The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-04-03

Annual Appearance In Cheyenne ~
Grand Success, With Lots of
Laughter for Everybody.

The April fool was abroad in the
city on Sunday last to a numerous ex-
tent. In fact every person in Chey-
enne was the victim of some sort of
sell, between the rising and the setting
of the sun.
Geo. r. Thomas confidenced THE
LEADER into publishing the report
that Theodore Thomas, with his ia
nous orchestra, would give a grand sa-
cred concert here in the evening, and
large numbers of people besieged the
P. o. news depot in a vain effort to
buy tickets, and afterwards went to
the theatre and waited for the doors to
open until convinced that they were
April fools.
We propose to get even with Thomas,
and will have ample opportunity to do
so, but there is one man whom we
would like, to see, and that is the fellow
who brought Joe Robbins to this
office and introduced him to us. The
story of a rich silver mine at Buford
caused a general stampede of intending
Black Killers to the westward. They
went out on foot, in wagons and by
rail, and when they returned were too
tired and felt too cheap to bulldoze any
body for starting such a story. There
is silver out in that vicinity, but no
very rich mines have yet been discov-
cred there.
Probably the most unfortunate piece
of foolishness was the bull-dozing of
the churches. The ministers brought
in their notices for the days services in
regular form, and expected that they
would appear in the paper all right, but
the intelligent %compositor who was
given the task of setting them up had
an idea or two of his own, and the
clergy of the city were Mortified to see
the manner in which they were dis
posed of for the days duties.
The advertisement Of Mr. G. NJ.
Jones for teamsters was n~umerously
answered, and after receiving the ap-
plications of fifteen or twenty team
sters, Jones "tumbled," and. began
setting up the cigars.
Hungry gentlemen called at Col.
Murrin's and asked for bear meat, but
didn't get any, although a very fine
lunch was set out, and all had "some-
thing to eat
Moritz Meyer was fairly overrun with
| o,np1innrtp fnr. a nIarlychin yyhn nn1ah
at the store before he was out of bed,
and disturbed his slumbers,
Frank Beaucaire, whose "windfall ~
was announced, received n perfect ova-
ton from his friends throughout the
entire day. Frank says it was really
astonishing to observe what a large
number of ~marriageable young ladies
there were who needed five Or ten cents
worth of cloves or other breath reno
vators, or " little boraX to clear my
throat for choir singing" and called at
Hurlbut's to get the same, casually
rendering congratulations and shower
ing loving glances upon him the while.
Several well-known business men Of
fered congratulations, and took occa-
sion to urge Frank to invest a large
portion of bis immense fortune in
building q narrow gauge railroad from
here to the Black Hills. A lady asked
him to make some purchases in Paris
for her, and a physician wrote and pre-.
seDted him with several letters of in
PRODUCTION to gentlemen in New York,
Paris and Marseilles. Bruner shook
hands with Frank, and remarked that
he didn't seem to feel a bit proud over
his big luck. "No," said Frank"
don't feel any prouder than I did yes
terday." 81 knew you had too much
sense to feel stuck up" replied Bruner.