The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-22

around Cantonment Reno all winter, in
the hope that the Indian problem would
be settled to a sufficient extent by spring
to enable them to penetrate the North
western wilderness with some degree of
safety. The nearest point of the Big
Horn Range is only about forty miles
distant, while the reputed gold region
is onlytwenty-iye miles further. These
impatient a~dventurers r principally
from Montana, and, by their queer ex-
istence and manner, more than ever
exemplify the miseries man will endure
for gold. Only a short time ago, six
men of this character were rescuedfrom
an almost certain death by Maj. Ran
dali as he was coming across the
try from Montana. The prospectors in
question had left Deadwood, in the
Black Hills. a week before, with four
Or five pack animals carrying provisions
and mining utensils. They had deter
mined upon exploring the Rosebud and
Panther mountains, which lay 300 miles
from their starting point. 4 Running
the gauntlet of all the Indian bands
roaming owe the country, they finally
entered the Panther mountains at a
point midway between the source and
mouth of Tongue River. They had only
been there a day or two when a large
band of Indians attacked them at night
as they were lying asleep. Two of the
party were badly wounded-one having
body and limbs-and all were well salts
fed to get away with the scanty cloth
ing upon their persons. Striking for
the Big Horn mountain, without food,
blankets, or animals, they floundered
through terrible snow-storms for three
days. The wounded men were helped
along as best they could be, but none
had a mouthful of food. When Maj.
Randall found them, the snow was near
ly two feet deep, intense cold prevailed,
the men were all badly frozen, nearly
starved, and just about ready to lay
down and die. The Major gave his
own horse to the wounded men, and
quickly brought them a distance of six
ty miles to Reno. By close attention,
DR.. LeCompte saved the lives of all the
men, and the last one has left his lit
tie log hospital. Five of the party have
already scattered put over the country,
in spite of their recent terrible warning,
and the sixth nan intends pushing into
the Big Horn mountains with the adj
vance guard of prospectors in the
spring.
A brother-in-law of a well-known
Cheyenne gentleman, engaged in the
gun business in this city, dropped a
pistol cartridge in the yard of his resi-
dence a while ago, and has since found
out where it went to. One of his hens
not at all appre-hen-sive, picked it up.
and getting down the wrong kind Of a
shell-not favorable to egg making or
longeyity-for a day or two afterward
she was blown into mincemeat by the
explosion of the cartridge inside Of her
digestive apparatus. This is fact.
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A bad, bad boy was picked up by his
ma, the other night, for some misdeed,
and tanned with her slipper until he
thought he wa standing right in the
way of a shoemaker's shop caught in a
cyclone. When he got away at last, he
was told to sit down and learn a verse
in his bible before he could have a bit
of supper, and when he was called up
to %recite, he said: "The wicked's
tanned in slippery places"
George A. Webster, the miserable
blk who polluted this city by his pres.
ence last year, figuring first as a hash
singer, and afterwards as 4 real estate
agent, and after a brief career left be-
tween two days, is in Salt Lake City,
where he has set himself up in the bust,
ness of obtaining divorces. The Chicago
Inter-Ocean of Monday last shows III
the miserable puppy in his true char
acter.
Strayed-from his bed and board, 6
little, old, baldheaded man, name un
known, but answers to the euphonious
cognomen of ''Butch," and is by occu
patton a mutton chopper" Any per
son giving information of the wherea
bouts of said Butch" will be LIBERAL!
rewarded by his devoted friend and for
mer roommate, Mr.. Bird, at the Occi
dental.
Denver had another fire Tuesday af
ternoon, which resulted in the destruc
!, ton of the row of hash-mills fronting
the railroad track at the passenger de
pot. The total loss foots up abou'
$4,000.
The Postotfice department has mad
provision for the establishment Of a tri
weekly mail service between Kearney
Neb., and Deadwood-service to begiI