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Newspaper

Cheyenne Weekly Leader

Location

Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America

Date

Jan 18, 1883

Page

9

County costs and county debt in local notes

A mix of brief items notes a murder trial may cost the county about 3000 dollars, Carbon county debt reduced by 14711 over two years, and various local dispatches from Boomerang Uinta Chieftain and other papers. Other blips include a grand hall postponement in Evanston, a court discharge in territory v Burnet, and staff changes in railroad operations.

Rawlings Tt Ia Carbon County M. M. Towne Thornburgh Cincinnati

Cornish Murder Trial Opens in District Court

The district court, with Judge Sener presiding, opens hearings in the Cornish murder case. Forties talesmen are examined for the first degree charge of C F Cornish in the killing of Mrs. Corliss near Sun Dance. Prosecution rests on circumstantial evidence. defense argues denial.

Sener Freund Kapp Pratt Donzalman St. Louis Refrigerator Company Craig & Gardner Mann Baird Zellner, Jackson & Buechner Jacque Braun Potter C. F. Cornish Talesmen A. G. McGregor J. N. Bradley H. Goggeshall J. M. Tompkins A. B. Estabrook G. E B. Parker H. E. Miller M. Jesurum H. Urquhart P. Sullivan Chas Cornish Ed. F. Stahle Cheyenne Spearfish Dakota Devil's Tower Draper Sun+Dance mountain Cornell Curliss Curliss’ House Bowman Cornelius King Charles F. Cornish Corliss Sun Dance J. C. Baird J. A. Riner

Missing salesman Haunts Cheyenne on Mysterious Disappearance

H T Plumb, a Mills & Gibbs commercial traveler from New York, vanished after January 6 in Cheyenne. He left two trunks and two valises at the Inter Ocean hotel and was last seen around 10 PM after a single drink. City police and hotel staff scoured Cheyenne for clues, while telegrams from Wisconsin and New York prompted renewed suspecting of foul play or travel to Denver or Laramie.

H. T. Plumb Mills & Gibbs Nation House of New York Cheyenne Salt Lake Inter- Ocean Inter-Ocean Chase the Inter-Ocean Marshal Carr Plumb Laramie Denver New York John Chage Inter-Ocean Hotel Telegraph Dake Milus Wis Siz H.T. Plumb C. M.T. Prusts Ake Mills Jefferson County Lake Mills Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters Territorial Library N. E. Stark W. W. Peck Baptist Church Academy Standing Committee William Hale Stuart Taylor John W., Hoyt Gilbert E. Bailey John Culley Father Nugent J. W. Sullivan H.B. Patten

Fence dispute prompts US attorney prosecution order

The order to prosecute those fencing the public domain follows Swan & Co versus Odder who allegedly cut Swan property and faced a $60 damages suit. Odder is rumored insane. Cattle losses due to weather noted along the South Platte and in Sweetwater with extreme cold and below zero temps at Fort Washakie and Lander. Sheep losses are reported in that region.

U.S Swan & Co Odder Swan South Platte Laramie County Sweetwater Fort Washakie Lander

Copper ore buyers open tests near Hartville and Fairbank

The Wyoming Copper Company announces a sampling mill at Fairbank to test copper ores from nearby prospects and set a price scale so owners can know value and receive cash on the fifth of each month. Tweddle Hall at Albany burned yesterday morning.

Hartville Muskrat Rawhide Wyoming Copper Company Fairbank

The Plumb Mystery Deepens With Denver Letter

A Denver postmark arrives for H. T. Plumb as Cheyenne searches for his whereabouts. Theories range from defalcation to a quarrel or spree, with employers and relatives slow to act, fueling public interest in his unexplained disappearance.

Inter- Ocean H. T. Plumb Denver Plumb Cheyenne

Brown's Iron Bitters Promoted as Nonintoxicating Tonic

An 1881 testimonial from Rev G W Rice endorses Brown's Iron Bitters as a non intoxicating stimulant that can replace liquor and curb whiskey desire. The letter cites wide testing for dyspepsia indigestion biliousness weakness overwork rheumatism neuralgia consumption liver kidney issues with claims of speedy relief.

Brown G. W. Rice The American Christian Review

Benson's Capcine Porous Plaster Wins Top Prize at Centennial

At the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia the highest medal for rubber porous plasters went to Benson's Capcine Porous Plaster. Jury members included Dr. Roth, J. W. Thompson, O. B. White, and Ernest Fleisch M.D. The award and endorsement urged physicians to adopt the product while warning against imitators. Secretarial Johnson, chemists Seatury & Johnson, New York, supplied the plaster.

Philadelphia Benson Wm, Roth J. WH Thompson A.M M.D Washington, D. C White M. D New Orleans Ernest Fleisch Austria United States Europe Moe Seatury & Johnson, Chemists New York

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