Hal Sayr: Civil Engineer, Surveyor, and so much more

This ad appeared regularly on page 3 of the Daily Mining Journal and happened to run directly alongside the article debunking the RMN. Hal Sayr was a major with the 3rd who was seen mutilating corpses with enlisted men and blasting out the brains of an infant at Sand Creek.

Daily Mining Journal debunks Byers rumor

Late February, 1865. The military commission is conducting its hearing into the Sand Creek Massacre. The Rocky Mountain News has been reporting that the officers of the 3rd are not going to get paid as a result of the investigation, and the Blackhawk Daily Mining Journal has been ridiculing the rumor for several days. On Feb. 23 the DMJ dubunks the rumor with some finality, below a juicy Lincoln tidbit:



[DMJ, Feb. 23, 1865, p. 3.]

EDIT: The News also acknowledged the falsehood of the rumor they'd been spreading in their Feb. 23 issue.

At some point U.S. Congress does withhold the pay of the 3rd, I believe. Not exactly sure when it occurred or how it turned out.

Bar Kharma

Here's an inglorious scene. A few hundred Utes come to town in early spring 1865; some of them go 'bar-hopping' and are filled with joy at the sight of the scalps of their mortal enemies, and other 'trappings' of Sand Creek, decorating the bars of Denver.

[RMN, March 9, 1865, p. 3.]

Table of Distances

The misspelling in Hersa Coberly's wedding announcement is particularly curious considering the "Table of Distances" that the paper featured pretty much every day for years, right on the front page:



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[RMN, 1865, p. 1]

On the Military Order in Denver, 1865

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[RMN, April 17, 1865, p. 3]


The papers concerned themselves primarily with the death of Lincoln through the week following April 15. RMN gives us a few hints as to some changes in the military order of things in town that week. Capt. Soule was Provost Marshall. On April 18 the paper printed General Order 60, which called for a day of mourning. On the 19 the paper reported the arrival of General Henry in town to take over his new post, and gives the impression of a suddenly business-like demeanor among the soldiers.



[RMN, April 18, 1865, p.2]




[RMN, April 19, 1865, p.3]