Railroads and local crops amid Colorado changes
The Union Pacific and Kansas Pacific settle their quarrels while lease plans loom and Colorado traffic shifts. Locally, speculation on Denver connections and a possible Julesburg route faces questions about profits and highway use. Grasshoppers threaten wheat, but farmers find control methods and continued planting. School meeting elects officers and notes careful book-keeping and district readiness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Pacific
Kansas Pacific
Carr
Kansas. Pacific
Longmont
Greeley
Denver Pacific
Denver
Julesburg
Marriage of Miss Greeley: Ida Greeley weds Col. Nicholas Smith
New York May 1 Miss Ida Greeley elder daughter of the late Horace Greeley was married to Col. Nicholas Smith of Covington Kentucky at the Cleveland residence. Rev Father Farrell performed the Catholic ceremony. A large invited guest list attended including judges military and professional men. The bridal party then sailed to Europe on the steamer Abyssinia.
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Greeley
New York
Ida Greeley
Horace Greeley
Col
Nicholas Smith
Covington
P” Cleveland
Father Farrell
Abyssinia
Europe
Hayden on the Hills Foreword to Black Hills Study
The Omaha Herald reprints geologist F. W. Havann describing the Black Hills as an eastern outlier of the Rockies with a central pine timber belt. He notes exploration in 1857 led by Gen. G. K. Warren, discusses climate, soil fertility, and potential timber transport via the Cheyenne river corridor, and signals future mineral prospects and regional expansion through Kansas, Nebraska, Dakota, Montana, Idaho, and Colorado.
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Omaha Herald
Hayden
Black Hills
Rocky Mountains
Laramie Range
United States
G. K. Warren
War Department
Warren
Congress
Missouri
Kansas
Nebraska
Colorado
Dakota
Montana
Idaho
Rorky Mountains
F. W. Havann
Enchanted Wives Plot to Ensnare Patrons in Greeley
In a country house near Pandemonium, Mrs Avontyon and Mrs Saran preach a twisted catechism to children urging lying and gambling as virtues. Satan and Apollyon discuss licenses, a private billiards table, and a plan to prod convicts while grasshoppers threaten crops in Colorado.
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Mia
Satan
Avontyon
Saray
Arotsyox
Arouuyon
Bren
Saran
Bret
Savax
Brew
Savas
Congregational Association Reports on Denver and Colorado Springs Churches
The Denver church sent a full delegation while Foulder and Central in Colorado were unrepresented. Meetings covered church work methods, cooperation of ministers and laymen, forms of invitation to communion, creeds, and finances. Highlights include debt reduction at Denver, growth at Colorado Springs, and a new president-pastor at the Colorado Springs college.
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Foulder
Central
Denver
the Park Church
J. M. Sturtevant, Jr
L. A Mead
Longmont
Colorado Springs
Mr. Martin
Lord’s House
Platteville
College At
Bushnell
Nacross
St. Vrain
Social Visit After Church Meetings Organizers Plan Revisions
Afternoon sessions featured social interaction with tea coffee sandwiches and cake provided in abundance. Pastors from Baptist Methodist and Presbyterian churches plus Rev Powell and Rev Martin attended and offered brief devotions. A committee was formed to revise the constitution and by laws and a ten cent printing tax was proposed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Messrs
Powell
Martin
The Captured Miners from the Black Hills Trek
An eighteen man mining party led by Captain Mix with Lieutenants Hay and Lapoint marched from the Black Hills to Laramie after rugged travel. They report heavy snow and a harsher April storm, left stocks of gear, and expect to return if permitted. They describe Harney Peak area, prospecting in silver and gold and note no Indian hostility, a strong stockade, and hopeful plans to work again when allowed.
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Denver News
Black Hills
Mix
Hay
Lapoint
Hills
Laramie
Harney’s Peak
Harney City
M. B. Corderro
Corderre
Ilorn
Corderro
Cheyenne
Fort Laramie
Sioux City
Coming Conquest of Savagery by American Courage
A territorial expansion narrative declares a vast land beyond Nebraska and Omaha will be settled by gold seekers and adventurers. It argues that the United States will civilize and Christianize the continent, with Nebraska and Omaha poised to gain from the impending changes and echoing past discoveries in California Nevada Colorado Montana and Australia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
United States
Bert
Greeley
Satan
Messenger
New England
New York
Australia
California
Colorado
Wyoming
Montana
Nevada
Nebraska
Omaha
Columbia
India
Omaha Herat
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Kae
Mr. Hill
Thompson
Buell
Mr. Knowles
Ilinois
Indiana
Ohio
D. Hunter
H. T. West
O. Howard
Howard
West
Hunter
Harper’ Publications
the Monthly Magazine
the Weekly
Th Basar
Colorado Horticulturial
J. T. Foster
The
Christian Union
George McDonald
St. George and St. Michael
McDonald
Adriatic
Wall St
Panama Railroad
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
Wallest
Union
Kaneans Pacific
Union Pacific Company
Colorado Central Railroad
Consolidated Corporation
Kansas Pacific Railroad Company
Sidney Dillon
Jay Gould
James D. Smith
Oliver Ames
Boston
Consolidated Companies
Kansas Pacific Railroad
Robert B. Carr
New York Tribune
Ceive
Avouiyox
Apollyon
Christian
Ardirger
Beelzebub
Anter Beevzesen
Bretzepun
Bex
Golden Transcript
Jonas Wannemaker
Golden Junction
Congregational Association OF Colorado
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