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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1876
Page
7
The Daily Leader reports Native leaders at Red Cloud Agency affixing signatures to a new treaty amid heated debate over terms. The piece mocks the concessions sought by both sides and notes U.S. plans to press the Sioux next season while outlining local military movements, personnel shifts, and public works allocations in Wyoming.
The piece laments the passing of trusted journalistic figures as legends fade toward ruin or imprisonment. It notes Tom Collins perishing in Africa, the Younger brothers heading for the gallows, some James men killed, Wild Bill’s death, and Boss Tweed’s looming prison. It calls on journalism to invent new sensational machinery to fill empty sensation columns.
Slack arrives with news prints and Traders at the railroad house where Sheridan smokes a cigar. He asks for an interview but Sheridan refuses to be interviewed, while Delegate Steele sits nearby listening.
J W lift, Esq., and N W R Steele linger at the Railroad house while Maj W H Powell of the U S Army arrives from Fort Karamie. U S Grant Jr and Col Humphreys pass through town. Maj W S Collier gains a one month leave on surgeon’s certificate. Sheridan and M V Sheridan return from Fort Laramie and depart east. Sherman and J J Page travel to California via the eastbound express. George Taylor, nephew of Hayes, returns from Deadwood and plans Ohio trip. Notu, Japan’s commander-in-chief, with Generals Fukushima and Tashio, joins Gen Sheridan’s party for a northern forts tour.
Maj. T. M. Newson, en route to El Dorado, was robbed in Sidney when a man he believed to be an old acquaintance tricked him for a five dollar bill. The thief seized nearly a hundred dollars, fled, and a fake sheriff offered to return $26 to quiet the case, which Newson refused.
A Sidney tale recounts Newson recovering money from a thief and fleeing to the Black Hills. Correspondents describe the Slim Buttes engagement with Lt Schwatka and Lt Crawford and a dramatic Tall Tale of Wild Cat Tip in Deadwood ending the first chapter of the strip.
The Evans Journal reports that J. S. Wright, charged with killing Henry Nicholson near Evans, Weld County, Colorado, on the 16th, surrendered to the sheriff. The coroner's inquest details describe a violent altercation at Ames ranch involving Tom Smith, Nicholson, Bell, and Wright, ending with Nicholson dying from a fractured skull after a heavy blow. The case centers on Wright's earlier actions and the ensuing fight that led to Nicholson's death.
An advertisement promises a free receipt to cure nervous weakness and early decay, claiming the remedy was discovered by a South American missionary. It directs readers to send a self addressed envelope to Rev. Joseph T. Inman at Bible House Station D New York City.
The Democratic Territorial Convention will be held in Cheyenne Wyoming on the second Monday in October 1876 to nominate a delegate to the 45th Congress and to transact any proper business. Representation by counties is based on the highest Democratic vote at the last election with Laramie County allotted 12 delegates, Albany 9, Carbon 6, Sweetwater 4, Uinta 4. G D Foarsona, Chairman.
In Paradise Cache county Utah on a Saturday a seven year old boy son of William Mitten accompanied by his sister went to a shingle mill The boy tied a string to the counter shaft and the machine drew his arm from the socket tore off both legs at the knees mangled his head stomach and side He survived about two hours before dying from injuries
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