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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1876
Page
14
The issue presents the weekly Wyoming Leader with pricing of two dollars and fifty cents per year for six months and one dollar sixty cents for smaller periods. Dated Thursday September 26 1876, the page notes circulation and publication details typical of 19th century weeklies.
A compilation of notes on weather, crime, education, military movement, and local anecdotes. Mentions bids, paymasters, Sioux dances, and the Wind River valley opening to settlement plus Yellowstone Park prospects. Describes Crook’s campaign progress and General Terry’s impact, with school curriculum details and local curiosities.
Superintendent Voorhees works day and night to ready the Cheyenne Deadwood route. He purchases horses and builds new stations while grain and hay are supplied. When completed the four day travel will drop to two and a half days improving safety and comfort for passengers.
A detachment of 230 recruits and 200 horses left Fort D A Russell Monday for Red Cloud Agency to join the Fourth Cavalry. A 100-strong Pawnee scouts detachment fitted at Kidney is ready to serve with Gen. Crook. Brackett is named Special Inspector to inspect Fort Pred. Steele property and Quartermasters stores at Fort. Dewin is appointed special inspector at Camp Sheridan to inspect ordnance stores camp garrison equipage and Quartermasters property.
A collection of items notes Gen. Crook's campaign hardships from Big Horn to Belle Fourche, detailing long marches, rain, scarce rations, and worn-out horses. The column also records engagements, marriages, humor, and political notices across Laramie City and surrounding areas.
The article notes that public fate hinges on common virtues. It reports Territory vs John Raynees (Stonewall) with defendant charged for threatening to shoot John F. Whipple. Raynees held in bail of 250 dollars. prior incidents include a past assault on Jules Ecoffey and a separation from his wife Mand. He is jailed at the Hotel de O'Brien awaiting next district court term.
During the same period 71 carloads of cattle arrived for shipment east from points west of Lara mie.
A writer argues editors face sneers for mercenary charges and praises true independence. He contends only mature editors resist constant pitching into all topics and maintain dignity to earn public respect for the press.
Fort Sanders in winter prep sees wood hay and coal flowing to support troops. J S McCool’s tie business at Tie Siding employs about 150 men with 50 000 railroad ties already laid. A Texas herder, James Smith, captured a thief who stole his horse and jailed him in town. A new school starts today.
A discussion on compulsory schooling argues education as a public duty beyond parental whim. The piece mocks gossip, hypocrisy, and slander while recounting a Deadwood scene where General Crook visits, is feted, and leaves amid lively town color and humor.
Legislators stress careful provisions for the rising generation in Territory School Laws as amended, urging District Board teachers and superintendents to ensure full implementation. Knowledge is presented as good in itself and useful, with education valued for virtue and intrinsic worth, not mere utility.
Local leaflets recount September passing August in the Centennial year. A Camp Carlin store office was burglarized Friday night, thieves taking a large clock as the only portable value. A passerby notes shop windows along the street.
The fragment notes an upper story rental with three rooms and yard, then reports on Union Pacific trains stopping at Rock Creek for meals. It mentions Jay Gould funding a Black Hills railroad, Cheyenne as starting point, and a report of a murdered Peace Commissioner. It praises Stephen Bew’s boot store and supports voting for President and Vice President in Wyoming with increasing election labor for judges and clerks.
A meditation on preaching comparing delivery to substance. The author cites Macready Booth Chalmer and Hugh Miller to argue that the force of oratory rests on manner and genius to feel with the whole soul rather than merely content. Booth contrasts preaching truth as fiction with fiction as truth.
A correspondent recounts Gen. Carr of the fighting Fifth routing Crazy Horse’s fighters at Slim Buttes. Carr’s troops mounted the ridge front, then advanced while the rear battalion crawled up the brow. Indians opened fire at close range as Carr shouted the charge and eight Sioux fell, with only Madden wounded. A notice follows: Peter Simmons refuses debts incurred by his wife N E Simmons after she left him on September 17.
Notice from N J O Brien Sheriff and Collector of Laramie County instructs taxpayers to pay taxes at the Court House after October 2 1876 with extended hours from 8 am to 4 pm and 6 pm to 9 pm and warns of legal collection if unpaid. Also advertises Glenn s sulphur soap for facial complexion claims.
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