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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1882
Page
9
The North Park Miner reports on new business blocks in Laramie City, mining developments at Endemile, and civic notes from Evanston and Cheyenne. The Cheyenne club and local politics mix with social updates as Jack Meldrum earns mixed reputations.
A Rawhide letter notes robust mining activity despite cold weather. Mines like Banner lode and Mountain Belle show rich ore, Deadwood and Old George lodes advance, Wolverine builds housing for workers, Muskrat and head of the Buttes expand with new claims, and a Deadwood visitor plans a smelter site. Election talk is minimal.
Sunday morning a pony jumped the rails while the general superintendent’s special car 100 was being turned on the railroad wye. Rails bent and ties demoralized, causing a long off track, and the locomotive had a difficult repair. Major portion of the day was spent righting the engine and track.
The Uinta Chieftain notes a unified county ticket, rejects party bosses, and urges voters to back Hon. M. E. Post for Congress. It highlights hospital progress near town and contrasts Post with Meldrum, praising loyalty and self-reliance in Wyoming’s early development.
The article notes the near end of the shipping season with scattered shipments to come. It mentions Marsh and Cooper planning extensive beef shipments next month and Hutton installing a windmill and well at Wyoming station for stock use. It also covers wool market tone, stock cattle movements to North Platte for winter, and Chicago as the grand distribution center.
A Buffalo man reports his wife suffered two years with untreatable disorders until Parker's Ginger Tonic was tried. He says three bottles cured her at a total cost of one dollar fifty cents, restoring her strength.
The notice recalls a diamond ring presentation by Mrs. Dunlap’s friends in the city. Before departure, ladies gave Mr. Dunlap a sealed package to deliver to his wife in Chicago, not to open until arrival, under warning of unspecified consequences. Further details will follow.
Advertisement touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup as safe for teething pain and bowel regulation with a pleasant taste and immediate aid. Claims make it essential for mothers. price listed as 25 cents. Also promotes KLINE's Great Nerve Restorer as a universal nerve remedy with a Philadelphia address for orders.
The Green River Gazette reports a brutal assault on a brakeman named Brown as he walked to the depot Sunday night. Two assailants choked him with their feet, robbed about ten dollars, and fled, leaving him unconscious with bleeding from the ears. no clues for capture are given.
The pump house for the new water works is nearly finished on the city outskirts toward Sloan's lake. Workers rush pipe laying in principal streets leaving trenches and dirt marks. Yesterday crews were active on Eddy street in the railroad yard.
The Wyoming copper company sent sixteen mule teams and thirty wagons loaded with coke on Tuesday for the smelting works. The outfit is praised as one of the finest private freighting outfits in the West, with wagons built by Schuttler. Five more teams will join on the next trip, and the furnace is to blast on November 15, with works progressing ahead of coke arrival.
Bucklen Arnica Salve advertised as a universal skin healer with a money back guarantee. A ranch near Fort Collins Colorado offers alfalfa hay and cattle fattening terms including ranch housing and hay for cattle owners willing to participate on a profit-sharing basis. The item notes a shift in news service with Western AP providing dispatches for The Leader.
The Colorado assessed valuation reaches 104 440 000. Fort Collins Express reports a Union Pacific passenger depot planned in the city. Del Norte sees Dr Flournoy and Fritz Kaster arrested for stealing 2000 dollars in ore. Counterfeit two dollar and one dollar bills recently circulated in Leadville. Denver hall and charity hall budgets named. A stone depot planned at Eaton near Greeley. Silver Cliff residents threaten to back county seat shift with four years free rent. Denver post office funds eyed for increase. Railroad shops work progresses briskly north of town with heavy stone traffic and expanding sidings.
Incorporat ed in 1868 for twenty five years by the Legislature for educational and charitable purposes with a capital of 1 900 000 and a reserve fund of 550 000. By a popular vote its franchise was made part of the State Constitution adopted December 2 1879. Tickets at five dollars each fractions in fifths in proportion.
James M. Sherod attacks the republicans and taunts Post as a mule-skinner predicting a skinned jackass after November seventh. An El Moro saloon lowers beer to five cents, while ten cent houses riotously demolish it. General Superintendent Dickinson takes office with headquarters moved to the city due to a clerical error.
An advertisement extols Brown's Ron Bitters as a blood purifier and fortifier. It asserts iron alone restores health, critiques other iron tonics for blackening teeth and causing headaches, and claims the bitters purify and strengthen blood without side effects.
A Baltimore woman credits Brown's Iron Bitters with stopping her daughter’s wasting illness after physicians failed. She reports prior losses to consumption and notes rapid improvement after one bottle, praising the tonic for dyspepsia and general weakness.
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