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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1877
Page
6
The Cheyenne Weekly Leader notes include new stores, a brick workshop, and a revived church campaign. It reports Marriages and wages, stage coach jokes, and a Tongue River postmaster appointment at twelve dollars yearly. It also cites antelope migrations and local business ads.
A four-horse team attached to Cathers’ stage on the Cheyenne and Fort Collins line bolted as a U P switch engine approached. They fled toward the Pacific beer hall on 15th street colliding with awning posts and toppling them before the driver abandoned the stage. Pursued after a six mile run, the horses were recaptured and returned to their stable.
The Germany club held a grand masquerade at Recreation Hall on Friday crowded past capacity. Nobility and military figures mingled with clowns and performers as music kept dancing into the small hours. Notable costumes included Ed Merrills on damp humor and a German matron as the Evening Star.
A January report from Red Cloud notes the Sioux and Arapahoe scouts in the Mackenzie fight were mustered out January 30 and paid. Indians show improved loyalty under the policy since October. No news yet from the party seeking hostiles. Cheyennes stole eleven ponies from that party. fifty Sioux were mounted but ponies were taken and the Sioux returned on foot.
Court convened at 9:30 am with cases dismissed, amended, or continued. Dismissal for A J Trogg vs Catherine Beno. default noted for Gervais, Nichols and Leiby in Insurance Co of North America suit. Price vs Bonnifield amended petition and continued. Bonnifield vs Tyson and Price demurrer under advisement. Swift vs Dyer demurrer under advisement. Hecht vs Boughton and Beary demurrer under advisement. Gaylord vs OBrien verdict for OBrien with costs. Fisk vs Green motion for new trial overruled. Gervais vs Fisk judgment for costs. Holliday vs Simmons on trial docket with judgment modification. Wants and Housman new trial argued. adjourned to Saturday 9:30 am.
Jan 27 near Cottonwood Valley, 40 miles NW of Laramie, Cheyenne warriors killed Max McKnopf and wounded his partner E T Oliver. McKnopf was scalped and his camp burned. Oliver escaped, rode 23 miles to safety, and is recover ing. McKnopf leaves a wife and four children. Oliver is hospitalized but expected to recover.
The plains near the Hills show fertile soil with regular rainfall and steady yearly precipitation. Valleys in the Rapid Spearfish and Belle Fourche offer profitable opportunities for immigrants to join the region’s enduring agricultural wealth.
Denver Times reports Kansas Pacific Railroad losses from a year of freight thefts tied to an organized gang. Deputy sheriffs tracked suspects to Carson Colorado and arrested Frank J. Williamson and seven others including William Kelley Worth Keene Mike Fitzpatrick and Pat Shanley. Police recovered a large cache of stolen goods and believe the network is broken.
A lodge house tenant aimed to sew a 6 843 piece bed quilt for church fairs but the missing scraps triggered a citywide search. The Chinese wash-boy delivered a bundle revealing 6 843 pieces and 3 689 ragged edges washed and folded. Joe Payne of Green River arranged three $200 matches with a Denver Shooting Club member to be contested in Cheyenne on the 12th and 18th.
A 19th century profile of the Snakes Crow Sioux Cheyenne and Arapaho. It praises Wash-a-kie as a virtuous Snake chief and describes Crow and Sioux features temperaments and morals. It notes Cheyennes as fearless fighters and Arapahoes as turbulent with notorious women.
A brief excerpt notes that Indian peoples share traditions in costume hair fashion idiom and marriage and burial practices. It observes they are intense unforgiving and barbarously hospitable, willing to share everything with friends even to the last morsel.
A historical note describes mixing nitrate of lead with boiling water and salt to create a clear liquid disinfectant. The solution allegedly sweetens fetid air when hung as a cloth and can be poured into sinks or drains to treat decay. It claims cheap ingredients and high yield from a pound of nitrate of lead.
A passerby on upper Sixteenth Street watched a man carry a parlor stove from a house and stumble, spilling the iron mass. He and his wife argued loudly, the stove was ruined in the front yard, and the man lay on the veranda clutching bruises as the scene ended.
The Black Hills offer broad chances for locating rich lodes and placers as prospecting expands. Experienced miners and cautious capitalists may pursue many opportunities while newcomers face remote odds but potential gains through diligent effort and learning from others. A man named Simms vanished from Point of Rocks and was found frozen near Buffalo Gap.
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