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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1877
Page
8
The Cheyenne Weekly Leader reports Union Pacific and Kansas Pacific rail moves, local fires near Grand Island, a Wardell vs Union Pacific ruling, a missing person case, and stolen stage horses recovered near Fort Laramie with details of thieves and affected routes.
The editorial calls a press editor a demented drunkard and accuses him of sensationalism about the Cheyenne route to the Black Hills mines. It argues road agents are gone and Indians have caused no depredations for a year, asserting the writer merely seeks column inches.
Thomas Cassiday, a Black Hills miner from Potato Gulch, was attacked by an old she bear and five cubs near the gulch mouth. He killed three cubs and wounded a fourth during a desperate fight, escaping with a badly lacerated arm after shooting one cub and slaying another.
The Salt Lake Tribune reports a southbound Utah Central passenger train was blown from the track by a gale near Farmington. Four passengers were hurt lightly including Mrs Jacobs of Springville. three men B S Young M McElroy and J George were injured. The engine carried the mail to Salt Lake and returned with two coaches carrying the remaining passengers. Also noted is the November term of the First Judicial District Court with Grand Jury proceedings and a list of jurors.
A Pioneer correspondent in the Greeley Tribune recounts how a bear skin rite and tincture of ginger swayed Sioux chiefs to seek cures and honor the bearer. He claims the bear’s spirit granted healing and killing powers, influencing tribal councils until the 1868 Fort Laramie treaty and removal to the Red Cloud Reservation.
Theatrical troupe led by Thomas Maguire arrived in San Francisco for a six week engagement. The cast includes Charles R. Thorne Jr and Fanny Morant among others. In another incident Dr. Cheney of South Bend was shot in Link's hall when a Winchester bullet fired from above went through the floor. the wound is painful though not dangerous. The shooter Billy Miller and others were friends and the event was accidental. Liberal advertising is urged for mercantile success.
The legislature begins its session with the election of officers in both chambers. In the Council, E L Pease elected president. Bramel secretary. Mrs St Clair engrossing clerk. Street enrolling clerk. Koln sergeant at arms. Brame doorkeeper. Caldwell messenger. McKay watchman. Hamilton chaplain. Patterson page. In the House, N F Spicer elected temporary chair. H W Foglesong chief clerk. Andrews speaker. Trufant enrolling clerk. Smith assistant clerk. Martin engrossing, Payne secretary. Pierson doorkeeper. O Malley watchman. Kerrigan page. Sanders chaplain. Adjourned to 10 a.m. Wednesday.
The two Houses completed their organization on opening day. E L Pease of Evaston was re elected President of the Council and N L Andrews re elected Speaker. C W Bramel is Secretary of the Council and Wood Foglesong of the city re elected Chief Clerk of the House. Experienced officers are expected to ensure orderly, prompt business.
An advertisement claims good material alone fails without Dooley's Yeast Powder. The copy asserts the product brings order harmony and union to ingredients, delivering reliable better bread cake and pastry results. It urges readers to try and be convinced.
An 1860s style advertisement touts Thale s Honey of Hore hound and Tar for coughs colds and throat or lung troubles promising a swift cure and pleasant preparation. It also promotes Pike s Toothache Drops claimed to cure toothache in one minute and notes sale by all druggists at 25 cents.
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