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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1876
Page
13
Readable bits mention Corners and a war context with a call at three questions. The text is garbled and lacks clear events, names, or dates. This item appears as a damaged OCR fragment from a local page.
The Sheyenne Weekly Leader lists court schedules with cases including J W Dear vs Tracy Hoshier Dec 2 and Durkee vs Wilson interrogatories. United States vs Cyrus Hedges for murder. Summer King Stove Co. vs Continental Oil Co verdict $287.72. multiple lexis on embezzlement larceny and venue motions. Also reports rail and river updates, Paiute eagle sale attempt, and Thanksgiving notes with local benevolence.
The Black Hills Gold Mining Company organized last Tuesday evening. M. E. Post was elected president I. C. Whipple secretary Luke Maurrin treasurer and Terman Haas general superintendent. The firm owns the Hidden Treasure lode near Deadwood with a mill and other lodes in development. The main office will be here and Haas may oversee Hills properties soon. The paper retracts a prior murder rumor tying John Varnes to Wild Bill’s killing as false.
A Fort Fetterman field dispatch reports Gen. Mackenzie's sunrise assault on a cafton village of about two hundred lodges and five hundred warriors. His force totaled nearly a thousand. initial Indian troops fought well before many shifted to plunder and horse theft.
About twenty Indians were killed and several wounded in a Sioux Cheyenne Arapaho assault near Owl Creek Washakie. A Shoshone village of fifty lodges faced heavy losses with women and children left vulnerable and most horses slain. Reports from Dr. James Irwin note nine enemy deaths and many wounded, with the Shoshone escaping to Washakie. The hostile village reportedly remains on the western Big Horn slope, while trappers and prospectors in the area face uncertain fates.
Interview with Jack Baronett details mining on Rapid and Castle creeks since July 5. Nuggets average pea to Lima bean size with orange color and high assays. Pay dirt from grass roots yields ten to twelve dollars per day with rockers. sluicing could pay fifty dollars per hand. Steam hydraulic machinery planned to wash more gold from gulches and pay dirt.
At the Bella Union Varieties, nine o clock Thursday evening an axe was thrown from the audience and performer Dick Brown fired four shots at Edward Shaughnessy. Shaughnessy bore two bullet wounds, one in the right arm and one near the hip, and was treated at a local drugstore before being moved.
In Deadwood the body of Shaughnessy was found after a fatal confrontation sparked by a marital rupture. He had pursued actress Fanny Garretson, once married then separated, and discovered her union with Dick Brown in Deadwood. The case unfolds as testimony emerges with details of the theatre fire and personal betrayals.
Remaining letters in Cheyenne Wyoming Territory as of Nov 27 1876 include many names such as Albersson H C Johnson Aless J Knapp Mrs T Et Ackerson and others. Callers must say advertised and provide list date to claim within thirty days before transfer to the Dead Letter Office.
A Cheyenne market list outlines weekly prices for groceries, grain, and provisions. Items include flour and breadstuffs, potatoes onions and dairy products, bacon lard hams and pork, canned fruits and vegetables, dried fruits, tea sugars fish and canned goods, along with oils paints soap candles and nails.
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