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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1877
Page
15
An advertisement proclaims CLARGEST PAPERS IN THE WEST with cheap, speedy commercial job printing. It notes a new type and presses for handsome work at low prices, including cards, bill heads, letter headings, blanks, and posters on short notice.
A correspondent reports the clearing of the great Temple of Zeus site at Olympia and rapid museum additions of sculptures and inscriptions. The works of Phidias’ contemporaries astonish with originality, though not the Parthenon’s finish, while Pausanias’ descriptions are largely accurate aside from a helmet misattribution on the chariot race rider.
A London Times letter by P. H. condemns bastinado cruelty in Ali Nasmi case and a distant English punishment. It quotes a victim's words on being beaten with a staff and chain, feet bent, red hot strokes, and long-term disability. The writer notes 500 to 600 strokes could kill and cites three day sessions as possible.
A remarkable piece at the Mining Register's office in Sandhurst shows a six inch square landscape carved on slate. The scene features a grass plot, two ponds with a stream, a farm house, and poplars, with blue skies and stratified clouds. Found on Carshalton reef, the rock split to reveal a natural, artistically shaded rural tableau.
The population of the Indian Territory is described as mosaic. About 20,000 wild Indians by blood include Osages, Cheyennes, Arapahoes, Sionas and Pawnees, called blanket Indians who do not cultivate the soil. There are mixed, partially civilized tribes Cherokees, Creeks, Seminoles, Choctaws and Chickasaws. White men marrying into these tribes gain tribal rights and land shares, including women who marry Indians. There are also many black Indians by treaty linked to the region.
The text notes 65,000 civilized Indians by blood white Indians by marriage and black Indians by treaty among Cherokees Creeks and Seminoles, with 6,500 negro citizens of the United States formerly slaves of Chickasaws and Choctaws. Territory population reaches about 77,000, larger than Nevada.
A Galaxy sketch by R. G. Whith praises English women in business, noting they commonly manage hotels and staff them as clerks. He contrasts with American hotel clerks, lauding English women for courtesy, efficiency, and considerate service, dressed plainly and acting with quiet authority.
Virginia City readers learn of an exiled Russian nobleman lingering in a ureki restaurant as a waiter for two years. Town ladies lament not piece together his identity before he left for his homeland. They joke about an angel unawares and question who ever heard of an angel hiring out to sling hash.
A frugal admonition urges avoiding debt and paying cash for household items and luxuries. It favors simple self owned possessions over borrowed luxury, warning against owing shopkeepers and ornate purchases tied to future payments. The piece underscores prudence in spending and personal restraint.
A Peoria Democrat editor and Kickapoo township supervisor clashed over a war map printed in the paper. The supervisor sought satisfaction as the editor hurled an inkstand and created a wartime mural on the wall. The supervisor hid after realizing the editor was armed.
A terse quip from The Hamilton Newsman laments moral decline and vows that no drunkard shall enter Heaven. The snippet references a Washington Star line about fish freshness and noses, paired with a St. Louis Daily Journal aside urging repentance as the hour is at hand.
Our Black Hills letter from Custor City reports robust activity across mining districts Castle French Spring Battle and Rapid Creeks. Merchants show daily cash sales, Hill City revives with new drilling and irrigation while farmers prepare for bedrock yields. prices for food and goods in Deadwood remain higher than in Custor, and Cheyenne press coverage draws critique.
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