Resources of Wyoming and Hereford cattle venture reported
The piece notes a book The Resources of the Rocky Mountains offers Wyoming data on stock and mineral wealth and oil timber coal. It also covers a new Hereford cattle venture led by Alexander H. Swan with Welsh partners near Cheyenne. A shipment of 200 head forms part of the foundation herd plus a 500 dollar bull. Additional cattle and pedigrees from English breeders are described along with key sires and origin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wyoming
The
Rocky Mountains
Cleveland
Ohio
E. J. Farmer
Alexander H. Swan
United States
West
F. Morris
Shucknell
John Smith
Thingehill
Dearman Edwards
Brinsop Court
Mars
Marlow
Siverton
Pembridge Court
Regulus
Birmingham
H. Yeomans
April Rainfall And Coldest Month In Thirteen Years
The report notes April 1883 brought 2.76 inches of melt in rainfall, the heaviest in thirteen years, with a mean temperature unmatched in that period except 1881 and 1873. It also presents a cattle herd projection showing ten-year growth reaching about sixty head under specified breeding assumptions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sergeant McGovern
Teania Narsteteieles
Aea RT
Crook and Apache War Settling Arizona Ties
Alta Californian centers on General Crook and Chiricahua Apache conflict in Arizona. It criticizes Tombstone and Tucson papers for inflammatory rhetoric while praising Crook for his measured approach. The piece urges patience as Crook pursues a peace through cooperation with Mexican authorities and broader public confidence in his leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tombstone
Arizona
Alta
San Carlos
Crook
Camp Grant
Tucson Citizen
Prescott Courier
Tucson Star
Tombstone Papers
Tombstone Rangers
Rocky Mountains
Rita
Mexico
Tucson
San Francisco
Pacific Slope
O. O. Howard
Sonora
Montana reacts to National Park dispute with Crosby Hatch
A Helena column discusses Montana's stake in the National Park matter pitting Governor Crosby against Rufus Hatch. It notes most of the park lies in Wyoming, but access routes pass through Montana, igniting local interest and criticism of Crosby and support from Senator West against monopoly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Tribune
Helena
Montana
Governor Crosby
Rufus Hatch
National Park
Wyoming
Crosby
West
Colorado notes report city anti prostitution ordinance
Fort Collins frames an ironclad ordinance against houses of prostitution. A bursting lamp started a fire at the Grand hotel in Leadville on Monday. Fred Kussatz was killed when run over by a train at Cation City Sunday night. Albert A. Selak who had throat cut at Lawson recently died at Georgetown on Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Collins
Leadville
Fred Kussatz
Cation City
Albert A. Selak
Lawson
Georgetown
Department Orders for 6th Infantry Units and Staff Moves
Orders place Companies C L and K of the 6th Infantry under Major B G Bush for movement to Fort Thornburgh Utah. Acting Assistant Surgeon Samuel O L Potter will report to Major Bush en route and return to Fort Douglas. Captain Charles A H McCauley must report to the department commander on public business then rejoin station. Lt Charles G Penney temporarily attached to Company K and to await arrival at Fort Thornburgh. A board of survey will convene at Cheyenne depot to appraise matters before June 30, 1884. Bread ration at Fort Laramie increased to twenty two ounces.
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Samuel O. L. Potter
Bush
Fort Thornburgh
Fort Douglas
Utah
Charles A. H. McCauley
Charles G. Penney
6Th Infantry
James Regan
9Th Infantry
Edgar B. Robertson
Albert S. McNutt
Cheyenne Depot
W. T
Fort Laramie
Wyo
Cattle Sales Shift to Foreign and Corporate Owners
The era of western cattle roaming under private ownership is ending as large sales pivot to wealthy corporations, often backed by foreign capital. Dennis Sullivan sold nearly a million-dollar herd to foreigners, with similar transfers in Wyoming and Texas. A recent Trinidad deal saw Dr. South and Lou Horn selling to Maxwell Cattle Company, a Dutch-capital firm owning the Maxwell Land Grant, for 400000 cash.
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West
Dennis Sullivan
Wyoming
Texas
Trinidad
South
Lou Horn
Colorado
Maxwell Cattle Company
Maxwell
Denver Times
Ozokerite From Wasatch Refined for Market Uses
William L. Lay of Oil City in Cheyenne explains ozokerite or earthen wax found in Utah and mined in Borislaw Austria Poland. Factories in Vienna produce white wax candles matches and crayon pencils. Ozokerite is used for church candles and floor wax in Europe and sometimes adulterates beeswax in the United States. Prospectors should consider ozokerite in summer mining plans and chewing gum uses are noted by Wyoming youths.
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William L. Lay
Oil City
Cheyenne
Nature
Wasatch Mountains
Utah
Austrian- Poland
Borislaw
Vienna
Europe
United States
Wyoming
Texas stock notes and cowboy strike in Panhandle
Fort Worth Live Stock Journal notes rail shipments to Wichita Falls and growing cattle buyer presence. It reports a Texas cowboys exhibition group forming for the east and comments on abundant calves, rich ranges, and rising unfenced ranch land prices. The piece also states the Panhandle cowboy strike failed with many workers finding other employment or leaving the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
Muskogee Indian Journal
Texas Cowboys
East
Texas
Panhandle
Texas cattle profits and outside capital rise in Fort Worth
Henry R Harris Jr recounts seeing a Fort Worth cattle man who sold his herd for 1.6 million dollars to capitalists and faces a 2 million dollar offer from a London company. He notes outsiders increasingly control business and a Mobile financier plans to start his son in cattle with 200,000 dollars. He predicts herd values will double every three years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry R. Harris, Jr
Lone Star State
Fort Worth
Texas
Nebraska News In Brief From Across Counties
Phelps county seeks a consignment of young ladies. Seventy five families left Reynolds for California. Lincoln Masonic temple cornerstone laid. Nebraska to see many schools churches built this summer. Two thousand calves shipped from Columbus to Willow Island. Prairie fires damage Burt county property. Last government homestead in Thayer county taken up. land to be bought hereafter. Genoa name change proposed to resolve mail confusion but Genoa objects. Earl and Schribner quarrel near Fairmont. a revolver fires. Carson may be fatally wounded. James Morrill’s house struck by cyclone near Nebraska City. Morrill injured, Mike Smack arm broken.
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Phelps County
Reynolds
California
David City
Lincoln
Nebraska
Thayer County
Osceola
Frank Campell
Minden
Mathias Zimmerman
Supreme Court
James Morrill
Nebraska City
Morrill
Mike Smack
Genoa
Geneva
Tucson to Get Electric Light Soon
Western news reports Tucson will receive electric illumination, while Tombstone’s post office will revert to fourth-class status. A Chinaman and a Mexican woman wed in Tuc son. Missoula saloonkeepers face 500 dollar quarterly licenses for gambling. Copper mine sale talks in London seek 2 million dollars. Beaverhead cattle and sheep benefit from green grass, beef scarce, hay priced at 55 dollars per head. A tramp attacked a ten year old girl at Corinne. father captured him and beat him with a loaded snake whip before he fled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tombstone
Tucson
Missoula
Mont
Butte
London
Beaverhead County
Corinne
Rock Springs Mine Roof Collapse Kills John Horne
Special report from Laramie May 11 states miner John Horne was instantly killed today at Rock Springs mine when the roof collapsed crushing him. Local authorities and fellow workers report the accident occurred during morning shift at the underground shaft. Emergency crews arrived but could not save him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laramie City
John Horne
Rock Springs
Fragmented OCR Note on Quarrel and Malta Belief
An unclear historical fragment describes a quarrel story tied to Malta and a bomber monk, with references to meetings, belief, and plans. The text is garbled, mentioning a writer, captor, and newspaper, plus a series of jests and conspiratorial notions with limited coherent detail.
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Louisville
Malta
Tomonies
All ot! hit a8
Fragmentary OCR text shows unclear phrasing with possible stray letters and numbers. No clear event, names, or places emerge to summarize into a factual news item.
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Mieekly Heaker
the Resources OF Wyoming
Etis Isisielntis Eaters Creer
B. G. Bush
Texas Stock Notes
Cattle Kings of
Columbus
Willow Island
Neb
Burt County
Earl
Schribner
Fairmont
Barl
Schrbner
Carson
Geo.g.masten
Cor Sixteenth
Ferguson
Schlitz
Milwaukee Beer
Lan
Great Shoe House
Burt
Ther & Findings
Teller City
Western News
Craigeadavis
SC Kile
Imi Bf
Ible
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