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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1882
Page
6
A garbled text fragment from a Louisville page shows scattered references to artists, music halls, and civil engineering details. Names, dates, and places are obscured, yielding a mosaic of uncertain topics including a vessel, a dining scene, and academic or artistic allusions.
Fragmentary lines describe a loved youth and a dream-like scene with porcelain imagery, garden gates, lemonade and cream, and silver quarters spent on playful soda-waltz. The text reads like a poetic vignette with missing context and incomplete phrases.
Ed H Edson arrives as third train dispatcher in the city office and the Oregon Short Line ships large supplies and locomotives. Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul cut tariffs to stir competition. A special heads to North Platte with Supervisors Deuel Finnegan Shanks and McGregor aboard. Devel and Finnegan to inspect the Julenburg line to Denver. Early November rail earnings show gains for Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul and Northern Pacific. An old passenger coach near Collins is tied to Lincoln era exchanges and a Lincoln Nebraska note comments on resignations at Chicago Burlington and Quincy.
An old print advert promotes Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething pain in babies claiming fast relief. It emphasizes safety pleasant taste and universal use by mothers and doctors across the United States. It cites a two and a half ounce bottle and urges immediate purchase.
Notice is given that Theodore W Chaffee has filed final proof for his claim in Cheyenne Wyoming. Proof will be made before the Register and Receiver on November 2, 1882. Witnesses: Thomas Sturgis James W Culver Sherman B Chaffee Fred K Chaffee EneGar W Mann.
A collage of social observations cites Mrs Langtry and Mrs Garfield, Mme Albani US plans, a 106 year old Ottawa couple, Patti critiques, St Louis schools mother, and Christmas card profits. It recounts marriages, elopements, superstition, Sherman daughters, a NY Sisters of Sorosis prank, and a Denver store weight survey with a medical sales pitch for Brown's Iron Bitters.
New York Nov nineteenth General Sheldon of New Mexico said life and property are as safe there as in the east. He reported rustlers suppressed and no hostile Indians heard of since October 10 1881.
Fort Worth Texas reports a 60000 fire on Friday night. Samuel G Court ney of New York worsens Thurlow Weed weakens. Mayflower arrival anniversary at Princeton Mass. Diphtheria rampant near Frankford Penn. Lawson Breniger hay fork works burned in Philadelphia. James D Fessenden dies on Portland street. A Birmingham North Carolina worker dies in a furnace accident. Weather in New York clear and cold. Cattle quarantine site bought at Waltham Mass. Catezina reaches Havana with crew lost to yellow fever. Cincinnati theaters reopen under Sunday law. Steamship Algiera sinks W L White. all aboard saved. City of Worcester officers face negligence charges. Sullivan exhibition leads to police restraint. Congress eyeing 1865 DC bond security for banknotes. Illinois ladies push for Garfield fair representation. Treasury bonds converted with large sums received. Captain Howard trial at Pensacola Navy Yard continues. Flathead agency force requested to guard against railroad intrusion. Arizona and Dakota officials seek expanded mail service. Garfield Monument committee to host public comfort homes for visitors. Patent cost comparisons show US patents cheaper than others. little belief in fees boosting inventions.
Chicago reports mill owners say they may close by January or February unless costs drop. With steel rails at 45 dollars a ton and no expected wage cuts, mills will run only to exhaust stock and fulfill current contracts before shutdown.
Arnold Lee, a broker, sent notices to Union Pacific officers and Blake Brothers stating the collateral trust bond issue is illegal and that he will seek legal steps to prevent it. Sidney Dillon said no notice was received and that the bond sale was completed last week.
Judge Edmunds reports to Price that 8000 Yankton and Ogallala Sioux at Pine River and Rosebud agencies have agreed to separate into smaller reservations. The move concentrates most Sioux into about half their current area, enabling the other half to be opened to the public.
Boston reports show a new 5 per cent collateral trust loan for Union Pacific, with estimates ranging from 0 to 5 million dollars. Blake Bros. Co. funded nearly 4 million and sought more, but the company did not need immediate cash, receiving an option for a second amount. The debt, largely time loans from Boston institutions, totals about 4 million beyond assets, to be repaid as maturities arrive. Under 1 million is held in New York, and the new bonds will be issued to Amsterdam where the prior 6 per cent collateral issue is held.
Berlin reports budget figures with a 31 million mark deficit. Revenue loss stems from abolishing the lowest class tax grades. A liquor and tobacco license tax is proposed to cover the shortfall. Liberals plan a counter proposal as a party split looms.
The queen reviewed 8000 troops at Buckingham Palace in front of the duke of Connaught who led the brigade of foot guards. She presented war medals to two representatives from each regiment. A general medal presentation is planned at Windsor Castle on Tuesday.
The queen elects tomorrow to decorate officers and soldiers who stood out in the Egyptian war. An affidavit by Ninet, once Arabi Pasha’s adviser, favors Arabi claiming he tried to prevent incendiarism and protected Christians. Sanders, charged with sending a murder threat to Gladstone, is remanded after denying intent. a knife is found on searching. Scotland’s miners' association has been dissolved.
Dublin reports that after Michael Casey trial the remaining four prisoners accused of Joyce murders are likely to plead guilty and seek life servitude instead of hanging. Delany, charged with attempting to assassinate Judge Lawson, was committed for trial after evidence.
New York reports a Thanksgiving Day event with runners George and Meyers set for a three quarter mile contest. The match promises speed and a local crowd.
At Indian Pond near St. John’s a car carrying many laborers plunged from the track. Killed were John Roche Frank Barrow and Matthew Mercer. Seriously injured were John Ryan William O’Brien William Medley and John Grant.
The ex priest O'Connor, harassed by a mob last Sunday, spoke at the Toledo opera house to about 600 people. Forty officers and five militia companies stood by as public sentiment backed his right to speak with little disorder and a few arrests for interruptions.
In Philadelphia on November 20 a letter from a citizen to the State Fencibles battalion pledges their escort at Pattison’s inauguration but argues the oath of public service should not trigger costly pageantry. He says the inauguration should not cost Pennsylvanians a dollar and vows efforts to limit expenses.
In Steubenville Ohio on November 20 Congressman Updegrafia was reported in a dying condition with all hopes of recovery abandoned.
Snow fell in Atlanta Georgia and St John New Brunswick with several inches of accumulation. The St John river season saw 12,600,000 feet of logs pass the booms.
A violent clash between two prominent county factions near Forest City ends with Barnes King shooting William Suttle, who nearly loses his head with a shotgun. Gaither Front fatally wounds King, and John Hailer shoots at Suttle, leaving him dangerously wounded.
A single robber attacked the Columbia to Camp Bellsville stage this morning. Three passengers were aboard as mail bags were cut open and rifled. The thief removed the tap from the coach wheel and fled on foot through the woods.
An explosion at a powder magazine half a mile north of Guayaquil caused near destruction of a church and several houses. Rumors say about ten people were killed.
In Lead City a quarrel led to Timothy Cole striking Boyd Hicklen under the ear with a fist. Hicklen died instantly from a broken neck.
London reports a slight chance that Yorke's motion for a committee to probe the release of Parnell Dillon and O Kelly from Kilmainham jail may prevail, though Gladstone hopes it is not opposed.
United States grand jury in St. Louis returns indictments against E. Carpenter, William D. Russell, and J. D. Cameron from Dakota territory for extensive frauds. Also indicted is Obeytown, a teller of the Third National Bank, for embezzling 168000 dollars.
Providence reports a private settlement in the Joseph W. Cooke will contest. The accord affects an estate valued around two million dollars and resolves the invalid daughter's allowance at twelve hundred dollars yearly instead of six hundred. The case, once to be heard in the supreme court, concerned Cooke's capacity to execute the will in January 1881.
The Chicago to Minneapolis rail war tightens as the Chicago Minneapolis St. Paul Omaha line cuts fares. A $10 rate now stands for travel between Minneapolis and Chicago, signaling intensified competition among carriers.
Immig ration by raid during the week totaled 686 with inquiries for locations from families in Texas Dakota and Canada. The association completed listing lands in the Stockton land district including parts of the San Joaquin valley and foothills drawing attention. work begins on a similar listing in the Sacramento district.
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