The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-12-12
.GLEANINGS.
From the Leading Journals Of the Great
West.


There are now fifteen miles Of the
Utah and Pleasant valley railroad track
laid 1t is progressing at the rate OF
half a mile a day.
241, 675. 40 acres Of the public lands
in Utah have been sold under the home
stead and timber culture law during |
the years 1878.
The best -four is selling in Provo
City for s ]. IS per 100 pounds.
Twenty-seven children died in Salt
Lake City In November, Of diphtheria.
The Legislature of Nevada In Joint
convention will be composed of So
republicans and 10 democrats.
Prisoners sentenced to the peniten-
tiary from northern Idaho are taken
through Washington territory and
Dragon to reach Boise City, the home Of
the convict brigade.
About o 10000 buffalo robes were
shipped from Fort Benton this season.
The vicinity of Lewiston. north Ida
no, is settling up very fast.
Wheat is now taken from Astoria,
Oregon, to Liverpool, 8 5000 miles, at
less cost of freight than 1t Is taken
from Walla Walla to Astoria.
It Is reported that out Of the 500 In
dams who surrendered at Malheur
agency and Camp Harvey last fall
quite a number have come up missing
and cannot be heard from. 1t is hinted
that the stockmen around Harvey, who
have had SO much to lose and nothing
to gain in the late Indian war, know
something Of the missing reds.
Building improvements in Helena,
Montana, are going forward on all sides,
nor does the fear Of approaching winter
deter people from commencing, every
day, new buildings and the enlarge
ment Of present ones
Thirty-six thousand pounds Of wire
have been shipped from the terminus Of
the Utah Northern for constructing the
telegraph line between Forts Custer
and Ellis.
An artesian well in San Francisco
costs about 81, 200. and it is considered
the cheapest water that a be has
there.
1t is estimated that 10000 boxes Of
raisins have been made in California
this year.
The charges against Harry A. Mc1n-
tyre, the ex-Lake City banker, are to
be heard by a jury in the United States
courts at Denver to-day.
Mrs. Scott-Siddons Is still in Denver.
The majority of the taxpayers Of
Lead City, D. T., r very much OPP
posed to paying the whole amount of
the tax levied for school purposes. The
present levy, If all collected. would
swell the school fund to over $1,000,
and it is claimed, and with justice,
that one-half that amount would be
sufficient to build a good school house,
and cover all the expenses for next
year.
+ The claims on Bald mountain In the
Black Hills are panning out far be-
yond the expectation Of ONE Of the
locators.
The sporting fraternity of Deadwood
and vacinity has raised something over
S400 to assist in the defence Of Boldly
Ford, the man who killed his man at
Sturgis City a short time since.
A recent attempt to survey a road
from Collins to North Park was a fail
ure, on account of the snow.
Tucson, Arizona, is In a prosperous
condition and growing in population,
owing to its central location for trade,
and the development Of the mines in
the vicinity.
The Greeley Sun wants Mr.. Pabor to
chop the name of the Valley, Home and
Farm in two. Second the motion.
The Leadville Eclipse will appear as
a daily on Wednesday next, with DR..
L. g. McKenney, lately Of the San Juan
Sentinel, as Its editor.
A heavy snow has fallen in the noun
tains around Salt Lake City.
The Salt Lake Tribune will get out a
mammoth New Years edition, devoted
largely to a review Of the mines of this
entire western country.
Upwards Of 1900 tons of grain,
worth at present rates nearly $500. 900,
is now in store in four warehouses at
Livermore, Alameda county, Califor-
mia.
Wheat is selling for 6fty-three cents
per bushel in Longmont.
The Colorado cattle growers assocla-
ton Of Colorado will meet In Denver
for its ninth annual session on January
15. The meeting is to be an important
one, and will, from all accounts, be
well attended by the cattle men. In
vitations have been extended and q
large number of representative cattle
men Of Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas
and New Mexico are expected. At
the meeting it is proposed to effect an
organization Of all the cattle men in
terestedl In s~tock-raising west of the
Missouri, for the purpose of self-protec-