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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1878
Page
14
The piece notes the failure of a Denver Peoples Savings Bank and losses to depositors estimated around 35 000 dollars. It reports two men Morgan and Lee bound over after a Sidney arrest for mail fraud and covers assorted local items from a musical boarding house to train mail car fire and an affecting incident about Callahan the U P fireman and his canaries.
An editorial decries able bodied beggars and urges states to empower towns to arrest and force work. It argues that the country should not support loafers and that even in foreign capitals beggars are controlled as able workers are pressed into public labor. The piece laments perceived parasitism and calls for enforced labor.
Clay Allison, famed on the southern border, has suddenly departed Trinidad Colorado. During his reign of terror he frightened Jim Burns by forcing entry to the bar, smashing the looking glass, shooting the lamp chimney, and chasing the hotel keeper with a pistol. If he does not die in boots his tale may fill a future ten cent novel.
Gen Evans backs Union Pacific plan to lay a Black Hills line from Sidney while Cheyenne should press a narrow gauge route to Bozeman at once. The paper notes Cheyenne has prospered without local rail funding and warns reliance on corporations may hinder becoming a major commercial city.
Orders detail G I Hunter Fourth Cavalry to report for duty with Third Cavalry pending promotion. First Lieutenant John C Thompson gets one month absence with potential three month extension. A board of officers meets January 15 1878 at Camp Stambauga WA for clothing irregularities inquiry. Detachment at North Platte Neb to be withdrawn to Fort McPherson Neb. Major Santelli Storrosy to Fort Laramie for duty.
A speaker argues that a man working behind a counter or performing any job from morning to night shares the same duty as other laborers. He claims saving 60 cents from a $1.50 daily wage is employer robbery and compares it to merchants marking up sugar to $1.50. If the merchant would sell at $1, the laborer should also earn $1 per day.
A St. Louis printer, George T. Taylor, attempted to shoot his wife in a Denver street near Fifteenth and Larimer. The struggle ended with Taylor captured by a bystander, taken to jail, and Mrs. Taylor unharmed but terrified.
The article describes the Central Pacific railroad snow sheds across Sierra peaks at over 7000 feet. It notes forty miles of the line protected by sheds, built where snow troubles are worst, using logs with strong roofs. Guards monitor for snow slides and fires with electric signals, watchmen on 12 hour shifts, detonation signals, and fire and wrecking trains ready at joints.
A system using a powerful telescope to spot a snow shed fire at its start is proposed. Once detected, a fire train from Truckee or Summit with pumps and twenty tons of water aboard would rush to the scene without delay.
Converse and Warren dissolve their partnership as of January 1 1878. F E Warren buys A R Converse share and will continue the business. All liabilities of the late firm are assumed by Warren who alone may sign the firm name in liquidation. Converse and Warren Cheyenne Wyo January 4 1878.
City Clerk will receive bids until 2 pm for a brick hose house for Alert Hose Co. No. 1. The 22 by 36 foot two room building features a 14 foot ceiling and a 42 foot tower, with a reading room and meeting space, storage areas, a washing and drying layout, and a ladder ascent. Plans by architect R W Jordan at 357 17th street are available for inspection.
A Denver society note reports the first Chinese marriage under state law officiated by Justice Whittemore. The couple L. E. Quie and Shou Hod exchanged vows with interpreter Ah Chokling and only relatives and immediate friends present.
Alonzo McNeil reports a 16 year old boy reaching Glendive after escaping from a band of Sioux or Cheyenne in the bad lands fifty miles from Glendive. The Barnes family from Montana, with sister and three men, were trapped near Tongue River as hostiles were turned loose in the Department of the Platte. Their horses were killed, stock seized, and they faced shortage of fuel before Gen. Miles ordered troops to relieve them.
A prolonged dispute over ownership of the Woolley and Pecadho mines near Central City ends with sheriff control awaiting court action. Original owners and late buyers fought over shares in Woolley Red Coat and mill site, with sales terms of 5000 dollars cash and 5000 dollar notes. The first note due January 5 faced claims from William Wilson and Keller, delaying payment until clear title.
On the 6th Edwards led a posse to seize the mine by breaking a door. Monday fifteen Edwards men were arrested as Hale supporters claimed possession. Bail posted, arrests followed, then Hale retook the mine. A second Edwards force of thirty eight was dispossessed by the sheriff.
Peter Riley reports a band of Indians drove off about fifty horses from the Spearfish area, ranchmen’s property. Two cavalry companies under Major Evans left Spearfish on a five day scouting mission likely to traverse toward the Bear Lodge mountains in search of a Sioux camp. A ore clean up from the Woolley and Peache mines last Saturday yielded over twelve thousand dollars in gold.
A reminiscence from Deadwood two years after a pie tale recounts a festive Christmas. Miners host a church tree, family separations surface, and the town reflects prosperity, kindness, and memories amid harsh winters and ongoing frontier life.
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