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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1878
Page
2
The Greeter Tribune reports a record circulation larger than any local newspaper in Northern Colorado, signaling strong advertiser value and wider audience access.
Notice sets the annual election in Geeley Colorado on Monday April 1 1878 for five Town Trustees Town Clerk Street Supervisor and Town Constable. Town Clerk L Vor Gomren signs the notice dated March 8 1878.
In the Colorado senate discussion last Monday Mr Allison moved to let the president negotiate with the Ute Indians to consolidate bands under one agency at the White River, replacing the interior secretary. Edmunds urged reporting to the senate only, while reforming bond paper informalities and noting heavy snows complicating travel. The piece also condemns horse abuse, cites welfare concerns for tramps, and advocates minting silver locally, questioning local weights and measures accuracy.
Reports from Washington cover Congressman Douglass's in‑house disturbance in Virginia and the death of Congressman Leonard in Havana. Other items note mint requests, gold and silver prices, debt reduction, storm damage, land entries in Kansas, rail travel to Kansas, and various bank payouts. Criminal notices include ship cargo schemes, assaults, and prison releases with multiple regional incidents.
Reports detail masons striking in England, a storeroom collapse at Woolwich dock injuring many, grain elevators authorized in Russia, and German support for terms of peace excluding indemnity. Russian press notes strengthen positions before Constantinople while Britain grows suspicious and distressed by widespread mill closures in Oldham.
A northern front dumped more than two feet of snow on Central City in the recent storm. The piece notes ongoing snow burdens and regional effects across communities.
A New England reader laments Washington gridlock and advocates a Denver mint to coin bullion at home. The column extols Colorado prospects from Leadville to Chalk and Cottonwood creeks, praises rail expansion, farming and placer mining, and notes local business growth including the Denver Whip and Collar Company and a thriving floristry scene. It also reports social news, marriage of Thos. F. Dawson and updates from Greeley on the Cheyenne Carriage Works.
County notes report Fredrick Bros seeds fifty acres to barley. John Parish sells 71 head of cattle for 1000 dollars to James B. Kempton. Ore from a Big Thompson silver mine assays 218 dollars per ton. Stallion of Wm G Winbourne dies from a similar disease as others. Matthews residence near Evans destroyed in a storm. heavy poultry loss. Mrs A C Cheeley dies. large funeral at her brother Wm G Winbourne’s home. Wheat on hand estimated 15 000 bushels with six weeks of grinding left at A Leonard & Co. mill. Erie and Marshall mining districts face rising coal prices and tense labor tensions. potential rail disruptions feared.
Gen J L Brush reports heavy cattle losses on the Muddy Bijou and Kiowa as a late storm blankets the region. Sheep losses loom larger with hundreds of thousands affected including 8,000 on Bijou and tens of thousands across Kansas Pacific and Larimer County. A heart breaking account from Bijou Basin details a mother and two children perishing in a snowbound home.
The present term of the Juvenile Singing Class will close Thursday evening the 28th with an exhibition concert. Barnum Hall has been secured for the occasion and a good time is predicted for both young and old. H Boettcher asks the party who stole the rolling counter from a broken plow last night to return it. One of Wyoming’s best known men is Caswell the Boss proprietor of the Delmonico Hotel and of the Monkey's Cheyenne, who keeps about 100 boarders. If you want a good spring bed and clean sheets go to the Delmonico.
A Denver man praises Planter's as the best place in town to get a good square meal, claiming a post dinner happiness unmatched by any other time. The note emphasizes Planter's as the optimal dining option in Denver.
In Cheyenne, the City Bakery serves excellent meals for two bits. F. Melander runs the town's only hot store. The Overland House in downtown Cheyenne advertises affordable, first class hotel accommodations for visitors.
Advertisements detail cheap sugar, garden tools, seeds, and groceries from Freeman Buckiey, N Boettcher, Monk Ingalsee, Borrrener, and Beetham. They tout April gallery hours, paper hanging, and spring stock in clothing, cigars, and stationery. Also listings for land for rent and sale, tax-like notices, and a jewelry prize claim.
Beetham offers a wide range of meats at affordable prices and invites customers to inspect the selection. Mansfield supplies flower seeds and garden seeds, providing garden products to local shoppers.
A roundup of local items from Greeley and Weld County includes elevator talk, St Patrick’s Day reflections, weather concerns, and upcoming elections. Reports cover farms, fishing, stock movements, property purchases, a blue-blood colt, a millinery and jewelry business, and warnings about soft soap scams. News mentions Bishop Spalding services, a reading room change, and a Cheyenne murder case set for trial. There are notices on licenses, cheese factory ideas, and maps offered by W H Post.
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