Weekly Leader Cheyenne Leader 1877 Local Leaflets News
Cheyenne weekly notes the Laramie Chronicle displeased with Cheyenne postmaster. Notices cite printing services at Leader Job Office. Local items include James Dostal’s self inflicted gunshot, Eli Perkins lecture, shifting slang trends, Philadelphia Times praise, Hayes presidency and boots at a Cheyenne emporium. Public notices list local officials and a Nebraska stockmen round-up plan. Readers urged to pay overdue bills and pay advertising dues. A newsroom anecdote references a shooting dispute and a potato anecdote concludes the column.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Laramie
Tweed Turck
Crow Agency Threatened by Sioux Forces Advance
Advices from Bozeman Montana dated March 6 report Sitting Bull Crazy Horse and Dull Knife with 1000 to 2000 lodges approaching the Crow Agency forty five miles away. Crows stampeded upon news of the enemy. A white man was killed on the Yellowstone river. Companies F and G of the 2d Cavalry are sent to the rescue as Fort Ellis plans to march on the 14th to join Gen. Miles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crow Agency
Bozeman
M. T
Sitting Bull
Crazy Horse
Dull Knife
Yellowstone River
2D Cavalry
Fort Ellis
Miles
McDaniels Dramatic Theatre Presents Lady of Lyons
Last night a full Cheyenne audience saw Sir Bulwer Lytton's Lady of Lyons with a flawless cast and complete scenery for a western city. Tonight Byron's Our Boys headlines with Mrs. Forrester as Mary Melrose. the talent pool is urged to attend while the tour lasts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bulwer Lytton
Mourning for Oliver Ames Dead at Boston
Oliver Ames dies and is to be buried at 1 p.m. Monday. Union Pacific offices and machine shops will close and all nonessential work in other departments will be suspended for the day. Trains across the road draped in mourning as the passes through Omaha.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oliver Ames
Boston
Union Pacific
Clark
Omaha
Union Pacific Railroad
Monay
H. H. Clarx
Small-pox in city pest-house rises to ten cases
Mayor Fisk reports ten small-pox cases in the pest-house, four critical and the rest convalescent. City physicians expect full recovery as a citywide search finds no new cases. All fatalities linked to other illnesses, with infections traced to arrivals from outside the city. The epidemic is expected to end soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fisk
The Black Hills Railroad Delays Reach Cheyenne
The Union Pacific surveying parties due March first from Cheyenne Sidney and North Platte have not yet departed. No committees have been sent to county and town authorities to fix pond requirements for the initial point. Residents await action while rivals and investors watch and ready to start from Cheyenne if a line opens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Pacific
Cheyenne
Sidney
North Platte
Denver
Kansas Pacific
Omaha
Law for Levy after Eddy street shooting
Levy the gambler who shot Harrison on Eddy street Friday evening was brought before Justice Fisher for a preliminary examination. The testimony indicated Levy fired the first shot, and the judge remanded him in $1000 bail to await Harrison’s wound outcome. Hon W W Corlett led the defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eddy and
Sixteenth Streets
Levy
Harrison
Tie
Eddy Street
Fisher
W. W. Corlett
Newson Urges Cheyenne Route Over Sidney To Hills
Maj T M Newson president of Webfoot Mining Co and veteran frontier journalist, lecturing on Life in the Black Hills, denounces Sidney Telegraph editor and urges travelers to pick Cheyenne route over Sidney. He praises Cheyenne stages, regular service, good horses, and Mr Voorhees as agent, while condemning Sidney for theft, gambling, and danger to emigrants and pocketbooks. He notes Cheyenne as a busy, friendly city and promises to speak unfavorably of Sidney in future lectures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maj
T. M. Newson
Webfoot Mining Co
Custer City
Black Hills
Sidney
Cheyenne
Telegraph
Lees
Mr. Voorhees
Union Pacific
Sidney Telegraph
Deadwood
Custer
Hills
The
Ignan
Streets and Sidewalks Plan Spring City Improvements
Mayor Fisk announces extensive street and sidewalk work for spring and summer. A sidewalk may be laid on the south side of 16th Street east of Hill, with a walk likely from Hill to the Y on 17th. A sidewalk from Hill and 17th to the school is anticipated before further work, to help children reach school during the coming mud season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fisk
16Th Street
Hill
Hill Street
17Th
17Th Streets
New Military Wood Reservation at Fort Fetterman
The Army designates a new wood reservation for Fort Fetterman with a specified boundary. The description notes the initial point near La Bonte creek, distances east and south to form a rectangle, and markers set by posts and blazed trees. The narrative also includes unrelated quotes and a fictional-sounding digression about life and a character named August.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fetterman
Army
Fort Ifetterman
la Bonte Creek
Fort Fetterman
Fort Laramie
Resolutions Highlight Quick Dinners at Cheyenne Hotel
At a Kansas legislators gathering in Denver before their return, a string of resolutions was adopted including one praising the Railroad Hotel at Cheyenne Wyoming Territory for preparing a four course dinner on an hours notice fit for a king or a female justice of the peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Denver
Cheyenne
Wyoming Territory
Cattle Thieves Routed by Special Deputy Arrival
L. Cole, a Denver special deputy sheriff, arrived from Shelby Junction Neb with three cattle thieves. The men, previously arrested there and mentioned in Tule Leader, tried to secure release via habeas corpus but failed. They were taken to Denver yesterday to await trial. Stock men threaten writs of hempus corpus if law remains lax.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. Cole
Denver
Shelby Junction
Neb
Indians Crossing Frontiers Seen By Travelers
Reports from stage passengers, teamsters, and freighters arriving from the Hills describe bands of Indians moving south toward the Agencies. They claim to have hunted in the Big Horn, Powder, and Tongue river valleys, then returned home. They appear reserved and sulky but non-molesting, provoking hope that Gen. Crook is right and the Indian war may be ended with no more white bloodshed on the frontier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freund Bros
Fox
Kansas
N. Wood
James Donahue
Atchison Democrat
J. 5. Hallinger
Aberdeen Republican
Taylor Fleck
A. B. Bradish
Cheyenne County
Nebraska
North Platte
North
South Platte
Big Springs
Julesburg
Weld County
Big Horn
Powder
Tongue River
Crook
Glittering Gold at Stebbins Post & Co Bank
The Stebbins Post & Co bank showcases lavish gold decor with gold bricks buttons nuggets sacks and dust across displays. Tuesday two large retorts of fine gold from Hid den Treasure owned by Black Hills Mining Co arrived valued at three thousand dollars. N R Pinney arrived and deposited a gold button worth two thousand dollars from his mine and mill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stebbins, Post & Co
Black Hills Mining Co
N. R. Pinney
Wolsey
The Cost of a Black Hills Railroad
The piece argues that building a railroad to the Black Hills from Union Pacific lines would cost no less than four million dollars, with twenty miles potentially adding half a million. It weighs local bonuses for Cheyenne and Denver, the influence of Sidney, and whether through shipment via Kansas Pacific and Union Pacific would result, noting the 100 mile milestone the Union Pacific directors foresee this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Black Hills
Union Pacific
Jay
Sidney
Cheyenne
Jane
Denver
Kansas Pacific
Omaha Ee
Rail link Denver to Cheyenne eyed in 1877 survey
Denver News reports a proposed Denver to Cheyenne railroad tied to Union Pacific interests. Captain Berthoud leads an eight man survey from Longmont to Cheyenne via Fort Collins and Box Elder Creek, with crossing the northern divide the main heavy work. The route passes through fertile Colorado farming lands and coal regions near the Wyoming line, aiming for a 125 mile Denver Cheyenne distance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Longmont
Colorado
Cheyenne
Fort Collins
Denver News
Union Pacific ‘Company
Denver
Golden
Berthoud
Plains
Denver Pacific
Colorado Central
Union Pacific
New York
E.L. Berthoud
W. A
St. Louis
Big Thompson
Box Elder Creek
Lone Mound
Lone Tree Creek
Natural Fort
Box Elder
Northern Divide
Wyoming Line
Greeley
Castle Creek Mines prospect praised by Williams in 19th century notes
Roger D. Williams, son of Lexington’s Hon. B. F. Williams, returns from the hills to Castle Creek with extensive placer claims and planned hydraulic mining devices. He predicts Castle Creek mines will outshine Deadwood, citing 65 cent pans and ready pay dirt as pumps prepare for operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roger D. Williams
B. F. Williams
Lexington
Black Hills
Cheyenne
Castleton
Castle Creek
Williams
Deadwood Gulch
Castile Creek
The Removal of the Stony Agency News
A Sidney resident reported direct from Washington that Congress funded 80,000 dollars for moving the Red Cloud and Spotted Tail Agencies to the Missouri River. The note declares the plan a sad turn for Sidney and mocks Pratt and Ferris and saltpeter as unable to save the town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
Missouri River
Sidney
Pratt & Ferris and
Saltpeter
Bunko
Grand Reception for McDaniel’s Troupe Arrives in Denver
Grand reception greeted McDaniel’s dramatic and variety troupe as they arrived by train Monday. The group, including Mile, Cerito, the Valdis Twin Sisters, Rose, Willie Gill, Baby and James McDonald, toured Colorado cities like Denver and Golden with large audiences. Agent A M Campbell and manager Jonas Hallowell earned praise for their roles in coordinating the tour, which expands to Cheyenne and Deadwood with two theatres in this city for ongoing performances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McDaniel
Mile
Cerito
Valdis
Rose
Willie Gill
Baby
James McDonald
Denver
Colorado
Georgetown
Central
Golden
McDaniels
A.M. Campbell
Jonas Hallowell
Cheyenne
Deadwood
New York
Deadwood Theatre
Langrishe
A Novel Plan to Escape Debts by Moving Town
Baxter Springs Kansas weighs depopulating and disincorporating to avoid a $200000 debt. Citizens propose to move and demolish the town and build a new one nearby, leaving creditors with judgments in federal court. The move aims to create a fresh locality while abandoning the old corporate entity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baxter Springs
Kansas
U. S
Return of Col. Stanton after Crow Agency mission
Col. T. H. Stanton returned to the city after a six week trip to Crow Agency Montana to pay Crow scouts who aided in the Centennial Sioux campaign. He reports a harsh journey of 1100 miles over rough mountain roads in severe cold storms. He left the Agency March 2 and traveled to Bozeman Virginia City Ogden before returning home yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Col. Stanton
T. H. Stanton
Crow Agency
Montana
Wilds
Crook
Bozeman
Virginia City
Ogden
California Bull-Dozer Tripp Bows to Emigrant Train
Tripp, a bold Californian, boarded the Central Pacific emigrant train at Frisco and tried to run the trip himself. He insulted a passenger and produced a revolver when confronted about his ticket. Conductor Roberts checked tickets, the train halted briefly in Laramie City, and Tripp was detained and fined $50 before continuing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tripp
Central Pacific
Frisco
Laramie City
Laramia
Charlie Roberts
Charlie
Roberts
Supt
Davis
California
Also Mentioned on This Page
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Philadelphia Weekly Times
Quaker City
United States
R. B. Hayes
Ben
McDaniels’ Dramatic Theatre
Forrester
Black Hills Railroad
Shingle & Locke's
August
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!