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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1874
Page
2
A great man has gone. Gerrit Smith died in New York City at 12.30 p.m. Monday, aged 77, cause apoplexy and paralysis. The notice mentions subscription expiry and postage payment steps for publishers.
The Salt Lake Tribune condemns the national press for delay in punishing Mountain Meadow Massacre authors and mocks its own critics. It notes presidents from Pierce to Grant and questions Army action, while denouncing Mormonism yet calling for fair government action in Utah.
The Inquirer exposes Katie King as Annie Morgan and reports her confession and return of gifts after a boarding house lead. The Springfield Republican criticizes spiritualists and Robert Dale Owen while noting broad public interest and potential impact on belief in a spiritual world.
The article criticizes spiritualist authors led by Mansfield and others, urges better teachers, and mocks ministerial and professional pretensions. It recounts Shirt's Chicago Colony near Bear River with stranded families, poor leadership, and winter peril, arguing for wiser routes and seasonal caution. It notes Western Colorado settlement aims, weather risks, and critiques on Colorado press piracy and credit disputes.
The Religio Philosophical Journal notes Robert Barnes of Evansville Indiana left a large bequest to educate poor Spiritualist children and unaffiliated parents. the will, stolen before his death, may revert to relatives. Spiritualists seek confirmation with help from Robert Dale Owen. Barnes claimed his will would not be contested, but spirits omit locating it. The piece urges caution toward unknown speakers and favors local fund raising to educate the needy, discouraging foreign entertainers and swindlers.
The Northampton Journal describes Greeley Colorado as rapidly developing within under four years with thousands of residents, multiple churches, a six-room public school building costing $30,000, a lyceum, library, and rail and telegraph links. It cites prohibition of liquor as a core colony rule and contrasts frontier isolation with Greeley’s social and educational expansion. It also reports a Grand Jury corruption inquiry in Southern Colorado, including the removal of Colonel D. C. Russell, and a chilling account of a freezing death of a boy named Joseph Green during a post and mules incident near the Ball Corral, with Andrew Smith later found.
Investigations reveal no settlements or improvements on the disputed land despite claims under the pre emption acts. A portion of the school section in Huerfano county was fraudulently pre empted and a US patent issued. The tract, part of section 6, township 27, range 65 west, borders a lake and lies near a prospective railroad, marking it highly valuable.
In December 1874 T Watson reports a large Sioux band moving camps eight miles below Greeley and three miles above, with 5 000 to 6 000 Indians and 7 000 ponies. He describes their lodge-pole transport, visits their village, and notes peaceful yet damaging acts including theft of flour, a damaged claim shanty, and hay losses. he urges the Governor and press to address the unrest.
Indian Agent Thompson reports Captain Jim Baker, the famed frontiersman, is living quietly on a Snake River ranch with 70 to 80 cattle and a fine band of horses. Baker, central to early mountain exploration, has faced many perils and has had varied relations with tribes across the region. He remains a legendary figure whose adventures could fill a book. Denver News.
In a December 29 1874 note from Valley Home Farm Greeley the editor laments the passing of the old year and muse on time memory and hope. The column reports brickwork pauses coal mining activity ice harvesting skating events church gatherings and local civic concerns including tax collection street signs and road guide boards. It also mentions Union meetings and a new jail awaiting occupancy with townspeople noting health conditions and charitable needs.
About 500 buffalo robes have been tanned by hunters along the Platte. An exhibit shows roughly a quarter of the season. The Greeley trade advantage lies in low merchant supplies. County Treasurer Benedict works daily at Fisk & Scott, proves competent, and advocates thorough taxation to prevent land parcels escaping assessment. Benedict cites $10,000 in real estate underassessed in one precinct and urges county orders not to discount. A letter to the editor analyzes alkaline incrustation lab results from Michigan University.
A local appeal invites all churches in Greeley to join in the week of prayer to seek divine blessing on world evangelism among Pagano and Papal nations. The letter cites past revivals and urges Christians to unite beyond denominations, with notices of observations to follow.
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