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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1878
Page
6
The itemized column surveys national and local stir from forbearant England toward Russia to sports and crime, with Cheyenne preparations for the Fourth, editor dodges, storms, and frontier fortunes. It cites James Sheridan in Black Hills and a seven million franc inheritance, plus crews en route for Omaha and local firehouse plans.
The district court trial of Lon George, a Cheyenne suspect in the January 21, 1878 shooting of Jno J Moore, ends with a guilty verdict of manslaughter in the first degree and a seven year penitentiary sentence after testimony from multiple witnesses, including Moore on his death bed statement. The judge presided, jurors deliberated, and the court adjourned with George convicted and sentenced.
The letter accuses Banning of misrepresenting army officer to soldier ratios using selective muster rolls. Gibbon cites the Seventh Infantry and Nez Perce battle as examples and questions the public’s access to reality. He urges an open letter via the press to reveal facts and counter one sided claims.
Potter the pedestrian bound for fame plans to push a forty five pound wheelbarrow from Albany New York to San Francisco in 250 days. He averages twenty seven and a half miles daily and is nine days ahead of schedule. The barrow bears the inscription From Albany New York to San Francisco in 250 days Sundays out 215 days Started April 10 1878. The note also mentions a political jab about a Louisiana election and Sammy Tilden.
A San Francisco family seeks news of Justus Emmeruth, 24, printer and former editor of the Audubon Minnesota paper. He was last heard near Cheyenne after heading from the Black Hills in 1876 with two printers to found a paper. The letter asks readers for clues to his whereabouts.
Capt. Dougherty reports seventy Yankton Indians opposite the Brule Agency on the Missouri. They seek to join Sitting Bull and cross the river but are denied. Their arrival unsettles Brule followers and shows widespread tribal disaffection amid limited troop presence.
The Colorado annual conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church will meet in Golden on August 7 with Bishop Simpson presiding. The northern district sessions for official business will be held August 6 at the Golden church. Appointments for the northern district include Caribou June 9 and various Wyoming and Colorado towns through July 26. There is little prospect for creating a Black Hills territory as proposed, with opposition from the press and Senate committee.
A drunken old man awoke neighbors in Deadwood with shouts of murder then walked away proclaiming a murder occurred in a wagon. The scene mirrors a jim jams episode caused by strong drink as witnesses gathered. The Deadwood district court opened with the Hunt Tappan homicide on the docket and jurors were empanelled. The day featured a crowded courtroom and a note on local fire company plans for Fourth of July. A birth, estrays notice, and a dental ad also appear in this miscellaneous issue.
Governor Garber of Nebraska commutes Warren Cloughs death sentence to life imprisonment with hard labor in the state penitentiary. The clemency follows petitions and a favorable letter from Judge Geo W Post. Over nine hundred Seward county citizens signed the clouh petition. The note mentions Dr St Louis death sentence for poisoning his wife and signals possible mercy appeals.
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