The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-06-23

Yesterdays Trains brdasstaft hey-
enne passengers.
At 4 O'Clock, this morning all U. P.
trains due here to-day were moving on
time.
The Tennessee Jubilee Singers passed
through here last Thursday, bound
eastward.
The Red Stockings turned out in full
force, yesterday, and played Il fine
practice game.
Our Knights of Pythias viii give q
grand ball at the Inter-Ocean onthe
evening of July 4th.
The net receipts of the Presbyterian
festival, last Thursday evening, after
paying all expenses, were 1926.
II A-fT@D 81 =
The D. p. freight brought in last
night . cars of mdse. and 9 of lumber,
and takes out this morning 2 cars mdse.
and l car of coal.
A special meeting of the City Coun-
ell will be held to-day, for the purpose
of appraising the value Of certain real
estate soon TO be sold. M {
Rumor says the San Francisco Gen
tennial) b. B. c. will be along here in
a few weeks, and will stop off and play
a friendly game with our own Red
Stockings. a ..- ,ts4,
Two very handsome gold Buttons,
weighing 145 ounces. are displayed in
Stebbins, Post Sc Co.'s window. They
are from tile Hidden Treasure mine
and the product of the new stamp-mill.
We may he Isrong5 but it, doessseem
to us that Ifs somebody would chuck j.
a. Edmunson, of Laramie, into "a bar
rel, and then chuck the barrel intothe
river, the people of the little burg over.
the hill would feel greatly relieved.
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The household goods of Hon. II.P.
Bennett, former postmaster at Denver,
but now of Deadwood, were shipped
north by Whipple & Hay yesterday.
Judge Bennet's family will follow soon,
and locate Permanently in the Black
Hills.
AS we have before stated, the lack of
ranches is sadly felt on the road from
Jenny's stockade to the head of White
wood creek. A great deal of travel is
going that way and men who determine
to settle on the road can reap a rich
harvest.
The enormous safe purchased by the
city last winter, and which has been
standing in the basement of the City
Hall ever since, was on yesterday hoist
ed up into the clerks office. n hole
was cut in the second story floor in
order TO get it up. s,s i.,.
The recent sensational stories pub.
lished in two or three insignificant
border sheets, telling of n big fight be-
tween gold-hunters and Sioux at some
indefinite point between Deadwood and
the Big Horn, are utterly false in every
particular. Veracious contemporaries
are warned to take no stock in the lies.
Mr. l.. Shaw, the billiardist. called
at THE LEADER Office last evening in
response to "a complimentary notice
given him by this paper a few weeks
since. Mr.. Shaw explained that he
supposed the account lie owed this
had been settled by Il friend, who
promised to do so before he SHAW left
Cheyenne for Denyer. AVA t:f
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A Cheyenne father who is opposed to
card playing, entered the kitchen a few
evenings since and caught his son deal
ing from a pack of cards. He quickly
seized the pack, threw it into the stove
and left the room. AS the door closed
behind him that son seized a pair of
pulled the cards from the stove,
laid thempn the foori and the way he
stood OH that burning deck was enough
to have made poor CasaBianca hand
the belt ii he had been present.
Among the mail contracts awarded
by the Fosroffice Department this week,
is one from Bozeman, Mont, via Crow
Agency to Fort Pease, Big Horn City
to Tongue rirer, on the Cheyenne and
Bozeman route, a. distance of $40 miles.
The service is to be semi.weekly,and S.
S. Huntley is the contractor. We