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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1877
Page
6
Local leaflets discuss Cheyenne tree planting and railroad optimism. Major Talbot orders twenty thousand young trees from Nebraska as cities prepare for a busy season. Reports cover Dr. Masten’s stock, Burns’ Chicago Tribune assignment, and a humorous aside about Nye the photographer's ears.
The Cheyenne Leader urges continued effort amid a year of booming business and population growth. It envisions a railroad to the Black Hills and Big Horn, expanded grazing, stockyards, packing houses, and broader development of Wyoming’s resources. Strong resolve is urged while faint hearts are encouraged to persevere.
The City Council met with most members present. Salary and pump repair bills were approved while other items were sent to the finance committee. J W Sanderson proposed $15 street lamps and streets and alleys committee to review. Ald Leighton introduced curbs on female beer-jerkers and revised hours for saloons and amusements, banning Sunday variety shows. Printing questions referred to finance with contract power. Meeting adjourned to March 13.
A feature on Schuttler wagons by Peter Schuttler of Chicago highlights durability speed and beauty. Terman Iaas, the local general agent, touts the line and notes the factory’s early start and world wide reputation. The depot at Eighteenth and Thames offers wagons and agricultural implements along with printing services at low rates.
A Washington dispatch reports the President signed the Sioux treaty, opening unceded Indian Territory. Wyoming prospects soar with mining, coal, and potential railroad links from Cheyenne to the northwest, praising Col Steele’s four years of persistent advocacy for northern Wyoming’s opening and development.
The Black Hills panorama was exhibited before press members and guests with an explanatory lecture. It highlights towns, mountains, gulches, passes, forests, streams, ranches, mines, and curiosities, promising a truer view than books. A Denver editor quips about charity in a hotel rope escape. The county jail holds sixteen prisoners including four U S and twelve county inmates with charges ranging from larceny to assault and cattle killing. The Senate committee favors a bill to form Lincoln Territory from Black Hills lands, but immediate passage failed.
An important court martial will assemble in St Paul Minnesota on Thursday March 8. The panel includes Col. Wm B Hazen Col Geo Sykes Lieut Col G P Buell Lieut Col Pinkney Lugenbeel Lieut Col L C Hunt Lieut Col Daniel Huston Jr Lieut Col Wm P Carlin Maj R B A Crofton Maj Chas G Bartlett Maj Thos F Barr Judge Advocate The roster lists several infantry officers across multiple regiments.
The article traces Amelia M. Barrett born in 1809 in Raleigh, North Carolina, to Wheeling society, marriage to Harold B. Barrett, and a career of penury before ending in Cheyenne. It notes her eight thousand dollars saved in Stebbins Post and Co. bank and her years of street selling.
Several thieves were arrested Wednesday at Shelby station on the Union Pacific road after presenting 200 to 300 cattle for shipment. The stock bore brands from Judd Brush Lyman Cole James Wilson J. W. Diff and others. Local talk urged swift rough justice for the cattle thieves amid growing sentiment.
Col James W Forsyth on Sheridan staff returns from a three week tour examining cavalry, supplies and transport at McPherson Sidney Red Cloud Fort Laramie Sanders Russell and other posts. He notes unit strengths, hospital status, daily drills, and rations issued to over 9 000 Indians at Red Cloud and Spotted Tail. He cites Red Cloud's decline and Crazy Horse activity along Tongue River while Cheyenne thrives as a railway hub with gold rush coaches and antelope sightings.
Mr. McClellan sr. reports 150 head of cattle left at his mountain ranch last fall are in good condition now about 40 miles beyond LaPorte. Snow has receded and southern fields dry with plows already in. Cattle thieves still operate. organized detection is urged to curb gangs. Mr. J. S. Flory introduces a grass hopper catcher with rollers to crush and a box to gather insects, usable by hand or horse power.
Sheriff Carr has inmates in the county jail serving hard labor but no work for them. The streets and alleys are in poor condition. The Council could hire a trusted overseer to guard the prisoners and set them to work repairing the streets at low cost. Will the city adopt this plan?
Col A Li King of Chicago and party return with a report of a dry river bed filled with cement and rich quartz. Town leaders plan thorough tests. More troops arrive as Captain Vroom brings companies B and L Third Cavalry from Red Cloud to join Lt Cummings at Spear.
The article highlights Col. Murrin in Cheyenne, praising his steady leadership, his wholesale liquor and cigar business offering prime wines and French Havanas, and his sample-room hospitality. It also mentions G. Washout, Jones returning from Laramie, a telegraph office incident, and a watermelons preservation plant in progress in Laramie.
John McCall was executed at 10 15 this morning under U S Marshal directions for the murder of John B Hickok known as Wild Bill in the Black Hills on August 2 last He was about 25 and remained cool steady and prepared for death He had a Catholic priest with him and wrote a farewell letter to his Louisville family expressing acceptance of his fate The marshal's careful preparations and conduct of the execution are praised
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