Railroad Time Table Changes at Union Pacific
The Union Pacific schedule shows arrivals and departures for passenger mixed and freight trains with times in the afternoon and evening. Denver Pacific Railway times from routes to the south are listed with morning and evening freight and passenger entries. UP time runs thirty five minutes faster than city time.
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Union Pacific Railroad
Aeeteen
Passenge
Freigh
Denver Pacific Railway
U.P
Elty
Mail Arrivals and Departures Notice at Post Office
Daily mail delivery and reception hours set from 8 am to 5 pm except Sundays, with Sunday hours one hour after Western mail arrival. Money order office 8 am to 6 pm daily except Sundays. Western malls close 1 10 pm, Eastern 3 19 pm. Denver Pacific Railway routes close 8 pm with east and west mail arrivals listed. Fort Laramie Red Cloud Spotted Tail agencies mail times vary by day. Postmaster GLAFCKE signs notice.
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A.mn
Tos P
Western Mail
Omaha
Western Malls
Eastern
Denver Pacific Railway
Denver and
Southern Mails
West
Denver
Col
Denver Pacific R. W
Fort Laramie
Red Cloud
Spotted Tail
Davis
Rancho
Fort Collins
Longmont
Glafcke
Election era gossip and street scenes in Cheyenne
Local columns recall bets paid on election results, street humor, and civic oddities. Notes cover Fort Lyon layoffs, McCook’s congressional win, Cheyenne precincts, theater plans, wolves of gossip, and a Cheyenne boy taunting Mace in a mock stand up fight.
Awaited Boat Arrival Delays on Salt River Florida
The article notes the hoped arrival today of a boat down the Salt river near Florida, with Ku Klux interference feared to block the river. It mentions plans to keep the craft ready for Democratic excursionists heading to the Salt river headwaters.
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Salt River
Florida
Tne
Deadwood
Gainsborough
Maine
Voting Challenge Over Colorful Worker Declined
At the polls yesterday a colored man faced a challenge by a fellow colored voter. The challenger alleged the man was a former cook from Laramie and not a good citizen. The judge did not sustain the challenge.
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Laramie
Mail line wreck delays Clyde to Custer City
The Sidney coach broke down about 30 miles from Custer City with four mail sacks and a few passengers for Hills. It arrived last night on three wheels after a nine day road from Sidney. Citizens criticize mail routing via Cheyenne and Fort Laramie that delays letters by six to fifteen days and reroutes via Sidney.
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Colorado Mountain
Cheyenne
Thomas Evans
Georgetown
Colo
Evans
Council Bluffs
Omaha
Cahoon
Anna Dickinson
Mary Walker
Fort Laramie
Deadwood
Col
T. H. Stanton
Crook
Powder River
Third House
Colorado
Denver
Celestial
Fatherland
36Th Street
Mace
Custer City
C. T
Sidney
Here
Hills
Custer
New Railroad Progress on Omaha and Republican Valley Line
Chicago papers report rapid progress on the Omaha and Republican Valley road with Platte River reached from Valley Station and the bridge approach nearing completion. Track is in fine condition with freight locomotives running twenty miles an hour. west river grading sublet to reliable contractors with side tracks installed at Valley Station.
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Chicago
Omaha and Republican Valley
Platte River
Valley Station
General Miles Accepts Surrender of Sioux Lodges at Camp Yellowstone
A Camp Yellowstone telegram dated October 27 reports Gen. Miles after engagement and pursuit of Sitting Bull’s confederates accepts surrender of 400 lodges from Cheyenne agency. Five principal chiefs become hostages to guarantee compliance. Three bands to travel to the Agency immediately to submit to government terms. Hostage parties head to St Paul this evening under guard.
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Yellowstone
Miles
Sitting Bull
Cheyenne Agency
St. Paul
Meritt Assumes Command at Fort D. A. Russell
Brevet Major General Wesley Merritt arrives from Chicago with his family and assumes command at Fort D. A. Russell. He led cavalry under Gen. Crook in the late frontier expedition and is praised for courage coolness and generalship. The four company regiment at Russell is regarded as among the best in service.
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Wesley Merritt
Sth Cavalry
Chicago
Fort
D. A. Russell
Merritt
Crook
Russell
Marvelous Mystery of the Black Hills Explained
The Black Hills stand isolated in the American Sahara with limited timber and sparse wildlife. Peaks like Kearney and Crow rise under 7000 feet, suggesting a later erup tion from the Rocky mountain system. A bootblack and an African lady exchange jokes on tariffs and bids, illustrating frontier humor.
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Black Hills
Sahara
Rocky Mountains
Kearney
Crow Peaks
No .49-ers in the Hills Say Deadwood Miner
George Stokes writes from Deadwood for the Denver Tribune to lament the decline of the old miner. He notes absence of familiar personages and symbols of the gold rush era and describes today’s miner as cautious, money-focused, and lacking the romance of Bret Harte’s California and Colorado forty-niners.
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George Stokes
Deadwood
Denver Tribune
Starbottles
John Oakhursts
Green Russell
John Gregory
Colorado
Bret Harte
California
Queer Quartz Mine Near Deadwood Rich in Gold
A strange quartz mine near Deadwood yields a dense body of quartz boulders ferruginous clay and creek gravel rich in gold. The mine shows no surface float and contains reddish gold much finer than typical lode ore. Gulches nearby have been prospected with no source found awaiting a placer or lode fix.
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Deadwood
Drunk Husband Silently Tries Lock Break-In at Night
A weary man in a drunken state attempts to pick his home door at night but fails as his wife opens it. She confronts him with concern and scolds his behavior, urging him to stop and come inside. The couple exchanges worried dialogue as he staggers, inebriated and unsteady.
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McCook
Colorado
Congress
New York City
Cheyenne
Corlett
Deadwood
O. P. Donnelly
William
Wyoming Redeemed in Territorial Delegate Election
The Wyoming Territory returns show Corlett leading for Delegate to Congress with strong Republican gains across Laramie Albany and Carbon counties. Evanston and Sweetwater also report Republican victories. Voters, including many women, attended polling with few challenges as the day proceeded peacefully.
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Laramie City
Corlett
Steele
Albany County
Sweetwater County
Dykens
McPhee
Uinta County
Evanston
Pepper
Carbon County
Wyoming
Exciting chase as rabbit outruns crowd of dogs
A 1000 o’clock yesterday forenoon a large jack rabbit entered 16th street near the Bella Union and sparked a monumental chase. About ten thousand dogs yelped and followed as the rabbit darted along Ferguson street, looped past the Inter Ocean, and vanished from sight near the courthouse, leaving spectators hearing the whiz for ten minutes afterward.
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16Th Street
Bella Union
Liberty
Heath
Ferguson Street
Dog Army
Inter- Ocean
Ferguson
Court House
The Doctor and the Voter on Election Day
A Cheyenne physician plot fails as he tries to steer a patient to vote for Mr. Steele. He warns of damp air and danger, then prescribes rest, while the lady quietly goes to the polls and casts a solid Republican vote for Mr. Corlett.
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Steele
After the Battle Leads Leader to Praise Wyoming Victory
Tur Leaprer cites sunset signaling the end of a great political contest as LYADER touts work to sway voters. The piece notes Wyoming’s William W. Corlett winning Congress for two years and vows The Leader will keep pushing progress in Wyoming and northern El Dorado regions.
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Tur Leaprer
Frisco
Lyader
William W. Corlett
Wyoming
Congress
Tuk
el Dorado
Black Hills
Rocky Mountain
West
Progress
General Joseph J. Reynolds Acknowledged for Service and Ill Health
General Joseph J. Reynolds born in Kentucky, West Point graduate of 1843, served in artillery and volunteers, rose to brigadier and major general, later commanded the 83d A. S. Cavalry. His health declined and he went on sick leave as doctors ordered. Fred Landau boasts Cheyenne’s finest market fare today.
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Joseph J. Reynolds
Kentucky
West Point
Grant
Augur
Potter
St. Louis
Ile
Indiana
West Virginia
U. S. Infantry
A. S. Cavalry
Ilis
Fred Landau
Cheyenne
Wat Hat Vue Unclear Entry
Fragmentary OCR text provides no clear names dates places or events. Readers see only disjointed words making it impossible to determine a coherent person, organization, or occurrence for a concise summary.
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Weekly Leader
George Cassells
Tilden
Mr. Tilden
Fort Lyon
Colu
Ife
Greeley
Billy Chamberlain
Dordlye
Fallon
Dan
L5th Street
McDaniels
Gladiators
Mace and Allen
New Railroad
Great West
Jess
Scaled
Thut
Thu
Paris
Lafay Lace
Mont
Maniy Turing
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