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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1876
Page
8
The notice provides railroad schedules with arrival and departure times for Union Pacific and Denver Pacific lines. It notes that Union Pacific time runs thirty five minutes faster than city time and lists various passenger mixed and freight slots throughout the day.
Mail service details list daily mail delivery and reception hours with Western and Eastern mail deadlines. The Denver Pacific Railway routes, money order office hours, and specific closures for Fort Laramie Red Cloud Davis Rancho Fort Collins and Longmont are provided. Postmaster GLafcke notes the schedules.
A breezy roundup of post election chatter in Cheyenne includes bets settled, theater plans, a coroner candidate promising free inquests, and local oddities. Reports mention Fort Lyon workers unpaid, a Cheyenne mayoral glow, Mace and Allen on a bill, and a dramatic mule runaway toward Deadwood with bullets of humor throughout.
The column notes a boat expected to reach today if obstructing forces do not hinder the Salt River passage in Florida. It says the craft will be ready to carry Democratic excursionists toward the Salt River headwaters and hints at rapid arrival amid political tension and local chatter.
At the polls yesterday a colored man faced a challenge from a fellow colored voter who accused him of being an unworthy citizen and a former cook at Laramie. The judge asked for grounds and the challenge was not sustained.
The Sidney coach broke down about 30 miles from Custer City, carrying four sacks of mail and passengers for Hills. It arrived last night on three wheels after nine days on the road from Sidney. Citizens protest mail routing via Cheyenne and Fort Laramie, which delays letters six to fifteen days to reach Custer.
The Omaha and Republican Valley road advances with Platte River reached from Valley Station and the bridge approach near completion. Track is in fine condition with freight locomotives running twenty miles per hour. West side grading sublet to contractors, side tracks laid at Valley Station.
Telegram from Camp in the field Yellowstone dated October 27 reports Gen. Miles after combat and pursuit accepting the surrender of 400 lodges from Cheyenne agency allied tribes. Five principal chiefs are given as hostages to guarantee compliance. Three bands move to the Agency to submit to government terms. Hostages travel to St Paul under guard.
Brevet Major General Wesley Merritt arrived from Chicago with his family and assumed command at Fort D. A. Russell. He led cavalry under Gen. Crook in the recent expedition and is praised for courage, coolness, and skilled leadership. His four company regiment is regarded as among the best in service at Russell.
A fragmentary historical piece describes the Black Hills as isolated in the American Sahara with sparse vegetation and rugged peaks Kearney and Crow. It notes limited timber, scarce wildlife, and a traveler’s impression of looking downward. A bootblack anecdote contrasts tariff jokes with a giant African woman seeking a fast-class shine.
George Stokes reports from Deadwood for the Denver Tribune that modern miners lack the old era’s glamour and gear. He contrasts today’s miner with Bret Harte’s figures, noting vanished buckskin shirts long hair bowie knives and eight foot neck chains. He calls today’s miner practical tight with money and wary of swindles.
A distinctive quartz mine site near Deadwood yields a rich body of rounded boulders and gravel with heavy gold content. The reddish gold appears unlike typical lode ore, with $15.50 extracted from a single pound of rock. Prospects along adjacent gulches have failed to locate the source.
A weary man tries a pool check in the keyhole of the night lock but the door opens to reveal his wife. He speaks drunkenly in a fractured exchange asking where he has been and what ails him while she scolds him gently.
The Territory reports strong Republican gains in the delegates race and county tickets. Corlett leads in several counties with margins of 100 to 600 votes, while Steele and Dykens win in others. Voters, including women, cast ballots amid lively polling and minimal challenges, with the overall tone celebratory and orderly.
Yesterday forenoon a huge jack rabbit wandered into the city on 16th street near the Bella Union. A mob of roughly ten thousand dogs pursued, routing across Ferguson street and down to the Inter Ocean, then back toward Ferguson, as the rabbit vanished from sight near the courthouse.
A Cheyenne physician tried to keep a sick lady home with weather warnings and a prescription but she nevertheless went to the polls and cast a Republican ballot for Mr. Corlett, ensuring a strong showing.
After a long campaign Lyader notes the setting sun signaling end of the fight for ballots. William W. Corlett elected to Wyoming’s Congress for two years as the paper pledges to advance Wyoming, Black Hills, and mining districts with malice toward none and charity for all.
General Joseph J. Reynolds, born in Kentucky and West Point graduate of 1843, served in artillery, taught mathematics in St. Louis, joined the 1861 army as a volunteer colonel, commanded Indiana volunteers in West Virginia, became brigadier and major general of volunteers, later Colonel of the 83d A. S. Cavalry, praised for honor and courtesy but currently on medical leave due to impaired health. Fred Landau praises Cheyenne market offerings including beef mutton venison oysters fish and general market quality.
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