WHEELY LEADER HOURLY NEWS ITEM ROUNDUP
Cotton trimming replaces Hamburgs as fashion shifts. Harry Conley sells a sorrel trotter for 300 dollars to N. R. Davis. Peter Christon fatally shoots David Moses at Silver City Colorado. Yellow fever benefit to raise about 70 dollars. Bonnet flowers and bird motifs rise in fashion. Two thousand five hundred attend Golden Park festivities. 90 from Cheyenne. Catherine Farrel, 108, said to be oldest in the United States lives near Laramie City Wyoming. Rock Creek station guards trains nightly against ditching. Granville G. Bennett resigns. G C Moody of Yankton named successor. Intoxicated man jailed for selling rings from a slain pastor. Coroner Goldacker seeks hyena. Omaha Bee criticizes Union Pacific depot plans. James Droney ranch near Sherman Wyoming over 3000 acres. Mrs Kerrigan and companion injured in carriage crash near ONeill and Nineteenth streets. A. W. Merrick of the Deadwood Pioneer leaves for the Black Hills. Rex-Lieut. Gov H. C. Bullis of Iowa en route to Wounded Knee for agency work. J W White denies a suicide report from Golden. J B Simpson’s artesian well near Laramie City hailed as grand discovery. Chinese largely unharmed by yellow fever in Memphis despite proximity.
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Peter Christon
David Moses
Silver City
Colorado
Golden Park
Cheyenne
United States
Wyoming
Catherine Farrel
Laramie City
Rock Creek Station
Granville G. Bennett
Col
G. C. Moody
Yankton
Sen
Goldacker
Omaha
Union Pacific
James Droney
Sherman
Kerrigan
A. W. Merrick
The
Deadwood
Black Hills
Merrick
Pioneer
New el Dorado
H. C. Bulis
Towa
Indian Department
Wounded Knee Creek
Fort Laramie
J. W. White
Golden
White
the Sentinel
J. B. Simpson
Simpson
Herman Haus
Memphis
Wyoming Courts Feud Draws In National Figures
A Washington dispatch notes a fight between a judge and a district attorney in Wyoming territory. Judge Beck, famed for banning swearing and pipes in court, faces censure and a reorganization that leaves him with no jurisdiction while District Attorney Johnson pushes for Judge Beck removal. The piece highlights political maneuvering, a governor’s removal, and legislative battles over redistricting and influence in the territory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wyoming
Beck
Vermonty
Johnson
Judge Beck
Senate
Congress
House of Representatives
Jolson
Callison Murder at Deadwood Prompts Trial Involvement
Testimony links Cook to the Deadwood homicide of Mrs. Callison. Col J F McKenna and I L Gardiner placed Cook near the scene. Annie Simmons testified Cook dined August 19 and returned late, restless, mumbling about a hammer or hatchet used on the victim.
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Deadwood
Cheyenne
John Callison
Cook
Times
Col
J. F. McKenna
Mob Lin
Belford Palmer Scandal Stirs Pueblo Politics
The Pueblo Chieftain reports a charge that Judge J B Belford insulted Julia Aline Palmer amid a political controversy. It notes the sole purported victim is the lady, who becomes a political player in the affair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Belford
Julia Aline Palmer
Troop Movements Against Bannocks on Wind River
Lieutenant Bishop of the Fifth Cavalry with 25 soldiers and 150 Indian scouts crossed toward Upper Wind River. They captured eight Bannocks, disarmed and guarded at Camp Brown. General Merritt pursued hostiles along the Sioux trail. Camp Brown agency reported 1200 Shoshones and Arapahoes, and calm at the agency. Maj. Stanton narrowly escaped an ambush near Atlantic City. Ranger.
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Green River
Bishop
Fifth Cavalry
Camp Brown
Upper Wind River
Brown
Upham
Howard’s Department
Merritt
Wind River
Camp Brown Agency
W. P. Noble
Atlantic City
Maj. Stanton
Ranger
Indian Stampede Sends Troops to Sidney Intercept Mission
An army officer reports Cheyenne Indians from Camp Supply totaling about 350 with 90 braves moving at 60 miles daily. Gen Pope forms a cavalry pursuit and cordon while forces at Fort Dodge and Fort Leavenworth head toward Sidney to intercept north bound bands and evacuate families to keep them from aiding dissidents. An engine at Sidney stands by to move toward North Platte if needed.
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Inter Ocean Hotel
Indian Territory
Sidney
Camp Supply
Pope
Fort Dodge
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Fort Leavenworth
Fort Wallace
Kansas Pacific
Standing Rock Agency
Camp Robinson
Union Pacific
North Platte
Cattle Car Loads Move From Montana to Wyoming
Large cattle herds travel east from Montana into Wyoming with seventy car loads shipping today from Pine Bluffs. Carey Brothers and Poindexter & Orr each handle thirty five cars. Tomorrow ninety cars head to Chicago from Cheyenne, fifty owned by A H Swan and forty by Leach Stennett & Co. Iron clad coach built for Cheyenne and Black Hills stage line ready.
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Montana
Wyoming
Pine Bluffs
Carey Brothers
Poindexter & Orr
Chicago
Cheyenne
A. H. Swan
Leach, Stennett & Co
Red Oak
Iowa
Gallant Defense Against Wyoming Stage Robbers
A northbound coach halted by six armed robbers at about 11 last night. One robber killed when two pursuing messengers closed to within fifteen yards. Robbers fled to a gulch firing on messengers while the coach pressed on, leaving mail sacks near the dead bandit. One passenger, a woman, was unharmed. Mr. Goldsworthy, a laborer, had ten dollars stolen and returned.
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Crark
Wyo
Goldsworthy
Mystery over missing child after livery stable ride
A 16 year old youth visited Terry and Hunter's livery stating his sister in South Cheyenne had a child perish suddenly. He left to fetch the husband Mr. Wiggins, rode a swift horse, returned eight hours later, and no coffin order or burial permit has been sought. The fate of the child remains unknown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terry & Hunter
South Cheyenne
Union Pacific
Wiggins
Pole Creek
Military Movements and Departures Across Camps and Posts
Major Parker of the Twelfth Infantry travels from Angel Island with his family to Europe on leave. Lieut. Davis of the Fifth Cavalry returns from West Point and quarters at Fort Russell. Gen. Merritt leads Aye companies toward Wind River country to intercept Bannocks, but Gen Miles’ victory shifts plans. Merritt to Fort Fetterman by the 25th and to Fort Russell by the 1st prox for winter quarters. Capt. A. E. Woodson and wife depart for South Bend Indiana as their son enters college. New Fort McKinney ready January 1. Gen. Sturgis summoned as a witness in the Kitz-Joan Porter case.
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Parker
Twelfth Infantry
Angel Island
California
Europe
Lieut
Davis
Fifth Cavalry
West Point
Fort Russell
Merritt
Clear Fork
Wind River
Big Horn Mountains
Miles
New Fort McKinney
Sturgis
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters Endorsed Across Regions
The reform of bodily evils through this bitters is urged for digestive and nervous symptoms. Physicians deem it pure and wholesome, preferring it to mineral drugs. Widespread demand spans Maine to the Pacific, with orders from tropical America, Mexico, and Spanish possessions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Pacific
Tropical
America
Mexico
Cake Recipe for Dooley’s Yeast Powder Cake
A recipe lists ingredients for a cake using Dooley’s Yeast Powder: sugar eggs flourwater with details for the Cream. Milk scalded with corn starch and eggs beaten then stirred in, butter and flavoring added, cake split while warm and spread with cream. Yields enough for two cakes.
Beecher Lecture on Society Draws Attentive Crowd
Rev Henry Ward Beecher and party arrived by the Colorado Central and stayed at Inter Ocean hotel. A large audience in Recreation hall heard his lecture The Wastes and Burdens of Society detailing life energy loss from sickness and death and poor ventilation, with social critique and calls for reform.
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Henry Ward Beecher
J. B. Pond
Colorado Central
Inter Ocean Hotel
Pond
Recreation Hall
Mr. Beecher
Allan's Anti-Fat and Glenn's Sulphur Soap Adverts
A pastiche advertisement fragment touts Allan's Anti-Fat promising rapid weight loss amid skeptical readers. It also promotes Glenn's Sulphur Soap as a cheaper skin remedy and disinfectant, claiming benefits for complexion, skin diseases, and general health. It mentions Hill's Hair and Whisker Dye.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glenn
Gienn
Rae
Hill
Brown's Blackbarry and Ginger Remedy Advertised
An add for Brown's Blackbarry and Ginger proclaims it safe for diarrhoea dysentery cholera morbus and summer complaint with a 50 cent price. It also touts Brown's Vegetable Liver Pills for liver and bilious issues and Brown's Arnica Salve for inflammation and old sores. Sold by Addams & Glover Hurlbut Bros and G W Hoyt in Cheyenne.
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Brown
Addams & Glover and
Hurlbut Bros
G. W. Hoyt
Cheyenne
Health remedy promise in special notices
An old classifieds style notice offers a cure for youth errors and nervous weakness through a miracle remedy. It urges readers to send a self addressed envelope to Rev. T, Bible House York Station D. The ad mimics sensational health claims common in periodicals.
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South America
systEst T
Inman
Bible House
York
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Wheely
Harry Conley
N. R. Davis
Washington
Down South
Democratic Central Committee
Callison
Belford- Palmer
A. D. Butler
Cheyenne & Black Hills
Behohor
Carbon
Carnon
Rawlins
Widdowfield
Vincent
Medicine Bow Mountains
Scribo
Denver
Edison
Allen
Allan
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