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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1878
Page
3
The local column notes a new rate schedule with a line item heading Special Locals. The column mentions a 25 cent charge per line and a policy to bill the head of Special Locals at double the rate.
A regional update notes Jac A Hoyt confirmed as Governor of Wyoming, and EB Bergquist building on a vacant lot. Spring announcements, a new baseball club forming, and job ads appear along Front Street. melodramatic items include a saloon reopening, a saloon closing, and a mounting migration amid Indian tensions. a tragic death and a long-distance transport case close the week.
The Laramie County Stock Association schedules roundups across the region in May 1878. Northwestern round-up led by Mitchell Oxarart will start at Loomis Ranch near the North Platte River and traverse Rawhide Buttes to Fort Laramie area. Southwestern round-up under W. C. Lyking begins near Lone Tree by Big Toe ranch and spans west of the Telegraph road to Laramie River. Pole Creek round-up in Durbin crossing, May 20, moves to Lodge Pole station then north to Smith's Fork and Pumpkin Creek. Lower Horse Creek round-up meets at Sidogy bridge and travels up the Platte to Fort Laramie and Horse Creek to Laramie Telegraph road. GIS Goolell, foreman.
Private Jacob Ainberg leads the Grand Army of the Republic to organize a new Powt E. V. Sumner post in Sidney Nebraska. A preliminary meeting and a White House Hall gathering elected officers including Post Commander Jacob Amberg and Adjutant Fred Nick. Weekly meetings set for Wednesdays at 9 15 PM.
A Deadwood dispatch reports a rich gold assay of 500 to the ton from quartz in Whitewood Gulch near Deadwood. The article notes Major E Welch, once Fort McPherson and Camp Sheridan post trader and a major Black Hills landowner, died there yesterday.
U 8 Detective Geo Snyder of Omaha is in Sidney on official business. Brown returned from the east with a large stock of clothing. Tusler, Wisconsin member of Tusler Bros., is in the city. Dudley of Fort Umur New Mexico visits mother of Postmaster Dudley. Lynch the cattle man returns from winter quarters in Wisconsin to attend cattle interests. Chase touted as potential governor candidate by rivals. Henry Williams back from Black Hills seeking site for new hotel. Hank Is, oil miner, praises Western Canada wealth. quartz mines making owners millionaires. Williams plans to buy a hotel in Deadwood and will stay there this spring. locals wish him well.
Rail officials, UP officials, freshmen and the public all acknowledge Sidney as the nearest point and best route to the Black Hills, with consensus across Ailturent slige companies.
Advertisements list Easter ball plans at Moore's Hotel with details to come. McFadden touts largest grocery stock, plus low Dry Goods prices at McFadden and Brown Front Street opposite Lockwood House. Newman sells cigars and cutlery on Rose Street. Messia Adams Redington & Hance market in Excelsior offers beef and mutton, with American House serving Kentucky Sour Mash Whisky and stock ales. McDonald’s Dry Goods Emporium claims biggest dry goods stock with stylish dresses and fabrics. Adams and Redington offer breakfast bacon, Capitol Billiard Hall features two billiard tables and a fine bar. McDoneld to stock hats and millinery next week. Calico priced at 6 cents per yard at C A Moore’s.
A note offers $10,000 reward for the capture of anyone who killed hogs. Hogs are identified by a square crop on both ears. The ad mentions local cattle and hogs slaughtering at McDonald's and directs readers to the Capitol corner of Rose and Second streets for comfort.
McDonald advertises all items at lower prices than any merchant in town and a small room for rent on favorable terms. Apply at the office.
Five room and office building on Front Street offered for sale at very low figures. For full details inquire at Darrow Stevenson’s Real Estate office.
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