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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1877
Page
6
A January 18 1877 snapshot from Laramie reports daily influx of tramps and local chatter on New Years vows. It notes a roller rink at Recreation Hall and a Black Hills panorama show at McDaniels Theatre. Headlines on counterfeit notes church fair kisses and mining progress weave with crime at the Bella Union and missing money.
A grand gathering of woman suffrage advocates will be held at the Lawrence Street M. E. Church in Denver next 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 with speakers including Clara Norris Wright Col Henry Logan B Crary Rev B F Crary Captain Boyd W J Lyndh Henry C Dillon Dr Alicia Avery and Miss Laura Hanni t of Denver.
A San Francisco Bulletin item about a silver mud find from Mud Springs in Wasco county Oregon ends as a fraud. Prof Price analysis shows the mud salted with quartz mill pulp silver. assays reach 200 to 3000 dollars per ton but tests reveal bungled salts and genuine fraud. Yale professor Silliman confirms similar findings and investors withdraw.
Leave of absence granted to Capt Mauck Fourth Cavalry and Lieut O Brien Second Cavalry. Capt Burt arrives in Omaha with Ninth Infantry band for Sidney to Fort Fred Steele. Units D G Fourteenth Infantry to Camp Douglass Utah and North Platte. Major Simcoe ninth infantry details. Captain Egan’s Third Cavalry to Fort Fred Steele. Court martial participation for Reynolds case awaits adjournment.
The Black Hills Herald reports Cheyenne's scheme to detach the Dakota Black Hills area and attach it to Wyoming. If successful, the capital would move within twelve months and the 1878 legislature would convene in Custer City.
A man known as the Blue-Eyed Bull-Dozer rode into town, threatened a tramp, registered with a pistol drawn, boasted of killings, and sparked a vigil by the City Hall Returning Board. He was restrained by officers and jailed to await investigation led by Justice Fisher.
At the regular meeting last Friday Ald Gueck Leighton and Mayor Fisk formed a quorum. Bills totaling about 150 dollars were allowed and nearly 300 were referred. Bids for boarding city prisoners were read and tabled. The police committee recommended discharging the force and electing four officers, and the council ballot elected J. W. Howard John Curran Robt Ingalls and D Fallon.
The Denver Pacific railway shows stock subscribed and paid at 4 000 000 dollars. For year ending June 30 1876 receipts from passengers 167 812 78 dollars freight 189 843 08 dollars miscellaneous 6 492 993 total 313 549 75 dollars. Expenses 129 848 87 dollars leaving net earnings 183 700 88 dollars. Construction and equipment cost 9 396 450 dollars. Indebtedness 2 524 091 73 dollars.
A constitutional lawyer in the Utah territory questions whether a husband’s naturalization makes his wife a citizen. The territory grants women the right to vote, but if the husband’s vote is invalid for both, the naturalization impact remains unclear. Citizens face tribulation over this rule.
A catastrophic snow slide at Hall's Gulch Park County Sunday January 7 buries eight boarders at Whale mine boarding house. telegraph outages delayed news reaching Denver until Wednesday. Names include James Reed John Reed Matthew Reed J H Ralph and others, with a woman and child among victims. The incident ends with no survivors confirmed. The piece also cites a note from Cassell about potential escapees.
Gen Crook and Lieut W B Schuyler depart for Red Cloud to enlist friendly Sioux as scouts. The Sioux previously struck Cheyenne villages in a direct move, forcing many to flee barefoot in freezing weather. Major Mason at Camp Robinson travels with Spotted Tail’s Sioux to gather information hoping Crazy Horse will surrender.
On Thursday January 11 additions to the petit jury were made Frank 8 Phelps replacing John Geer whose term expired. Barada sentence partly remitted. Wagner v Dawson verdict for plaintiff 1404.11. Harlan granted divorce from Harlan for inhuman cruel treatment. Killeullen Close v Lightfoot Burgess opened for back pay. Saturday January 13 Durkee v Wilson verdict for plaintiff 261 plus costs. Weybrecht v Kabis under advisement with decision January 15. Minens ys Snell trial began adjourned to Monday.
The American Newspaper Reporter reports Sam Bowles of the Springfield Republican has named L. Puttyhead Richardson to the role of assistant mailing clerk in the Republican office. The position pays $4.60 weekly and includes paste and wrapping paper.
A steam of mining notes from Foster district details Anderson company operations on Battle Creek near Hayward with about fifty claims taken and new districts organized. Reports describe rich quartz leads, fissures bearing gold and silver, and plans to smelt or mill ore pending assay results. Additional items note Crow Indian flour supply issues and a Washington petition over contract fulfillment.
Al Hunter, a government wagon master at Fort Laramie, arrived with two prisoners charged with stealing government saddles. They were examined by Commissioner Bruner, bound over to the next district court term, and now stay at the Hotel de Carr.
A man left his cabin for a stroll to the river and returned to find his home altered by a mysterious visitor. The lone window pane bore a sign reading Meals at all hours, prompting shock as the intruder vanished unseen. He is now at Golden.
A humorous write up describes Cronin of Oregon and his remarkable nose arriving in the city with the westbound express. The piece lampoons his persona and hints at a possible political joke involving an electoral college built around the nose and a drink-fueled legend.
Cronin failed to reach the Magic City aboard No. 3 after snow drift caused a reckoning. A brandy plan on the cow-catcher led Cronin to ride out, but a broken truck and a fall into a pond derailed his voyage, sending him into Sid ney’s low dives where he survived on rotgut and a three card monte ruse.
A party from the Black Hills led by M. S. Stickney and including John Managan Smokey Jones I G Watson and T B Eagle stayed at the Commercial hotel. They recently departed the Deadwood area after two weeks with ore samples described as very rich containing free gold and brittle silver.
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