Centennial notes and political dispatches from Wyoming
Weekly Leader reports brisk emigration toward the Black Hills and heavy freight receipts. Cheyenne appoints EF Bent as stage company agent at Deadwood. W I Corbett elected Arapahoe County Colorado assessor. Sherman and Cameron tour California Utah Utah posts after Fort Russell band serenades. Generals visit Brigham Young. West Point tactics assignment. two hundred recruits ordered to Fort Sanders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EF. C. Bent
Deadwood
Cheyenne and Black Sills
W. I. Corbett
Arapahoe County
Colorado
Corbett
Tis Leaper
Sitting Bull Murrin
Tilden
Black Hills
Fort Laramie
Philadelphia
McLaughlin
Gen. Hawley
U. S. Centennial Commission
Congress
Democrats
Wyoming
Kansas City Times
Missouri
Gratefu ‘Repubicans
Missouri Pipers
Omaha “Republican
VDie_ Herald
Herald
Miller
Sherman
Cameron
California
Railroad House
Washington
Fort Russell
Utah
Ogden
Emery
Salt Lake
Camp Douglas
Smith
Brigham Young
Walkers House
Fourteenth Infantry Band
U. S. Military Academy
West Point
N. Y
Department of Tactics
William Arthur
Department of the Platte
Department of Dakota
Superintendent Mounted Recruiting Service
Fort Sanders
Second Cavalry
Military Movements and Leaves for Fort Reno Area
Lieut Colonel R I Dodge of the Twenty third Infantry gains twelve days leave. Second Lieutenant L A Lovering of the Fourth Infantry ordered to join his company at Port Fetterman and then proceed to Fort Reno, W T. Second Lieutenant Joseph Cummings of the Third Cavalry ordered to join his company L in the field with the Big Horn expedition. Company K of the Twenty third Infantry to advance to Fort Reno, W T and take post. Second Lieutenant Abram E Wood of the Fourth Cavalry ordered to the same assignment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. I. Dodge
L. A. Lovering
Fourth Infantry
Port Fetterman
Fort Fetterman
Fort Reno
W.T
Joseph Cummings
Third Cavalry
Twenty-third Infantry
W. T
Abram E. Wood
Fourth Cavalry
El Dorado News of Mines and Town Affairs
Reports from Bear Creek on gold and quartz specimens worth 20 to 25 dollars. No. 13 claim sold for 1 850 to a Utah firm. Doctor Babcock’s tunnel reaches 65 feet with rich wash gravels. Deep diggings spread toward Gayville as claims reopen. Indian attack kills James Irion near False Bottom. Telegraph line to Red Cloud camp opened. Golden Eagle ore yields 4000 per ton at Philadelphia assay. Democratic county convention slate prepared amid posturing. Associated Press integrity praised in Colorado election coverage. Indiana voting history examined for upcoming election bets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Black Jills Poneer
McDaniels
Bear Creek
Mager, Ticks & Co
Utah
Doctor Babcock & Co
Deadwood
Gayville
Aswe
Upper Deadwood
Whitewood
James Irion
Boughton and Beary
Meyer
Trion
Cheyenne & Black Hills
Maj. Collier
Red Cation
Fort Laramie
Golden Eagle Rock
Laramie
Philadelphia
Davis
Col. Murrin
Rome
Salt Lake Tribune
Sherman
Brigham
Lord Duffrein
Lord Dufferin
Adventurer
Associated Press
Maine
Vermont
Colorado
Armstrong
Denver
Indiana
Tom Hendricks
Local Leaflets and Colorado Election Rumors
The item notes funds from Colorado election losers due to hats and greenbacks won by a Ropherty boy, invites returns to the office, and contains scattered notices about incidents including a Black Hills coach journey, looming Deadwood trips, and a clothes fire involving a Fort Russell ambulance teamster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doc. Miller
Colorado
Fort Russell
Valise theft tale linked to Evanston find
Three weeks ago a Dr Dodge passed through Ogden and told Dr Finfrock that his valise was stolen after leaving town. The carpet-sack later found at Evanston is identified as the same item, a mystery noted by the Age and Larami e Chronicle.
Cheyenne Town Leads Black Hills Transport Scene
The article highlights Cheyenne as a hub on the Black Hills stage route with leader Jack Bowman and Joe Walters building a first class hotel supply network. It notes rising metropolitan airs, new gas works, streetcars, and a formal public notice of local political conventions and obituaries, including H. S. Oliver's wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha Bee
Cheyenne
Black Hills
Ner
Jack Bowman
Joe Walters
Munson
Indian Creek
Mr. Brown
Jack
Coroner's verdict links Kennon death to unknown poison
The coroner's jury found R. R. Kennon died from the effects of poison administered by unknown persons. Also notes Laramie county Democratic convention ticket with strong men and weaknesses, and a Brewster tale of Joe Gerner aided in the Rocky Mountains and later inherited fortune from a mine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. R. Kennon
Kennon
Laramie County
James Brewister
New York
Rocky Mountains
Deer Mountain
Joe Gerner
Gerner
Brewster
Florida
Local Officials Nominated In County Slate
For Sheriff P A McPhee, for Probate Judge and County Treasurer A Hanson, for County Clerk A McIntosh, for Assessor K McLennon, for Superintendent of Public Schools T W Quinn, for County Commissioners James Calhoun Wm P Noble and Wm P O Niel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sweetwater
Atlantic City
John Dykins
H. C. Bliss
A. E. Bradbury
I. Field
John Lee
Dan Greenhalgh
Fort Peck Agency
Montana
Jack Frost
Albany County
Thomas Alsop
John A. Fischer
C. D. Roberts
James Vine
John R. Brophy
Louis Miller
Robert Marsh
Jeremiah Boros
W.O. Downey
E. V. Price
Lawrence Fee
N. J. Andrews
P. A. McPhee
A. Hanson
A. McIntosh
K McLennon
T. W. Quinn
James Calhoun
Wm. P. Noble
Wm. P. O’niel
Army officers named special inspectors and frontier postings
Col J J Reynolds of the Third Cavalry is appointed special inspector at Cheyenne depot to inspect quartermaster stores. Col Stanton arrived at Red Canyon and paid troops, with orders to move to Red Cloud to await Gen Crook. Major E F Townsend of Fort Laramie is named special inspector and will inspect public property at Fort Fetterman before returning to station. A deranged woman in North Morgan cut off her left hand after being found in a deranged state by Drs Anderson and Williams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. J. Reynolds
Third Cavalry
Fort
D. A. Russell
Cheyenne
Red Cafion
Col. Stanton
Custer City
Merritt
Crook
Red Cloud
Red Cafton
Ogden Junction
P. L. Anderson
Morgan City
G. Williams
Alexander Robinson
North Morgan
Dr. Anderson
Woman Amputates Hand in Frightful Inland Incident
Mrs. Robinson, in a dramatic act of self harm, severed her hand with an axe after considering injuring a pet. She carried the hand to the doorstep, woke her husband, and the doctors later amputated the limb four inches below the elbow under chloroform. Blood covered the premises and the scene was described as sickening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Anderson
Mrs. Robinson
Sepulchres and Medicine Tower of Sitting Bull's Rosebud
The Rosebud valley holds sepulchres built of cottonwood and poles where Sioux and Shoshone acts of desecration are described. It notes carved rock formations, a rock tower called Sitting Bull's Medicine Tower, and beliefs of sacred meaning with medicine men and prophetic faces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sitting Bull
Rosebud
Crook
Notice to Taxpayers in Laramie County 1876
Sheriff and Tax Collector W. T. Oldantt Ghivance announces from October 2 1876 the office hours 9 am to 4 pm and 6 pm to 9 pm at the Court House to enforce tax payment. The notice warns failure to pay will lead to forced collection as required by law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laramie County
Court House
Brien
Laramie
Coinsty
W. T. Oldantt Ghivance
W. T
Glenn's Sulphur Soap Bath Trick Promises Clear Skin
An advertisement touts a domestic sulphur bath using a cake of Glenn's Sulphur Soap to treat skin blemishes. The claim promises instant preparation and dramatic spot removal for victims of cutaneous blemishes, with sales noted as available everywhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glenn
Buckskin Plack-tail Dog Skins Offered by J W Hueus Co
A sale notice from J. W. Hueus & Co. at Fort Steele Wyoming offers 5000 pounds of Indian tanned buckskin plack-tail dog skins of superior quality for purchase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Hueus & Co
Fort Steele
Wyo
Also Mentioned on This Page
Weekly Leader
General Sherman
Black Hiller
Tilden and Reform
Salt River
Tommy Patterson
Beeler
Hughes
Sheep Beshear
Jimmycrats
Hat Creek Ranch
H.S. Oliver
Mr. Sanders
Ropherty Boy
Bhammy Tilden
Shammy Tilden
Roulette
Cherug
Stebbins, Post & Co
Bramel
Georgia
Jas, Lawlor
Pierce Station
S Uoepi
Horn
Anson Mills
Ata
Washakie
Snakers
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