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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1876
Page
5
A Texas Jack column describes Sitting Bull as an obscure progeny in his father’s line. He is said to have grown fierce, join the warpath, and be a dangerous foe. He reportedly adopted a captured boy as a brother to save the youth, a detail linked to a death story the writer questions.
A historical account describes a bear attacking a hog with merciless force. The bear tears flesh from the hog’s neck and drives the animal forward while stripping meat from its back. The hog or dog victim is moved and consumed, with the carcass left as evidence of the attack.
The text notes A. T. Stewart dying after a lucky silk investment with Dale Silk Manufacturing, where $1,000,000 was bought at 3.25 and doubled in weeks. A London rival and agents in China profited massively. A London financier allegedly earned £140,000 from early Treasury bond news.
A half breed Sioux speaking trapper reports 300 lodges near the Sweet Grass hills and Sioux parties moving north between Fort Benton and Belknap. Benton residents seek cavalry to guard the border as buffalo move toward mountains signaling possible attacks on settlements from Fort Shaw to Port Peck this winter.
In a Indiana speech Colonel R. G. Ingersoll argues General Ben Harrison deserves election as Governor. He denies links between dirt and statesmanship and asserts a patriot can be refined, educated, and neatly dressed while serving Indiana.
A speaker argues that true patriotism requires personal integrity and civic responsibility. He praises Ben Harrison as a fit Republican leader, denounces mob rule, and warns Indiana must honor heroes who defended the state and endure future conflicts.
The piece lauds Governor Hayes as a spotless candidate for President, contrasting him with his rival Tilden who is accused of fraud and dishonor. It praises Hayes’s long public service from Congress to Governor of Ohio, his apparent integrity, and suggests he would provide one of the best administrations. The report includes a Democratic convention narrative in Wyoming with platform proposals and nominee selections.
The Wyoming Democratic Territorial Convention gathered at City Hall Cheyenne on Monday September 9 to nominate a candidate for delegate to the Forty Fifth Congress.
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