The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-05-31
No decorations in Cheyenne iyester-

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No decorations in Cheyenne iyester-
day.
John Shingles boy, aged ten months,
is dangerously i'll with diptheria.
Mart McKinnan arrived yesterday
with a carload of very fine horses. He
is stopping at Thorp's.
Montgomery Queens circus is COM
ing eastward from California. About
August, then, we may look for it here.
Set the county IT city prisoners to
work burying the putrid carcasses now
offending everybody that goes beyond
the limits of the city.
Nessrs. Gottstein Il Idelman are the
agents for Mr.. c. Conran & Co.'s line
Of goods. Their card will he found
elsewhere in our columns.
Mr.. McDaniels wants an ice-box. He
has several now but he has to purchase
another on account of his business.
Mac is a thoroughly business nan
Gov. Thayer, accompanied by Mrs.
Thayer and two sons, passed through
Cheyenne yesterday, en- route for Rock
Creek, the Governors summer resi-
dence.
The propositions of the U. p. r. r.
to furnish this city with water, in ac-
cordance with Superintendent Clark's
plans, will lie laid before the city trus-
tees at their next meeting.
Shaw, the fraud, is announced to
play billiards at Pettepier's hall in Den
yer this evening. The Denver papers
continue to work for this dead-beat;
does he pay the printer in Denver?
Nj. Willie Gill, the director of
amusement at McDaniel's, took occa-
sion to oblige us yesterday in reference
to some of the details of the theatre, for
which he will please accept our thanks.
A lady, on Seventeenth street, the
other night sat on her lovers hat, and
kept him several hours over time. The
next time that young man goes court
ing, he should hang up his hat, instead
of holding it on his knee.
The agent for the sale of the Chey-
enne LEADER in the Black Hills re-
ports great success, and increases his
orders every week. THE LEADER has
now double the circulation of any news
paper sold in the Black Hills,
Considerable Black Hills freight has
accumulated at Sidney, which has been
taken so low that no freighters al be
found to take it. Some of the goods
and machinery which have been de-
layed at that place, are now being
shipped via Cheyenne to their destina-
ton.
The Postofice Department has noti-
fled Hon. W. W. Corlett, that, in ac-
cordance with his Recommendation, a
p~ostofice has been established at Little
Bear, (Bard's Ranch, 3 miles north of
Horse Greek, on the Fort Laramie
road,) and that MI. 1. n. Bard has
been appointed Postmaster at that place.
Our present system af w~ater-works is
an expensive luxury. 1t costs the tax
payer several thousand dollars nnu
ally, without giving a fair return for
the money thus spent. Let us relieve
ourselves Of this continuous expense by
accepting any reasonable proposition to
furnish the town with water.
Lake Mah-pe-ah-luta is being depop-
ulated of its finny inhabitants. A large
drag-net, like those used in catching
shad in the Connecticut river, is daily
being dragged through the water by
amateur fishermen from this city, and
the fish are rapidly disappearing from
the lake. Our city fathers should put
a stop to fishing with nets.
Mr.. Carl Conrad, of the firm of G..
Conrad, & Co., st. Louis, No., who
have the finest wine cellars on the con-
tinent, and that is saying a great deal,
called on us last evening. Mr.. Conrad
will leave in the morning for Denver.
He says that he has had a very success
full trip, and he states emphatically that
this city is the city of all others on the
line of the Z. p. r. r. We wish Mr..
Conrad all the success imaginable.
Senator Morgan, of Alabama, has
written a letter protesting against the
prosecution of those who aided in the
shameful frauds, by which Shelby, q