The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-06-17

Prayer msssins at tho fsGlansS il the
T. N. C. Association at $50 p. N. to-
day. 81 ~
We are to have gas-works, and-E
Tillotson will build them. The Coun-
Gil has decided to draw the contract at
once.
Large quantities of picks and shovels
have been forwarded to the Hills dur
ing the past week by Draper and Ham,
mond.
The street gang Q digging drain
bitches and putting in sluice boxes at
the corner of Ferguson and 18th streets,
yesterday. -siA3
W. II. Todd's train, laden with A.
600 pounds of merchandise from Fogle-
songs store, pulled out for Deadwood
yesterday afternoon.
The Union Pacific company have
agreed with the Omaha board of trade
to lease grounds for stock yards, and to
construct the necessary side track.
The ladies' of the Presbyterian socie-
ty will supply all who come with choice
Greeley strawberries and delicious ice
cream at their festival on next Thurs
day evening.
J. II. Burke will open his new saloon,
the Occidental, at Dick Richards old
stand, next door to Joslin & Parks, to-
morrow evening. Champagne punch
and supper free to all.
Leave of absence for one, month, on
surgeons certificate of disability, has
been granted First. Lieut.: p. P. Bar
nard, company F, Fourth Infantry,
Fort Mcpherson, Neb.g
Brigham Young has written a letter
to Washington saying that there is no
need for troops in Utah, but as a finan-
cial benefit to Salt Lake he would like
to see a regiment there, il the govern
ment has no better place to quarter
them.
A new pattern of mining pick has
just been invented bysF, ". Cramer
and f. W. Sitterley, owners Of the
Black Crook Gold mine, located near
Deadwood, which will soon be placed
on the market, a patent having been
applied for.
At Halleck station, on the c. p, r..
R., Sunday afternoon, q young man
named James Finnerty, son of the late
Judge Finnerty, was shot through the
right breast and instantly killed by a
one-eyed negro man named Sam Mills.
Mills escaped.
Gould and Dillon have decided to
start the Black Hills Branch from Lar
annie City. Balloons will transport
trains over the first twenty-five miles
of the route, whence the road will be
built on the line surveyed from this
city to the North Platte,
The fire steamer T. G. Durant was
taken out yesterday for the purpose of
filling the city cistern at the corner Of
Hill and Sixteenth streets. The engine
was we'll handled by George G.. Masten
and Engineer Deasey, and the. cistern
was filled in double-quick time
An Omaha merchant who arrived
here a few days ago, has purchased of
our wholesale fruit dealers a car load of
assorted fruits and vegetables and
shipped the same to Omaha. He will
buy all his fruit here hereafter, as he
can do much bettersthan by bnying in
Omaha.
Ofice-seekers are hereby notified that
the position of postmaster at Sherman,
Wyo., the highest point on the Union
Pacific, is vacant. The salary is S12
per annum. Light weights need not
apply, as they will certainly be blown
away by the Laramie zephyrs which
always prevail at Sherman.
Col. Luke Murrin has just received
the agency of w. J. Lemp's celebrated
st. Louis lager beer. This beer is the
boss, although he keeps constantly on
hand all kinds of beer. 1t is hardly
worth while to say anything about his
liquors and cigars, as all know they are
the best to be found in the western
country. AAAE =
Harry Award, mail carrier near
Tongue river, lost his way recently and