Abduction in daylight shocks Cheyenne
Maud Nirton a fourteen year old girl employed by Col. Stuart Taylor was seized on seventeenth street by a man wearing dark clothes and a policeman's star. He forced her into a carriage, and the pair were driven to Fort Russell then back toward town. The man brought the girl to the fort and warned his companion this was not Minnie Logan. The sheriff Sharpless investigated, questioned the girl for hours, and found the case baffling with no clear suspect identified.
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Maud Nirton
Col
Stuart Taylor
Ferguson Street
Seventeenth Street
Co. Taylor
Eddy Street
Maud
Fort Russell
Minnie Logan
Maud Norton
Col. Taylor
Bequel
Thim
Wis
Mahail
Laramie County
Wyoming
Jeff Carr
Lasher
Six-mile Ranch
Post Office
Sun Office
Fort
Rawhide Buttes
Sun
Cheyenne
S. K. Sharpless
Care County Clerk’s Office
Court House
Jantoo Ngonfrita
Mark Bushman
Jovel
Evangeline
Agad
Cous Company
Dushman
Morre Evangeline Brou Biscuita
Volum
Connecticut
Rose
Bushman
Yellowstone Park Scheme Promoters Propose Ranches Inside Park
The Yellowstone hotel company plans ten year leases for seven park parcels of about 640 acres each plus option to add more. They would use arable land for vegetables grain and forage and build stores and trading stations for public use. Royalties run up to two dollars an acre, with hopes for lower rates. critics warn leases could enable ranches inside the park and urge congressional review.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yellowstone National Park
Yellowstone Hotel Company
Secretary of the Interior
Congress
New York
Questionable legality of county officers sworn early
The article notes county officers sworn on a national and territorial holiday may have violated the law requiring oath of office to be taken on the first Monday in January. Some officials were sworn the day before, prompting questions about proper legal conformity and potential surveillance concerns.
Ranchman notes brisk demand for cattle and land
A ranchman writes of recently selling a large share of beeves at about 40 per head and notes most stock comes from his own herd. He mentions branding and gathering cost under $1 per head and average returns between 1.25 and 1.50 per head, reflecting strong market demand for property and stock.
Bright Swan lamp tests ignite Cheyenne electric future
Bright light from 40 Swan lamps totaling 80 000 candle power lit the engine house as engineers tested Corliss and 65 horsepower dynamos. City water connection planned, Swan lamp described as safe, efficient, and easy to replace with no air contact, while Brass Electric apparatus promises widespread controlled lighting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Electric Light Company
Corliss
City
Cheyenne
Brush
Tus
Amended Placer Claim Patent Rules Set 160 Acre Cap
The circular of September 22 1882 amends placer mining claims to limit any association’s patent to 160 acres and require at least 500 worth of work for each location. Individuals owning several 20 acre or smaller claims may join contiguous claims up to 160 acres, with 500 expended on each original claim or location.
Case of Probaine Infanticide Baffles Early Verdict
Coroner Chaffin viewed the infant's remains, born yesterday in a Ferguson Street residence of G A Searight's household. Testimony suggested suspicious death but witnesses not all examined, case to continue today. The mother, an unmarried domestic, has a city lover ready to marry, though she delays marriage until spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chaffin
G. A. Searight
Ferguson Street
Indians Names List of Red Cloud Agency Soldiers
Courtesy of Herman Haas, the article publishes names of Indian soldiers once at Red Cloud agency under Lt. Clark U.S.A. The list includes many vivid sobriquets and tribe references, reflecting old times. It also notes a separate tale about a Sherman pond name and a NC railroad crossing disaster with twelve saved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herman Haas
Red Cloud Agency
Clark
Sherman
Railroad ice, shipping receipts, and a Cheyenne tour
The item notes railroads laying in ice from Sloan's lake and a $180,000 surplus in Rock Creek shipping receipts. It mentions Greenback doctrine papers in Greeley, a disappearing comet, track tearing between Fort Collins and Cheyenne, and improved mail service in Laramie City and Cheyenne.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sloan’s Lake
Rock Creek
Greeley
Railroad North looks to line Cheyenne rail from Union Pacific
A local figure believes a hundred miles of railroad will be built from Cheyenne next summer with Union Pacific preparing car shop work and seeking twenty thousand dollars in funding. An official suggests the railroad is likely to be built, possibly next spring, with favorable local conditions aiding progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Denver
Southern Pacific
Central Pacific
Union Pacific
Cheyenne
Boreas Sparks Town Pranks and Winter Whimsy
Boreas arrived yesterday and played a string of pranks, knocking on doors and prompting residents to ask who is there. He entered windows, waved carpets, whistled and moaned through the streets, rattled a house, and hurled pebbles, making residents shield their eyes and compare climates with the East while noting the windier days here.
Week of Prayer Programme Across Days and Messages
The document outlines a week of prayer from January 7 to January 14 with sermons and daily topics. It includes prayers for praise for gospel progress, humility and confession, families and Sunday schools, the universal church, nations and rulers, missions and missionaries, and finishes with sermons on Titus. It also notes Governor Hoyt’s message on Pennsylvania finances and tax equalization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Evangelical Alliance
Church Universal
John Xyi
Peter Ji
Hoyt
Pennsylvania
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Yellowstone Park
Prowlinbte
Swan Light
Swan Company
Dan
Zeke Webster
Franklin
N. H
Rev. C. M. Sanders
Massachusetts
Daniel Webster
Turkaseege
Jackson County
Western North
Fort Collings
Laramie City
North Park
Black Hills
Cummins
Stiiking
Bristol
Ste
Denver Times
A. A. Egbert
Denver Pacific
Boulder Valley
Boreas
Week OF Prayer
Dr. I. G, Root
Pearl Gt
New Forty
Toledo Blade
Nasby
Fox
Beat
Blade CY
Toledo
Mason & Hamlin
Canapesi
Btylo Dai Iy
New Illustrated
Lue Masud
Tremont Street
Boston
Bayt Lh
New Yorny
Wabash Avenue
Chicago
Diaoano
Avemont
Savannah
New Orleans
Richrdson & CO
Washington Spy
Ours
Geof P.rowell & Co
Spruce St
West
Dee Prohriou
Geokar W. Hoy
St. Cheyenne
Wyo
Auguata
Maine
Mark
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