Winter Headlines From Cheyenne's Busy Town
The Cheyenne era page notes cold weather laments, new store openings, and a militia company forming in Laramie City. It reports Indian agencies quieting, a Denver duel with minor damages, and ongoing efforts by local merchants to draw customers with promoted goods while hinting at impending travels of Sitting Bull and troop movements near Fort Laramie.
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South Platte Valley
Fergusson Street
Custer
Lower Platte
Spence Gunn
Denver
Central
Denver Tribune
Dawson
Cheyenne
Magic City
Messrs
Marks & Myers
Wyoming
Laramie
Laramie City
C. W. Bramel
The
Chronicle
Steele
Sitting Bull
D. 3B
Beemer & Co
Booth
Allen
Missouri
Sioux City
Doug
Rhodes
Holt
Bower
Post Office News Depot
Merrill
Great Harness and Saddle House of the West
C. Hf. & J. 5. Collins
Peace terms to Sitting Bull demand surrender as condition
Government dispatch orders Sitting Bull to surrender as the sole path to peace and prisoner status. No rations until surrender and agency containment proves feasible. Military cooperation promised to the extent possible, signed by acting commissioner GALPIN.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sitting Bull
Galpin
Red Cloud Refuses Rations and Threatens Warpath
After Indian camps moved twenty five miles from Red Cloud Agency, Captain Smith urged them to return for rations. General Crook demanded in the Agency that Indians come in to receive aid, but Red Cloud refused. With issue day near, lingers of conflict rise as General Mackenzie’s troops stand ready.
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Black Sills
Red Cloud Agency
Smith
Crook
Red Cloud
Mackenzie
Man With the Umbrella in Cheyenne Feels Westbound Wit
A humorous tale recounts a weather clerk’s sobering day and a man, a Democrat and bourbon devotee, wandering through saloons with an umbrella. He smashes a breakfast table, becomes drunkenly aggressive, and narrowly escapes injury when an omnibus runs him over. The narrative ends with a providential near-miss as he heads toward the depot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheyenne
Darkey
West Virginia
Indiana
Umbrella Man Wreaks Havoc at Depot Scene
A comic yet chaotic misadventure unfolds as a man with a massive umbrella disrupts a depot crowd. He tramples bystanders, punches, and wrecks hats while a chase ends with him carried to a room after a dramatic confrontation with bystanders and a harried husband.
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Tie
Reed sought after Cheyenne hunter missing years
Ile slowly recovers and vows never to carry an umbrella again. Information requested on the whereabouts of John W. Reed who has lived near Cheyenne for two years, engaged in hunting and trapping, now likely in Black Hills country. Write to this office or to C IT Carter Madison Wis 013-d6t-w4w
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Ile
John W. Reed
Cheyenne
Black Tills
Carter
Madison, Wis
Notice to Tax Payers and Public Notices in Wyoming
Notice to the taxpayers of Laramie County opens October 2 1876 with extended hours for payment of taxes and a warning of enforcement. Also advertised are a free cure for youth indiscretions by Rev. Joseph T Inman a Wyoming compiled laws volume for five dollars with postage and mail options and various government acts and treaties listed.
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Laramie County
Court House
N. J. O'Brien
W. T
South America
Joseph T. Inman
D. Bible House
New York City
Eod&Wém
Wyoming
P. O
Legislative Assemblies
Wyoming Territory
Dakota
U. 8
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the Daily Leader
Cheyenne, Wyoming
Pioneer Paper of
Big Muddy
Converse & Warren
Swan
Fort Laramie
Chase
Geo. F. Chase
Third Cavalry
Fort Russell
Horse Creek
Gen. Reynolds
Col. Boone
Daniels
Howard
Interior Department
Spotted Tail
Indian Territory
Sidney
Omaha
Fort Peck Agency
Washington
Indian Bureau
Fort Peck
Mont
Bozemnan
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Yellowstone
Big Horn
Thomas T. Mrrowen
Sherman
Mitchell
Rapherty
M. Stebbins
Stebbing & Porter
Col
Geo
I. Stebbins
Colorado
W. R. Stebbins
Atchison, Kansas
M. K. Post
Stebbins, Post & Co
Cheyenne, Wyo
United States
Europe
West
Black Hills
J. W. Jillich
Atchisof National Bank
Pat
Dr. Ag.olf
Chicago
Stephen Bon
Six
Heathstreet
Buffalo
Enah
Stephen Bon Sixteenth
Batwoon Ferguson
Eddy Cheyenne
Wyoter
Frank M. Allen
Deadwood
Bea Mea
Bao
BC Swat
Otea
Eurte Gui
Renee Anc
Ewig
Newark
N. J
Sewing Machine Co
Jesus
Ays
New Worle
Ohicipro
Converse
Warren
Ver
Sixteenth Street
ALA Dewawi
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