Local Leaflets and Farce Fill Cheyenne Winter
G D Thayer of Rock Creek visits his father in town as Governor Thayer and U S Attorney Jenkins return from Wisconsin. A saloon lists delinquent debtors, while weather and bull dozer jests accompany reports on skating, coins, and prairie life. News notes include a Cheyenne weekly growth, police fines totaling 2826 dollars, and silver imports bound for Philadelphia mint via New York bankers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. D. Thayer
Rock Creek
Thayer
U.S
J. J. Jenkins
Wisconsin
Indian Eccentricities and Native Traits in War Like Glimpse
The account portrays the red man through slang laden phrases and contrasts, noting his magnified vocabulary of heap to express size. It describes social gestures, courtesy, and ways of ending meetings while praising native women for embroidery and color work. It highlights dualities in laughter, death cries, and deep loyalties amid ferocious war dispositions, ending with a reflection on human emotion across tribes.
District Court Doings and mining notes unfold in December
District Court entries show Harry Cue awaiting verdict on robbery while John White pleads guilty to larceny with three months and costs. Several judgments against Simmons, Weed, and others favor the Territory for Laramie county. Weekend sessions hear cases of illegal voting, Lilienfels robberies, and new trials. Northland Nuggets and mining matters report placer claims paying, extensive ore yields, new tunnels, and expansion at several mines including Homestake, Golden Star, and Deadwood, amid active town building in Galena City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Cue
Jecedey
John White
Block
Laramie County
T. Weed
Chas. C. Giddis
Simmons
Simmons & Green
George Tritch
J. D. Stephenson
Geo. Jones
John B. Barada
Sloan
Lilienfels
Barada
George Woods
Robert Wolfman
Chas. B. Horton
Wim
J. Mann
Black Hills
Luke Voorhees
Cheyenne
Nathan H. Hammond
James Brown
Justice Farnum
North Fork
Gold Run
Galena City
Bare Butte
Potato Creek
Lead City
Homestake
Golden Star
Manning, Lynch, O’neil & Co
Caledonia
Deadwood
Gay & Scott
Ed. Preble
Bangor
Blacktail Gulch
Strawberry Gulch
J. W. Allen & Co
Galena
Tansdell, Coffin & Co
Mineral Point Tin
Independence
Pea- Warmer
Gordon
S. R. Gwin
Ophir
Standing Rock Agency Notes War and Frozen River Blockade
Standing Rock Agency Dakota reports no steamboat communication due to a frozen river and wagon links to Bismarck. Gen Carlin campaigns to disarm and dismount Indians, mounting infantry on ponies to hunt ponies, with 1650 ponies seized at the post. Sioux leaders Long-Soldier missing after mission to hostiles. Peace prospects bleak. Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull rumored with Rosebud band. Criticism of trade across the border and trader complicity noted.
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Standing Rock Agency
Dakota
Bismarck
Carlin
Crazy Horse
Sitting Bull
Fort Peck
Gen
After Mackenzie Battle Shoshone Scene Of Fire And Death
After the engagement with Dull Knife's forces, Shoshone watchers saw hostile Cheyennes enter the smoldering village where 200 tepees stood the day before. Two women lay dead with scalps torn, and a buckskin bag with children's hands was found and burned by a Shoshone. Five enlisted men who died were buried on Crazy Woman's Fork with Episcopal rites, taps, and three volleys, though Private Beard was buried by mistake in the snow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mackenzie
Crazy Woman’s Fork
Beard
Mischievous Morrissey Incites Telegraph Office Prank
In Cheyenne a mischievous attache, John Morrissey, lured a Chinese man into grabbing wires at a telegraph office. The man leaped and shouted in broken phrases, losing balance onto wires, breaking a window, and making a hasty escape through the window as Morrissey laughed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Morrissey
Morrissey
Perilous journey from the Black Hills to Butler ends with four orphans in care
A Mrs. Kilbury returned from Deadwood with four orphaned grandchildren to Butler County relatives. The Black Hills mission began after Alexander McMillan and his wife died, with the infant surviving on warmth from an oil lamp as the party traveled by wagon to Cheyenne then Butler. Meanwhile reports note arrests of Dick Brown and Cook for Deadwood killings and extreme cold at Fort Sanders.
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Black Hills
R. A. Kilbury
Alleghany
Deadwood
Dakota Territory
Isreal V. Hoge
Butler County
Far West
Alexander McMillan
Butler
Methodist Sabbath School Officers Elected at Annual Meeting
At the Methodist Society annual meeting last Friday, officers for the Sabbath school were chosen including Superintendent W. D. Pease and Secretary Thomas Durbin. Teachers for ten classes and a list of reserve teachers were also named, with multiple Durbin and Warren family members among the appointed staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. E.society
W. D. Pease
John’ Durbin
Thomas Durbin
T. Durbin
J. Sterling
D. Fisk
R. B. Durbin
T. Fisher
W. FE. Warren
T. J. Hammer
J. E. Tuttle
Miss Bell Barnhart
W. I.’. Warren
G. Crystal
M. Preshaw
Bates
J. J. Blake
Cowhick
R. Bishop
J. J. Goudy
J. W. Bruner
C. Masten
Military Matters and Local News Chronicles 1876
Major W. K. Hart to join his regiment while Veterinary Surgeon Charles M. Smith resigns effective December 1 1876. Leave extended for Second Lieutenant J K R Lemly. Missing Miss Butters of Denver. odd quip about chutney. Silver springs in Oregon yield liquid silver. $15 found. Mrs. T. E. Sickels dies. General Sickels mourned. Moody and Sankey story linked to Sherman’s message. Christmas gift ideas advertised at P O news depot. Praises for Draper & Hammond hardware in Cheyenne. New Texas counties created from Young and Bexar counties, not yet organized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of War
W. K. Hart
Fifth Cavalry
Charles M. Smith
J. KR. Lemly
Third
The
Missouri
Sankey
Moody & Sankey
Chicago
Sherman
General Corse
Altoona
Texas
Young
Llano Estacado
Bexar County
Local Notice Fragment Highlights Advertiser Terms
Fragmentary text shows weekly and monthly ad rates and notice requirements. It references a proprietor and employee liabilities, a $5000 penalty per placard, and regulatory sections. Strong entities include local officials, a person or entity named Hills, and a Dea Collect. The fragment indicates public notices or solicitations with terms and delivery notes but lacks complete context.
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Weekly Leader
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Sidney
Pike’s Peak
Denver
Buffalo Bill
Yellow Hand
Carl Wood
Arkansas
Signal Service Bureau
Dobbins
Cueyenne Weekly Leader
Missouri River
Pacific Ocean
San Francisco
Leader
United States
New York
England
Philadelphia
Northland Nuggets
Pioneer
Messrs. Brown & Woods
African Gulch
Whitewood Gulch
Cape Horn
Messrs. Johnson & Vipond
Colorado
Queen City
Huron
Senate
Congress
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Minnesota
Montana
Southern
Nebraska
Sioux City
Iowa
Northern Dakota
Northern Pacific Railway
Red River
Duluth
St. Paul
Milwaukee
Yankton
Pembina
Bogg
Dick Brown
Edward Shaughessy
Black Wills
Cook
Brown
McCall
Fort Sanders
Virginia
Nevada
Mort Sanders
Sentinel
the Methodist Society
Miss Butters
Cheyenne Belle
Sam
Oregon
T. E. Sickels
Kennett Square
Pennsylvania
General Sickels
West
P. O. News Depot
Holt
Draper & Hammond
Pike
Dea
Black Tribune
Wi Charg
America
Gener
C. H. Vormery
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