The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-08-02

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enne as it was at the beginning of the
year.
The Government has appointed a
keeper for the Yellowstone National
Park.
The city was uncommonly quiet yes
terday so far as police items were con-
cerned.
w. B. Vickers, late of the Netcs, Is
doing good work as editor Of the Den
YER Tribune.
A correspondent Of The LEADER
wants to know IL ladies borrow or loan
neck dresses2
On Tuesdaytwo buildings were struck
by lightning in Omaha. The occupants
were uninjured.
No times are 30 hard that a circus
runs out Of patrons. We saw this dem
onstrated recently in Iowa.
Elizabeth Herndon having paid her
fine, under conviction of assault and
battery, was released yesterday.
Potter, the wheelbarrow man arrived
in Laramie City at 6:3O on Tuesday
evening. He drew a large crowd.
The last issue Of the Fort Collins
Courier prints a history of that town
and the biographies of its prominent
citizens.
Thomas Regain was calaboosed yes
terday for being found in an intoxicat-
ed condition OIL Sixteenth, near Fergu-
son street.
In Iowa the Greenbackers, Commun-
lists and tramps are marching shoulder
to shoulder against the straight Repub-
lican ticket.
Homer Artlip, Of Denver, who at
tempted to kill his wife and commit
suicide, but failed in both, is on trial
In that city.
Some improvements will be made on
the public school building, and also the
adjoining grounds, before the Septem-
Der term opens.
Descriptions of the eclipse, and de-
tails Of the death Of Minnie Warren,
the dwarf, now absorbs the columns of
the country press.
Thomas Forester, of Rawlins, while
intoxicated, attempted to ride a break
beam near Summit station on Tuesday,
and landed in eternity.
Messrs. Cuthbertson & Young have
removed their establishment from Sew
enteenth street to their ware house in
the western portion Of town.
Crops are good all over Iowa and Ne
braska, and in the former State farmers
are Offering % per day for labor in the
harvest fields with few responses.
1t is rumored that Capt. R. G. Dill,
Of the Denver Mirror, is a candidate
for the Office Of Secretary Of State, on
the Republican ticket, in Colorado.
A Colorado paper this week apollo
gises because the local news occupies
SO much Of its space, and upon opening
the paper it was found to be patent in
sides. Eff-e
Tell a fat man, during q summer
drouth, that it's a dry time, and he
will maintain, while hopping the per.
~spiration from his brow, that it's sweat
weather.
MI. George E. Wilson, has been sta
tion agent at Grand Island, Nebraska,
for ten years-longer in that kind Of
service than any other man on the I'm
ion Pacific road.
As soon as Sitting Bull heard that
Gen. Sheridan was in the Black Hills
he concluded that 1t would not be ad-
visable to cross the British line on a
scalping expedition. at least during the
present hot season.
Epitaphs do not always tell the
truth. When a citizen, greatly given
to beer, but otherwise worthy, was sud-
denly taken of, his friends erected a
monument to his memory, and had in
scrlDed on IL, STake him Tor all in ALL"
etc.
One Omaha editor says of another
Bohemian editor that he is n "Bohe-
mian baboon," ga thing" "a snub-
nosed and web-footed creature, who de-
hes all chronological classification" The
retort Of the other man is in kind, with
interest added.
Letters sent to Fort Custer or Fort
heogh, on the Yellowstone, should be
addressed: via Bismarck, Dakota, y
leaving out the word ..Montanan after
the name OF the post. II the word
Montana Is used mail is sent over the
Union Pacific to Helena, and SO DELAYED
nearly three weeks.
OFFICE OF BLACK Hills