The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-09-12
SPLlRTERS,
Business brisk yesterday.

Keep your doors locked. The city is
full Of thieving tramps.
Lunch iends are called colonel" be-
cause they are always strapped.
The Masons of Laramie gave ffty-fiye
dollars to the yellow fever fund.
Mr.. Joseph Dillmann's new house on
Eddy street is progressing finely.
Thomas J. Bevis was yesterday voted
a vagrant and sent up for thirty days.
Considerable change in the weather
yesterday, and that, too, for the better.
At least 1880, all told, will be sent
from Cheyenne to the suffering South.
The d~iphtheria, which has been quite
prevalent among children here, Is sub
siding.
Travel on train No. 4 was light yes
terday; only twenty-seven through pas
sengers.
Fifty-ive dollars have been donated
to the fever sufferers by the officers at
fort Laramie.
: Everybody ought to hear Beecher on
the 18th. He is the greatest pulpit
orator In America.
The military and citizens at Fort
Steele have sent eighty-Gve dollars to
the suffering South.
A lively civil suit has been in bro.
gress for a couple Of days between DIR.
Barkwell and Mr.. McMahon.
Sam Lee, the insane Celestial, has
returned from Denver, and was seen
floating about the depot yesterday.
It is rumored that Telegraphic HaIly
is down from Deadwood for the pur-
pose OF getting married this week.
We are under obligations to the ad-
iutant general of the United States
army for q copy of the army register.
Keep the Migrants to work ON the
streets and get the latter in good con-
dition before cold weather commences.
Fourteen dollars have been sent by
the Deadwood colored folks to the
South, in aid of the yellow fever suf-
ferers.
Col. Dan Crapp, who now presides at
John Shingles, has got that new car
pet laid in the establishment. It's a
beauty.
The band Of the Fifth cavalry will be
present and discourse sweet music dur
ing the match game OF base ball next
Saturday.
There were sixty through passengers
on No. 8 yesterday; twelve stopped of
here and six went down on the Colo
RADIO Central.
Mr.. Beecher will pass through Chey-
enne from the west to-day, en- route for
Denver. On the 18th inst. he will lee
ture in Cheyenne.
The gentlemen who are organizing
the Wyoming Rifle and Sportsmen's
club assure us that they will soon be in
8ooN WoAhtuB ttitn.
The meeting Of the Black Hills gold
mining company, which was to have
taken place yesterday was postponed
until 10 O'Clock this morning.
An encounter growing out of politics
between Col. jacobson and j. Cook, jr.,
of Denver, resulted in Cook getting
the end Of a finger bitten of.
The yellow fever scourge has already
killed over $500 persons in the South.
and the outlook for the abatement Of
the plague is not very encouraging.
The Citizens committee yesterday
decided to send the money collected by
them for the yellow fever sufferers, to
the president of the Howard associa-
tion.
The Knights Of Pythias of Denver
will have a grand parade on the 18th
inst. Some members of the order here
talk Of going down on that occasion.
Bishop Simpson is expected to arrive
in this city on Fridays eastern bound
train. 1t is thought he will stop of
and deliver a sermon on the following
Sunday.
The buildings formerly occupied as
military headquarters at Omaha, are to
be opened as a hotel by Kitchen Broth
ers, who had leased the late Grand
Central.
The city Jail contains three female
prisoners and Marshal Mcdonald util-
lied them yesterday by making them
scrub the window castings and doors at
the city hall.
Prof. c. E. Bly~denburgh, who accom-
panied Prof. j. G.. Murphy, the new
territorial assayer, to this section, will
go to Rawlins with that gentleman and
aid him in his labors.
Chicago has done nobly in behalf of
the yellow fever sufferers. Up to last
Tuesday over $50, 600 had been contrib
uted by private individuals and various
charitable institutions.
Mr.. John Phillips has sold his valua-
BILE ranch on the Chug, together with
all the stock, etc. thereon, to Mr.. M.
Hambleton, Of Baltimore. We have
not learned the sum paid.
Mrs, Maud Collins, the widow of the
LATE Idal Couina ,a,an ~