A dispatch to the Minor from Sheridan, Wyo., says: Danger from the 700 or 800 Cheyenne Indians joining the renegade Ute band has become a reality. Today six companies will leave Sheridan for Ashland to join forces with the troops from Fort Keogh, expecting to arrive there tonight. The troops from here cannot hope to make Ashland, 80 miles north, before Thursday evening.

This military force is in command of Col. Auger, of the Twelfth Cavalry, and will be guided by A. C. Rousculp, better known as “Jesse James” Rousculp. He is familiar with the Indians, and says the Cheyennes are ready to fight at the drop of the hat and are the best armed tribe in the West.

50 Years Ago, 1956

Maine residents should take a new look at the vacation travel business, State Recreation Director Everett F. Greaton of Auburn told members of the Route One Association at Rockland last night.

The recreation industry, he said, has now reached the proportions of big business and affects this State’s economy in may ways. It produces an income to the people in the business and it furnishes regular employment to Maine residents, particularly to its students. It produces income from real estate tax, the sales tax and the liquor tax. Furthermore, he said, it produces prospects for the State Industrial Development Program, and also prospects for the selling of real estate for both summer and permanent residence and to retired people.

25 Years Ago, 1981

“We are handling it as a suspicious fire,” said Sabattus Police Chief Guy Desjardins of a fire Saturday night at the Beebe Rubber warehouse on High Street.

Damage to the three-story warehouse was estimated at $100,000 in a blaze that destroyed the original roof but left standing the four outside walls.