Weekly Leader notes on prices and local happenings
Local Leaflets report barbers and druggists keeping prices high while blue glass is a joke. Humorous notices urge caution with ashes, comment on spring, water at Nine Mile ranch, and a Cheyenne opium joke. Mentions Dr. James Irwin joining Red Cloud post and cavalry plans against Sioux with Sitting Bull. predicts two-year war closure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honor Bright
Daily
Weekly Leader
Harry Ellis
Biles
Papa
Davis
Nine- Mile Ranch
Deadwood
Custer
John Chinaman
John
James Irwin
Crow Agency
Wind River Valley
Saturrday
Red Cloud
Black Hills Railroad debate and Sothern bear anecdote
The Omaha Herald attacks claims Cheyenne blocks a Black Hills railroad while Omaha fears losing trade if Cheyenne starts the line. The piece urges promoting Cheyenne as initial point and hints a three month construction window. It also recounts a tale of Sothern recalling a joking gift of a bear to Adelaide Neilson on Broadway with comic details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha Herald
Cheyenne
Black Hills
Omaha
Ihat
Sidney
North Platte
Hills
Denver
Nebraska
Sothern
Pacific Coast
Mr. Sothern
Adelaide Neilson
Miss Neilson
O Sothern
Moss
Broadway
Wallack’s
Fifth Avenue
Mr. Bruin
Legislature Excursion Sparks Loud Revelry in Cheyenne
The Greeley Tribune claims Colorado legislators, costing $600 daily, caused loud noise during a Sunday town excursion to Cheyenne and reflects that few aboard were sober as reported by the Cheyenne Leader.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greeley
Col.) Tribune
Colorado
Cheyenne
Dusky Devils' Deeds Near Deadwood
In Deadwood Dakota Territory on a February evening a small Indian band fired about a hundred shots at Spearfish City near Deadwood. Miners were unharmed though damage remains unknown at night. Indians also drove off Boughton livestock from the False Bottom region. Smith bought Houdan eggs for five dollars but his wife cooked them for breakfast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deadwood
D. T
Spearfish City
Boughton
False Bottom
Smith
Laramie Zephyr Whirlwinds Through Town on Wed
Old Boreas opened the season with a grand zephyr in Laramie, causing chaos from 2 a.m. until afternoon. Roofs, chimneys, and boxes flew, Judge Nye lost his boots, and tramps were blown toward Colorado. By 2 p.m. the town feared being lifted from the rails as debris filled streets. Mining in Spring Creek remains promising with claims 17 and 18 yielding pan averages of 1.25 and 1.50 respectively.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Boreas
Sentinel
Prof. Fitch
Laramie
Supt. Davis
J. Ward Boyles
Washington
Boyles
Judge Nye
Colorado
Spring Creek
Jenney
Powder River Expedition Report From Hostile Camp
An Indian confined at Cheyenne Agency arrived from the hostile camp reporting that Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull led their outfit and killed four hundred whites during the Powder river expedition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sitting Bull
Fort Sunny
Cheyenne Agency
Crazy Horse
Powder River
Railroad to the Black Hills Mapped by Union Pacific
Union Pacific officials confirm plans to build a branch line toward the Black Hills with three survey routes from North Platte Sidney and Cheyenne. Surveys start next month to determine the most direct and least costly path to Deadwood or Custer City depending on the chosen terminus.
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Omaha Herald
H. H. Clark
Union Pacific
Black Hills
Clark
North Platte
Sidney
Cheyenne
Deadwood
Custer City
Tom McShane Weds Celia Taggart in New Lexington
Lexington Ohio Tribune reports Thomas A. McShane of Cheyenne Wyoming Territory married Miss Celia Taggart of New Lexington at the Catholic church in New Lexington. The groom, once a Perry County boy raised on the plains, left for the west years ago and became a cattleman before returning home for the marriage.
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New Lexington
Father Meshenmoser
Thomas A. McShane
Cheyenne
Wyoming Territory
Celia Taggart
Ohio
Thomas A
Perry County
West
Wyoming
Cheyenne and the Union Pacific branch debate sparks
The Omaha Herald hails Sidney and North Platte to Deadwood while Cheyenne is snubbed for a Black Hills survey and a branch railroad. The column mocks Omaha press bias toward the U P and warns Cheyenne about being misled by ongoing discussions of a western branch line.
Miles and Scouts Clash With Sitting Bull at Tongue River
A December 26 march from the cantonment by Gen Miles and nine companies reached Tongue River area where scouts repelled about 100 Indians as the column advanced. A rear-guard was fired on, killing one scout, then four days later four squaws and four children were captured. The next morning the command faced a 900 to 1,000 Indian force on a hill they stormed led by Captain Butler. The fight lasted until 11 a.m. with heavy losses to the enemy and continued bravery by Miles’s detachments.
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Tongue River
Miles
Sitting Bull
Butler
5Th Infantry
We Are Seven and the Seven Blue Deeds of Denyer’s Characters
A poem fragment recounts a boy’s grief over seven Blue Democrats lost to a vote. The piece mentions Clifford Thurman Hunton Field Bayard Abbott Payne and a sad refrain We are Seven. It widens into Lige the colored phrenologist who, after mocking a barber’s head, is bumped by the barber and flees to the City hall seeking police advice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clifford
Thurman
Hunton
Field
Bayard
Abbott
Payne
Lige
Denyer
Cheyenne
Clarence
Seventeenth Street
The Jerky Bird on Grasshoppers and Weather
Kansas and Nebraska residents realize cold does not kill grasshoppers. Predictions by Riley and others fail as freezing and thawing thrice do not stop them. Experiments show only prolonged mild wet weather can dissolve eggs and insects, requiring at least ten days of moisture.
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Kansas
Nebraska
Riley
Murder and Assassination Reference in Capital Article
A quotation from The Capital cites threats of violence amid political tension after a power shift. The piece warns that lawbreaking could be used to justify coercion, urging citizens in Louisiana and South Carolina to fend for themselves and implying bondholders and monopolies stand to gain amid a presumed value shrinkage.
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Donn Pratt
Washington
Executive Mansion
Capitol
United States
Louisiana
South Carolina
North and West
Parents Warn Against Flattering Descriptions At Election Time
The piece cautions parents not to be swayed by flattering notes about a child’s wisdom and grace used during election periods. It mocks biased praise and warns that such rhetoric hides harsher judgments and consequences, noting rail fare increases to Columbus, Ohio as a timely issue.
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Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Hayes
Long 16Th Street
Slaughter
Electoral Commission
Fort Ellis
Col. Miles
Longue River
Montana
The
Black Hills Railroad
Laramie Zephyr
Laramie City
Rome
Elephant Romeo
Mark Twain
Alexander the Great
John Smith
Supt. Clark
U. P
Tom McShane
Lexington (Ohio
U.P
Cronin
Tilden
Herald
Union Pacific Railroad Co
Enterprise
Gen
Evanston Age
Johnson
Corinne and Salt Lake Mail
Hilliard
Geo. C. Corning
Bank At
Boulder
Columbus, Ohio
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