Greeley News Roundup Reports Open Roads and Local Happenings
Greeley merchants see better times as Medicine Bow to Fort McKinney road opens. Laramie reading rooms prosper. Denver and Colorado news mix with court house dedication at Golden and a new Cheyenne mail route proposal. The item lists politics, crimes, marriages, cattle expansion, and a lone youth traveler’s New York to Frisco journey.
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Greeley
Medicine Bow
Fort McKinney
Laramie City
Supreme Court of Colorado
John Martin
Denver
A. P. Nicholas
E. Rosewater
Omaha Bee
John Morrissey
Boston
T. M. Patterson
Congress
Colorado
Chicago
Jessie Witter
E. W. Rollins
the Jenkins
Tribune
Salt Lake Tribune
Mountain Meadows
Brigham Young
Emery
C. W. Meyer
J. C.brearley
Black Hills
W. R. Steele
McLaughlin
San Francisco
Homestake
Wyoming
R. Blackstone
Big Horn
Vlatte
Texas
Exchange
Harrisburg
Norristown Herald
Oil City
Virginia
Pitiful Platte River Child Found After Prolonged Search
A four year old girl drowned near a farmer Charles Mayfield’s Platte River home after an ice cut and eddy formed a hidden death trap. Neighbors aided the long search, and the child’s body was recovered a mile from the farm as the river’s fall released the trapped victim. Funeral drew the county’s largest crowd.
Talking Through a Telephone and the Iron Ear
A Popular Science Monthly excerpt extols the telephone's diaphragm as far more alive and precise than the human ear, noting its quick hearing and perfect transmission of notes and chords. It contrasts organic speech with the metal’s ability to reproduce entire musical trains across great distances. A Boston suburban rail line is described as the flirtation train, carrying students to school.
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Popular Science Monthly
Wrong Passenger Captures Woman In Errant Train Flight
A Cheyenne man on a Wednesday eastbound train grabbed a woman by mistake, tossed her aboard at high speed, and fled with her as his wife screamed. The conductor and brakeman evicted him, the sheriff detained him, and he returned home to find his wife in the arms of his business partner. He now deflects questions by citing President Hayes’s veto of the Silver bill.
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Tom Thumb
America
St. Louis
Congress
Connecticut
Observatory
The
Omaha Herald
David Davis
Greeley
Postoffice Department
Platte River
Buffalo
Lemmon’s
Weldon Valley
Morgan
Pleasant Plain
Colorado
Cheyenne
John Harmon
New York
Frisco
Pennsylvania Road
Alleghenies
Harmon
Beecher
Pacific Coast
Bayard Taylor
Here
Ft. Laramie
Cheyennne
Denver Pacific
Denver Ward
City of the Plains
Mel
Hayes
Commission and Freighting Plans for Cheyenne Deadwood Route
Mr. A H Reel returned from Omaha after meeting Union Pacific officials on establishing special freight rates from Cheyenne to Deadwood and a commission house at this place. E P Vining supported the project and bonds of 20000 were prepared to secure the contract.
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A. H. Reel
Omaha
Union Pacific Railroad
Cheyenne
Deadwood
Hi. H. Clark
E. P. Vining
Reel
C. E. Clay
Vining
Mr. Vining
Reel & Co
Army orders from Platte headquarters extend leaves and appoint garrison duty
The Platte headquarters issue extended leaves of absence for Lieuts J J O Brien Bainbridge Reynold and I H Beach with temporary garrison duty at Camp Sheridan Neb. Other officers receive extensions or new assignments and a general court martial is set for Fort McKinney March 1875. A stage-line contract in Reno is awarded to O J Salisbury for 3426 dollars over four years. A Polish couple quotes scripture nightly ending with a humorous dispute and drinking risk.
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Department of the Platte
J. J. O’brien
Fourth Infantry
Bainbridge, Reynold
I. H. Beach
Third Cavalry
Camp Sheridan
Neb
C. H. Rockwell
Fifth Cavalry
Military Department of the Missouri
W. B. Weir
Ordnance Department
Watervileyt Arsenal
West Troy
New York
Military Division of
Missouri
Fort McKinney
Wm. Notson
Emil Adams
John B. Babcock
C.D. Parkhurst
J. W. Bubb
W. F. Norris
Ninth Infantry
O. J. Salisbury
Black Hills
Post Office Department
Willow Ranch
Reno
Avenged Husband Fatally? Cheyenne Captain Shoots Crout
Capt J F Lincoln of Cheyenne travels to Laramie after Crout insulted his wife Mrs Lincoln. Lincoln fires three times with a revolver, wounding Crout in both thighs and an ankle. Crout's condition serious but not fatal. Lincoln, a furniture dealer, is praised as a peaceable citizen and avenger of his wife’s reputation as the telegram notes.
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J. F. Lincoln
Cheyenne
Wm. Crout
Laramie
Larante Crry
Marek J. Mra. Lincoln
Crout
Lincoln
16Th Street
Hellman
Bill Nye
Why It Should Become a Law Silver Bill
The Washington Star argues the Silver Bill should become law to calm business uncertainty and halt price declines. It notes annual silver coinage and customs absorption, estimates 100 million in circulation, and warns failure could boost impractical momentum next session.
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The
Washington Star
Senate
Germany
India
Congress
Big Springs Murder tale linked to Nebraska ranch life
Reports detail the Big Springs murder case in Nebraska in which Harry Duboise and Ida Nichols Walrath are accused of killing Charles Phillips. The couple, with Walrath’s murky past, lured Phillips away, Duboise fired, Phillips died, body hidden in the Platte River, case stirring Nebraska interest.
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Big Springs
Harry Duboise
R. J. Walrath
Chas, Phillips
Nebraska
Sidney
Walwrath
North Platte
Purdy
Walrath
Ida Nichols
Charles Phillips
Duboise
Omaha Republican
Phillips
Duboiss
Platte River
Clever deception targets attorney at Caliph T Fisher's office
A sham ruse drew James Snodderly into a supposed legal aid request at Caliph T Fisher's office. The fake case involved horse theft and a demand for two books as payment, prompting a sting that ended with Snodderly bolting away, while the attorney vanished from the scene.
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Caliph Tfisher
James Snodderly
Snodderly
Someon
Hoe
Thames Street
Twain
Birth Announcement for Ramsey Baby in Cheyenne
In Cheyenne on Wednesday morning February 27 1878 Mrs Samuel Ramsey welcomed a lively daughter named Samuel who weighs a couple of tons this morning. The couple celebrate the arrival of their first child with great pleasure.
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Ramsay
Cheyenne
Samuel Ramsey
Fa Lively
Ramsey
Samuel
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Wheely
Gheyenne
D. B. Beemer & Co
Laramie Sentinel
Sentinel
Thomas G. Maghee
Camp Stambaugh
W. T
Deadwood Times
Heaven
Lexington
Hell
Joan Ruskin
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