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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1877
Page
7
Fragmentary OCR text mentions multiple personal names and scattered items. It references a land area, storms, and various ungrammatical phrases. The readable parts offer few clear events or dates. Overall the passage lacks coherent narrative or identifiable news item.
Camp Cantonment Reno April 12 1877 report describes an ambush near Dry Fork Powder River. Miner Rand mortally wounded, companion Smith killed, Fryer wounded, both miners Rand and Smith described as experienced. Fryer escapes to rejoin camp then burial details follow.
Gov Thayer departed for the East to fetch the remaining family members with Mrs Thayer now able to travel. A mid May reunion is planned at Rock Creek, General Thayer's summer home. Spotted Tail could be named colonel in the 8th Army following discussions by Sherman, Sheridan and the Indian affairs commissioner.
A Custer City assembly on April 17 considered forming a new territory including the Black Hills. Resolutions favored cooperation with Deadwood residents and sending delegates to a Deadwood convention on the 21st, while a second view urged no immediate action. The meeting adjourned after adjournments and notices to parties.
Deputy sheriff Fred Schwartze of Pole Creek stopped a man named J. B. Stewart who bore a deserted outfit found in a ravine about three miles east of Schwartze's ranch. The wagon held $100 in provisions and a small satchel with letters to Salina Ohio and Buffalo New York. Cheyenne post office shifts assign new duties to Masi, Corey, and Wilford handling General Delivery, mailing, and money orders.
Two notices announce divorce actions filed in the Wyoming Territory First Judicial District. John S. Dearborn claims Susan Dearborn is an habitual drunkard and seeks dissolution of marriage. Susan is ordered to answer by May 21, 1877. Aggie Neilson charges William Neilson with habitual drunkenness and abandonment. he must answer by June 11, 1877.
An old advertisement boasts a “miracle” bottle that can heal human and animal ailments. It claims no sore or lameness resists its magic touch and offers bottles priced at 25c 60c or 1.00, asserting many lives and horses have been saved or restored to usefulness.
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