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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1877
Page
5
The Weekly Leader announces its rates and services including commercial job printing. It boasts being among the largest papers in the west. It offers errata cards, bill heads, letter and note headings, blanks, posters and more at low prices with new type and presses.
The Deadwood Pioneer notes a busy 1877 scene with miners expanding operations around Pactola and Hayward City. Gold-bearing quartz from the Hoodlebug mine, cobalt and antimony discoveries near Harney's Peak, and rising ore yields at Hidden Treasure Eureka and Keets mills are reported. A new tramway to mills, potential twenty-stamp mill upgrade, and planned county seat vote for Pennington County add to the bustle along Rapid Creek and Lead City corridors. Bears roam Rapid Creek, with a fatal attack near Pactola. Postmaster-General Key considers a Rapid City to Montana City postal route thrice weekly.
Eleven of Gayville's leading firms burned August 22 resume operations in new structures. D. D. Spear reports from Castle Creek towns Sitting Bull Castleton Camp Creek growing fast with payable mains. Water scarcity halts work in Sambo Centennial Sand Shirt Tail Potato Bonanza gulches. Bear Mallory Nigger guides see few workers. Quartz prospecting continues near Nigger Will with dry diggings yielding fair pay wheelbarrowed to water.
A vast Salt Lake crowd estimated at 12 000 to 15 000 gathered Sunday for Brigham Young's funeral at the Tabernacle. The body lay in state until 11 am with services from noon to 4 pm. The casket of California redwood rested on a cot ton mattress, and the ceremony followed Young's 1878 instructions. The procession moved to the private burying ground on the hill east of the Lion House, with no display of grief urged.
A Chicago Journal correspondent reports Salt Lake City fared relatively well during the Civil War as Mormons stayed aloof from the conflict. The piece recalls Gen Albert Sidney Johnston’s 1857 Utah expedition, Nauvoo Legion stones at Echo Canyon, and Mormon reluctance toward material prosperity since federal intervention began.
Marriage notice from Fort Sanders Wyoming on September 1 with Fannie E. Lane of Fort Sanders marrying Lieutenant Frederick W. Sibley of the Second Cavalry by Rev. Hamilton. Also a death notice for Mrs. Fannie I. Johnson of Pacific City Iowa dated August 31 in Cheyenne Gazette expresses sympathy to A R Johnson. A Circleville Ohio Herald editor engages in campaign rhetoric against Bond for governor.
A New York Commercial Advertiser anecdote describes a cunning scheme in which a reporter’s office uses a glass partition with four windows labeled Bookkeeper Advertisements Subscriptions For chores. A visitor arguing more than five minutes is sent to For chores where a speaking tube delivers his voice to the cellar and back to the ear, prompting a frightened retreat and ultimate disappearance.
Fort Worth police marshal Courtright attempted a late night joke by entering his wife’s window. She awoke, grabbed for her pistol, and nearly shot him before recognizing the intruder was her own husband. She showed bravery and calm under pressure.
The article extols the Big Horn country as rich in mineral resources based on veteran prospectors and guides. It notes the region being opened for exploration and settlement and recalls Gen. Custer mentioning a Bozeman mining party bound for the area.
Reports quote Gen Sheridan and Gen Sherman on rumored riches in the Big Horn region. An old mountaineer recounts seeing gold with Indians at Boray’s ranch and trading posts, while others describe abundant game and trout. Foreign dispatches detail Balkans fighting, Turkish actions, and European reaction to Thiers’ death.
The report notes United States Brazil trade reaching 47000000 dollars, three British correspondents expelled from Shumla, and Secretary Thompson planning a Washington departure for Terre Haute for two to three weeks. Also, Judge Hilton links his dispute with Seligman to Grand Union hotel gains at Saratoga. Turkish forces cross the Austrian frontier near Kanidubuka, burn a barn, fire on patrol, and seize cattle. Sandwich Savings Bank of Boston is insolvent amid collapsing property values. Adelin a Patti seeks separation from her husband over a cleric’s qualification. A Toronto lacrosse match sees Shamrocks lose to Athletics 3 to 1. British Columbia authorities avert Indian trouble at Shuswap, but fears loom from Okanagan tribes. Louisa Lawson found guilty as accessory before the fact to murder. sentence reserved.
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