Cheyenne Leader Local Leaflets March 22 1877
Cheyenne weekly issue notes assorted local items including Mosquitoes in Salt Lake Ogden smallpox, new brick construction Helphenstine Durbin, printing rates at Leader Office, Snow and Fisk stores near completion, Gottstein Idelman liquor house opening April 1st, stage company shipments from St Louis, judicial habeas corpus case Levy Harrison, stock markets for horses mules and scrub stock, counterfeiters broken up near Golden, spring jokes and sunlit breezes, and notes on trees along Crow Creek park planning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake
Ogden
Eli Perkins
Hellman
Helphenstine &Durbin
Timm Leader
Fisk
McDaniels
Arion Cluo
Black Hilla
C.& B. H. Stage Co
St. Louis
J. W. Kingman
Carey Block
Cheyenne
Holt
P.O. News Depot
Laramie
Denver
Gottstein & Idelman
Levy
Harrison
Justice Fisher
Golden
Colo
Crow Creek
Safe Safe at Deadwood Depot from Cincinnati Factory
Brother Post the banker lured a LADER reporter into a box car at the depot yesterday and displayed a 6,500 pound Mosler Cincinnati safe. Yale lock and time lock, two compartments with safety deposit boxes above and wealth storage below. It should cost 2500 dollars once installed and will be shipped to Deadwood for Stebbins Post Co. branch banking house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Post
Mosler
Cincinnati
Yale
Deadwood
Stebbins, Post & Co
Miles to Lead Campaign Against Sioux After Winter Success
The article extols Gen. Nelson A Miles for campaigns last winter against Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse and argues for carving a district near the Yellowstone River under his command. It notes plans to deploy about 2,000 infantry and sixteen cavalry companies from Tongue River, with Miles returning by April 1 after consul tation in St Paul, to press a vigorous spring campaign and end the costly war.
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Nelson A. Miles
Sitting Bull
Crazy Horse
Yellowstone River
Miles
Tongue River
Fifth Infantry
Twenty-second Infantry
St. Paul
Terry
Gaul
Modesty in Cheyenne Nom de Plum Described as Magic City
A St Joseph Herald extracts praise and scorn from Cheyenne letters. The city is praised for new brick buildings and swelling commerce driven by Black Hills excitement. Eastern capital flows in, a U.S. mail to Deadwood exists, telegraph, express service, and a military built North Platte bridge. Five hundred men depart weekly for the north, with outfits shipped from Cheyenne to support the rush.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Joseph
Cheyenne
DU. P
Black Hills
U.S
Deadwood
United States
North Platte
Yellowstone Field Notes by J V Bogert on Big Horn valley
The journal describes Big Horn valley from the Little Big Horn head to Fort Pease, detailing terrain, grass quality, river water, and sandstone and granite shifts. It notes rich hay country, timbered bottoms, and numerous streams fed by Big Horn snows, with Mack Clernand’s observations on fertile tillable land and the burial monument to Lieut Sternberg and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. V. Bogert
Big Horn
Little Big Horn
Yellowstone
Beauvais Creek
Chis
Soap Creek
Fort Pease
McClernand
Montana
Old Fort C. F. Smith
Sternberg
Big Horn Canyon
Old Fort
Phil Kearney
Big Hill
Old Fort Smith
Pease
Big Horn Mountains
Wolf Mountains
Tullock’s Fork
Big Horn Country Praised as Future Wyoming Garden Spot
The narrative extols the Big Horn country as exceptionally beautiful and fertile with cottonwood and ash along Tullock Fork and the Big Horn river system. Testimony and Lieut McClernand promise its great extent and resources will attract a sizable population and future prominence for Cheyenne and Wyoming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tullock’s
Big Horn
Yellowstone
Lieut. McClernand
Cheyenne
Wyoming
Northern treasure vaults and quartz wealth praised
A veteran miner writes from the Black Hills praising Deadwood and its tributaries for rich placer and especially vast free gold quartz deposits. He cites Golden Gate as a milling hub, two steam mills in operation, and notes Bare Butte’s argentiferous galena. He predicts great future value for northern hills assets and regional farming, stock raising, and safety from Indian depredations. He admits no personal quartz interest, calling it misfortune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Black Hills
Deadwood
Boulder Gulch
Deadwood Creek
Gryville
Golden Gate
Lead City
Gold Run
Whitewood
False Bottom Creek
Bare Butte
Juel
Belle Fourche
United States
Nevada
Barney Hughes Denies Wind River Placer Claims
Barney Hughes writes to The Leader denying an Evanston Age report that he and two others struck $10 diggings on the Upper Big Wind River. He recalls accompanying Jeff Standifer’s party from Montana in 1868 and again later, but states he never struck anything paying to work and advises the public and mining friends to distrust those reports.
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Barney Hughes
Wind River
Mixer
Wyo
The
Leader
Evanston Age
Big Wind River
Ife
Toto
Jeff Standifer
Montana
Laramie Literary Gatherings Aid Local Culture
In Laramie March correspondence notes thriving literary and musical meetings drawing broad attendance. Col S W Downey praised a poetry address, while obituaries reference Mrs. G P Murphy’s funeral and calls to fence graves. Local commerce pauses for Oliver Ames’s memory. city election proceeds calmly as saloon enforcement and civic order shape outcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laramin Crry
Col
S. W. Downey
G. P. Murphy
Laramie
Oliver Ames
Tocsin
L. D. Pease
Big Horn Country
Rawlins
North Park
Centennial
Gen. Worth
J. W. Boyles
Sheep Mountain
Last Chance District
Home Mining Company
S Place
Capt. Kelly
Foley
Tutn’s Peak
Hostiles Arrive at Spotted Tail Agency Report
A Red Cloud Agency letter dated March 16 reports about 400 hostiles arriving at Spotted Tail Agency this month. No word yet from Chief Spotted Tail’s mission to Crazy Horse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cloud Agency
Spotted Tail Agency
Spotted Tail
Crazy Horse
Sisters of Mercy Brutally Assaulted at Sidney Depot
Two Sisters of Mercy aiding smallpox victims were attacked by a mob at the Sidney depot. They were dragged into an alley, robbed of trinkets crosses and Bibles stripped of veils and money and left in a shameful condition as passengers sought safety on the train.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney
Sisters of Mercy
Union Pacific
Frontier Agencies Seize Indian Ponies and Prepare New Posts
Indians at frontier agencies have been dismounted and disarmed except Spotted Tail’s band which keeps peace. Gen Sheridan orders two new posts at Tongue and Little Big Horn with $200,000 Congress funds. forts to house twelve companies, with six cavalry and six infantry per post. Supplies via Yellowstone three months yearly. Custer era reflections and Red Horse confessions noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spotted Tail
Cheyenne River
Sheridan
Yellowstone
Fort Bufort
Congress
Tongue
Little Big Horn
Tongue River
Fifth Infantry
Miles
Custer
Fort Lincoln
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Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Puttyhead Richardson
Scribner’s Monthly
Scribner & Co’s
Deadwood Gulch
Leander P. Richardson
Albert D. Richardson
Scribner
Glass
Brooklyn
Wiio
Sitting Bull and
Teutarus
Laramie Lines
Red Horse
Col. Wood
Powder River
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