Fort Collins notes and regional tidbits from 1877
Weekly Leader reports petrifications near Fort Collins and local industry. It notes Ouray's smallpox illness, cattle shipments from Pine Bluffs and Julesburg, and new Colorado officers. It mentions a temperance meeting at the Presbyterian church, headwater explorations of the Poudre, a Deadwood shooting linked death, and regional transport plans on the Colorado Central line.
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Fort Collins
Phillips
Ouray
Colorado
Swan Bros
Pine Bluffs
J. W. Iliff
Julesburg
8. A. Shepperd
Greeley
City Council Holds Regular Meeting and Votes on Nuisance
The City Council met Saturday with Mayor Fisk and Aldermen Gueck and Leighton present. Actions included declaring a nearby Chinaman’s house a nuisance, cancelling thirteen licenses, transferring Geo. Serth’s license, and adopting a nuisance order for 325 Lot 7 Block 415. The marshal was told to end the ditch superintendent role and funds redirected between city accounts. A special committee was named to hear Brown’s complaints on Ferguson street, with adjournment to Tuesday October 9 in committee of the whole.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fisk
Gueck
Leighton
Davis
Ryan
Terry & Hunter
Terry & Hunters Stable
Finance Committee
Geo. Serth
Chas. Truellner
Committee On Police
John A. Martin
Old City
Messrs. Fisk, Leighton and Gueck
Brown
Ferguson Street
Plucky Boy Stops Robber in Camp Fight Near Here
A six man freighting outfit twelve miles south of town was visited by three armed men who demanded money. Henry Myers fired on a robber, who died. the other two fled. The dead man is identified as Texas Frank, suspected in previous robberies. The Myers party escaped unharmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Custer
D. T
Ilenry Myers
Myers
Young Myers
Ife
Texas Frank
Tts
Sidney
Umbrella Theft at the Post Office
An elderly woman in the post office window chased umbrellas during a rainstorm. She snatched a silk umbrella from a well dressed man and warned him not to return, claiming the item was stolen from a hall entertaining sister Nelly. Observers laughed as the storm drove everyone away.
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Itolt
Nelly
City of
New York
Mndward W. Francis
States
Liberty Street
Francis
Eddy Street
Trailing the Train Robbers by the Omaha Republican
Tony Waits of Ogalalla leads a squad of soldiers in pursuit of the U S train robbers after the Buffalo Kansas killings. They travel 110 miles to Cimarron on a rapid chase with details of the line.
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The
Omaha Republican
Tony Waits
Quest to Dodge City Follows Suspect Robbers to Kansas
Mr. Waits leads a party by hand car and engine to Dodge City after reports of two robbers near Kingley and later to Great Bend to identify more suspects. The search ends with innocent cowboys freed and a grant of orders to return to Omaha. A fatal incident is noted with Collins and Bass killed, and Waits keeps Collins' six shooter and personal items.
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Dodge City
Mr. Waits
Kingley
Waits
Superintendent Johnson
Kansas Pacific Express
Great Bend
Berry
Reed
Tony
Morsman
Omaha
Clark
Collins
Bass
Letter defends George Hanley against false charge
A citizen from Pole Creek responds to a Sun notice alleging George Hanley shot at a man near My. Battice. He states Hanley did not fire, was not riding, and had not been seen by either man on that day or prior. Schwertze signs and asks the paper to publish the correction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pole Creek
George Hanley
Battice
W. Schwartze
The Coming Warblers in Kellogg Cary Opera Troupe
A San Francisco critic praises Kellogg and Cary in the Kellogg Cary opera troupe note. The critic contrasts Kellogg values with Cary’s artistic cultivation and lauds Cary as freeing thoughts while Kellogg challenges academic lines.
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Kellogg-Cary Opera
San Francisco
Kellogg
Cary
How Gen Crook Got His Wife in Wartime Romance
John Daily of Oakland Maryland owned a hotel and ran for doorkeeper in Congress. A Philadelphia writer recounts a Cumberland occupation tale where a Confederate officer, son of Daily, captured Gen Crook and Gen Kelley, then housed them at Daily’s home and wed Crook’s sister after she courted him.
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John Daily
Oakland
Garrett County
Hrouse of Representatives
Philadelphia Commonwealth
John
Daily
Cumberland
Crook
Kelley
Union Pacific to control Utah Northern and extend toward Montana
Salt Lake City hosts Sidney Dillon Jay Gould and H H Clark from Ogden as negotiations conclude. Union Pacific to take control of the Utah Northern, extend it north toward Fort Wall Idaho, with contracts set and work beginning immediately. Corinne faces a fatal blow to its Montana freight business.
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Utah Northern A R
Union Pacific
Sidney Dillon
Jay Gould
H. H. Clark
Salt Lake City
Ogden
Utah Northern Railroad
Northern
Montana
Utah Northern
Fort Wall
Idaho
Corinne
Fort Shaw Memoir Describes Montana Fort and Siting Sighting
Special correspondence from Fort Shaw Montana dated September 28 1877 notes the Commission's prolongation there to meet Sitting Bull if possible and describes Fort Shaw as a well ordered sun river outpost with trees around the parade ground and roads and bridges in good repair. The writer recounts preaching schedules nearby hunting plans and vivid local landmarks including Nipple Rock Bird Tail Rock and Squaw Butte while mentioning vigilante marks seen in Helena during an agricultural fair.
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Fort Shaw
Montana
Sitting Bull
Joseph
Sun River
Helena
Wyoming
Terry
de Rudio
7Th Cavalry
Squaw Butte
Miners Hang Claimant Over Falsest Prospect Claim
Curley and Mack, miners from the vicinity, reported a large party of prospectors led by a man called Charley who claimed Rotten Grass diggings would yield thirty cents a pan. At the claim site Charley confessed the claim was false and was hung from a tree by irate miners. Nez Perce activity is also noted.
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Drapdwwoop
D.T
Fort Reno
Laughing Sam and Partner Stand Trial for Robbery Case
Laughing Sam and his partner were on trial Saturday forenoon before U S Commissioner Walsor B Smith charged with robbing the Homan party near the Black Hills weeks ago. Homan and Jones identified the prisoners. jurisdiction question caused a continuation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam
Trouston
William Clark
the Kid
United States
Walsor B. Smith
Homan
Black Hills
Messrs
Jones
Omaha Republican
Height of Pike's Peak summit measured by E Nettleton
The line of levels run by Mr. E Nettleton last week places the highest rock on the summit of Pike's Peak at 8 153.58 feet above Colorado Springs and the summit at 14 143.08 feet above sea level. Nettleton's 1875 figures were 14 157 feet, a deviation under fourteen feet.
Increasing the Regular Army Seen as Necessary
The article argues for raising the regular army to forty or fifty thousand men with support from Secretary of War and President Hayes. It notes broad Republican support and growing Democratic recognition, and compares U S forces to Belgium in a table showing peace-time establishments by country.
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Congress
Secretary of War
Hayes
United States
Belgium
Judge Bennett Vindicated in Private Inquiry
Special Telegram reports Col. G K Chase of the Department of Justice found the charges against Judge Bennett unfounded after a week of investigation. He praised Bennett as able upright and fearless and noted the allegations centered on Hidden Treasure and El Refugio mines owned by Cheyenne parties.
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Deadwoop
Col. G. KK. Chase
Department of Justice
Washington
Bennett
Clagett- Spencer
Bismarck
Judge Bennett
el Refugio
Robbery on Deadwood Treasure Route Near Lance Creek
A Deadwood bound treasure coach was halted near Lance Creek station, thirty miles north of Hatt Creek Wyoming, by two masked road agents. A lone female passenger was unharmed. The attackers, Burn and Webster, warned of further violence toward messenger Boon May, whom they want to kill for previously identifying three road agents. They are linked to Deputy Sheriff Cuny’s murder.
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Hatt Creek
Wyo
Deadwood
Lance Creek
Here
Boon May
May
Blackburn and
Webster
Cuny
General Merritt Ordered to Fort Laramie
General Crook directs Merritt to march to Fort Laramie due to anticipated unrest at Red Cloud and Spotted Tail Agencies as the Sioux are moved to new Missouri agencies. The Fifth Cavalry accompanies Merritt toward Laramie while Merritt's column replaces the route to Fort Russell.
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Red Cloud
Spotted Tail
Missouri
Crook
Merritt
Fort Laramie
Fort Russell
Fifth Cavalry
Laramie
Army Promotions Elevate Lieutenants to Captain of Cavalry
A general order from the Wisconsin Department lists promotions since July 6. Twenty five officers advanced, all holding lieutenants rank. The first lieutenants named will, after three years of service on the 14th prox, receive the rank and pay of captain of cavalry under Section 17 of the act of July 28, 1866. Names include Charles K. Winne, Frederick C. Ainsworth, Valery Marvard, John Van R Hoff, and others.
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Charles IK. Winne
Frederick C. Ainsworth
Valery Marvard
John van Rt. Hoff
Holmes O. Paulding
George W. Adair
Paul R. Brown
Edward B. Moseley
Bernard G. Lemig
John O. Skinner
James A. Finley
Augustus
Denver to Cheyenne line readies track laying event
The Colorado Central route from Denver to Cheyenne will open at five dollars. Captain Reed will lead a track laying tournament around October 19 to complete the Longmont extension between daylight and dark. Golden supplies veteran workers under the captain’s son. work on the Longmont extension proceeds between the fifteenth and twentieth of the month. Heavy rock work nears completion and a grade gap of eight or nine miles lies between the two Thompsons. Reed’s force sits ten miles south of Fort Collins Saturday night with five hundred teams to finish the segment to Longmont. Twenty teams haul ties toward Little Thompson and the last spike is expected by the 25th inst.
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Colorado Central Company
Table Mountain
Golden
Boulder
Henry
Denver
Cheyenne
Colorado Central
Fort Collins
Collins
Reed
Longmont
Lorado Central
Illicit still found near Omaha under forge operation
A U S deputy revenue collector in Omaha captured a hidden still 10 miles northwest at a country blacksmith shop. The 12 gallon kettle operated under ground near the forge, heating with a forge to fake activity. The worm and apparatus were seized. the blacksmith said he owned it for twelve years.
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United States
Omaha
Terayther
Vulcan
Dooley's Yeast Powder Praised for Reliable Leavening
The many thousands who regularly use Dooley's Yeast Powder sing its praises for reliability and uniform strength, noting its merits in producing excellent rolls biscuits bread and other baked goods.
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Dooley
Still at Shaw 1877 dispatch from Fort Shaw Montana
Special correspondent reports snow and delays awaiting the 7th Cavalry likely by Oct 8. Indians north and east committing depredations, White Calf claims friendly stance via interpreter Shucat, Father Guidi doubts Sitting Bull's outreach, and local clergy note mission sentiments.
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Fort Law
Montana
7Th Cavalry
Joseph
Shucat
Joseph Guidi
Sitting Bull
Fort Shaw
Gen. Terry
Mary
Sun River Crossing
Ilon
Steel
Art Walsh
Express
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