Minor items from the Daily Leader brief news roundup
A.H. Swan installs a gas machine to light his home and offices. Mrs. J. A. Hamilton moves millinery to a new Opera house block location. O Wilde may lecture here after the Pacific coast. Fire chief buys a lot on Eddy street as an investment. A petition to free Mason the man who shot at Guiteau gains broad signatures. Cheyenne attracts vagrant tramps once expelled from Laramie and Rawlins. Colorado brick imports surge to meet local demand. Painters finish improvements on J. W. Collins residence at Hill and Nineteenth. Gaylord Bell imports renewed bicycle stock including several machines and a popular tricycle. A bicycle club is projected for the near future.
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Daily Leader
H. Swan
J. A. Hamilton
House of Representatives
O. Wilde
Pacific Coast
Fire Department
Eddy Street
Guiteau
Cheyenne
Laramie City
Rawlin
Colorado
J. W. Collins
Hill
Nineteenth Streets
Fort D. A. Russell encounter prompts guard alert
Night near Fort D. A. Russell stables sees Unknown men vanish at sentinels and fire at pursuers. Suspects may be Rawlins fugitives. Separately a mining loss at Table Mountain Idonia claim followed by swift company action restored operations. Copper Queen output for February and recent Quincey mine shipment reported along with Portage Lake district totals and St Genevieve copper finds. Several copper production figures and a note on St Jacobs Oil add to the market roundup.
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Fort
D. A. Russell
Rawlins
Table Mountain Mining Company
Idonia
Table Mountain
Med
Quincey
Portage Lake District
Mich
Anongz
Atlantic
Calumet and Hecla
Franklin
Hancock
Wilde Passes Through on Pacific Coast Lecture Circuit
Oscar Wilde, en route to San Francisco for a season of lectures, attracts a curious crowd at the depot. The famous esthetic writer, described as a tall boyish figure with uncut hair and a white slouch hat, dines with a companion and chats about poetry, art, and civilization as he travels west.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Oscar Wilde
Pacific Coast
San Francisco
Railroad House
Barton Opera Company
Omaha
Cheyenne
Union Pacific
Wyoming
Wilde
Military Orders Report To Fort Omaha And Potatoes Damaged
Special orders issue Corporal Lamb of Company C Ninth Infantry to Fort Omaha for temporary duty as hospital steward third class. A board of survey at Fort Douglas will convene March 22 1882 to report on damage to 641 pounds of potatoes owned by the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. H. McCauley
A. S.ay
Edward M. Hayes
Fifth Cavalry
Robert London
Henry de H. Waite
Fort Laramie
W. T
Wesley Merritt
Crook
J. P. Martin
Pitcairn Morrison
General Ramsey
Michael Moore
BE. A. Benjamain
Braden
Fitzpatrick
Fort Douglas
U. T
United
Notable Residents Return From Western Trips
Mrs W W Corlett returned from Leavenworth Kansas where she placed her niece Miss Lillie Andrews in school. M Idelman of Idelman Bros. came back from a western trip. Dr George W Corey arrived from Butte City. Henry Swan left for Council Bluffs after a visit. Ed Lehman and bride departed for Laramie City where Mr Lehman is a partner in Hellman Co clothing firm.
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Daily Leader
W. W. Corlett
Leavenworth
Kansas
Lillie Andrews
George W. Corey
Cheyenne
Butte City
Henry Swan
Council Bluffs
Ed. Lehman
Bride
Laramie City
Mr. Lehman
Hellman & Co
Promotions Fill Vacancies on U P Line Freight Trains
Changes in conductors on the U P line prompt multiple promotions to conductor roles on freight trains. The division lists Albert Fisher J C Furgeson L H Woodmansee J Flynn Rabt Shingle A 8 Nash F 2 Lincoln BF Fuller Dave Moore E J Rice J F Ryan L 8 Patterson J O Adams Wm Entricker J B Scott T Rincker E Nash I H Davison L W Waterbury promoted to conductors. Several freight conductors named to charge of freight W W Houston D M Fisk H Rincker D Finn A R Powell W L Park.
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U. P
Albert Fisher
J. C. Furgeson
L. HH
Woodmansee
J. Flynn
Nash
Lincoln
Bf, Fuller
Dave Moore
E. J. Rice
J. F. Ryan
Patterson
J. O. Adams
Wm. Entricker
J. B. Scott
T. Rincker
E. Nash
I. H. Davison
L. W. Waterbury
W. W. Houston
D. M. Fisk
H. Rincker
D. Finn
A. R. Powell
W. L. Park
Wyoming word origins linked to Susquehanna valley history
The term Wyoming traces to the Delaware word Maughwawaame meaning large plains and originally denoted a fertile Susquehanna valley in Luzerne county Pennsylvania. It later linked to Campbell's Gertrude of Wyoming and the Wyoming Territory name. Also an ad promotes Allen's Brain Foop for nervousness and related weaknesses with mailing address in New York and Cheyenne outlet.
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Wyoming
Susquehanna River
Luzerne County
Pennsylvania
Col. Butlers
Campbell
Gertrude
Allen
First Ave
N.Y
Cheyenne
Geo. W. Hoyt
Surprise badge honors Cheyenne fire chief Fredendall
A special meeting of Alert hose company No 1 honored Chief Fredendall with a silver badge of office. The presentation praised his long service and leadership as fire chief, foreman, and assistant chief, with the badge designed by Zehner Jackson & Buechner and dated March 28, 1882. The event closed with social refreshments at Mr Landau's.
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Alert Hose Company
Fredendall
Foreman Smith
Landau
Baird
Fire Department
Cheyenne I. D
la L. Fredendall
Alert Hose Company No
Zehner, Jackson & Buechner
Buechner
Sealed beef supply bids sought for western posts 1862
The United States Army Subsistence Department invites sealed proposals in triplicate for Fresh Beef and choice cuts for post deliveries to Forts Bridger Cameron Douglas Fetterman Hall Laramie McKinney Niobrara Omaha Robinson Russell Sanders Sidney Steele Thornburgh Washakie Cheyenne depot and Omaha depot for the 1882 fiscal year. Bids due April 20 at noon. separate sheets required for each post. proposals must include Instructions to Bidders. government reserves right to reject all bids.
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United States Army
Forts Bridger
Cameron
Douglas
Fetterman
Hall
Laramie
McKinney
Niobrara
Omaha
Robinson
Russell
Sanders
Sidney
Steele
Thornburgh
Washakie
Cheyenne
United States
Congress
ThoMas Wilson
Laramie County Miners See Rich Prospect in Whitlon Canon District
A Cheyenne Leader correspondent reports vigorous mining at Whalen Canyon and nearby sites in Laramie County. Claims Benita Mountain Lion show silver and rich ore. Riah & Co tunnel yields silver. Louk & Stein and Muskrat canon актив. mica quality noted. Prospects of a smelter and influx of prospectors described. district urged as potentially richer than Leadville.
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Government Farm
Cheyenne Leader
Whalen Carton
Benita
McCoon & Roberts
Riah & Co
Louk & Stein
Leadville
Laramie County
United States
Whitlon Canon
Death of Three Year Old Son of Hellman Sparks Mourning
News from New York reports the death of Mr and Mrs J Hellmans three year old son from scarlet fever. The child was bright and active, the family shop in the city closed in mourning, and crape hung at the door. Mrs Hellman has been ill but was improving until the shock of the loss.
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New York
B. Hellman
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the Mining Review
St. Genevieve County
Cornwall
Swansea
Stamford (Conn
Herald
J. E. Warren & Co
Weat
M. Idelman
The
Idelman Bros
Railroad Promotions
F. E. Warren & Co
Dare & Collins
Addams & Glover
Warren & Co
Laramir County
Bent
J. Hellman
Dave & Collins
Dare & Collins’ Drug Store
Eddy and
16Th Streets
AOA Distribution Co
Louisville
General Assembly of Kentuck
United States Circuit Court
Commonwealth Distribution Company
Express
R. M. Boardman Courier-Journal
R. M. Boardman
Broadway
Simmons
Seventeenth Street
E. S. Bartlett & Co., Proprietors
U. P. A. R. House
G. M. Jones
Warn Peck
LAW Office
Wyo
Leaver
Lischuany Publishing Co
Boston
Mass
Royal Row
Royal Baking Powder Cor
Wall Street
Simmonds
Nabob
Kentucky
Pacific Slope
Dana Hayes
Massachusetts
IT. C. Louderback
St. Louis
Missouri
Union
Canada
GEO
W. Hoyt
Cheyenne and Vicinity
G. Simmonde
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