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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1882
Page
3
The report notes W F Smith as constable candidate winning 182 votes. It mentions trenching on Eddy Street for water pipes and 300 lead of cattle shipped by Marsh and Cooper. Cheyenne is lively. discussions of fraud in the recent election at Cheyenne and Laramie City.
The Drovers Journal reports improving Texan cattle receipts anticipated in early winter due to recent rains and lush grass. Cattle, both young and old, are in good order and ranchers may ship more than usual, with cheaper cows selling relatively higher as cannery demand grows.
The Drovers Journal notes October 1852 saw 175549 cattle received at the Union Stock Yards, the highest month on record, with 45286 cattle in week ending Oct 21 and 44840 in week ending Oct 28. October also posted a record 6406 sheep. A table lists other top daily weekly and monthly receipts. Brooks & Dickson’s Romany Rye success spurs a new company and new scenery is produced for Booth's theater.
The article argues railroads need not fear dressed meat shipments as they can box stock cars for many animals. Dressed beef can move Chicago to New York quickly with air brakes, avoiding feed and water stops. Refrigerated cars may outperform live-stock trains in humane handling and efficiency, though live stock transport remains necessary.
Oyster dealers on the Pacific coast actively plant and cultivate their own stock several firms have extensive beds. Booth of Chicago supplied most seed oysters and five cars of shell oysters from Booth’s passed wear en route to San Francisco. E B R Devolt in town to oversee the shipment.
Denver News reports Deputies Miller and Foutz captured and killed Belmont and Zimmerman at Lakin Kansas after a raid on a ranch. Zimmerman was hanged by a mob at the jail, while Belmont was killed by a pistol shot. The officers praised Miller and Foutz as fearless and composed in pursuit of two notorious desperadoes.
Reportage describes Major B. W. Bellamy’s 16 000 acre Quitman Georgia plantation with a thousand enslaved tenants living in cottages and educated on site. It contrasts a Brooklyn minister quitting over workload with praise of Brooklyn’s vices and a Paris misers hidden aristocratic mansion holding priceless clocks and art.
Poem excerpt presents Adam of St. Victor noting crushed fragrances rise from suffering. The speaker asks for strength, saying incense is cast as fragrance from a broken frame. It links toil and shame with spiritual consolation and martyrdom as a distilled fragrance.
A collage of quips and cartoons from 19th century papers. Jests range from marriage and domestic life to fashion and theater, featuring misquoted lines and witty exchanges. Highlighted voices include Puck and Detroit Free Press, Louisville Courier Journal, Boston Transcript, and Wall Street News in humorous vignettes.
A collage of anecdotes notes Whitman’s illness and early life, a bee grafting dream, a dog’s sausage trick, a street car quip about cro cheted shoes, tea gown fashion, conjugal trust jokes, and bemused commentary from Boston papers and Chambers’s Journal.
The case of Bill Jones for assault on the late Charles J. Guiteau will be tried in the criminal court on Wednesday. Acting secretary Joslyn holds that grazing land entries do not constitute residence. Detective Miller seeks trial before a district-commissioner board over star route charges. Coryell and Speers to join naval yard review to decide yard closings.
A morning blaze in Newburn North Carolina destroyed eight buildings with estimated losses of fifty thousand dollars, partially insured.
A private telegram from Denver received in Lincoln Nebraska reports the legislature as Republican. Jerome B. Chaffee Judge Bowen Lieutenant Governor General Howell and Governor Pitkin are nominees for the United States Senate seat to replace Chilcott, but Pitkin is considered the strongest candidate today.
A Wabash train from St. Louis was derailed between Stanberry and McCurry. Pacific express messenger Harry A. Goves was killed by a safe thrown during the crash. A brakeman was seriously hurt. no other injuries reported. In South Dakota, John B. Raymond is elected to Congress with a large Republican majority.
Walls of the new railroad shops rise above foundations as Andre Borie prepares to join the C B Q in a responsible post. Line men wired the former dispatch office now used by the general superintendent of the mountain division. Train manipulators gain by the reshuffled offices and improved quarters.
The piece notes Hav erly's Philadelphia week of Only a Farmer's Daughter drawing $9,000, comments on imported dresses and close sleeves, and cites Minnie Hauk and Mme Modjeska. It recalls Patti Nilsson Langtry riches, warns against overvaluing Langtry, and recalls a Boston visit and a Colorado robbery of Missouri Governor Crittenden’s wife, while cautioning Americans about being fooled by English praise.
Denver reports slow returns from remote precincts. Grant appears elected governor by at least 2500 votes. Belford likely wins a seat in Congress by about 800. Both legislature branches are Republican. Democrats gain in the upper house. Pitkin’s US Senate chances are continued.
The Bierstadt estate on the Hudson at Irvington was destroyed by fire. Origin unknown, flames likely from chimney flues. Artist Albert Bierstadt owned the 16 year old house, costing about $100,000, with a 75 by 50 foot studio and a lavish interior. A. Bierstadt Jr. occupied it last season. valuables included many pictures, Yosemite images worth about $10,000 each, and trophies and curiosities totaling near $100,000.
In a Washington courtroom the Jeannette board hearing featured a dramatic moment as Mellville recounted the party’s endured sufferings. Relatives of Lieutenant Chipp attended, hearing how he urged the others to continue after collapsing on a sled and losing strength and courage.
A blast at the Keenan Lime works Smith's basin Whitehall today killed two men Dennis Golden and Joe Cameron who manned the powder house. They were blown to atoms and parts of their bodies found up to a half mile away. Authorities believe the men were smoking at the time of the accident.
Gen Sheridan reports 18 854 officers and enlisted men in his division on November 20 1882 across the Missouri Dakota Platte Missouri and Texas departments with smaller detachments. He notes quiet in Dakota while the Northern Pacific advances and Yellowstone valley settles. Recommends abandoning Fort Halcon for an Indian school at Pine Ridge and Rosebud agencies keeping troops to quiet restless Indians and turning Forts Wallace Dodge Larned to the Indian bureau. Also calls for ample ammunition for target practice and rifle competitions and praises improvements in marksmanship.
In Knoxville Tennessee on November 10 the Hodge brothers were executed for murder by a crude end using a beam and two posts as gallows. They were placed on a wagon, driven under, and strangled as the wagon moved away. Their struggles were violent.
A meeting of shipowners from New York New England and Philadelphia voted to urge Congress to abolish the extra three months wages paid to seamen discharged in foreign lands with their consent. The recommendation targets labor costs and fringe benefits for maritime crews.
A secret Wormleys gathering in Washington brought together about one hundred naval officers with another four hundred represented by proxy. They aimed to press Congress for a fairer distribution of offices and a fixed service roster. The protest traces to 1861 under Captain Fox, with a firm resolve to pursue remedy despite risks. Names were not released, but attendees hailed from across the country including two officers from west of the Mississippi.
Charles McDonald alias Joe Claxton arrested in St. Louis for sending letters to actress Kate Claxton posing as her son and demanding money. Kate Claxton’s husband Charles Stevenson forwarded the letters, signed Joe Claxton and addressed My Dear Mamma Claxton. Police doubt McDonald can be held for blackmail.
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