Weekly Leader Notes on Evans Coal Chutes and Western Visits
Weekly Leader reports Hon. J Newton Evans buying a residence in Bozeman and Villard excursionists. Laramie ladies discuss a coffee house and reading room for visiting young men. New coal chutes rise at railroad shops, 200 feet long with sixty chutes, due to complete this year. Also notes visitors from Cheyenne and rawhide Wyoming, forest fires in northern Wyoming, and efforts to center Arizona mineral display in a capital hub. Jacob Scherer cites cattle hunting losses across Colorado Nebraska Wyoming Idaho Montana at 83 percent in 1881. Caldwell on the Oregon Short Line grows with stores and services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laramie
J. W. Sullivan
Luke Voorhees
Voorhees Cattle Company
Range
Rawhide
Wyoming
Arizona
Mining Review
Jacob Scherer
Denver
Scherer
Colorado
Nebraska
Idaho
Montana
Christian Jury Upholds Piety in Wyoming Trial
The Rawlins Journal reports that 107 jurors were summoned for the Leroy Donovan murder trial. After retreating to pray, the twelve jurors voted eight to four for conviction, then ten to two for conviction, yielding a first degree verdict amid repeated prayers for justice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wyoming
Rawlins
Leroy Donovan
Rawlins Journal
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup Teething Remedy Ad
A vintage advertisement urges mothers to obtain Mrs Winslow's soothing syrup for teething children It claims fast relief from night crying and pain and lists benefits for dysentery diarrhea stomach and bowels wind colic and gums The ad notes pleasant taste and credits a renowned female physician and nurses and states price 25 cents per bottle
Mamma Was Tired and Went to Sleep
A long poem laments tired mothers and lost children set near Lake Minnehaha and a later note praises Cheyenne Mining Institute’s success. The piece contrasts sorrow with civic progress as a building in Cheyenne becomes a center for Utah mining.
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Mamma
Lake
Minnehaha
Malis
Cheyenne
Mining Institute
the Tribune
Utah
Echo Chronicles from Buffalo in 19th Century Frontier Life
The Echo reports a new flouring mill by George T. Beck nearing operation, abundant wildlife meat, a nearly finished Powder River bridge, and 250000 pounds of freight for John H. Conrad & Co from the Northern Pacific. Visitors from Laramie seek a cattle range as Moeller’s thresher posts 1000 bushels daily. Mr. Coats claims high yields on Goose Creek. Lord and Lady Onslow, with Colonel Gordon, stay at the Occidental after visiting the National Park guided by O. Stretfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Echo
George T. Beck
John H. Conrad & Co
Northern Pacific
Laramie
Army Adjutant General Clarifies Use of Troop and Company
Department of Arizona guidance from September 14 1883 states that mixed commands during battalion or company drills or dress parades should use the word company when drilling as infantry and troop when drilling as cavalry or artillery battery, issued under authority of the General of the Army.
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the Army
Adjutant General’s Office
Washington
Department of Arizona
Military Division of the
Dru
Cattle Feeding Experiments Show Quick Gains for Steers
Blair Pilot reports on Dick Blace's summer cattle feeding trial. Thirty-five two year old steers were grazed on forty acres of red clover and timothy, lightly fed ear corn, then fed heavily for 106 days. Gains totaled 380 pounds per animal, averaging 1230 pounds each. Hogs in pasture thrived as Blace shifts toward rapid fattening with an aim to market by Christmas.
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A. J. Coats
Goose Creek
Coats
Dick Blace
Mr. B
Blair Pilot
Cowboy Cussedness Prom from Daily Leader
A large Sunday dinner party at Fred Schwartz’s road ranch eighteen miles from town ended in a riot when about a dozen drunken cowboys fired at the house. Fifty rounds, property damage, and a pistol at Mrs Schwartz followed. Sheriff Sharpless pursues the culprits with deputies. two Texas cowboys alleged as instigators. The outfit blamed includes Lem Smith, Benjamin Weaver Co., Hanna Anderson Campbell.
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Mgr. Swartz
Fort Laramie
Sheriff Sharpless
Thomason
Hosford
Sharpless
Lem Smith
Benjamin, Weaver & Co
Hanna, Anderson & Campbell
Texas
Target Practice Year Clarified in Army Communication
Washington letter from October 4, 1883, explains the target practice season and year for the Department of Texas. It states the target year remains the same as before General Orders No. 25, current series, running from September 30 to September 30, with the target practice season defined as the period when target practice occurs. The note is signed by R. A. Drunt.
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Washington
Department of Texas
Military Division of the
Missouri, St
G. B. Russell
9Th Infantry
Wyoming Farmer Showcases Superior Potatoes and Produce
The Leader reports on Kels P. Nickell's crop from Middle Crow Creek ranch near Copper King mine. A eleven pound ruta bagas potato and six pound radish survived August frosts. Nickell yielded over 600 bushels per acre last summer and plans ditch work to scale up.
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Wyoming
Kels P. Nichell
Middle Crow Creek
Copper King
Nickell
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Weekly Leader
J. Newton Evans
Pennsylvania
Villard
Bozeman
Caldwell
Oregon
W. P. Carroll
Cesspool
Earth
the Mining Institute
Buffalo
Powder River
Prom
the Daily Leader
Fred Schwartz
R. A. Drunt
Wyoming Products
Kansas City, Mo
Kansas
Thia
Hetesta
Scotland
Kansas City
Walter O. Weedon
AB Matthews
Kansasity
Gallo
Montgomery & Cory
Wyoming Copper Company
Fairbank
Wyo
Mesars, Montgomery & Cory
National Bank
A. T. Babbitt
P.S
Colo
P O. Bo
Boots & Shoes
Cowhick & Whitcomb
Edwin C. Burt
Ladies’ Fine Shoes
Burt & Mears
Ma Tin
Bec
Lin
Capi
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