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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1878
Page
6
A Denver Peoples Savings Bank unit fell to two receivers as depositors losing about 35000 dollars confront a collapse. Arrested men Morgan and Lee bound over to await trial for mail fraud in Sidney.
A fervent editorial denounces able bodied beggars as parasitic and argues for compulsory work programs. It claims the United States should empower officials to arrest loafers and force them into labor for the community, to keep roads and public spaces orderly.
Clay Allison, famed on the southern border, abandons Trinidad Colorado for parts unknown after a reign of terror. He terrorized Jim Burns, hotel keeper, by imprisoning him in his own house and menacing the bar with gunplay, shattering a mirror and lamp, and chasing Burns with a revolver. If he survives, a future dime novel may feature his exploits.
Gen Evans endorses UP spur to Black Hills from Sidney and The Cheyenne Leader backs Cheyenne starting a narrow gauge line to Bozeman at once. The paper notes Cheyenne has prospered with railroads built without local money and warns reliance on Union Pacific or others for gratis railroads will hinder its growth.
Second Lieutenant G I Hunter of the Fourth Cavalry will report in person to the Third Cavalry commanding officer for duty with that regiment pending promotion. First Lieutenant John C Thompson of the Third Cavalry gains one month absence with a three month extension. A board of officers is to convene January 15 1878 at Camp Stambauga W T to investigate irregularities in 1877 clothing returns. Upon the North Platte Neb arrival of the quartermaster, the Ninth Infantry detachment guarding public property will move to Fort McPherson Neb. Major Santelli Storrosy surgeon will proceed to Fort Laramie for duty.
A speaker argues that a man who works from 7 a.m. to 8 or 10 p.m. deserves fair pay, likening laborers earning 1.50 per day to a merchant who pads costs. He questions why a laborer should not earn a dollar per day.
A Denver incident reports George T. Taylor a St. Louis printer attempted to shoot his wife Mrs Taylor and Miss Pierce intervened as the trio left a Larimer street dry goods store. Taylor aimed the revolver twice failing to discharge and was restrained by bystanders then jailed.
The Central Pacific Railroad uses snow sheds over forty miles of mountain track to protect against snow slides and fires. Watchmen patrol ahead of trains, with electric and detonating signals, fire and wrecking trains on standby. A lookout station offers an eighteen mile view for telegraph operators during summer.
The article describes using a powerful telescope to spot snow shed fires at their outbreak. Upon detection, a train from Truckee or Summit with fire pumps and twenty tons of water rushes to the scene without delay.
The firm Converse & Warren in Cheyenne dissolved by mutual consent on January 1, 1878. F E Warren has purchased Converse's interest and will continue the business. All liabilities of the late firm are assumed by Warren and debts are payable to him. he is the only signatory in liquidation. A R Converse and F E Warren Cheyenne Wyo January 4 1878.
City Clerk to receive bids by 2 PM for building a brick hose house for Alert Hose Co No 1. Structure 22 by 36 feet with 14 foot ceiling and a 42 foot peak tower. Two rooms include storage and reading space with a hall and washing area. Tower base 9 by 9 feet tapering to 6 by 6 feet top. Architect R W Jordan at 357 17th Street prepared the plan and specifications.
A Chinese marriage ceremony under state law took place with Justice Whittemore officiating. L. L. Quie and Shou Hod were the couple. Quie answered in English while Shou Hod used interpreter Ah Chokling. Only relatives and immediate friends attended.
Alonzo McNeil reports a 16 year old boy arriving in Glendive from a region fifty miles from the town where the Barnes family from Montana faced Cheyenne hostility. The group, ranching near Tongue River, was surrounded in the bad lands. horses fell, stock seized, and fuel ran short. Gen Miles ordered troops to aid the besieged family as Gen Crook later disarmed but the weapons were returned.
In Deadwood a heated contest over the Woolley Pecadho and Red Coat mines near Central City continues for days. Original owners and late buyers clash while sheriff and deputies hold the properties awaiting court action.
On the sixth, Edwards and a posse forcibly took the mine and broke a door. By Monday Edwards with fifteen men were arrested while the Hale party held the mine. bail was posted and arrests followed. Hale’s party then regained possession, a second transfer occurred, and a second Edwards party of thirty eight seized the mine, leaving the Hale party dispossessed by the sheriff.
Peter Riley reports a band of Indians stole about fifty horses from Spearfish area. Two cavalry companies under Major Evans set out from Spearfish for a five day scouting mission likely to reach the Bear Lodge mountains in search of a Sioux camp. A mine clean up last Saturday from seventy stamps on the Woolley and Peache mines produced over twelve thousand dollars in gold in ten days.
A reflective piece recalling a two year gap since a famed Black Hills pie, then sketches life in Deadwood with miners, churches, and a Christmas celebration. It notes prosperity, hunger relief, a tree for children, and social contrasts among residents amid harsh winters and local news items including a missing soldier found frozen in a pond.
The ad warns prudent buyers to check weight and purity of yeast powder and baking powder. Dooley's asserts absolute purity and guaranteed full weight, contrasting others shown as 20 to 30 percent short weight.
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