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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1877
Page
4
The column surveys global tensions with fleet movements at Crete and fears of abdication, reviews editorial quibbles, and previews forthcoming writings. It cites consular appointments, judicial rulings on Utah divorces, and a flood of anecdotal items from Paris to Japan, including Grant’s intended visit and a curious oyster tale.
Description of Pope Pius IX's small bedroom within his vast command, noting a narrow bed without curtains, simple chairs and a writing table. The room lacks a rug and shows worn red-tiled floor. the Pope rises after five o'clock, enduring winter and summer in modest surroundings.
Cedar City faces ruin as residents abandon homes and move them uphill. The depot will be relocated while convicts labor to halt river erosion. Engineer Captain Eads visits and backs deep piling as the sole method to avert further land loss and potential destruction.
Corinne Record notes the Cheyenne Leader claims Mormons possess a sizable fleet on Salt Lake, including ships of line and sloops, though specifics are not given. It warns government officers and Camp Douglas commandant to monitor the fleet, suggesting possible bombardment of fortifications if insurrection rumors prove true.
Special correspondence reports Gen. Crook's remarks on moving the Cheyennes to their Southern Agency with minimal force, praising Sioux tractability, urging gradual work and councils, noting low local vice, and detailing depredations by white horse-thieves harming Indian relations at Red Cloud and Spotted Tail agencies.
A Cheyenne morning trip to Fort D. A. Russell to view the gallant Fifth cavalry and a parade to Cantonment Reno. The escort, bugles, and marching officers are described with admiring detail, plus notes on local publishers and recent magazine offerings.
Literary notes praise Thomas Sturgis pamphlet on the Sioux War and humane treatment. Editors urge Congress to read the work as solid, citing a Lincoln era line urging action and urging decisive policy rather than extermination or sentimentalism. The text quotes the pamphlet’s call: Just what you asked of Lincoln we ask of you Good Abraham turn not back but put it through.
A prospectus for The Hand Book of Wyoming describes a history of the territory, resources, mines, lands, and towns with travel notes by Rupert E. Stratiorn. Also reviewed are two Society publications from Cincinnati and Montana: verified proceedings and portraits, plus a dramatic novel Two Men of Sandy Bar and a Sierra mining camp sketch First Families of the Sierras by Joaquin Miller.
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