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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1883
Page
3
A 1883 weekly leaver column surveys famed thinkers on women. Quotes from Confucius to Voltaire frame women as masters, temptresses, mothers, and muses. It ends with F W L asserting woman as God's final and best creation.
From the Mining Record Caryvene Wyoming 1883 reports the Emerald mine near the government farm on the Deadwood trail shows strong fissure vein prospects. Assays yield 75 dollars per ton in silver and high silver copper values. The Michigan claims to be a premier fissure vein likely surpassing Arizona’s Copper Queen with a bond-backed future. The Wyoming Copper Company smelter processes six tons daily, netting around 1420 dollars per day and about 511200 dollars yearly on a 150000 dollar investment.
A Leavenworth special says Dr Samuel Phillips received a telegram from Sheriff Canton in Buffalo Wyoming implying Alfred Packer, jailed near Fort Fetterman for the 1874 Colorado prospectors killings, may have murdered Dr Phillips’ son Harry near Buffalo. Harry had left Boise City for Laramie with $1400.
quitclaim by H G Strouder to W 8 Updike for half interest in Red Warrior mine lode Plattecafton district. consideration 637.60 dollars. Warranty deed from David Gilchriet to Andrew Gilchrist for section 14 township 14 range 60. consideration 1000 dollars. Warranty deed from Caroline Crittenden to Jas Ward for lot No 6 block 508.
Local column from Lanore reports on housing moves in North Fork, a Shoshone agency service at Moore's hall in Lander, and a vacancy filled from Washington after Luke White's condition. It details a railcar incident with three young riders, weather shifts, heavy sheep losses, a planned summer building boom, and a Carlisle school influence on Arapaho youths.
Senator Beck praised his son George for building 1400 acres of land with irrigation from Rosebud streams on the Big Horn mountains, developing a thriving sheep ranch, new pine house, and a self sufficient lifestyle amid a harsh but healthy frontier. He surveys ditches, swaps days with neighbors for labor, and grew attached to the land and community.
A cow boy Nelson Curtis, working for Patton and linked to Senator John Logan, was murdered by two Mexican sheep herders amid mounting cattle versus sheep tensions in American valley. Cattlemen post a $500 reward, and the valley braces for possible open warfare as the fight between stockmen escalates.
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