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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1878
Page
3
The Sidney Telegraph announces pricing for paid local notices in the Local Column at 25 cents per line and under Special Locala at 16 cents per line. Black lines incur double rate. Event dated Saturday February 23.
A miscellany from Sidney notes several residents in Omaha for US Court matters, local store improvements, gold yield in the Black Hills, rising freight outfits mainly from Cheyenne, and visits by Billy Fraser and others. It also mentions Hannah Rothschild and Gerd Roseberry, Neubauer returning to prominence at Moore House, and new Sidney railway prospects with Nebraska City, Ridney, and Deadwood links explored by Daugherty Kelly Co. and the Bidney route.
A registered letter from the Bank of Montreal to Fort Benton and Mountain Thefts in New York carried 9000 Canadian dollars in large bills. The hush-hush postal crime involved envelope tampering and newspaper inserts. The trail led to Abe Lipman and a man named Harmon, with further links to a merchant in Fremont and a railway case in Laramie. Police expect to recover missing funds and implicate others.
The Cheyenne crime wave is criticized as appalling with reports of a nameless assault on two young daughters of a Benton household linked to up town prostitution. Miss Frankie Lester is cited denying responsibility while claiming the girls resided at Lou Wade's establishment and were cold and hungry when she aided them. The piece urges swift action by authorities.
In a 1878 rambling letter editor RAMBL E N from Ogallalla reports fierce, spreading debate over the so called Short Cut project. Big Springs supporters tout soil timber and lush country ideal for stock, while Ogallallaites push back with equal zeal. The writer promises to return from the Paris Exposition with further details.
A viper newly bonded to a man with delirium tremens enters a blacksmith shop seeking food. It finds a file and tries to gnaw it as if it were old newspapers. The file mocks the viper and the creature breaks its teeth in rage. Moral the tale warns against biting off more than one can chew.
The Deadwood Times notes delegate E C Brearly in Washington reports favorable House subcommittee views on the Lincoln bill for a new territory. Senate committee expected to report within ten days with broad support. Boundary changes and opposition from Pembina and local delegates fade as prospects improve.
Local ads announce calico six cents a yard at C A Moores and grand events at White House hall including a masquerade on Friday March 1. New stock in dry goods at Capitol corner Rose and Second, with Anderson Williams billiard hall featuring two tables and a bar. Humbug Cigars sold by A Newman claim quality, urging customers to try them.
An itemized, fragmentary ad page lists sellers and goods including cattle and hogs, maple syrup in quart cans at McDonald's, calico fabrics at low yard prices from New York Dry Goods Store, a livery contact at Vine and Second, a relocated blacksmith shop, and new dry goods stock at McDonald's.
Messrs Adams Redington Fans at Excelsior Meat Market offer sausage making and proudly serve beef mutton and biscuits. Boston baked beans at McDonald s. The American House brands whiskey cider and stock ales. Small room for rent apply at this office. Hides and pelts bought high by Adana Redington Abinas. A grand ball at White House Fallen on St Patrick s eve March 17 187s.
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