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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1878
Page
3
The Black Hills mining scene shows rapid, unprecedented activity with shafts down eighty to one hundred feet and new mills planned. several lodes and segregations like Golden Terra and Segregard indicate high ore quality. Dakota land rules describe homestead, preemption, and finder claims with steps to secure 160 acres, fees, residence, and eventual patent.
A Dover New Hampshire youth answered a New York ad offering valuable returns for twenty five cents. He sent the money and was warned not to send again, with the reply telling him to keep his money in his pocket.
Indian camps from Yanktonais on Milk river to Cheyennes near Frenchman’s creek skirt the Fort Belknap area. Sitting Bull with twelve lodges at Cypress Mountain. Blackfeet restless. traders note arms and ammunition demand. Reports say Cheyenne scouts slain near Dry Forks. 130 lodges near Missouri expected to cross. Sitting Bull seeks flour but is barred by Black Catfish. buffalo scarce on British side.
A four man party with a dragon arrived at Deadwood and left quickly after buying provisions and mining gear. They traveled southeast through Germania District prompting locals to form a pursuit group. A letter to Mr Highie suggests rich placer diggings may lie southeast, with the wagon headed toward them.
In Mortfort Times reported an unexpected demand for art models at the Washington art school with twenty one women offering and only three men. Artists note the public first effort to recruit female models and chose from a large, handsome pool. None of the male applicants received assignments while the selected women are described as striking subjects for painting.
In Hart County Kentucky a man named William Bowman was carried away as an infant in the Appalachians North Carolina and found by an old bear, raised as a cub, later captured at about ten. He could not talk or eat except milk. Now a farmer near Omega, Kentucky, and the claim can be verified by seeing him.
A heavy snowstorm from March 7 to 12 stranded mail and telegraph lines in the Black Hills region. Five feet of snow blocked roads, damaged mining camps, and caused near misses as buildings collapsed. The Caledonia mine near Shoe Maker Gulch changed hands for 80000 dollars to California interests. Separately, Chas W Hunt assaulted lodging-house proprietor C W Tappan after a drunken tirade, wounding him fatally. International reports note rising war tensions and political maneuvers in Europe with Greece Russia and Austria. In Washington Dr Mary Walker clashed with a cigar smoker in the Interior Department anteroom.
Multiple health and crime items include the death of M Descalziers member of the French Chamber of Deputies. Other notes report a measles outbreak in Lyons with six thousand cases and assorted media and legal items from the US and Caribbean.
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