The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-07-17

The advertised letter List vii; be
found on our fourth page this morning.
People in all parts Of the country are
preparing for a grand rush to the Big
Horn.
MI. Miller has leased the Eureka
house and will retire from the hotel
business.
The City Council will hold a special
session to-day for the consideration of
business.
The city is full of stock men-buyers,
drovers, cow-punchers, etc., and many
large transfers take place daily.
The A. & p. Telegraph Co., is put
ting in new and substantial poles all
the way between Omaha and Ogden.
Two car loads Of mdse., 1 Of pota-
toes, 1 of pipe and l of way freight, all
for Cheyenne, will arrive from the east
this morning.
Fruit is coming in in large quanti-
ties. Two car loads arrived here from
Sunday night, and another
last night.
Fishing parties are making extensive
preparations, and will % set out for
trout streams and cool hooks
the adjacent mountains.
Prof. Wells class in elocution meets
1t his residence tomorrow afternoon at
, O'Clock, and hereafter regularly on
T%hurdays and Saturdays.
The Bernard English Ope-
"a troupe will appear here for a season
If three Enthusiastically, Wednesday
md Thursday, July 31st, Aug. LIST and
I'd. g.
The weather continues comfortably
warm. Showers are circling around
at all hours, and although we get
title rain, the air is kept cool and
Although there is considerable COM
,laint of hard times, our merchants
ieem to be increasing their clerical
.orces, and this gives the lie to the
,roakers.
The hay-makers are actively at work
On all the streams between the Union
Pacific and the Belle Fourche river,
way north of the Black Hills, and an
immense crop is being cut and cured.
The Board of Equalization expect to
complete their work on the county
assessment roll to-day, when it will be
,urned over to County Treasurer Mil
er, and people will have to ''pony up"
heir taxes. -
The Cheyenne route to the Big born
yold fields is the easiest, safest and best
n every way. Although a trifle longer
ban one or two western routes, its adj
vantages are such that it must obtain
he bulk of the travel.
The owner of a black horse, branded
J w on the loin, and the owner of a
lark bay 2-year old stallion branded &c
IN the left shoulder andcircle V on the
eft side, can learn their whereabouts on
To Sheriff Carr.
'I've got a splendid pun on a Turkish
vord-a splendid one;'' he exclaimed
'xcitedly, as he rushed into the office;
its on Erze"-We reached out,
reached out and killed him, and
lad the boy put him in a bag and throw
lin off the bridge into Grow creek.
A local paper remarks that the young
men connected with the Denver press
re not remarkable for beauty, but as
lestroyers Of ice cream they are bril-
They are unlike the young men
with the Omaha press, in
hat while the latter care nothing for
ce cream, as consumers of ice water
md certain ingredients. through a
traw, they have acquired notoriety
the west.
Removing Custer's Remains.
Colonel W. Sheridan, who went with
III escort to the scene of the Custer
massacre, on the Little Big Horn, re-
for the purpose of having re-
moved the remains of General Custer
md the officers who fell with him in
he massacre which occurred there a