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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1878
Page
8
A compilation of quotes and items from the era including newspaper ownership remarks, political jibes about England and Russia, notes on Tramps, schoolhouse work at Laramie, a variety of editorials and social chatter. Plants a portrait of frontier press life with local officials, mining chatter, mail statistics, and military moves in Wyoming.
An analysis of a Cheyenne Gazette collapse and Slack’s move to establish a Hills paper, with Cheyenne editors predicting a harsh battle of influence across Cheyenne and Dakota Territory. It notes politics, ownership changes, and the expected consolidation of local papers amid regional tensions. Also reports Union Pacific and Colorado Central receipts at Cheyenne and a fatal shooting of a drunken soldier at Fort Lyon.
The Cheyenne to Fort Laramie railroad survey shows Fort Laramie sits 1712 feet below Cheyenne. The highest point along the route was 78 feet above Cheyenne, with grazing noted near Horse Creek and broad stretches of previously untrodden fertile land east of Chug and south of Goshen's Hole.
Public schools in Wyoming will close for the upcoming week to allow teachers to attend the Territorial Institute in Laramie City starting tomorrow. Professors Stark and Wells report strong interest for a large turnout among teachers and education enthusiasts. The institute will run for one week and attendees include Judge John Slaughter and Hon. Peter Hamma of Cheyenne School.
Geo. Snyder, detective from Omaha, arrived May 9 to pursue horse thieves near WyY0. On May 10 he learned of suspects nearby and, with soldiers, chased them, exchanging shots and capturing two thieves, Chas Terry and Sam Kelly who allegedly broke jail at Sidney last fall. Snyder departs with a military escort for Ft. Fetterman.
Geo W Bell was arrested at Crook City twelve miles from Deadwood on suspicion of murdering Chas E Lee whose corpse was found nearby. Bell had sold a gold watch engraved with Lee’s name and was about to leave for Sidney when detained.
The Cheyenne post office orders 200 Yale mail boxes from Yale Manufacturing Company Stamford Conn to fill space below the delivery windows. The upper sash will be replaced by plate glass frames made by Hurd and Calland, improving the office to near US government standards west of the Mississippi.
The Deadwood Pioneer reports the upcoming marriage of barber Herman Haussler of Cheyenne to Miss Hattie Allen. The couple eloped first, then wed later, amid rumors of a previous wife correspondence in the States. The notice highlights Haussler’s appeal and notes the sensational dentifrice praise for Sozodont.
The Department of the Platte orders major cavalry movements on the 15th and 18th to Fort McKinney under Colonel Wesley Merritt. Companies D F X of the Fifth Cavalry march from Sidney Barracks Fort Fred Steele Camp Brown to reinforce patrols against hostile Indians north of the Black Hills.
About eleven o clock a Boulder Valley passenger train no 3 between Canfield and Erie jumped the track at twenty five miles an hour. The rear wheels of the tender were thrown and the baggage car and coach overturned injuring six passengers, including the conductor Walter C Beckwith who lay unconscious with a head wound. The worst injury is to an Erie man with possible spinal fracture. Beckwith will be bedridden for weeks.
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