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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1876
Page
4
A collection of brief notes from the Cheyenne Wyoming newspaper dated Thursday September 28 1876. Items include fashion and style observations, remarks on public figures such as Henry Ward Beecher and Brigham Young, notes on officials like J J Dearborn, short anecdotes about diverse topics, and reflections on inventions and their social reception.
A dispatch from a traveler recently returned from Gen. Crook's command describes a vigorous winter push against the Sioux. Crook plans to scour west of Deadwood toward Fort Reno with eight hundred fresh horses and a new supply depot to sustain three advancing columns led by Crook Miles and Mackenzie to pursue Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, aiming to end their leadership.
Reported violent mood among Sioux near Fort Sully as authorities disarm the garrison. Bull Eagle warns of mass killing. 400 Brules and many Cheyenne join hostile camps, with Sitting Bull possibly commanding. Scouts say Sioux near 90 miles away, capable of sweeping the northwest if stirred. Generals brace for emergency.
Sioux council at Spotted Tail Agency Neb resolved long stored grievances with the Great Father. Spotted Tail recalled broken promises from Red Cloud and Sherman eras, pressed for goods, cattle, and wagons, and urged peaceful settlement. After speeches by chiefs and ministers, inducements and warnings influenced signatures. the treaty was concluded after hours of deliberation with calls for removal of the military presence.
A Connecticut Democratic politician replying to a draft scenario declares he would kill them if a provost marshal ordered him to the camp. The same Southern Democrat boasts his party will stop Black citizens from voting Republican at the next election.
The Colorado political cauldron boils as Republicans push for a victory on October 3. Bitterness over a Senate aspirant’s tactics sparks whispers of trading and disqualification. Democrats fight with despairing energy, while Wyoming observers wish God speed the right for the new state’s Republicans.
The piece defends editors against common charges of mercenariness and advocates independent, principled journalism that does not pitch into every issue. It praises mature editors who resist public clamor and personal attacks. A job ad seeks a neat, tidy, industrious girl for general housework at the Time Leader office.
Democrats of Laramie County meet at City Hall Cheyenne on Saturday October 7 1876 at 2 pm to select twelve delegates for the Territorial Convention in Cheyenne October 9 1876 to nominate a Delegate to Congress and county officers and to conduct other proper business. Each voting precinct is entitled to representation. H Mineer, Chairman.
Yesterday we visited Cheyenne Public School and were warmly received by Principal N B Stark and first assistant C N Wells. The five departments, led by Stark, Wells, Miss Marietta Williams, Miss Dunlevy, and Miss Ella White, occupy six rooms with ample facilities. The 268 pupils enrolled include 254 present. weekly rhetorical exercises impressed visitors, with essays read and plans to publish full department curricula in pamphlet form.
The Evanston Lumbering Co employs thirty to forty men cutting logs for next year’s drive. Mr Twelves displays apples from his Utah county orchard, some over a pound and fourteen to sixteen inches in circumference. Report mentions a livery mishap in Laramie and a local death, plus a Rawlins court episode where a German attempted to mulct a dapper man of money, ending with a shocked reaction.
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