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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1878
Page
8
The issue reports Longmont charity for the South and Omaha fire at the Grand Central hotel with fatalities among firemen. It notes Fremont advocating arming colored troops, Orleans politics, stage routes change, and local deaths in Dayton Wis and Ellis family obituaries. Major incidents include a Six Mile ranch affray and a pin pool dispute.
At a meeting on September 5 1878 Cheyenne Lodge No 2 Knights of Pythias adopted resolutions condoling Brother Knight Thomas M Fisher on the loss of his eldest son George Wilford The lodge expresses deep sympathy and orders copies sent to the family and published in the Cheyenne Daily Leader committee signatures included.
Report from Camp Stambaugh details a Sept. 5 engagement near Clark's Fork where a detachment of troops defeated about twenty Bannock lodges. Casualties included one soldier and one Crow scout killed, with many Bannocks slain and horses captured. Sheridan relays further actions by Miles and Brisbin in Montana frontier fighting near Index Peak and Rosebud river.
On the 21st ult Elds go to Brisbin to support. Indians have stolen all stock from the Hayden exploring expedition and seized animals found on local ranches.
Five masked men seized the W P Noble herding camp eighteen miles from Camp StampauGenu Wyoming early Friday. The four herders were bound and the raiders held the camp until Saturday night taking the camp outfit provisions and thirteen horses. The intruders spoke with prisoners and claimed intent to rob the paymaster. Police suspect connection to a gang that previously tried to wreck a Union Pacific train.
A Cheyenne tramp wooed a well to do daughter with daily love letters and repeated visits. After a failed response he stalked the premises and was chased off by a seven shot warning. Police later jailed the suitor for thirty days.
Stage line robbery tale unfolds near Ogden where three armed men halted two coaches and a mail train, stole from passengers and robbed mail sacks. A thief known as Lengthy Johnson identified. Separate reports describe yellow fever scare aboard an emigrant train and a Nevada side track incident blamed on the yellow jack outbreak.
A historical promotional item extols renewed vitality for invalids through Hosteter’s Stomach Bitters. It claims restored digestion, sleeping and eating, and improved skin and color, praising the tonic’s vegetable, safe composition and appeal even to delicate palates.
General John C. Fremont the first Republican presidential candidate routes through Cheyenne on his way to Arizona where he will be sworn in as Governor. He travels with his wife, children, and Col. James amid a tone of pride in his frontier legacy and mining prospects.
Prof. J. G. Murphy of New York has been named territorial assayer under a law approved December 12, 1877. The office will be at Rawlins, Carbon county, with a $600 annual salary paid quarterly and a $2,000 bond. Assays cost $1 for gold or silver and $3 for other metals, $8 without the required certificate, and records must be kept. The assayer must provide ore owners with official documentation upon request.
The letter from Jonathan Wilson, a lifelong friend of Rev. Mr. Cowhick, recalls their youth and studies until 1868, with Wilson in Siam and Cowhick in the ministry. He describes plans to meet in Denver on the way to Siam and suggests possible meetings with local ladies and missionaries, expressing warm friendship and reunion notes. A Colorado political gossip excerpt follows about Jim Belford and Tom Patterson in late campaign chatter.
Mirabeau’s remark sparked a discussion on corpulence once seen as natural. The text touts Allan's Anti-Fat as a vegetable remedy reducing excess fat, improving digestion, and restoring health, sold by druggists.
A recipe outlines making cottage gingerbread by melting together one cup each of butter and lard, adding one cup molasses and sugar with cold water, two eggs, four cups flour, and three teaspoons Dooley’s Yeast Powder. Mix and bake in a moderately hot oven.
An old advertisement extols Glenn's Sulphur Soap as opening pores, improving skin health, and treating scorbutic complaints and rheumatic ailments. It claims cosmetic benefits, disinfection of contaminated clothing, and notes Hil's Hair and Whisker Dye in black or brown.
The Chugwater precinct reports rising beaver numbers and a large potato crop this season. Mrs Wade visits Cheyenne resident Mrs T A Maxwell while ranchman Frank Kelly expands his property for traveler needs. O Connor and McKechnil push a new public school foundation as lumber arrives. Voter interest grows with an expected fall turnout near 150. The flourishing school, led by Prof E A Harley, gains attendance and praise. Locals meet at Kellys store to discuss candidates for fall election.
In Deadwood on September 9 1878 M L Cook of the Model brewery is arrested charged with the Callison murder. Mr and Mrs Boughton are detained as accessories. Authorities promise further startling developments.
From Camp Devon news Taye moved the camp to Redwater near Nelson's ranch. Johnson of Hay creek, a known horse thief, was captured near two government mules stolen the night before and is held in the guard house. Evidence likely to convict and Cheyenne trial expected. Mules recovered.
Local contributions from Citizens committee Cheyenne fire department and Union Pacific workers add to a fund for fever relief totaling 1388 03. Donations include ball receipts and lodge contributions from Cheyenne area groups plus a lecture gift and a birth notice follows.
The marriage of Miss Josephine Evans to Mr Washburne Jouston took place at the Methodist Episcopal church parsonage in Cheyenne Wyoming on Sunday September 8 1878 with Rev W H Gillam officiating both parties reside in Cheyenne
John M Fowler infant son of Mr and Mrs Donald Fowler died in Cheyenne on Tuesday morning September 10 1878 aged 13 months. Mrs Will L Baker who killed a soldier at Fort Russell about a year ago and was acquitted on insanity grounds has been moved from Des Moines to the Mount Pleasant insane asylum.
For sale forty first class Merino bucks cash price or trade for ewes or wethers. Interested buyers contact John F. Crowley at Egbert Station Wyoming for details.
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