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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1878
Page
15
The fragment lists The Leader Printing Company as pioneer paper of Wyoming with dating marks and subscription rates. It mentions multiple months and carrier delivery options in a rough OCR text. The readable items imply a historical newspaper notice or masthead fragment.
The January sessions report multiple cases tried or continued with verdicts and advisement. United States v Webb et al. and other road agent cases adjourned to March 25. several civil actions listed on the trial docket. Local items note the Bear Butte smelter restart, a Custer City post office robbery, ore yields from Pecadho and Woolley mines, and the disappearance of Charles Adgate with $400 and a horse.
Ten Keets mining firm employees were arrested on grand larceny charges after allegedly removing ore from Aurora mining property. A mystery herd of ponies in Spearfish valley was traced to a Crow band from Powder River. stock returned by order of Major Ivins. Reports note new oil prospects in the Hills and strong sleighing from Poudre to the mountains amid frigid conditions. Temperatures fell to 35 below in Larimer county with 15 to 20 below elsewhere. hay prices cited by Judge Wowe in Collins.
A St Louis elopement tale unfolds with a 17 year old girl Sarah Jones, her lover, and a father pursuing across trains. Deputy Arnold traces clues from Kansas City to Cheyenne and Ogden, confirming the pair were detained and the marriage plan foiled.
A vintage advertisement extols Mexican Mus Tang Liniment as a universal healer for human burns sprains cuts and for saving lives and restoring cattle to usefulness. It claims unrivaled powers compared to other liniments and positions the product as a trusted remedy of the era.
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