Weekly Leader notes frontier trade and turmoil in 1877
Salt Lake potatoes sell at two cents a pound in 600 pound lots at Taramie while corn grows cheaper. Cattle shipments resume with 560 head from Pine Bluffs and 400 from Julesburg. Fort Sully signal station closed. Deadwood gains a new one. Laramie mill output rises to seventy tons daily after a right-turn stop. A traveling column of military orders and a water works push echo city debt concerns. A distraught passenger jumps from a Pullman near Grand Island, injuring herself en route to Chicago asylum care.
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Salt Lake
Taramie
Kansas
Deadwood
Sturgis & Goodell
Pine Bluff
S. D. Porter
Spruce Gulch
Deadwood Times
Foncis Rines
Babcock
Blackburn
Wall
Tom Leader
U. P
Grand Island
Saga
Omahs Herald
Miss Winteninger
Stockton
Cal
Chicgo
Hungry Utes Seek Food as 400 Utes Camp Near Rawlins
A Rawlins letter reports Douglas and about four hundred Utes left their Agency in mid November 1877 in search of provisions. They claimed no supplies for months and demanded flour from Washington via the Indian Department, fearing hunger and possible unrest. The note credits interpreter Mr Curtis for urging peace and notes camps at Cherokee Springs and along Whiskey Gap.
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Rawlins
W. T
The
Leader
Douglas
Uriah M. Curtis
Indian Department
Sam
U. P
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Danforth
White River
Rawling
Curtis
Washington
Cherokee Springs
Whiskey Gap
Thayer
Corlett
Bonn
County approves new Ward and May contract for Cheyenne route
County Commissioners finalize a fresh contract with Ward & May for completing the Cheyenne short route to Deadwood. Immediate payment of 1500 dollars, plus another 1500 on first class completion and acceptance by Commissioner Sparks. Ward & May to maintain road for two years toll free. The article also notes a former Gallatin & Co. employee recounting Blackburn and Wall, the famed road agents, visiting a hay camp after Crook City escape, claiming involvement in the treasure coach robbery and shooter Denny. The haymakers warn the duo to flee the country.
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Ward & May
Deadwood
Sparks
Gallatin & Co
Cheyenne
Bullock
Crook City
Blackburn
Wall
Scott Davis
Denny
Sidney Hell Hounds Strike in Oregon Trail Town
An elderly Hendricks traveling from Salt Lake to Omaha was robbed of 462 dollars, his watch, and mining papers in Sidney last Saturday. On Sunday Rev. Charles Galpin of Des Moines had 60 dollars stolen. The article portrays Sidney as a lawless, dangerous town nicknamed Hell's half Acre.
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Hendricks
Salt Lake
Omaha
Sidney
Charles Galpin
Des Moines
Iowa
Hell's Half-Acre
Brave Brakeman Stops Runaway Horses At City Depot
A U P brakeman named Mooney leaped onto the moving wagon back during a fright at Ferguson street near 14th, seized the lines, and halted the runaway team just as spectators praised his quick, skilled action in saving bystanders and the driver.
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Thorpe
Ferguson Street
U. P
Mooney
Cheyenne Tramps and the Question of Work
In Cheyenne a debate rages over helping vagrants who refuse work. Some argue money enables dependency, suggesting harsh limits or starvation as a deterrent. A philanthropic woman asks for work, but a tramp replies any amount suffices, highlighting chronic reluctance to labor even when offered.
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Cheyenne
Bilid
Western Wyoming Waifs and Mining News
Huff Richards and Co will start winter work on the Mary Ellen lode while Miner's Delight mill crushes ore from their own mine. The Rock creek water mill, owned by Ansell Huff and Co., closed for winter. They report a richer Cariboo but details are unavailable. George McKay advances the Young America extension with rich quartz milling. Joe Adairs of Miner's Delight injured by frozen quartz falling on his hand. A Green River man jailed to ensure trial attendance sues Sweetwater county for fees. Prospectors Livingston and Waughee find rich ore on the South Pass road shaft area, with about twenty tons of ore yielding fifty to a hundred dollars per ton. Green River Courier.
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Huff, Richards & Co
Rock Creek
Ansell, Huff & Co
Cariboo
George McKay
Joe Adairs
Miner’s Delight
Livingston and Waughee
South Pass
Green River Courier
Contested Wyoming election case heard in 1877 council
In Cheyenne on November 18 1877 the council debated the Merrell versus Friend election, heard long testimony with possible soldier votes at Medicine Bow, and considered resolutions and bills including county officer pay and a proposed assay office. The house adjourned to Thursday.
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Haas
Homer Merrell
J. C. Friend
Council
Downey
Merrell
Pease
Albany
District Court
Mintal
United States
Medicine Bow
Friend
Hays
Ferris
Ross
Whitney
Erret
Holliday
Board of Commissioners
Col. Murrin
Col. Downey
Col
Murrin
Medicine Row
Merrel
California
Uinta
Keller
Gurney
Klingerman
Committee On
Councia Chamber
Congress
Wyoming
Treasury Department
Swan
Molliday
Bemenderfer Marries Lemons and Bemenderfer-W Swan
In Wyoming notices two marriages are recorded. Miss L A Lemons wed Mr W T Barne in Laramie County on November 16 by Rev J Y Cowhie. Also OC H Bemenderfer married Miss Lottie Swan in Cheyenne on November 14 by Rev C M Sanders.
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J. Y
Wyoming House Debates Bills on Bulls and Land Irrigation
The Wyoming House introduces acts to regulate bull herding in Carbon county and voluntary assignments, with others on special partnerships irrigation of lands and civil code amendments. Memorial and House Joint Resolution 1 pass unanimously seeking transfer of penitentiary and territorial prisoners to territorial officials to cut costs. Delegates consider conference on committee filling while court actions proceed on various criminal and civil cases through November 16 1877.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Homer
Ferris
Carbon County
McKay
Judiciary Committee
Klingerman-H
Hoy
Foglesong
Wyoming
Caldwell
House
United States
Coad
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Dakota
Daniel O’leary
M. J. Fitzgerald
9Th Infantry
Omaha Barracks
Sidney Barracks
Laramie
Charles H. Tompkins
Department of Dakota
B. C. Curd
William D. Howell
Missouri
Bainbridge Reynolds
Third Cavalry
Blackburn and Wall
Sidney Hell-Hounds
Green River
Sweetwater County
Council Proceedings
Council Chamber
Committee On Judiciary
Andrews
House of Representatives
Albany County
District Court Proceedings
Benito Baca
A. G. McGregor
Lieut
Chase
John S. Babcock
Rines
John F. Bacock
Rives
Vas Wisdom
Webb and
Connors
Boon May
L. IH
Richoltz
Joli
Mary Wanless
Ingraham
James Colvin
Louis Fabre
Perry Wisdom
Geo. W. Connors
Prescott Webb
Fonce Rines
John F. Babevel
Fence
Wisdom and
Webb
Ve. D. J. McCann
Fenn
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