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Newspaper
Washington Telegraph
Location
Washington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1858
Page
3
A mixed bundle of items including subscription terms for a newspaper, advertising rates, and editorial notes. The page mentions fox hunting, deer shooting restrictions after January, a burned Masonic Hall in Centralis AL, a new merchant tailor Belser, a Christmas prose piece, and local crime notes about thefts in High Banks and surrounding areas plus railroad depot news and political chatter about Senators McCarty and others.
Kansas papers report a surge of jay hawking in the lower territory. Outlaws break into cabins at night, seize money, steal livestock, insult families, and burn a homestead. On the 1st, John B Stein’s Little Osage house was robbed and his wife and he were relieved of valuables, half a dollar kept as few. Another home of Benjamin Haley was looted and burned. In the same week, an elderly man named Jackson was killed amid retaliatory attacks over 1856 troubles.
William Enderline was sentenced by the United States District Court to three years in the penitentiary for abstracting opening and destroying letters at the Indianapolis Post Office. The case was clear and conclusive with no defence accepted, noting the arrest timing and alleged motive of aiding a pension in order to serve superiors.
Letters from emigrants in Kansas and Leavenworth praise the Cherry Creek diggings as yielding solid returns. One worker reports $3 to $3 per day per man, others peg yields at 8 to 10 dollars daily, and the thirteen man Georgis Company has $1400 in dust since July. The digs pause for winter and will resume in spring.
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