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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1876
Page
2
An upper class exhibition at Greeley Schools featured essays and orations by students led by Jessie Dresser Kossuth and Webster works. The writer praised articulate effort, urged broader audience and criticized unequal prize results while noting need for better articulation. The piece also covers Doomsday Book notes and Colorado exhibition plans with Kansas as partners.
Ten cavalry companies and Crook's Big Horn expedition arrive back near Fort Reno after a long northern campaign. They spent fifteen days with infantry and report scouring over four hundred miles east of the Big Horn mountains toward the Powder Tongue Rosebud and Lodge Pole valleys, pursued by Crazy Horse's five hundred warriors who remained elusive in harsh weather.
Report covers a 17th inst attack by 800 U S troops on a Minneconjou village in Powder River mountains, 100 miles north. The assault destroyed over 100 tepees and war stores, with four soldiers killed and eight wounded overall. Egan Grays led by Captain John Egan charged the village amid bitter cold as the column begins return to Fort Fetterman.
An 1876 Fort Collins piece extols sheep husbandry in Larimer County, valuing year round grazing, crossbreeding gains, and wool potential. It forecasts population and production growth, highlights rich grazing areas near the Foot Hills, and notes local tax questions on livestock and notes, with a Denver official clarifying district taxation rules for property and notes.
A Greeley Tribune reader discusses how the new school law settles liability for personal property to be taxed by the district. The assistant assessor must list all property real and personal when school taxes are levied and the board seeks legal advice on exemptions.
Regular ticket lists Joseph Moore W F Thompson H B Wright Joan Leavy Be J Carver for town clerk L Von Gohr en for constable B F Marsh for street supervisor Samuel Graham. Silver gray fox pelts worth 25 dollars. Calvin Thomas returned from the States. Sociable at Park Church Friday. Election for town officers next Monday. Road from Sidney to North Platte bridge planned. Eclipse occurred Saturday per announcement. High winds and dust. no damage. Mr Ady’s family mourns son Tommy’s scarlet fever death. Mr Robertson to move wagon shop to Cheyenne. Young girls miss Susie Kennedy who died last week. Colorado has most railroad miles per population. more will be built this year. Sidney Telegraph: county round-up to begin May 10, 1876. Thos Kane president, C T Harrison secretary. Pleasant Valley active with religious meetings. post office petitions circulating for relocation. Farmers in Jefferson County sending East for seed grain due to grasshoppers. Peach trees survived winter. real peaches possible next fall. An assault incident involved a lady with a gold chain. Caucus for nominating town officers held Monday night. names...
Town Committee members J F Benedict E A Gipson and G H West were named after a sizeable meeting. B C Taylor’s magic act drew a large audience with an entirely new program on each show night. Horace Greeley praised Alf Burnett as a top humorist aided by Helen Nash and L Percy Williams. Burnett visits Barnum Hall Wednesday evening April 5 with strong clergy attendance promised.
An ad filled page listing a natural remedy from Dr. Pierce at the Buffalo facility, promoting Favorite Prescription as a targeted aid for women’s weaknesses and chronic complaints. Several local notices include shop reopens, a lodge meeting, bids for Gillette House work, clothing and shoe sales, seed and farm goods, and a pony mare notice.
Listing promises a helper in a dairy through November 1876 to aid in operations. The notice appears amid a bustling ad page offering boots and goods from Monx & Txoareyo with claims of low prices, big stock, and no underselling. It touts decline in prices and asks patrons to compare and patronize.
Kansas Pacific Railway offers daily morning trains from Denver at 11 o clock arriving next day 4 15 pm. Connects with express for St Louis Chicago and other major points. Through Pullmans and day coaches to Kansas City with one change to York Philadelphia Baltimore and Washington. Through tickets and baggage to principal points. Officials include Atnsune Carmnician and Lyrono with Kansas City and Denver offices.
The Wabash Route offers through Pullman Palace sleeping cars and day coaches from Kansas City to Toledo via Illinois and the Wabash, with no extra charge for through dry coach seats. Direct Cleveland connection links to through sleepers to New York and Boston, and one car change from the Missouri River to Indianapolis Cincinnati Pittsburgh Philadelphia Baltimore Buffalo Boston and intermediate points. Express trains of Missouri Pacific connect at St Louis and Kansas City with the Wabash Line from Union Depot, St Louis.
Important travel notice urges travelers to choose safe routes and highlights the Chicago North Western as the shortest path between maha and Chicago. It touts steel rails, central Chicago depot, early arrivals, and sleepers on through trains with information available at ticket offices or by written application to the general agent.
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