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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1876
Page
2
Cheyenne dated January 1 1876 lists advertising rates for the Daily Leader and Weekly Leader. Rates cover transient notices per line, multiple insertions, and local notices with varying per line costs. Proprietor MH Glacee is named.
The New York World correspondent recounts General Miles engaging Sitting Bull’s Sioux near Cedar Creek. The action features moving lines, a protracted council, and a decisive infantry advance driving Sioux from key ridges and knolls, with two Fifth Regiment casualties and significant Indian losses in camp equipment and dried buffalo meat.
New York World correspondent learns General Terry views the Indian campaign as a mixed outcome. Militarily a failure, but politically a success, the campaign unsettled tribes, disrupted supplies, and demonstrated government resolve. Terry says the Indians are broken for now, and predicts a shorter, decisive future campaign if renewed hostilities occur.
Important notice for travelers praised the Chicago and North Western Railway as the oldest and shortest Omaha to Chicago path with steel rails, early Chicago depots, and easy connections. It urges buying through tickets via Marshall Cedar Rapids Clinton for Northern Iowa and Fulton for Northern Illinois or Wisconsin, touting Pullman sleepers, new day coaches, and smoking cars. Information and maps available at West through-ticket offices or from agents Mountain and Steinert in Omaha and Chicago.
A dense roster of local officials includes G A Draper as chairman for Laramie County with commissioners I, D Beary, F Landau, sheriff N J O'Brien, and others. City posts in Cheyenne name LR Bresnahen as president, ex officio mayor, plus Clerk Geo B Stimpson, marshal J N Slaughter, treasurer Isaac Bergman, and surveyor R S Blackstone. County officers cover Albany, Carbon, Sweetwater, and Uinta. roles include probate judge, treasurer, prosecuting attorney, superintendent of schools, coroner, assessor, and board trustees.
The notice lists church schedules for Congregational on Nineteenth Street at Hill with Pastor C M Sanders, Presbyterian on Rey with JY Cowhick, Methodist Episcopal with Rev WF Warren, African Methodist Episcopal with Rev Thomas Whitlock, and Roman Catholic on O'Neil Street above Twentieth with Rev J McGoldrick and assistant Eugene Cusson. Services run Sundays at 11 a.m. and evening times vary, with Bible studies, prayer meetings midweek, and Sabbath School following morning services. Strangers are welcome and seats are free.
Masonic bodies in Wyoming list regular conclaves and meeting nights. Wyoming Commandery No 1 holds monthly meetings on the first Friday at Masonic Hall. Cheyenne Lodge No 1 meets Tuesdays and Thursdays at Masonia hall and Odd Fellows Hall respectively.
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