The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-04-03
LOCAL AND o,Hea ITEMS.

There will be a fight in Europe yet.
Do you want to invest in city bonds?
England and Russia will settle it
alone.
Montgomery Blair is the last of the
guerrillas.
Cheyenne is determined to get out of
debt and the way now is plainly visible.
Some of our exchanges comment I'M
favorably on the verdict in the Baker
case.
Kansas has set her mark at twenty
million bushels of wheat as the State
product for 1878.
Prayer meeting as usual this WED
nesday) evening at the Congregational
church. All are cordially invited to
attend.
Over 5000 acres of Union Pacific
Lands in the vicinity of Hastings, Col
orado, have been sold to immigrants
since January.
The Missouri river is rising rapidly,
and precautions are being taken TO pro-
tect the Union Pacific bridge ut
Omaha from damage.
Stock men are making preparations
for the annual gathering in Of their
cattle. Elsewhere in this issue will be
found a notice on that subject.
DIR. J. J.. Crook, physician and sur
geon. Office and residence over Ad-
doms & Glover's drug store, where he
can be found at all hours of the day
and night.
Bill Crout, the Laramie libertine,
who was shot full of holes by j. f.
Lincoln of this city, has so far recover
ed as TO be able to visit his friends of
the Sentinel.
Prayer meeting and Teachers meet
ing at the Presbyterian church this
"wednesday evening at 1880. Mem
bers are expressly requested to be pres
ent and all are cordially invited.
Major st. A. d. Balcombe is making
quite a stay in Laramie. It's rumored
that he's very much dissatisfied over
there and wants to get back where he
''can have some fun with the boys"
City bonds to the amount of 5000 0
have arrived and are now in the hands
of the council finance committee. The
credit of Cheyenne is good and they
will be disposed of without difficulty.
Twenty thousand tons of lead were
produced in Nevada last year-nearly
one-third of the total production of the
United States, and enough to kill all
the Russians and Turks that ever lived.
Zehner, Jackson Il Buechner, jewel
ers, on Ferguson street, have Il neat
card i'll this issue OF THE LEADER.
They are all well known in this city rs
enterprising gentlemen and thorough
workmen. We bespeak for them the
liberal patronage of the public.
The Union depot project ut Denver
is agitated but little now, though efforts
have been made to secure n location.
The whole scheme, it is believed by
many, will come to naught for the pres
ent, as $4,000 is rather steep for one
or two blocks of sand.
The morning Flopper is nothing if
not sensational. There was no danger
of anybody attacking the Inter Ocean to
lynch Baker, and consequently no
"guard was placed in and around the
The story is purely a canard,
which, if published abroad, will have
a tendency to reflect unjustly upon our
law abiding community.
Three times as much freight was
shipped to Deadwood over the Chey-
enne line in March than over the Sidney
line during that period. The roads
between here and the Hills are better,
and our facilities are superior to those
of any other route. Parties from
abroad contemplating a trip to the gold
regions should bear these facts in
mind.