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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1878
Page
16
The Cheyenne weekly summarizes mining reports, travel, and local incidents including Douglas Creek mines panning out, balloon events in Denver, a fatal stage accident, a clothing store fire attempt, eclipse observers in Denver, and ongoing public notices. It records cattle shipments, war talk in the Northwest, and various frontier community updates.
R Galbraith of Rawlins brings fifteen short horn Durham bulls from Morgan county Illinois valued at 125 to 400 dollars each. Samuel Scott aids the selection and some animals will be sold while others head to Carbon county to improve cattle. Scott travels with Young Champion a six year old English coach stock stallion, 16.5 hands and 1500 pounds, said to be the finest west of the Missouri.
An aged man named Van Zant from Oregon, with a sick wife and three children, arrived by train and grew worse. Local residents Hall and others provided some help, and donations are urged from Cheyenne ladies at a frail tenement on the alley between 17th and 18th streets, between O'Neil and Thames.
Maj. Simeon Smith of the Pay Department is ordered to Fort Sanders. Maj. Henry G. Thomas is ordered to Sidney Barracks. Maj. T.T. Thornburg is assigned to Fort Fred Steele. Lieut. E. L. Bailey is relieved from Fort Fetterman court martial. Capt. John D. Devin is ordered to Sidney Barracks. Lieut. James B. McB. Stembel is to join his company on the Little Missouri without delay.
The Fourth of July celebration between the Missouri River and the Pacific Coast drew the largest turnout yet. Cheyenne hosted a large fire department delegation, with visitors and locals praised for hospitality despite crowding. The Central City Register-Call and Omaha Herald report strong guest reception and city cooperation.
A violent wind and rain storm with lightning hit Grand Island Nebraska Sunday night around 10. It continued through the night and yesterday at intervals. Many business houses and private residences suffered damage while telegraphic communications were disrupted for about forty eight hours, reducing news flow.
The Wyoming Penitentiary houses thirty two territorial convicts and six U S prisoners used for government profit. Potatoes planted this spring promise large yields beyond prison needs. Brick kilns progress with one 225000 brick kiln nearly burned and a second starting. four kilns expected. Convicts work rock quarry for stone for schoolhouse and hospital and for door caps sills and edging on the old building. The warden plans large stone slabs for sale and notes the quarry stone’s superior quality and cheapness with slabs up to ten inches thick and easily split.
John H. Van Sandt died yesterday around noon while traveling from Oregon toward Indiana with his family. He had funds but illness exhausted their resources, allowing only a plain burial. The Cheyenne community offered aid and the family expresses deep gratitude for the kindness shown. Mrs. J. H. Van Sandt and family extend thanks.
Tuesday night at City Hall the Board of Trustees debated executive session amid a dispute over secrecy. Trustees Masten Addams Grainger voted for open debate. a majority favored closed doors as reporters and others departed.
A Cheyenne resident recalls a nighttime incident where a male intruder fired a shotgun from a back door, striking the porch of an elderly woman and sending a scream from a neighboring house. The shooter’s identity is withheld pending further action.
Town Trustees of Greeley Colorado express hearty thanks to Cheyenne officials and citizens for the cordial reception and generous entertainment during the July 4 celebration. They hope for stronger social and commercial ties between the two communities to develop the resources of the great west.
A morning fire at McDaniels Theatre caused a crowd to gather as investigators found kindling wood ablaze in a rear room of the old building next to the theater. Fire companies arrived quickly and extinguished the blaze, likely started by a carelessly discarded lit cigar. The theater narrowly escaped damage.
The Cheyenne Sun will publish an afternoon edition starting Monday after a mutual agreement with the Sun's rival, The Leader. A casting of lots with a five dollar piece determined which paper would switch to evening status, deciding the Sun as the afternoon paper and The Leader remaining morning.
A Nonpareil writer recalls sighting the Rockies near Cheyenne during a Fourth excursion. Cheyenne fire department reception, Union Pacific hospitality, and the Magic City of the Plains are highlighted. The piece also covers rescinded thanks to officials, eclipse viewing in Denver, and various brief regional notes including accidents and local appointments.
Yesterday morning a singular non fatal accident struck Mrs. Wilson who lives south of the Round House. While near a wall of a former kitchen now missing two walls she stood by a clothes line attached to the remaining wall as Kneff, the Colorado vegetable ped-
An old advertisement urges every family to use Brown's Extract blackberry and ginger for diarrhoea dysentery and cholera with ten years of public use and doctor approval. It claims rapid relief and cites saving sickness physician costs and a loved one's life. It also promotes Brown's Amibilious Liver Pills and Hwreku Aqua Pills as cures for ague. For sale by all medicine dealers in Cheyenne and the New West.
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