The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-04-14
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BINaHAMProN, N. Y, April 8.
Maj. II. Glafeke, Editor Cheyenne
Leader:
Ny DEAR Sm:-Yours was received
by me this morning. I was very glad to
hear from yousand also to learn the
account Of the Black Hills. Old Jef
Stamford, whom I knew as well a
Wild Bill, told me once that II I ever
got the gold fever bad to organize q
hundred fighting men and start for the
Wind River and Big Horn. "Remem-
Der what I'm telling ye, there's more
gold there than any n hundred men
can conveniently carry away" In
1874 Jef was out, afterwards with Cap
tain Reynolds, but when I came East
t1S70) I lost sight of JEFF and forgot all
about the Wind River and Big Horn.
Now JEFF was a man Of very few words
and was as wise as any of the hunters,
and not given to the marvellous unless
he struck a greenhorn, and in this case
he had not, for we were friends, and his
last words to me were then: "Re-
member Clew. if you ever get sick of
New York, hunt me up round about
here and We'll go up that way if the
Indians amt too many for u.s." I heard
of him afterwards as joining the Rey-
nolds expedition as a volunteer and l
believe firmly that it was nothing more
nor less than a desire he had of visiting
those inaccessible places, where gold
was as plenty as the sands.
AS I shall not be able to get a letter
to you this week in time for your Thurs
day issue 1 shall merely write a letter
upon topics that may enter my
noddle and here comes one now. At
my hotel where 1 am staying, there is a
good house servant, has been in this
hotel business now for eleven years,
but is bent upon going west where they
pay better, 1 hear she says "Win yez
be good enough to ask that editor man,
your friend, for me, If I could get a
good situation in a hotel in Cheyenne
or In some private family as housemaid,
and what wages I'l be after getting" l
give you the sentence as it fell from her
lips. Katie Mulligan Is this girls
name, and she is a strong, healthy,
black-eyed Irish girl, with a character
for virtue and honesty. Sincerely, !
would advise anyone in want of a
capable, intelligent and willing servant
to send for her, for this is her name,
and the town that heads this letter is
where she has been out at service these
twelve years; age, %.
Twas in New York last week, and a
friend of mine at the S%tuyvesant house
who was anxious to follow Uncle Hor-
ace Greeley's advice and go west, was
quite anxious to know what good farm
hands got, . because, you know, Clew,
If I got broke 1 can go to farming If
there is any such thing Is that out
there, or blacksmithing, but I don't see
that THE LEADER The had a copy Of
your paper in his handy says anything
about wages" and he laughingly wound
up by adding that ''perhaps they WERE
all gentlemen out there and didn't
work." / abused him Of that hope
however, and made a memoranda, to
call the attention of laborers' hire to
your mind. r-4 rs sol
There are certain favored localities
where people very much resemble the
traditional dog in the manger, Of Esop''
fable fame. They have plenty them
selves but they don't want anyone else
to have any in theirs, and they say and
write all that they a against Wyo.
ming Territory and the Black Hills, t.
prevent people from going there, just
as they did about Colorado lands when
first thrust into notice. An article in
%Scribner's (how it got into that respec'
table magazine is more than I ken
abuses the Black Hills shamefully, and
the sardine, some kid-gloved count ir
disguise, is full of d~iscouraging periods
When he was in Wyoming Territory he
seems to have been well used, and YET
he comes away with a head full Of in
formation that is at the best untrue, be-
cause the life did not suit his ideas about
ease, etc. He growled into the Hill.
and growled out of them in other words,
and still there was no little Injun round
about that time to lift the fellows har.
"CLEw GARRETT"