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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1877
Page
4
A London News correspondent reports from Constantinople that the Sultan refused a 2 million pound bribe to dismiss Midhat Pasha. The bribery attempt corrupted his ministers with a tenth of that sum, hinting at powerful external pressures behind Midhat Pasha’s downfall.
The article argues that journalists are not a favored class but public workers who pay for access through effort and sacrifice. It notes the press acts as public property, serving the people by reporting news and defending citizens, while enduring unpaid pressures and gratuities. It concludes with a call to balance powers and responsibilities.
Washington whispers say many aspiring politicians aim for postmasterships in Deadwood and Custer City. They argue residency should not matter since the region opened recently to occupation, while old pioneers are labeled trespassers. Until appointments are made, mail service expansion along the Cheyenne route remains delayed.
In New Haven the Smith and Rogers silver plating works prepare to move to Meriden. The plating room floor was burned and ashes analyzed yielding 981 dollars of pure silver. The text explains volatilization and tiny particles in plating, noting soot from melting metal is valuable and workers’ worn clothes are often replaced by employers.
Lieutenant Payer recounts extreme cold on Franz Josef Land sledging trips. Rum poured into his mouth to avoid freezing the cup, bread frozen hard enough to cause bleeding teeth, beards iced, cigars extinguished, survey instruments burnt to touch, medals felt like hot iron.
A Chicago & Northwestern delegation says 500 plus emigrants are waiting at Bismarck and Yankton to head to the Black Hills but blocked by snow and Indian hostility on the southern routes. Stages run daily from Omaha to the Hills with safe mail through Deadwood, Cheyenne route praised as shortened to 230 miles, urging readers to travel this way.
The Colorado Legislature ends the Grand Jury system and replaces it with a county court judge and two justices of the peace serving as a court of indictment. Indictments under the new system receive testimony from the prosecution only.
A March telegram from Washington confirms R. O. Adams as postmaster at Deadwood City and Thomas E. Harvey at Custer City. Both will qualify immediately and take charge by April 1, enabling the Cheyenne to Deadwood daily mail line. The Cheyenne Stage Company will run daily coaches carrying U.S. mails, linking mining settlements with postal facilities.
Nasby laments Hayes’s inauguration with mock despair and satire. He mocks the Democratic leadership including Til den Hewitt Pelton and Field, invokes biblical and historical allusions, and warns that reliance on weak guardianship will ruin the party. The piece blends humor and political indictment in a late 19th century voice.
A stormbound community at Old Fort Reno builds a Powder River bridge after a reluctant contractor accepts a $200 bid. Civilians dig in, volunteering to cover the shortfall so the project continues, ending costly expeditions caused by floods.
Yellowstone Field Notes describes a 19th century expedition route from Fort Pease along the Yellowstone valley. It details ravines water channels, plateaus, buttes such as Coy ote Butte, and the Great Porcupine. describes terrain, rock formations, timber, and irrigation potential, along with weather and flood effects on the landscape and river crossings. The narrative notes locations like Frozen To Death Creek, Buffalo Rapids, and SUNDAY CREEK, the Little Porcupine and Big Wolf mountains, and the wide valley with grass, cottonwood, and fossiliferous sandstone. It also explains how rains in the Bad Lands create mud and dust layers beneath a collapsing soil profile.
Sitting Bull built a following by inviting Sioux on reservations to join him as he declared war on the United States and the Black Hills. Desperate men from settlements and fleeing crimes found refuge in his camp, allowing slow but steady recruitment despite reservations viewing him as foolish.
The Aurora Daily News mocks chat slang and clipped speech in a sample dialogue about abbreviations. The piece shows youths and adults debating shortened forms and mispronunciations amid a playful look at language evolution.
A Texas correspondent laments regional drawbacks citing unsuitable climate for apples, cabbage and potatoes that rot after harvest. He notes dangers of overgrown yards for pests, struggles with beefsteak and milk shortages, and scarce coffee coloring. The letter paints a harsh picture of local living conditions.
The vein matter of the Black Hills lodes ranges from 830 to 35 to the ton with oxide of iron cemented by silica and carrying free gold in dust flour and nuggets. Veins are horizontal while perpendicular lodes are quartz with silica and hematite, sometimes containing arsenical iron, all yielding free gold.
Warrison, wounded by Levy on the ninth, is rapidly failing. He was perforated with bullets and had a leg amputated, an action deemed needless as death seemed inevitable from the start.
The Greeley Sun laments the Kansas legislature’s ride to Cheyenne breaking the Sabbath yet notes that in sobriety they outdo their predecessors the Colorado legislature.
A conductor, armed with a loaded revolver, forced tramps off a D. P. car last week. The tramps did not linger long enough to be shot.
General Sheridan jokes that he would rather lead a cavalry charge than have a tooth pulled, declaring a preference for being killed all at once over dental pain. He speaks in a humorous, defiant tone reflecting morale and leadership style.
A high profile court martial at St Paul, Minnesota into Major Marcus A Reno of the Seventh Cavalry unfolds amid a scandal over amorous advances to Captain Bell's wife. Commissioner Hazen presiding, proceedings reveal charges of improper advances, threats, and slander as witnesses testify. verdict expected with Reno facing possible dismissal.
The Denver Theatre at Lawrence and 16th streets burned last Monday morning from an incendiary blaze and was totally destroyed. Erected in 1861, it was valued at $4,000 with $1,000 of insurance. The heat shattered the Daniels, Fisher & Co store front glass nearby, causing over $3,000 in damage.
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