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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1878
Page
13
The notice promotes Commercial Job Printing offering wide services including job printing of rounds, letterheads, note headings and posters. It claims a new type and presses, low prices, and quick turnaround for the weekly leader and large papers.
Reports say Oregon Bill was killed in a card game at Saguache Colorado last week. The item notes the unusual cause of death and hints at a local sensational angle in early 1900s gossip.
Six prisoners remain in Carbon county jail. A search party headed from Medicine Bow hopes to find J C Davis believed lost returning from Yorts Fetterman and Mc Kinney. Reports say a ten stamp mill may operate at Seminole district by mid April with English funding. Keystone Mining adds a fifteen stamp mill to Douglas creek district by February 12. Investigator Wm Vandever studies White River Ute troubles and seeks relief for Utes, arranging transport to Fort Steele and winter care, with further aid planned for Snake river valley residents.
Reports from Pennington county detail eight cent on the dollar warrants and new mining finds in Hill City area. Rich ore samples from Lone Star lead and a four ounce rock yielding six grains of coarse gold are described alongside developments at the DeSmet mine and Nugget gulch. A planned Lead City theatre and road improvements near Hill City are noted, with ongoing wells and a sheriff guarded mine holdings.
The commanding officer at Camp Douglas Utah will send Private Frank Williams of Company K First Cavalry to San Francisco under guard for delivery to the adjutant general California. Leave of absence for twenty days is granted Captain Andrew S Burt Ninth Infantry Omaha. Colonel F F Flint Fourth Infantry Fort Bridger is appointed special inspector to inspect harness. Major Samuel A Storrow surgeon and Second Lieutenant Henry R Lemly Third Cavalry are detailed on a general court martial at Ft Laramie. The board of survey ordered to convene at Camp Stambaugh is to convene at Camp Brown Washington Territory.
From Our Own Correspondent in the Black Hills report Pennington county may get a second paper next year with the Rapid Creek Mining and Manufacturing Co planning Pactola. W S Maguire and M H Kendig finish a large public hall at Pactola to be dedicated around February 1. A dozen hydraulics are expected to operate on Rapid Creek placers next spring and summer with an expected yield near a quarter of a million dollars.
Lead City mill men face water scarcity delaying construction and daily life as numerous new houses rise on vacant lots. Purchasers of Father DeSmet plan to build three sixty stamp mills within a year. Germania district sprouts three towns Quartz City Beaver City and New Berlin while Beaver City area sees steady building and about 150 prospectors work the mines.
Deapwoop on January 15, the two Third Cavalry units sent on a scout report returning to Maj. Evans' camp in Spearfish Valley with no Indians sighted and no signs of hostile activity.
At the Mother mine near Deadwood on January 15 Mrs. Elizabeth F. Lovell arrived at noon and ordered miners to leave. She drew a six shooter, cut the windlass, and toppled an ore car. When an owner spoke up she fired again but caused no injury and was arrested.
Special notices offer a free receipt claimed to cure nervous weakness, early decay, and loss of manhood. It says the remedy was discovered by a missionary in South America and instructs sending a self addressed envelope to Rev. Joseph T. Inman at Bible House Station D New York.
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