Edward Creighton and the Overland Telegraph
Edward Creighton of Omaha led the 1861 push to lay a telegraph line across the Great Plains to Salt Lake City, meeting challenges of desert transport and Indian country. The line reached Salt Lake City Oct. 17 1861, followed by telegram exchanges with Brigham Young and U.S. officials.
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California
Illinois
Nauvoo
Omaha
Great American Desert
Pacific Coast
Eldorado
Panama
Pony Express
Leavenworth
Sacramento
Colorado
Golden West
Fort Sanders
Mr. Creighton
American Desert
Creighton
Julesburg
Salt Lake
Telegraph News and Utah Greetings From 1861
In 1861 messages from Brigham Young and Frank Fuller celebrate the Pacific Telegraph to Great Salt Lake City and Lincoln’s praise for the line. The piece traces Creighton, Hibbard, Wade and Western Union’s role, Montana’s Alder Gulch mining, and the Walsh murder trial with sentencing and appeals. Pocahontas, historic Indian maid, died in England at 22.
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Brigham Young
Salt Lake City
J. H. Wade
Pacific Telegraph Company
Utah
Frank Fuller
Abraham Lincoln
United States
Great Salt Lake City
U. T
Pacific Telegraph
Wade
Pacific Wolecrark Co
Fuller
Lincoln
Washington, D. C
Utah Territory
Edward Creighton
John D. Creighton
W. H. Hibbard
Western Union
Mr. Creight
Oman
Creighton
Virginia City
Montana
Alder Gulch
High Court Affirms Hanging of Jefferson County Killer Roy Walsh
The Montana Supreme Court upheld the district court verdict and affirmed Roy Walsh’s death sentence for the 1923 murder of Renova storekeeper Albert Johnson in Ke nova. Walsh and accomplice Arthur Sfughes hired to rob the store, shot Johnson through a closed door and fled in a stolen Cadillac. Johnson dies in a Butte hospital after naming a shooter he could not identify. The court ruled trial discretion on witness exclusion and the admissibility of Walshs confession would be decided on evidence of circumstances and not disturbed on appeal unless clearly weighty.
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Walsh
Hughes
Butte
Cardwell
Boulder
Missouri
Supreme Court
State
Mountjoy
Knight
Joseph R. Jackson
W. D. Rankin
Roy Walsh
Jefferson County
Albert
Johnson
Kenova
District Court
Arthur Sfughes
Also Mentioned on This Page
Sean Srs
le Soto
Ohio
Barnesville, O
L. O. Leonard
Cleveland
Ohio, Mr. Creighton’s Associate, Also Went To California Via the Isthmus
San Francisco
California Company
Messrs. Wade
Congress
Atlantic
Pacific
West
Leonard
Ogden
Union Pacific Railway
Stuart
Anaconda
Anaconda Review
Green River
Wasatch
Patrick Largey
Old State Savings Bank
Pat Largey
Levi Wild
Telegraph Construction
Jim
Nebraska
Pittsburg
Kan
Kouitz Brothers
First National Bank of Omaha
Edward Crenkton
Telegraph Construction Gang
Pocahonas
England
John Mountjoy
High Court
Renova
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