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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1878
Page
3
A damaged OCR fragment indicates local charges for four individuals. The text mentions a headline about charges and potential doubling costs but lacks readable names, dates, or specifics. The readable core points to local court action and whether fines apply at double rates.
Local tidbits report J W Dear of the Red Cloud Agency in town, Texas cattle grazing nearby, Emigrants crossing through Sidney, and a Grand Army of the Republic Ball planned at White House Hall. Capt Nickerson appointed adjuant general. humor and local gossip mix with weather, crime notes, and business updates.
Report claims government plans to move Spotted Tail and his band from Spotted Tail agency toward old agency vicinity to avert uprising. Spotted Tail reportedly promised to lead a war path if delays persist. Yankton group plans to join, with bands totaling about 8,600 people, including women and children.
General Howard shifts from mass campaigns to dispersed forces protecting settlements and ready for rapid marches as Bannocks face pressure from surrounding posts. Volunteers from mining camps join to oppose the Bannocks, who lack outside tribal support and provisions. News items note saloon upgrades, cattle branding accidents, and rail route concerns amid broader Indian tensions and frontier skirmishes.
Miss Ella Lowry expresses gratitude for friends kindness and the liberal vote that funded a grateful little basket. A picnic was held for about two hundred Sidney children following Rev Jennette’s suggestion to use leftover festival provisions. A brakeman R N Clark died after being struck by a freight train near Julesburg. Coroner Anderson and Rev Mr Cate led funeral rites. His home was Centerville Iowa.
Special locals tout July 4 celebrations at White House Hall with a grand social hop and a wide assortment of cigars, tobaccos, holders, stationery and more at F. E. Clary’s Post Office. Tickets available from O. E. Borgquist, White House Hall Drug Store, or Grand Army of the Republic members. Also advertised are refined refreshments at Lankins’ future ice cream parlor, A. Newman’s new Western store, Gen. Lynch as a first class tailor, and California wines at American Theme prices. Straw hats and linen clothing offered by A. S. Brown Front Street.
Cheyenne County taxpayers are informed that the 1877 tax cases become delinquent May 1 1878. Those owing taxes should call and settle at once. Sidney Neb May 1 1878. Also notices on market prices for hides and pelts, and local advertisements for Star Clothing House and Adams Redington Haas Meat Market.
Miss Jennie Day starts a select school in Sidney on Monday July 1 for all grades with tuition 1.50 per month and family discounts. She brings strong testimonials as a teacher and the term continues through the public school summer vacation. A new line of 8tetson hats and White Vests is announced by Star Clothing House with Percale shirts also available.
A clipped notice mentions Adems Redington Haas as slaughtering cattle and hogs. It references a breakfast bacon deal linked to Adama and a venue named White House Hall where an event on the fourth is noted.
State of Nebraska versus Frank Tarbox and Charles A Moore. Defendants named in the Fifth Judicial District Court within Obay One County. Public notice of legal actions filed in state court. Proceeding details and deadlines forthcoming in official records.
Fifty Dollars reward for information leading to the recovery of four mules and one horse strayed from Yellow Medicine Creek between Red Cloud Agency and Forks of White River, D.T., May 6 1878. Described as one bay horse mule branded T 2 left shoulder, two black mare mules branded M left neck and TB left shoulder, one mouse colored mule with A TB left shoulder, one bay horse branded n1 with tar on forehead. Bergamin Tupperts Rep Group Agency CT. and Anderson Williams Capitol Billiard Hall at Rose and Second streets is best west of the Missouri River with two billiard tables and a superior bar. Haas Persinger & Co groceries at bed rock prices. Mesars Adams Redington Haas Excelsior Meat Market offers sausage and smoked meats with prime beef and mutton.
P Romsey announces a Grand Secret Hop on Thursday evening July 4 at White House Hall to honor veterans and encourage locals to stay for home enterprise and support Sidney rather than traveling to Cheyenne. A hotel policy awards a $200 daily charge to parties stopping at the hotel.
Persons indebted to W. Bierkower are asked to settle accounts left with him. Seek the Capitol at Rose and Second for comfort. Anderson and Williams at Willard Parlor Rose and Second claim strong business. Guinease’s Dublin porter and Buen’s London ale at Herlihy and Mahoney’s. Tickets for the July 4 social Hop available from GCE Borgquist at White House Hall’s Drug Store or from Grand Army of the Republic members.
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