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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1878
Page
8
Weekly Thader notes lively Cheyenne items from July 18 1878. Promenades and balloon inquiries mingle with railway and mill news, harvests, outlaws, and forts. Reports travelers, tramps, school and courthouse praise, and local humor amid frontier life.
The itinerant wheelbarrow traveler Potter arrived in North Platte at nine o clock yesterday morning after leaving Cheyenne about 225 miles away. He averages twenty five miles daily and, if Sundays are counted, could reach Cheyenne by the twenty first. A saloon keeper between Omaha and North Platte paid him to station his wheelbarrow there overnight to draw a crowd and earn tips. Potter claims a San Francisco party offered two thousand dollars for the barrow upon completion, but he seeks five thousand.
A colonial-era editorial laments rising savage unrest from Minnesota to Oregon. It notes Sitting Bull's bands near the border threatening renewed raids into the United States and warns of costly bloodshed, hunger, and hardship should conflict resume.
A New York Herald note urges limits on ice water during heat as harmful to digestion. It cites health authorities on stomach flabbiness and delayed food assimilation, contrasting malt drinks as safer, warning that excessive ice water may shorten life and drive drinkers to seek a better climate.
The article discusses solar and lunar eclipses as remarkable celestial events whose prediction astonishes the public. It notes ancient fears of calamities tied to eclipses and cites China where eclipse prediction and observance are state policy to influence governance.
The article notes public fear of occult rulership, Mexican superstitions around eclipses, and astronomical claims. It cites Prof Hiram Mattison predicting a total solar eclipse for May 28 1900, and a claimed future sunrise eclipse on December 81, 1880, with scientists planning work mostly in Wyoming Colorado Nevada New Mexico and Utah.
Sheridan forwarded A H Terry instructions to Gen Sturgis detailing a summer field line of operations. The Seventh Cavalry, First Infantry, and Eleventh Infantry units join a 16 company force to the Black Hills with a permanent camp as a base. Strong reconnaissance of Sioux bands near Sitting Bull Red Cloud and Spotted Tail urged.
RE H N Patterson of the Georgetown Miner describes a Cheyenne visit on the Fourth. He thanks local hosts J P O Poulton and Col E P Snow for hospitality. He tours Fort Russell and notes Cheyenne's growth, water works, and improving urban features while praising residents.
Esther Neilson of St. Louis marries Edmund Ganung formerly of Monticello New York at the Methodist parsonage in Cheyenne on Monday evening July 15 1878 with Rev. L J Tall presiding.
A posse tracked two horse thieves to a spot near Buena Vista on the Arkansas river. Both were killed in a skirmish with Sheriff Withrow’s party after a fight. The younger thief proved to be a woman about 22, dressed in men's clothes and heavy boots. The older man was about 30 and sturdy. They died within hours of capture.
F E Warren and William B Miner join as partners in Miner and Warren forming two ventures in sheep business and ranch property cultivation. The capital exceeds fifty thousand dollars with three ranches in this Territory and five in Colorado. Warren will oversee the Cheyenne furniture business while Miner acts as superintendent of the stock and ranch firm. Warren begins a tour of inspection across the ranches this morning.
W R Schnitger son of the U S Marshal writes from Helena Montana dated the 7th recounting the perilous journey with comrades as a large band of Redskins pursued on the 4th but failed to overtake them. The party was small and safety lay in flight.
On Friday night the Central City Council unanimously adopted resolutions thanking Cheyenne authorities for their hospitable Fourth of July celebration and instructed the city clerk to transmit copies of the resolutions to Cheyenne officials.
The Tam Leader argues the Bannock uprising stems from mistreatment by government agents tasked with enforcing treaty stipulations. Gen. Crook, returning to Omaha from Fort Hall, condemns the factors behind the conflict, though laments the inevitable consequences for settlers in the northwest.
Captain Bainbridge recounts Bannock prisoners' arrival at Omaha and blames food shortages for rising hostility. He notes Sioux and Bannock claims of mistreatment, recent killings, and promises to crush Indians who threaten settlers, urging firm government action to end violence.
Craven Colorado July 16 1878 report that Hon W A H Loveland has acquired sole ownership of the Rocky Mountain News and will publish as a Democratic paper. The change boosts Colorado Democratic organization and signals a shift in political journalism.
Court opened at 9 am with slim spectator turnout due to warm weather and tepid public interest. Civil suits predominated as 8 S Stanton faced jurors and witnesses in a cattle theft case. jury members listed for verdict. Court to resume today.
William Sherritt of Rawlins has filed suit in Denver for damages totaling 10 000 claiming wrongful arrest on grand larceny charges. Authorities in the western Territory allegedly instigated the arrest and misidentified him, while local lawmen chased the case to Denver.
Advertises Brown's Western Remedy for diarrhea dysentery cholera among the Avery family. Claims ten years on market with doctor and druggist endorsement. Urges purchase to save sickness costs and lives and warns delays are dangerous. Mentions Brown's Amihilious Liver Pills and Hureka Ague Pills and sale by Cheyenne druggists.
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