Thirteen News Bits From a 1877 Laramie Evening
A jovial roundup reports many tramps, skating crowds, and amusing anecdotes from Laramie. Notes on Red Cloud Agency supplies, Naches turning farmer, and local vanity wagers mix with counterfeit notes, church fairs, and a Black Hills panorama at McDaniels Theatre. Local scuffles at the Bella Union, a lost twenty dollar bill, and railway plans adds to the gossip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Black Hills
Bostwick & Munsch
McDaniels
New Dramatic Theatre
Moody
Woman Suffrage Convention to Convene in Denver
A grand gathering of woman suffrage advocates will meet at the Lawrence Street M E Church in Denver on Monday and Tuesday. Four sessions are planned at 7 30 Monday evening 10 30 Tuesday morning and 2 30 and 7 30 Tuesday afternoon and evening. Speakers include Clara Norris Wright Col Henry Logan Rev B F Crary Captain Boyd Rev W J Lyndh Henry C Dillon Dr Alicia Avery and Miss Laura Hannon among others.
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Denver
Lawrence Street
M. EB
Clara Norris Wright
New York City
Henry Logan
Boulder
B. IF. Crary
Golden
Captain Boyd
Greeley
W. J. Lyndh
Henry C. Dillon
Alicia Avery
Laura Hannit
Salted mud fraud exposed after silver stake scheme
The San Francisco Bulletin reported a supposed discovery of mud from Mud Springs Oregon rich in silver. Prof Price and Yale's Prof Silliman analyzed samples finding salt fraud with silver just the pulp of a quartz mill. Investors backed out as tests proved a bungling swindle.
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San Francisco Bulletin
Mud Springs
Wasco County
Oregon
Thomas Price
Price
Quiartz
Silliman
Yale
Military Moves and Leaves Across Frontier Posts
Leave of absence granted to Captain Mauck Fourth Cavalry. Captain Burt arrives in Omaha with his company and the band of the Ninth Infantry formerly at Sidney barracks. Companies K Second Cavalry and D G Fourteenth Infantry depart for Fort Fred Steele and Camp Douglass Utah. Multiple officers granted one month leaves with extensions and disabilities while Major Coen Pay Department Omaha and other units move to Omaha Barracks North Platte. Captain Egan Third Cavalry sent to Fort Fred Steele to await a court martial.
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Mauck
Fourth Cavalry
Burt
Omaha
Ninth Infantry
Sidney Barracks
Second Cavalry
Fort Fred Steele
Fourteenth Infantry
Camp Douglass
Utah
M. E. O’brien
Fort Sanders
W. T
Albert G. Brackett
Edc
Omaha Barracks
North Platte
Egan
Third Canary
Reynolds
Cheyenne's scheme to annex Black Hills to Wyoming
A Jan 4 Black Hills Herald report claims Cheyenne aims to detach the Black Hills area within Dakota and attach it to Wyoming. If successful, the capital moves in twelve months and the 1878 legislature would meet in Custer City.
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Black Hills
tCheyenne
Wyoming
Dakota
Custer City
Blue-Eyed Bull-Dozer Of The Black Hills
A vaudeville style tale recounts the Blue-Eyed Bull-Dozer of the Black Hills intimidating townspeople and attempting to register with a revolver. He is briefly detained by City Hall’s returning board and placed in custody as investigations proceed led by Justice Fisher.
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Black Hills
City Hall Returning Board
Dyer
Sam
Aleck
Tim Dyer
Tim
B. E
Fort Larmie
Belle Fourche
Min
Marshal Slaughter
Howard
Fallon
Talbot
Justice Fisher
City Council Ballots Four Police After Meeting Traffic
At the regular meeting last Friday Ald Gueck Leighton and Mayor Fisk formed a quorum. The clerk and city officials were present with many candidates for minor offices. Bills totaling about 150 were approved and nearly 300 referred. Hash millers bids for boarding prisoners were tabled. The committee on the police question recommended discharging the force and electing four officers. The council voted to hire J W Howard John Curran Robt Ingalls and D Fallon as the new policemen. The session adjourned after some routine business.
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Ald
Gueck
Leighton
Fisk
Hash Millers
J. W. Howard
John Curran
Robt. Ingalls
D. Fallon
Denver Pacific Railway Finances Reported by Interior
The Secretary of the Interior reports Denver Pacific railroad stock at 4 million dollars subscribed and paid. For year ending June 30 1876 receipts from passengers 167812.78 freight 189843.08 miscellaneous 6492.993 total 313549.75. Expenses 129848.87 leaving net earnings 183700.88. Construction and equipment costs 9396450. Indebtedness 2524091.73.
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Secretary of the Interior
Denver Pacific Railroad
Citizenship by marriage stirs Utahs naturalization debate
A constitutional lawyer in the Utah territory questions whether a husband's naturalization automatically makes his wife a citizen. With women possessing franchise rights, the puzzle asks if a husband's vote benefits both, leaving Utahns troubled by the issue and its implications.
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Utah
of the Saints
Avalanche Buries Eight In Hall’s Gulch Park County
A deadly slide in Hall’s gulch Park County buried eight people in a boarding house at the Whale mine. Information reached Denver days later due to telegraph outage. Names include James Reed John Reed Matthew Reed J H Ralph and others unnamed. One woman and a child among the buried.
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Colorado
Denver News
Hall’s Gulch
Park County
Morrison
Hall
Denver
D. N. Cassell
James
John
Matthew Reed
J. H. Ralph
Crook Heads North to Recruit Sioux Scouts
Gen. Crook and Lieut. Schuyler depart for Red Cloud to enlist friendly Sioux as scouts. The Sioux last campaign reportedly surprised Cheyenne villages by a direct strike, causing chaos and retreat, with frigid conditions noted. Major Mason with Spotted Tail’s Sioux travels with information to pressure Crazy Horse toward surrender.
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Crook
Schuyler
Red Cloud
Mason
Camry Robinson
Spotted Tail
Crazy Horse
District Court Doings January 11 Court adjourns to Friday
On Thursday January 11 Frank Phelps was added to the petit jury replacing John Geer whose term expired. Barada’s sentence was partially remitted to remove hard labor. Wagner vs Dawson awarded pl 1404 11. Harlan granted divorce from Harlan for inhuman cruel treatment. Killeullen Close vs Lightfoot Burgess opened for back pay. Saturday January 13 Durkee vs Wilson awarded 261 and costs. Weybrecht vs Kabis taken under advisement with decision January 15. Henry Minnens ys Jacob and Elizabeth Snell trial begun. adjourned to Monday.
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Frank
Phelps
John Geer
John B. Barada
H. Wagner
T. L. Dawson
Sarah FE. Harlan
Thomas Harlan
Killeullen & Close
Lightfoot & Burgess
L. O. Durkee
Puttyhead Richardson Named Assistant Mailing Clerk
The American Newspaper Reporter notes L. Puttyhead Richardson, described as a Black Tralls martyr, has been named by Sam Bowles of the Springfield Republican to an assistant mailing clerk post in the Republican office. The salary is $4.60 weekly with Bowles providing paste and wrapping paper.
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Puttyhead Richardson
L. Puttyhead Richardson
Wyoming Har
Colorado
Sam Bowles
Springfield
Mass
Republican
Puttyhead
Bowles
Black Hills Mining Boom Expands in Foster District
Reports from the Foster district describe extensive mining activity near Battle Creek and Hayward with dozens of claims taken and new districts organized. Quartz veins and rich leads yield promising gold and silver prospects, while distant notes mention Coracle and Stand‑by districts, iron creek leads, and prospects for smelters or mills if assays prove favorable.
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Foster
Anderson Company
Battle Creek
Foster & Co
Battlecreek
Hayward
Hayward City
Hustleton
Spring Creek
Jacob M. Carmikle
American Mining Company
Iron Creek
Albin, Wittke & Patterson
Dakota
Advertising collars offer cheap space for notices
In a winter column a suggestion proposes renting collars worn by street youths as advertising space for firms such as Smith's Vermitage and the Union Range. The idea aims to use public space for posters on collars, theatres, and at events, with no cost to the advertiser. Also noted: Al Hunter, a Fort Laramie wagonmaster, arrived with two prisoners accused of stealing government saddles, examined by Commissioner Bruner, bound over to the District court, confined at the Hotel de Carr.
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Smith
Jones
Black Hills
al Hunter
Fort Laramie
Bruner
District Court
Hotel de Carr
A Black Hills Story Unfolds in Remote Cabin Mystery
The Custer Herald relates a man leaving his cabin and following a pine shore path to a tranquil stream. Returning, he finds a single pane window lit with a sign Meals at all hours and a whisper of an unseen visitor. He now resides in Golden.
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Golden
The Coming Proboscis: Cronin of Oregon Visits City
The Oregon Cronin with his remarkable nose arrives in the city aboard the westbound express for a possible dinner at the railroad house if his earnings permit. The featuretoned piece humorously chronicles Cronin and his famed proboscis in a quizzical, satirical voice.
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Cronin
Oregon
Cronin's Catastrophe Delays Train With Brandied Nose
The man with the notorious nose Cronin misses the Magic City on Saturday after a misadventure on No. 3. A snow drift stop leads the engineer to improvise with a demijohn of brandy on the cow-catcher. Cronin rides the cow-catcher, drifts, falls into a frog pond, and is revived in a Sid ney dive before missing the train in a three-card monte distraction.
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Cronin
Magic City
No. 3
North Platte
Sidney
Tilden
Monte
Black Hills prospectors stay at Commercial hotel in Deadwood
A party of gold hunters from the Black Hills, including M. S. Stickney John Managan Smokey Jones I G Watson and T B Eagle, lodges at the Commercial. They recently left Deadwood with ore believed very rich, showing free gold and brittle silver, and plan to return to the Hills. The Chicago Times reports their adventures and rumors of vast riches in the public domain.
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Black Hills
Commercial
M. 5
Stickney
John Managan
Smokey
Jones
G. Watson
T. B. Eagle
Rocky Mountains
Deadwood
Chicago Times
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Laramie
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Eddy and
18Th Streets
Vanderbilt
Nichols
Red Cloud Agency
Naches
Piute
Ife
Astor
G. Washout Jones
Tweed Turck
Doug
Rhodes
Thomas Durbin
Bear Butte
Missouri
Messrs
Ward & Haserodt
Deadwood Toll Road
Poulton
Nye
Supt. Davis
Sherman
Bella Union
John Chase
The
Denver Pacific Railway
Hall's Gulch
Phrenological Journal
Gen. Crook
Black’hills
Custer Herald
Washington
Bozeman
M. T
Fort Ellis
Congress
Sam Tilden
Ethelald Allen Cronin
Ethebold Allen Cronin
Black Hillers
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