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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1877
Page
3
A garbled OCR fragment references rail routes, Buenos Aires, and 1877 military notes. Mentions Whipple, a cook, and a transport load. Notes duties, appointments, and court actions amid references to Fort and regimental details in a terse, fragmentary press record.
Washington, Feb. 16. The Oregon cipher translations spark debate over Pelton and Cronin plots in Oregon and New York. Grover signs, Bad actors probed by electoral commission. The panel counts eight to seven in Louisiana, with motions for counsel and further argument. The Oregon matter heats up with witness testimonies and accusations of bribery while the Senate debates censure and expulsion.
A few bound copies of the Compiled Laws of Wyoming are available at the Leader office. Price five dollars, mail postpaid five fifty. Remit by post office money order or registered letter. Includes territorial laws, Declaration of Independence, treaties, land and mining laws, town site and timber laws. jy21 d&wtf
A compilation of short notices covers bank suspensions at Pottsville and Fishkill, the death of General Changarnier at age 84, a Paris press trial, a bail for an alleged defaulter, a Dubuque distillery fire causing substantial losses, and fare reductions on the Grand Trunk. Also noted are a Paris boiler explosion in St Etienne with multiple deaths, a Papal interview in Rome, nonparticipation in the Paris exposition by Germany, a New Jersey prisoner dying before hanging, Jersey City coopery fire, New Haven dry goods fire losses, the Duke of Edinburgh resigning command of a steamer, a New Jersey Indian Board appointment, the steamer Clifford wreck with total loss but salvageable cargo, a major smuggling ring uncovered in New York, a Columbia Indiana brewery fire with loss, a Yadkin County revenue raid, Montenegro requesting armistice extension, and a life-boat recovery near Newfoundland with probable total loss of crew.
Indians drove off about 200 head of cattle from Spearfish belonging to M. V. Boughton of Cheyenne. An armed force of 20 men rode from Deadwood about midnight to pursue them. Two men reported being driven from work near Deadwood. General Crook ordered two more cavalry companies be sent, on top of those already en route.
Cooper Bailey Co's circus, after last summer's city appearance, sailed to California then the Pacific. On Fiji Island detour an acrobat's somersault astonished natives, prompting the troupe to perform more contortions while keeping sober, grave manners as crowds believed they were mission aries teaching a religion with somersaults.
A rugged forecast discusses immense immigration to the northern gold fields likely overflowing the Black Hills by 1877 or 1878. It provides a distance table from Cheyenne to Big Horn Mountains via numerous outposts and ranches, noting scarce water and overall harsh travel conditions on the long trek south to Fort Phil Kearney and beyond.
Furs made up and repaired in the best manner by M. Moses on Seventeenth street beside the State Bank. This classic small town ad copy highlights a local furrier offering services and location details for customers seeking fur work.
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