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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1877
Page
5
The notice advertises The Weekly Leader as a large western paper issued every Thursday by ASUED with yearly and half yearly rates. It touts commercial printing services including business cards bill heads posters and letterheads produced quickly using new type and presses at low prices.
Judge Maguire reports from the Black Hills that Spearfish Valley yields 20000 bushels of potatoes with strong acre returns and says eastern foothills offer 1500 square miles for colonization. He plans to promote farming to feed rising mining populations and irrigate_loam lands via flumes to support vegetable and cereal production, forecasting a regional boom within four years.
The passage portrays Shakespearean women as physically robust before modern health fads. It recalls them exercising outdoors in English landscapes, riding, walking through heath and lanes, learning from nature and unspoiled daily life. The tone blends literary critique with vivid pastoral imagery.
Gen McClellan holds a roughly 12 000 vote lead over ex Governor New for New Jersey governor in an off year. Voters see little consequence in the vote and believe McClellan would win without help. Democrats widen their Legislature margins but remain narrow two House seats and Senate seats. No United States Senator will be elected in the coming session.
Sitting Bull settles on Canadian soil for the winter under Dominion police guard and warns he will be shot if he attacks American troops or traders. Major Walsh reprimands his boasting as police seek to prevent incidents. In Washington, Democratic Senators hold a caucus on Privileges and Elections with focus on Eustis of Louisiana and Butler against Corbet of South Carolina.
Secretary Schurz presents medals to Tre Ponea chiefs on a Tuesday farewell. He urges early selection of new homes and promises material assistance for relocation.
The cabinet met on Tuesday to discuss upcoming appointments this week including the postmaster at St Louis and the collector of customs at New Orleans.
The ninth biennial congress convened in Indianapolis yesterday at the Friends' church. Nearly every meeting in America is represented.
An exchange labels General Nelson Miles as the bravest roughest and wickedest frontier chieftain in an era marked by military campaigns and leadership debates.
The piece urges Wyoming to spend public funds on advertising its resources to attract settlers and capital. It argues that other Western states prosper from measured promotion while Wyoming lags, citing ample pasture, mines, forests, and safety for newcomers, plus access to markets and opportunity without frontier peril. It also reports on a bill for postal saving banks and notes about the Hannibal and St. Joseph railroad directors, with local commentary from the Omaha Herald about ranches on the South Platte lacking shelter and hay.
A notice offering the full bound Compiled Laws of Wyoming for five dollars, mailed postpaid for five fifty. Include remittance by money order or registered letter. The volume covers territorial laws, key treaties, land, mining, timber, town site, and coal laws.
John F Coad and John Sparks of Cheyenne provide stock range details from Sidney Bridge to Scott's Bluff Nebraska with cattle branding notes. The list includes Wattle on the left hind quarter and gegun branding on the right shoulder, plus Bridger’s Ferry stock range north of the Platte River and a Chngwater range entry.
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