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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1877
Page
2
Senator Ingalls introduces a measure to attach the Black Hills country to Wyoming for judicial purposes. The move faces substantial opposition and is unlikely to pass this session. If not, Congress should provide the Black Hills residents access to legal services at Cheyenne.
A 1876 letter reports Congress may ratify a Sioux treaty for Black Hills cession and orders mail to be sent via Cheyenne and Sidney routes. It details repeated losses and misrouting of letters to Spotted Tail and Red Cloud agencies, Camp Sheridan and Deadwood, with an investigation urged to find the fault.
A general court-martial is ordered to convene at Fort Bridger W T on January 29 1877 or as soon afterward as practicable for the trial of prisoners. The detailing includes Assistant Surgeon John W Brewer Medical Department First Lieutenant John Scott Quartermaster Fourth Infantry Second Lieutenant Frank A Robinson Second Cavalry Second Lieutenant Theodore F True Adjutant Fourth Infantry Judge Advocate. A second court is ordered to meet at Omaha barracks Nebraska for the trial of prisoners. The court details include Captain Wim HW Bisbee Fourth Infantry First Lieutenant James AW Spencer Fourth Infantry First Lieutenant A H Bowman Ninth Infantry First Lieutenant Morris C Foot Ninth Infantry First Lieutenant William B Pease Ninth Infantry First Lieutenant William J Hofman Ninth Infantry Second Lieutenant John A Baldwin Ninth Infantry Second Lieutenant Edgar B Robertson Ninth Infantry Judge Advocate.
Putnam tends 1000 sheep on his ranch 40 miles south of Greeley along the South Platte. He feeds about a ton of hay daily and has fifty tons remaining. Snow is reported as fourteen inches deep on the ground.
The New York letter describes a dreary season with widespread unemployment and market distress. It notes empty shops, high rents, and reliance on charity, plus fashion trends and scandal around the Bennett May duel with May and Bennett departures.
The passage cites Miss May as the only Rei sufferer in the Bennett case. It notes she is a nice girl, though willing to marry such a man, and remarks that the two principals lack sense to grasp their absurd position.
The new map by George Henckel prepared in Chicago scales half an inch to the mile and covers 400 square miles of the Deadwood district. It shows creek levels, ore types, bedrock depth, gravel deposits, timber, formations, lodes, towns, roads, trails, telegraph line, and grazing lands around Spearfish Whitewood False Bottom and Red Water creeks. Water flow figures include Spearfish Creek at 7,000 miners inches with 80 feet per mile fall and Deadwood Creek at 805 feet per mile, among others.
Capt. Willard Glazier, Civil War veteran and author, rode from Boston to San Francisco in 200 days with 28.7 miles daily on average. He covered 1,988 miles Omaha to the western terminus in 30 days, lectured for soldiers' families and the Custer fund, and survived a Sioux clash in late October where two Indians were slain and a herdsman killed. He escaped with others, pursued by riders, and later returned home by rail.
Military authorities detained about six men at Choteau Creek Dakota and captured 500 ponies they claim were being driven from Indian country toward white settlements to keep them away from the reds recently dismounted by the government. The men were released but the ponies remain in military custody.
The text argues it costs only four cents a day to take the daily paper, comparing it to the price of a cigar, a hen’s weekly egg earnings, and a kitchen girl’s daily waste. It concludes that a nickel saved daily is better spent than canceling the paper.
A vivid scene on a golden Pacific beach as Cronin notices a junk near the coast of China. The vessel shears off at the last moment prompting the captain to cry out humorously about an American being a fool.
Last Tuesday January 28 a coal miner named John shot and killed an old man named Musser near the Catton City Colorado coal mines. The fatal shooting followed a dispute over pasturage due Musser.
The Omaha Republican and Bee have at last made up and become good friends. The waste of time money influence and temper from their quarrel is said to be immeasurable.
The recruiting service is ordered to prepare seventy recruits and forward them to Cheyenne under proper charge for assignment to the Third Cavalry.
An editorial argues for raising a five thousand cavalry brigade across Wyoming Colorado Dakota Nebraska Utah and Montana to crush Sioux Cheyenne and Arapaho resistance. It recalls Governor Evans 1864 Colorado rapid mobilization of 700 frontiersmen who defeated a hostile camp near Port Lyon after a 250 mile march, amid praise from locals and outrage from eastern peace factions.
Washington January 27 The compromise bill passage prompts a shift in Democratic plans after a National Democratic committee conference. The February 2 meeting in this city is canceled and Democrats seek to count only two Hayes votes from Oregon to force a tie, while Republicans doubt the commission’s fairness and warn of risks in New Jersey Virginia and Missouri.
A collage of social jabber and political quips. Wendell Phillips mocks American schoolgirls versus European peers while General Crook pivots to Sioux warfare. Princess Mary of Prussia’s death is noted along with a grim letter advocating female infanticide, rebutted as self-harm.
From Cheyenne to Deadwood the stage fare is 650 in winter and 25 in other seasons. Freighters charge 7 to 10 cents per pound. A six mule team hauls 400 pounds. Travel now takes four to six days. storms may delay journeys. Indians have not troubled the stage since last summer. About 10,000 people work the mines. many travel in companies or alone to claim ground for wages or self work.
A hurried man attempts to force both door sides in the dark and injures his nose on the edge. The incident unfolds as he struggles to enter, highlighting a moment of clumsy risk and immediate self injury.
Charles A. Boedeker wed Emma Bulln in Cheyenne on January 27 1877 at the Western hotel after a wedding reception with many friends. The couple departed for Denver on their wedding tour.
The Senate faces House bills to reform army structure and pay. Proposals fix 25,000 maximum and reorganize into regiments, with officers outnumbering privates, prompting calls to reduce cavalry and boost infantry. The Military Commission weighs options from 20,000 to 80,000 troops and regimental reforms. Indian Bureau to move to War Department amid budget pressures. Mr. Kennedy of Black Hills Herald travels east.
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