The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-01-23

Yesterdays trains brought " Chey-
enne passengers.
Clear and pleasant weather still pre-
walls at Deadwood.
At 8 O'Clock this morning all u. L.
trains due here to-day were reported
on time.
Col. J. j. Hittson has sold his ranch
and cattle at Deer Trail to +. p.
Earnest, for $4,000.
Ladies' Temperance Union meeting
at the Y. NJ. C. A. rooms this WED
nesdayl afternoon at 3 O'Clock.
Thomas Lanktree, of Evanston, at
the recent term of court, won a Sl5,-
900 suit against the Union Pacific Rail-
road company.
The troops at Fort Russell and Camp
Carlin were paid off yesterday, and are
enjoying the luxuries Of the metropolis.
All quiet on Crow creek.
Neuralgia is more fashionable this
season than ever before among fashion
able ladies, because the fashionable hat
leaves the top of the head bare.
Large herds of cattle are being pur-
chased in Montana, Oregon, Washing
ton Territory, New Mexico and Texas,
and will be driven to Wyoming next
summer.
An Ogden smallpox patient recently
became delirious, and went all over the
town shaking hands with whoever he
met. The physicians are expecting a
good crop.
Prepare for the chicken pie and oys-
ter festival at Collins new building, on
Thursday, the oath inst. Ellis has or
dered the best oysters in the market for
the occasion.
A petition was circulated in Bis
marck on the 14th urging congress TO
make Northern Dakota a territory of
itself, and asking the passage of the
Pembina bill.
1t is estimated that three hundred
Mexicans have died of smallpox in
Huerfano county, Colo, during the past
three months, and the disease is dying
out with them.
The extension of the telegraph line
to Fort Mckinney has been completed,
and an office was opened at Mckinney
last Thursday night. 1t is believed
that the line will be extended to Fort
Custer, on the Big Horn, Immediately.
A pimp drugged a soldier, yesterday
morning, led him to the outskirts of
the city, picked his pockets, and left
the poor victim lying in the road to
sleep off the effects of the drug. OH
GERS are on the trail of the villain, and
he will be arrested to-day.
Business is almost at n standstill in
Ogden; one dealer, whose trade il in
commodities which are indispensable,
reports that his business has fallen off
rs per cent. Passengers refuse to
leave trains, and everything in the
nature of traffic in that quarter Is inert.
We would like to know why it is that
a young man can sit down, heave a
sigh or two about the size of a cider
barrel and then dash off a dozen pages
to some angel of about seventeen years
old plumage, but when he begins to
write to his mother he can scratch him
self bald-headed and then not get over
a page and a half.
When Agent Danielson ~telegraphed
from Fort Hall, Idaho, to the Commits
Of Indian Affairs, giving news
of the capture of the belligerent Ban
nacks, he added: 1.-The three companies
of cavalry from Fort ID. A. Russell re-
turn on the 18th instant. | recon-
mend that the Bannacks be sent with
them. and held there until you decide
what to do with them. Unless re-
moved a sufficient force will be required
to keep them in subsection" 1t may
be that those Bannacks will be brought
to Fort Russell.
1t is said that a man will never do
such foolish things rs when he's in love;
but a Cheyenne man, the other day,
stood with his back to the looking
glass and brushed his hair with the
back of the comb, and then went out
and BACKED his boots with the stove
after which he went down town
with his wife's hat on-and he was
only a little absent-minded. Now, in
Denver, if a man should act that way
they would say he was crazy, but Chey-
enne men have so much business on
their minds, you know.
--S
Jack Gilmer, the veteran stage man,
who recently bought the Golden Terra
mine for himself and Monroe Salisbury,