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The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-04-17


by himl, or about 2e96 square miIrs
is covered with excellent pine timber,
or l,2oO,OOO acres. Now the mex
question arises, how is this timber to
be made available? At least fOur to
six months in the year these streams
Belle Fourche and South Fork Of
Cheyennel are quite high. The dogs
could be cut and Transported TO the
sides OF these Strains during the dry
season, and when the streams are
high, IN the spring OF the year, lIcN
could be taken down d lh' %tl--
-ouri River with IA G""d degree oil
safety and Gosc:
The. Black fIl'-} ""''' afp''r III
the distance hL"l Hf'I;' lnv'' h'Ill''
from their DARK an" E'""InE appear
ance, cnntall7 an l~eNntuS'In 4It"-
tlty 9IlhG Ane9l Lh'StlS p'me'
when WlI uouoL.eS9 'eLl',U u,!"is-
luIDei III 'H""S S'"Io J." C"tI.: ra
Hc't't"' D, %"I >-.'D I''I
lIll.S i"9 Sui,l,.Iy. : Us ''t,.,' n'2'I
SpSitna E,uT '"E'A Vi TL 'uti,,I ".
Slili"S' an" tIte '.''i"'I
.oHIlH SriIS'9'Cu I, many N"I's'N7'
y ttH 1Lh
iuJ PM - VI 9Gl,"','s G'ltlelN.5"!H
met with in abundance On every
hillside"
Col. Fursythc. or Gen. ShuTiIan's
staff, who accompanied the pXpedi-
ton, also torrU1ururnS the statement
that Il great ubu.dauru OF ti.Ihrr
exist in the hills.
The fertility uf Il1o+ son in the
Black lif!lS WAX noticed by LIcu;.
Warren, ia 1883. Speaking Of the.
valleys iu that region, Nr -ly- in his
report of that year: "Inthu>u noun
tain formations wh.ci. border The,
great plains on the west are tn be
found beautiful flowing streams, and
small rich valleys covered over with
fine grass for hay, and susceptible o.:
cultivation by means of Irrigation.
Fufc timber for iucl and lumber,
limestone, and good StOun Tor hIiiG-
ing pilrpu~us arJ' here abundant.
Gu'd has ben lnunsi ir pluri'- ia
valuable Q~uutAaIcs, autL lwiihuut
doubt, the more common and useful
minelals wll! be discovered when
mao e. minute examinations are
Ltndc."
In the same report, further on. he
says: TIA" country furnishes the
means Of ruisiug sufficient quantities.
%. grain AMI vegetables fer The IT," Of
the inhabitants and beautiful,
healthy and d,-ifaH'3 l"rlliuus for
their Tonnes. The rumul kuhlu free
dom here" from sicsn"S~ is OF
the H~iirIriiNr features OF the region,
and VIII, IN TINS respect, go far 10
rtcnmp"nse the settler from the
Mississippi valley for his loss in the
smaller amount OF products that can
be taken from the soil. The great
want OF suitable iEujldIng malcriai,
WHICH now 50 seriously rciard, the
CROWN oil The west, WI not bc I1tl
mere.
lie also says that these settlements
~ the btaeA llisi2 e1anlrXa eann2t
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-04-17
FORESTS OF B

The Black Hills take their name
from the dark green appearance that
ths msRi iGCent forests Ct rine, that
cover their sides and tops, give Ia
them: II think it safe to say" says
ID :.Hayden, in his geological report
Of their exploration in 1S59-60, page
9, THAT at least one-third of this
area ESTIMATED at 5000 square miles
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-04-17

THE TOWN o DEPARTMENT en-
braces enc hundred towns between Omaha,
Neo., ard Corinne. Utah, and IL now ready 10
Residence Lois, AT VERY Low RATES. 20 actual
settlers d, irons Of building up permanent
towns ana cities along this great r~horoughfare
Nebraska, Colorado. Wyoming, Montana and
Utah are rapidly filling up with a permanent
population, who are settling upon the rich agri.
cultural lands on either side Of the road. and
d 'vel,Ping The Gold, silver, copper, ECnd.
Iron and Coal Mines Of the most cxIcn
siNe aud richest mining districts in the world.
Al these. and the people Of interior mining
camps and towns. must depend on the nearest
towns located on the Union Pacific Railroad
for their supplies OF dry goods, cloiEiug, gro.
cerics, drugs and medicines, hardware. crockery
and glassware, furniture. farming Indictments,
machinery. tools, &C.. &c. Already Il c demand
for legitimate trade exceeds the supply, and
will more than double every year
These towns have been located with a
View to health, business capacity and scenic
beauty. and large numbers of them are rapidly
growing into public prominence. As an index
Of their prosperity. il may he stated that the
new bull lings erected in these towns during
the year 1871, cost Ore and three-Courths
millions OF dollars!
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-04-17

Inasmuch as a large portion of the
American people are now Interested
in obtaining correct and reiiaHle in
formation about the Black Hills uf
Wyoming and Dakota, we deem it
prudent TO compile such facts in rela-
ton to them as are kuOwG to be
truthful and gathered from trust
worthg sources
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-04-17

There arc twD routes that may he
taken 10 the hills from here. The
one by way of Fort Llmmie, Raw
Hide Buties, Old Woman's Fork
and Beaver Creek is ls2 miles. This
ruutp passes through IA settled cuun-
try tor a hundred mites or so. Good
ranches will be found every few
miles as far as Fort Laramie. There
j. NOW "a stage line on it owned by
J. &. Abney, that carries the United
States malt To tad. from the Fort,
and also passengers at ten dollar, q,
pierre. This line will be extended To
inc Black Hills right away, il the
government permits 1t To be done.
I'LL" rOad Is IN unusually good one,
aud j. constantly Travelled by the
iHriitory, by ireighter-, 10y ranch
men, settlers and others. The fol.
ln" ing table Of distances over this
rOuJu Is correct:
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1875-02-24

s20,0O0,00O, This is for one article
of luxury in clothing in the space
of twelve months : One New York
retail house alone sells enough
gloves to make an average of 81 900
profit per day. The New York
trade is fragment only of the
whole trade in kid gloves in the
United States, which shows how
far the nation has departed from
the philosophical teachings of the
great maximist who said, "a cat in
gloves catches no mice" The trade
in the fine hand-wear in this coun-
try is increasing rapidly, as the
Americans of both sexes are rapid
~ falling into the customs of the
Europeans, who rarely go bare
handed.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1875-02-24
DiscOuraging.

Young doctors, says a Chicago
paper, who may have imbided the
notion which prevails in the Allan.
tic and Middle States of coming
West and growing up with the
country will do well to read the
following truthful incident: A
certain squaw near Olympia, W. T.,
was recently i'll, and one DR.. Jack
son, an Indian herb physician, was
employed to attend her. Under
his ministrations, however, she
grew worse instead of better, and
she declared to her warrior spouse
that unless he killed the doctor she
must pine away and die. Her
brave promptly acted upon the
suggestion, and was as promptly
brought before the criminal courts
VI Washington Territory on a
charge of murder. The Judge in
the jury that prosecutions
or sorcery was obsolete, because
The crime either never did exist or
vas no longer perceived to exist,
Dut be did not feel at liberty to
'ay it could not exist, and the Jury
must determine that point for
themselves, bearing in mind that if
he prisoner took the life of the
ioctor under a reasonable belief
hat it was necessary to save his
wife from death or bodily harm, he
must be acquitted. This was plain
enough, and the jury returned
verdict of not guilty. This case
must be rather discouraging to the
profession.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1875-02-24

in the chivalry of the age, and thu
seemingly powerless inactivity o.
man in the right direction, and il
the courts of earth, they have
gathered in bands and with faith
in the business of their cause, they
have entered into these very dens
of infamy, and rebuked and remon-
strated with the dealers in destruc-
ton and when that failed they
appesled to the court of heaven.
And opposers quoted Paul, saying ;
"These women are out of their
place"
Then their place is TO see the
bread taken from the mouths of
their children, the clothing from
their bodies, and knowledge from
their minds, ana themselves suffer-
ing for the necessaries of life, to
furnish means with which to buy
tobacco and whisky, and to receive
the abuse of men made brutal by
the use thereof. And the Lord
was greatly displeased Herewith,
and said, "Wherefore do you spend
money for that which is not bread,
and your labor for that which sat
isfth not! Turn now your fields
into wheat and corn, and put these
evil doings far from you, and be We
separate, and deiile yourselves not
any more, and l viii bless you and
cause my fame TO shine upen-you,
prosper YOU" But many exclaim-
ed, ave cannot, for our systems |
are so saturated with what we have
used that it Graves their filthy
affinities."
hnd Satan said, EVIL done, ye
bad ana fa;thless servants, enter
nto the experience of all the ills
t is in my power to grant, and
your doings viii bring upon you"
And there was weeping and wailing
even on earth. And to those who
sell their souls and trade in licence
% do iniquity, what shall be the
Measure of the remorse for the Ills
hey have caused and done, that
hall burn as a fire for ever and I
vert Ia
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1875-02-24


Just at the close of the war OF
1912, a United States man-of-war
entered the Boston harbor. The
Commodore was known as a bully
of the first water. Entering a bar
ber's shop in Boston, and finding
no one but the boy present, he de-
manded, in an insolent, overbearing
way, "Where is your master 81
"Not down yet, sir" "Well, you
may try it, but look here, my young
ster' laying his loaded pistol on
the table,, "the first drop of blood
you draw on my face I'll shoot you"
"All right, sir" was the reply. The
boy shaved him, and did it well.
After the operation was through.
the bully turned to him as he took
up the pistol, and remarked, "wasn't
You affraidg' "No, sir" retorted
the boy. "Dldn't you believe l
would shoot you 7" Yes, SIR"
"Then why wasn't you afraid I"
The boy very coolly replied, "Be-
cause / had the advantage" eAd-
vantage, how y demanded the irate
bully. "Why,' said the boy, with
the utmost nonchalance, ''if I had
drawn blood | should have taken
the razor and cut your throat from
ear to carr The bully. turned
pale, but never forgot the lesson.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1875-02-24

The delicate kid glove, so easily
soiled, ripped and worn out, is an
article Of wearing apparel which
as much as any other
thing, perhaps, the extravaganza
Of fashion. The annual receipts Of
imported kid gloves at the port Of
New York amount to ten million
pairs, which cost the merchant buy
er about s1O,5OO,000, and the con-
sumer the enormous sum Of over
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1875-02-24

A teacher, wishing to improve
the occasion, said to the boys at
the conclusion of strawberry fes-
tival,-"Have you enjoyed these
berries to-day 2" Eyes, sir" Yes,
sir" came from all sides with
unmistakable heartiness. "Well,
children, if you had seen these
berries growing in my garden, and
had slipped in through the gate
without my leave and picked them
from the vines. would they have
tasted as good as now 7" "No, SIR
was the prompt reply. "why not y
Because said a wide-walxe boy,
"then we shouldn't have had sugar
and cream with them"
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1875-02-24

AT an examination In one of the
public schools of Wheeling, West
Virginia, a few days ago, a young
ster was asked to name the different
forms Of government. Democracy
and Hypocracy,' was the reply.
Under what form of government
do we live p. asked the teacher
The boy hesitated a moment and
then answered, Hypocrisy"
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1875-02-24
,Edgings.


than Cincinnati. She always was
hoggish.
; At a London agricultural show,
Queen Victoria received the first
prize as pig.
Mr.. Disraeli's ailment is govt of
the lungs-a disagreeable disease
it must be, indeed.
The humor of the Englishman
finds expression in calling the
Fijians "our new fellow subjects"
Cleveland papers have bawled
for a month over q calico ball, at
which Kalico wasn't present after
all.
Miss Spoon, Wisconsin belle,
raised q sup of wedding Joy TO her
lips, recently, thereby creating
quite a stir.
"Amateur gentleman" says an
old lady, sis pretty good descrip-
ton of q certain class of young
men.
The phrase, "beauty is most
beautiful when unadorned," is evil
IDENTIFY not an allusion to the win
ter season.
2aston girls wearing garters
that cost less than 5000 pair are
"cut' by the "best society,"" which
must draw a line somewhere.
A Georgia mn found his piano
in a New Jersey n.,ansion, and he
knows the name of the colonelwho
hooked it during tho war ah,d sent
it home.
Anna Dickinson is going to do,
it; she is going to spoil all the
past by becoming an actress in the
future, having failed to profit by
Olive Logan's fate.
A large number of Pittsburg
doctors certify that coal smoke is
iealthy, and that Pittsburg as
inc resort for invalids, but O man
would feel more at ease in that
own if snugly tucked up in cof-
in.
Why are there so many bodily
orms in the animal creationl Be-
ause the different creatures which
iod created have different modes
( life, and the forms Of their bodies
ill be found to present perfect
daption to the lives allotted to
o them.
When lady in getting into
arriage, wearing one of Mrs. e
'wisshelm's nameless garments of NJ
nther too close fit, hears sound
5 of distant rifle-practice, she
etires into the nearest millinery
establishment, and -.
Major Croft, prominent must
al dealer of Omaha, had a daugh-
err once, but she has run away
18th Mr.. Edward Cutbberson,
veryman of the place, and in can
equence the Majors reason has
emporarily suspended operation.
Mr.. Field has procured his di- '
orce, and his wife, who has re-
lsed to touch the Kinsella fund.
as nothing left to support her but IS
-insella's friendship. And that
ill go with her youth and beauty. L
not before. She cannot marry
gain.
Let those congratulations be i'm y
ediately collected and placed on
o. Katie Putnam has not mar y
ed j.. ]. Sullivan, and she is still
n maiden meditation fancy Free"
was mittened lover who started e
'e paragraph on, the rounds.
The Portland daily press., 1875-11-29
Savings Banks Again.
A Depositor Crit icises the Comnsissie iener,s
Bill.

To the Editor of the Press.
Many thanks foI your article in the PRESS o
Saturday morning. Is it possible that the
Bank Commissioner has Joined the savings
banks to repeal the present law? If the saw.
ings banks wish to stir up the public again, let
them do it, resting assured that they will not
be let of so easily as they were two years ago.
l hope never to see law in this state allowing
the savings banks to loan on personal security;
no matter how many names there may be on
the notes, for, as you say, A will endorse for B
and for A. We have evidence enough in the
vast amount of European & North American
and Northern Pacific bonds lately held by our
savings banks, to show US that if the makers of
notes will pay large interest-and the poorer
the note the larger the interest,-the banks
will take them. Ii this clause is allowed to 90
into a law, mine out of ten of the savings banks
in the state will fail in five years. This clause
the Commissioner gets from a savings bank
in or near the place Of his residence; for il
am not mistaken one savings bank near him
has done this thing, even against the law.
Another item attracts my attention. That
is, that the savings banks may loan to nation
al banks at an interest not exceeding five per
cent. l supposed we had had sufficient evil
dence of the danger of such transactions in
the Brunswick, Exeter and Concord savings
banks being mixed up with national banks, to
forever prevent the Legislature from passing q
law to allow any such thing. II such thing
is allowed, how long would it take for each Of
the national banks to have savings bank as
attachment to collect money for them? have
always believed that no officer of a national
bank, especially cashier, should hold any
office or connection with savings bank
Then 1 see that the savings banks are to
have $1,000 deposit instead of $1,000, from one
deposition Also, that the tax shall be three
quarters instead of one per cont, to both of
which am opposed Then the county bonds
of the Western states are to be taken, which
should not be, and which means that brokers
can unload some of the stuff they have held
since the failure of Jay Cooke & Co. Tho
present law will do, and should not be changed
certainly not until the people, not the savings
banks, call forit. hope. Mr.. Editor you will
not cease calling the attention of the public to
the proposed change of the law, for there is
danger in almost every part of it, and must
confess surprise that the Commissioner should
propose it, and more surprise that any savings
bank shoald want to disturb the present law.
In my opinion the bare proposition from the
Commissioner to the Legislature to pass such
| law should be sufficient cause for the Governor
| to appoint a new Commissioner, for it
| shows to my satisfaction that some of the say.
ings banks have make the proposition, and the
Commissioner has adopted it as his own. We
| want Commissioner who will look after the
ssvings banks, not to cover up their wrong do
ings. DEPosIroR.
The Portland daily press., 1875-11-29

THE Springfield Republican has published
tabulated comparison between the wages
paid in Massachusetts for labor in 1860 and
in 1875. The work is thoroughly done, and
the statistics sare drawn from the machine
shops, the mills, domestic service and day la
Dor. 1t appears that the wages in machine
shops, despite the recent reductions, are six.
ty per cent. above those of 1860. In the
cotton mills the average wages are fifty per
cent. higher. In the woolen and raper
manufactures the percentage is still higher.
On the railroads there is thirty-five per cent.
increase. The wages of domestic servants
are sixty-five per cent. higher, ard of day la
borers forty per cent. These Massachusetts
statistics probably hold good for all New
England. On the other hand all the neces-
saries of life, except meat and rent, are at
about ante-war prices, and cotton and wooden
manufactures are full as cheap.
The Portland daily press., 1875-11-29

THE announcement that ex-mayor Oakley
Hall is going on TO the stage has created a
great deal of interest in New York. 1t is
stated that Mr. Hail always had a passion
for the stage, and that while he was a law stu
dent he threw over his books for year and
played under an assumed name in the South
west. Boucicault, who brings the ex-mayor
out, is said to have had an eye on him ever
since he once saw him throw jury-box into
a convulsion of sobs by suddenly holding up
a little child and making it repeat tie words
of Tiny Tim: 'God bless you ALL" The play
in which he is to appear is called the ''Cru-
cihle." It is said to be very witty, and to
have much local coloring. The New York
Times gives Mr.. Hall word of cheer, and
says: "We do not now believo-much as ap-
pearances at first were against him-that he
The Portland daily press., 1875-11-29

A JOURNAL innocent concerning the De-
mocracy has expressed the opinion that Gov.
lngerso!l of Connecticut would appoint David
A. Wells, Liberal to the United States SEN
atorship. The regular old-lner never throws
away an office on man who is not dyed-in-
the-wool. They will be the last to take any
"reformer" in theirs.
The Portland daily press., 1875-11-29

The government is supposed TO have lost
s1,2OO,O0O in whisky taxes every year from
st. Louis alone, since 1872. The amount al
ready assessed on the distillers for unpaid
taxes reaches S745,S ,S01, and the value of prop
erty under proceedings for forfeiture is ST.
AS, 365. The loss will never be made good
but the effect of the prosecutions will prevent,
to great extent, similar losses hereafter.
The Portland daily press., 1875-11-29
TERMS $500 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE.

ever shared in the profits of the old Ring
government. Since its overthrow he has
struggled calamity against host of circum-
Stances which long ago would have crushed
less buoyant or indomitable natures. The
sympathie3 of his friends have never de.
serted him, and we, who have been among
his severest antagonists, have now no worse
wishes for him than that he may win both
fortune and fame in his ne enterprise"
The Portland daily press., 1875-11-29

MIR. FORSTER has set about whitewashing
Dean Swift, and finds that he needs big
bucket and large brush. He undertakes by
documentary evidence to dsprove the Stella
and Vanersa scandals, and to show that the
Deans position in Sir William Temples
household was not mental one. With what
success his efforts will meet remains to be
The Portland daily press., 1875-11-29

FOUR Vice Presidents have died in Office.
George Clinton, the first governor of New
York after the revolution, was elected the
successor of Aaron Burr in 1904, and was re-
elected on the ticket with Madison in
1908. He died at Washington while the
session was in session. Elbridge Ger
ry of Massachusetts,, one of the sign
ers, aud member of the convention
which framed the constitution, was elected
on the ticket with Madison in 1912, and
served less than half his term of office, dying
at Washington during the session of Con-
gress. William r. King of Alabama was
elected in 1852 on the ticket with Pierce. He
never entered upon the duties of his office,
and died at home two months after the in
auguration of the president.
The Portland daily press., 1875-11-29

THE campaign for the speakersbip of the
National House is being actively prosecuted.
Mr.. Kerr has arrived in Washington, and his
friends are hard at work. 1t is positively as
serted that he has the active support of Gov
ernor Hendricks, and that Senator M'Donald
is working heartily in his behalf He claims
that seventy votes are pledged 10 him. Mr..
Randall still has the best chaEces, and seems
sure Of majority ON the first ballot in caucus.
The Portland daily press., 1875-11-29

MAINE six per cent. bonds are selling at
six per cent. above par and their value is con-
stantly increasing. Large premiums have to
be paid for bonds for the state sinking fund.
Isn't It possible to issue a five per cent state
bond and take up the six per cents?
The Portland daily press., 1875-11-29

We do rot read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The and address of the writer are in
ali cases Indispensable, not necessarily tor publication
but guaranty OF good faith.
We cannot undertake to return CT reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1875-11-29

THE young man connected with this paper,
who, at eleven O'Clock last night, had a two
column sensation, and many prospective COL
umns of fine writing, ruined by the an
nouncement of police officer, was a CON-
ple:e picture of blended disgust, indignation
and despair. We doubt if he survives the
shock and the loss. Napoleon the day after
Waterloo was happy man compared with
the proprietor of the late two column sensa-
fiop
The Portland daily press., 1875-11-29

IT is stated that the tax which the State
collected the past year on insurance COM
panies is much below the amount which the
business statements of the various companies
Indicate that they should pay. How is ii?
The Portland daily press., 1875-11-29

The promptness with which England has
taken control of the Suez Canal is indicitive
OF bolder foreign policy on her part and a
return TO the audacious method which for
merly gave her pre- eminent position in Eu-
rope. That the step is wise ore is scarcely
TO te doubted. Not Constantinople, but the
canal, is the key to India, and it is necessary
for the preservation of her empire that Eng
land should hold it, as she holds Gibralter,
the key of the Mediterranean. The impend-
ing dissolution of the Ottoman empire makes
it probable that Egypt will fall under the pro.
tectorate of some European power, and Eng.
land does well to seize ths opportunity. 1t
is curious fact that she was strongly op-
posed to the construction of the canal.