Cheyenne real estate notes and local updates
Cheyenne real estate is booming with W B Wightman building on Seventeenth Street and M P Keefe buying two lots for 450 dollars. Sidney Dillon visitors in Omaha noted. Jenkins Ross plan a boot and shoe shop in Hoyt's former store. Telegraph line to Fort Thornburg ordered, emigrants arrive from Kansas City, and library to be housed in opera house block.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney Dillon
U. P. Ry
Omaha
Cheyenne
M. P. Keefe
J.O
Richardson
Twentieth Street
Mr. Chase
Inter Ocean Hotel
George W. Hoyt
Jenkins & Ross
North Park
Walden’s
Laramie
Teller
Fort Bridger
Fort Thornburg
Young
Sweetwater
Board of County Commissioners
Territorial Library
Opera House
National Bank
Kansas City
D. P
I. C. Whipple
Norman
W. Gardner
Miller & Gardner
Chase
Inter Ocean
Holt’s
Gould
Denver & Rio Grand Railroad Company
Denver Republican
West
Jay Gould
Pettigrew
Dakota
Custer
Lawrence
Pennington
Lieutenant Schwatka thanks Wyoming for memorial on Arctic pay
Lieut Frederick Schwatka thanks the Wyoming council and legislature for memorializing Congress over leave and duty pay during his Arctic expedition. He calls the memorial passage a greater act than the one it seeks to prize, in a letter to the editor dated March 14 in Chicago. Texas Cattle. Through cattle shipments from Texas begin the season with 23 cars reported, prices among the highest yet seen, but cautions that the market may not reflect a full opening as supplies arrive unevenly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Territory of
Wyoming
Congress of the United States
Texas
Lone Star
St. Louis
Drover’s Journal
Big Cattle Transfer From Laramie To North Park
Evans Haas of Omaha bought Balch Bacon herd near Laramie City containing about 10 000 head valued at around 200 000 dollars. The cattle will summer in North Park after a winter grazing success and snows were heavier than desired. The report notes North Park as a rich summer range with local wildlife and hunting history. A subsequent brief reports a shooting match at Fort Russell between cavalry companies C and G, with company C making three bullseyes and likely to challenge again.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Park
Mr. Haas
Evans & Haas
Omaha
Laramie City
Balch & Bacon
Messrs. Evans & Haas
Russell
Fort D. A. Russell
3D Cavalry
Blaze destroys old slaughter house near cattle yards
A fire yesterday around 1 pm consumed the isolated slaughter house once used by Breshnahen, located west of the cattle yards south of the railroad track. No other property was damaged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Breshnahen
Sabbath Dawn in Cheyenne Lands Oil Dispute
The Cheyenne district court hears an adverse claim case over eight petroleum oil claims near Jenny's stockade. Daniel McMaster of Homestake Mining seeks a patent for 160 acres, opposed by Joseph C. Spencer and Ralph C. Webster for 120 acres. Land valued around 150000 dollars. oil praised as superior to Pennsylvania grade. Representing the claimants: W. W. Corlett. adverse claimants: J. C. Laird.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District Court
Daniel McMaster
Homestake Mining Company
Deadwood
Cheyenne Land Office
Jenny
Joseph C. Spencer
Ralph OC. Webster
Land Office
Pennsylvania Petroleum
W. W. Corlett
J. C. Laird
Vigilante lynching in Rawlins ends three inmates death
A mob overpowered Rawlins jail at four am and hanged Jim Lazy and Opium Bill after abducting Bill Carter, who escaped. Vigilantes warned ten to twelve others to flee the town as the mob dispersed, marking a violent rough justice episode in the town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rawlins
Bill Carter
Jim Lazy
Opium Bill
Supreme Court rules retired officers eligible for longevity pay
The Supreme Court affirms a Court of Claims ruling that retired army officers can reckon service time for longevity pay. The Tyler case affects navy and army retirees and sets a nationwide standard. Also: brief notices of a general court martial remission, a soldier’s health transfer, a wedding announcement, and advertisements for medicines and publications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
Navy
Supreme Court
R. W. Tyler
Court of Claims
Tyler
Platte
Omaha
Neb
Fort Washakie
Wyoming
Fort Omaha
Nebraska
Crook
J. P. Martin
Copper Vein Prospects Near Cheyenne At Silver Crown
Mr J W Trevett of Mc Gregor Trevyett agreed to fund prospecting at the Silver Crown district for Mr J Greenlaw. Professor Stanton, territorial mining engineer, reports quartzite ores with iron pyrites and sulphides carrying silver from 2 to 5 dollars in a 3 foot vein of chrysocalla with copper glance throughout. Ores average 26 percent copper worth at least 52 dollars per ton. The High land Chief claim lies 1 mile south of the Lime Kiln ranch and 4 miles south of Table Mountain mining group, about 18 miles from Cheyenne.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Trevett
McGregor & Trevyett
Cheyenne
J. Greenlaw
Silver Crown
Stanton
Territorial
Highland Chief
Table Mountain Mining Co
Real estate transfers list for mid March including multiple war deeds
The record catalogs transfers from March 13 to March 16 involving U P Ry and individuals such as W W Corlett T Dyer Edward Kapp David Miller Mary Louise Addams W R Schnitger J C Richardson N G Litchfield and others. Transactions include war deeds quit claims and a mining deed with payments ranging from $100 to $11 000 and property located in blocks 384 416 324 890 298 271 and parcels in sections 18 19 town 22 N range 66 W.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. 2
Railroad
W. W. Corlett
Colinunter
T. Dyer
Edward and
Thersia Kapp
U.P. Ry
David Miller
Mary Louise Addams
Mary Louisa Addams
W. R. Schnitger
W. RK. Schnitger
J. C
Richardson
J.C
Richardon
M. P. Keefe
N. G. Litchfield
Dyer
Jno
O’brien
Phil Sheridan Lode
Platte Cafton
Kidney-Wort Advertises Piles Cure
An advertisement claims Kidney-Wort is the sure cure for piles and constipation. It is described as both a dry and a liquid preparation sold by druggists and praised as restoring health to the bowels and preventing recurrence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dare & Collins
Addams & Glover
Globe
Anakesis
Silshee
Ramples
P. Neustaddter & Co
Hox
York City
Also Mentioned on This Page
Daily Leader
W. BR. Wightman
Seventeenth Street
W. C. Irvine
New York
Mrs. Irvine
Mt Irvine
Posey Wilson
Kingman’s Ranch
Harry Oelrichs
Grand Duke
Charles H. Ete
Lieut, Schwatka
Fred’k Schwatkr
U. S. Army
Chicago
Texas Cattle
F. J. Stanton
Judge Lynch
Kale
Hale
Pike
Belle Orr
Ernest Wilbur
Chaffee County Journal
Buena Vista
Gunnison
D.S. P. & P. Railway
Lake House
Bella Orr
MacDade
Miss Orr
Wilbur
Brother Wilbur
Allee Samee
Dr. Pierce
F. LE. Warren & Co
Hale’s
C. N. Crittenton
Stephenson
Cheyenne, Wyo
Burt
Leather & Findings
Teller City
Jacobs Oil
A the Great
Hmanremed
St. Jacobs Orn
A. Vogeler & CO
Baltimore
U. S.A
F. Koch & Son
6Th Ave
West 20Th St
New York City
Womanklind
Clarke
Dr. Clarke Medicine Company
Broadway
City
Dr. Clarke
Dlarke Medicine Company
R. Clarke Medicine Company
Balmain Gilead
Patna
EB. Warren & Or
Hostetter
J. Jr. Reeves
Chatham St
Dare & Collins’ Drug Store
Eddy and
16Th Streets
Warren & Co
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