Territorial News Mixes In Turbulent Verses Of Policy And Courts
The dispatch from London notes Turkey pursues peace talks before February end. Washington debates secret ballot in Utah. A mass of diverse items includes bids for west of Missouri mail service and Wyoming territorial controversy over Judge Peck. The Times dispatch overstates territorial depravity, prompting local rebuttal defending Wyoming’s redistricting as lawful and necessary.
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Cardinal McCroskEy
Queenstown
Rome
New York
Turkey
House Committee On Territories
Utah
Sun Congress of Beauty
Gilmore
New York Senate
Postoffice Department
Missouri River
Special Commission
California
Washington
Chicago Times
Edmunds
Committee On Judiciary
Senate
Wyoming
Territorial
Peck
Crook
Pease
Third
Sweetwater
Uinta
Dispatch
Times
Congress
Supreme Court
Legislative Assembly
Territories
Ohio Sheriff Accused Over Jail Break by McKenna Desperado
An outraged editor denounces Ohio officials for allowing coach robber McKenna to escape from Hillsboro jail. The piece accuses the sheriff of dereliction after reports that McKenna, aided by his wife and friends, secured arms and violated surveillance. It calls for recapture and governor resignation.
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Ohio
McKenna
Seth D. Bullock
Bullock
Hillsboro
Rise and fall of Salt Lake waters discussed in correspondence
Correspondence from Salt Lake City on February 18 argues the lake’s rising waters show a periodic nature. It notes foliage or rainfall as potential causes but questions constant foliage growth given observed recensions and tributary patterns, referencing the Jordan River and arid valleys nearby.
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Salt Lake
Jordan
Utah Lake
Calico ball and social notes from Laramie city letter
In a Laramie city letter a calico ball is described as well attended with young ladies in calico dresses. Miss Ida Cramer departs for Denver with family, plans public readings in Colorado and Cheyenne. Mention of Conductors' Brotherhood ball, Prof Galloway’s band, and plans for Ed Wagner to close Cheyenne store drawing locals back to Laramie.
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Lraper
Will Harte
T. A. MesShane
Omaha
Ida Cramer
Denver
Cheyenne
Kansas
Harte
Laramie
Magic City
Big Horn
Deadwood
Greeley
Pueblo
Cola
Alert Hose Co
Hose Boys
Fred Gerkan
Whipple & Hay
Porter
Mary Tank
Frank Whitney
Fred
Western Union Telegraph Co
Fort McKinney
Fort Custer
Big Sforn
South Platte
T. L. Watson
Mr. W
J. L. Brush
Fire at Taunton Mass Hits Forty Thousand
A $40,000 fire in Taunton Massachusetts occurred on Saturday. The item notes property loss but provides few additional details beyond the sum and location.
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Taunton
Mass
Cammeyer & Mason
New York
Louisiana
New Orleans
Russia
England
Illinois Central Railroad
Anderson
U.S. Senate
Admiral Hornby
Pope
Baltimore
Whitaker
Gen. Anderson
Jacob Kienzle
Diebold, Norris & Co
Cincinnati
Hartford
Conn
Moody and Sankey
Springfield
Lord Dufferin
Canada
Lotta
Thomas C. Anderson
House Committee On Post Offices
Galveston
Vera Cruz
Wasatch Waters Key to Ancient Lake Rise and Fall
T HLS argues that rainfall on the Wasatch mountains drove lake level changes in a vast prehistoric Utah lake. He notes beaches at multiple levels and erosion at Port Neuf and Red Rock Gate showing successive breaches draining water toward the Snake River and Pacific, with evaporation ending the recession to present limits.
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Wasatch
Utah
Escalante Valley
Cache Valley
Idaho
Red Rock Gate
Port Neuf
Snake River
Pacific
Port Neuf Easion
T. Hls
Laramie Social and Local Happenings Brief
Laramie notes reveal Mr. Grow’s long Oregon venture and rumored Pennsylvania wedding, a favorable return to permanence, and Mrs. E Ivinson’s eastern trip home. Two or three marriages loom, a hunting party heads for Medicine Bow country, Mat Hopkins joins Trabing Bros. as bookkeeper, court in full swing, Wyoming zephyr plays with signs and hats. More news to come.
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G. B. Grow
Oregon
California
Pennsylvania
Laramie
Trabing Bros
Mr. Hopkins
Wyoming Zephyr
Lora
Lehigh coal resumes amid week long plan and suspensions
Reports say operations in the Le high coal region resumed yesterday and will continue this week before another suspension. A Louisville official travels to New York to study municipal systems, alarming Louisville taxpayers.
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Lehigh
Louisville
New York
Pius IX
Santa Maria Magdalene
Philadelphia
Bismarck
Austria
Russia
Richford
E. E. Spooner
Cambridge
Mass
Catherine McLean
Mianning
Defalloux
Wall Street
Bank of Nevada
San Francisco
Frederick Charles
William
Belgium
Prince of Wales
Duke of Connaught
Prince of Orange
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Schuyler Colfax
United States Senate
Oliver P. Morton
Dan Voorhees
Baden-Baden
Pennington
Dakota
Dakota Territory
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Iowa
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