenne Visit
The Alliance Ohio Standard correspondent reports from Cheyenne praising wealth but describing the town as God forsaken. He claims social cliques and cultured visitors exist while noting under paving and mentioning Chinese and untutored Indians, but local readers doubt his travel experience and demand restrained reporting.
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Alliance (Ohio) Standard
Union
Central Pacific
Cheyenne
Standard
Location Certificates Offered In New Form For Sale
Location certificates in a new convenient form are available for sale at the Leader office. The notice promotes a simplified purchase method and directs readers to the newspaper office for orders and inquiries.
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Leader
Ranch and Market Notes on Horses and Livestock Trade
Scarcity of gaddle horses drives strong prices in southwest ranch areas while Chicago livestock receipts reach record seasonal highs with hogs 40 000 to 65 000 daily and cattle 30 000 to 45 000 weekly. Wild plains horses survive and fetch 30 to 50 dollars when broken. Wool market in Boston shows feverish activity with 75 200 pounds sold at 19 cents amid tariff debate.
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Chicago
Louis Goss
England
Ipswich
Southwest
Boston
The
Boston Journal
Tariff Commission
Fort Thornburg Likely To Be Six-Company Post In Spring
In Utah the impression grows that Fort Thornburg will grow to a six company post in spring. Other notes report mishaps in North Park with a pre mature blast injuring Bill Clutter and a snow slide killing Jules Harmon who oversaw the Silver Queen mine. Indians in Big Horn country threaten amid orders depriving firearms.
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Utah
Fort Thornburg
Jules C. Harmon
Rabbit Bar Range
North Park
Silver Queen
Big Horn
Interior Department
Omaha Republican
Lyd. Pinkham
Miners Form Crystal Mountain Mining District
In Fort Collins the Crystal Mountain miners organize a mining district. Howard Zook shows fine carbonate nuggets from a sand bed on his claim. Zook notes Boulder samples yield 184 ounces then 80 ounces of silver, ample and inexhaustible for wagon load scoops.
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Fort Collins
Crystal Mountain
Howard Zook
Fragmented verse hints at sorrow and ambition
A partial excerpt presents a contemplative poem about sorrow that might ease if one could rise above with wings. It suggests inner brooding leads to troubling thoughts and possible consequences.
President renominates Gee Lambertson as U S attorney Nebraska
Washington notes report the president renominated Gee M Lambertson as United States attorney for Nebraska. The ways and means committee voted six to four to allow a rebate if tobacco tax is reduced or repealed. The public lands committee adopted a California oriented Brush fence bill substitute. Ingersoll opened for Dornega urging disregard of clamor and focus on facts. Senator Slater proposes six point five million dollars for a jetty at Clatsop spit mouth of Columbia River Oregon under war department supervision.
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Ways and Means Committee
Public Lands Committee
Pacheco
California
Ingersoll
Dornega
Slater
Senate
Secretary of War
Clatsopapit
Columbia River
Oregon
Board of Examiners
Rioters Clash In Lincoln Amid Paymaster Attack
Rioting Negroes in Lincoln sparked by an assault on the paymaster brought a large disturbance. Local militia arrested thirty leading rioters as threats to burn the town prompted round-the-clock patrols. Governor was notified of fresh trouble and troops were sent to scene.
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Raleigh
Lincoln
Christmas Express Freight Rush In Chicago
Chicago reports a heavier Christmas rush with the American Express handling about 200 tons daily, mainly westward. Business is about 25 percent above last year as workers note the first parcels thought to be gifts arrived from California destined for the east, and daily batches grow larger from nearer points.
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Chicago
Express
American Express
California
East
Chinese merchant convicted of manslaughter in Victoria
A Chinese merchant in Victoria British Columbia was found guilty of manslaughter for thrusting a wounded man into the street while the victim sought help at his house. The jury ruled the merchant’s act accelerated the man’s death and he received a fourteen year prison sentence. The prisoner wept as he was carried out.
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M. M. Towne
Thornburgh House
Laramie
Carbon
Yellowstone Valley
Billings
Montana
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
North Park
Salt Lake
Victoria
B. C
Denver Post Carrier Chief Arrested for Letter Money Theft
Denver December 21 F N Briggs superintendent of carriers and chief clerk of the Denver post office was arrested on the charge of abstracting money from registered letters and held in $1000. He is Post master Byers nephew and had an excellent reputation prior to the arrest.
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Denver
F. N. Briggs
Byers
Armour on Packing Business Outlook in Chicago
Philip D Armour reports the packing business is at a peak with his firm killing 100 cattle and 10,000 hogs daily. This year’s totals reach 150,000 cattle and 1,500,000 hogs. The company employs 9,000 workers and issues daily payrolls between 200,000 and 300,000 dollars.
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Chicago
Philip D. Armour
DeLong's Body Removal Held Impracticable
Washington dispatch from December reports Minister Hunt in St. Petersburg saying the foreign affairs minister regards removing DeLong and his men’s bodies as impracticable at this time.
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Washington
Hunt
St. Petersburg
Chandler
DeLong
Illinois Bans Boxing Sparring Exhibition
Chicago police warn that Illinois law forbids sparring or boxing exhibitions and will be enforced. The Sullivan-Elliott boxing match is declared off.
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Chicago
Doyle
Illinois
Governor Tabor Commutes Death Sentence
Denver reports Lieutenant Governor Tabor acting as governor has commuted Andrew Bigger sentence from execution by hanging to life imprisonment, with the original date of hanging set for Ouray.
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Denver
Tabor
Andrew Bigger
Ouray
Foreign Facts and Austro German Alliance Signals
The press debates Russia German relations as the Austro German alliance gains approval. Germania forecasts treaty aims to curb Pan Slavic intrigue Russian expansion and French plans for revenge. Herbert Bismarck returns from Vienna with dispatches on the Austro German accord. Austria and Germany align on Russian military moves as budget talks set French occupation costs.
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Germania
Herbert Bismarck
Vienna
Austria
Germany
Leave Of Absence And Enlistment Details From Fort Omaha
First Lieutenant John Scott granted one month leave of absence on surgeon's certificate of disability. Captain Charles C. Rawn detailed to general court martial at Fort Laramie, Wyoming. Enlistments at Fort Omaha Nebraska and Fort Douglas Utah list Robert J. Allen to Light Battery D 5th Artillery Charles R. Altman to Company F 6th Infantry S W Groesbeck to join Company C 6th Infantry at Fort Cameron Utah Private Dion Alex re enlisted and Recruit James Davis enlisted at Fort Omaha assigned to 4th Infantry. Fire at Buffalo destroys Commercial Advertiser building Masonic temple and nearby businesses with losses totaling $375,000 insured for $125,000. Henry Smith fatally injured.
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John Scott
4Th Infantry
Charles C. Rawn
7Th Infantry
Fort Laramie
Wye
Fort Omaha
Neb
Fort Douglas
Utah
Robert J. Allen
5Th Artillery
Charles R. Altman
6Th Infantry
S. W
Buffalo
Advertiser
Masonic Temple
Masonic Societies
Miller, Graner & Co
H. D. Blakeslee
Blakeslee
Miller & Graner
The
Courier
Henry Smith
Van Wyck Seeks Population Based Civil Service Offices
In the senate Van Wyck offers an amendment to the civil service bill requiring all offices to be apportioned among states and territories by population. He argues the civil service must be honest and efficient, and that the amendment would relieve lawmakers from pressure by creating a fair distribution, similar to the law distributing West Point appointments among districts.
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Washington
Senate
van Wyck
Civil Service
West Point
Explosion and fire devastate Exeter petroleum stores
A dispatch from Exeter reports an explosion at the Thomas petroleum stores this morning igniting a large fire. The blaze destroyed several business buildings and adjacent houses along the canal. Oil runoff set ships alight. a brig anchored in the canal was consumed.
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New York
Exeter
England
Thomas Petroleum
Cheyenne Indians Sign Agreement at Agency
Pierre California December 22 The Cheyenne river agency Indians signed the agreement today. J H Teller secretary of the Sioux commission reports the party is on its way to Yankton with the terms settled.
Nervous Debility Treatment Promises Cure in Mail Offer
An 19th century style notice advertises Wests Nerve and Brain Treatment for hysteria, headaches, and impotence. One box costs one dollar, six boxes five dollars, with a six box guarantee and money back if not effective. orders by mail from Grong W. Hoyt, Cheyenne Wyoming Territory.
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West
Grong W. Hoyt
Cheyenne
Wyo
Ter
Greenback-Labor National Committee Adopts Platform
The Greenback-Labor Party national committee met in St Louis to adopt a platform renaming the party and discussing prohibition. Attendees included Jesse Harper Illinois Weaver Iowa Chambers Texas Norton Chicago and R M Springer Washington. President Harper opened the meeting saying recent elections settled no principle and only one party was ejected and another put in.
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St. Louis
National Committee
The
Greenback-Labor Party
Jesse Harper
Illinois
Weaver
Iowa
Chambers
Texas
Norton
Chicago
R. M. Springer
Washington
Harper
Railroads debated on consolidating lines to form a transcontinental route
The Senate committee on railroads discussed a bill by Mallor of California to authorize Southern Pacific and other railways to unite and consolidate into a continuous Atlantic to Pacific line. A subcommittee was instructed to draft a consolidation bill, but parallel or competing lines would be forbidden.
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Washington
Committee On Railroads
Maller
California
Southern Pacific Railway
Atlantic and Pacific
Smuggling Ring Busted as Sloop Seized with Chinese Wine
Port Town dispatch reports a long running smuggling system between Victoria B C and Puget Sound, undetected by customs. A sloop was seized at Laconner Washington Territory containing a large quantity of Chinese wine, its owner arrested, and the vessel brought to San Francisco by the revenue cutter.
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San Francisco
Port Townsend
Victoria
B. C
Puget Sound
Custom House
Laconner
W. T
Revenue Cutter
Heirs of Wm Blackmore sue over Washington property
Chicago dispatch reports heirs of William Blackmore have engaged counsel to press claims against land in Washington that hosts the Capitol White House Treasury and Navy buildings along with numerous residences and stores.
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Chicago
the Times
Pittsburg Dispatch
Wm. Blackmore
Washington
Capitol
White House
Treasury
Navy
Texas Grand School Fund Reaches 114 Million With Lands
Dallas December 22 The school fund now stands at 114 million dollars and includes lands valued at 110 million dollars. The fund is described as inalienable and cannot be disbursed.
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Texas’ Grand School Fund
Dallas
Texas
Fire destroys Lovell & Sons store in Boston
A gas explosion caused a sensational blaze at the John P. Lovell & Sons shop dealing in firearms and powder. Stock valued at 125000 was lost and the building damaged by about 10000. Continuous blasts marked the emergency as the fire raged through December 20.
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Boston
John P. Lovell & Sons
Hella
Lovell
Parker's Ginger Tonic Health Claim Ad Note
An advertisement extols Parker's ginger tonic as preventing and curing many illnesses by keeping stomach, liver, and kidneys in good working order. It promises blood richness and purity and health at low cost, urging readers to see another column for more.
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Derker
Miscon & Con
Free cure recipe from South American missionary
An offer promises a free remedy for nervous weakness early decay and related male health issues. The ad invites readers to send a self addressed envelope to Rey. JosEru T inman Station D New York City for the cure.
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South America
Rey
JosEru T
INMAN
New York City
H. G. Root
Pearl Bt
New York
Ford brothers lecture on Jesse James killed postponed
Hartford readers were told the Ford brothers planned a lecture with illustrations on the Jesse James killing but the event was postponed. Two dollars were collected at the door. The Congregational church Sunday school plans a grand Christmas tree event.
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Hartford
Ford Brothers
Jesse James
The
Congregational Church Sunday
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