The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-04-24
CAUGHT ON the FLY.

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Which came u ahead last night:,,
the Alerts Oh the Durantsf
Isaac Van Brunt is engaged in load
ing 800, 900 ties at Fort Steele.
Gov. Thayer is expected to return on
this afternoons train from the east.
Let US hope that the scandal will
soon die, and with it all the principals.
1.-THE Streets of Cheyenne" this
"Wednesday evening at Recreation
Hall.
The Cheyenne & Black Hills coach
will go north with SIX passengers this
morning.
A. II. Reel yesterday sent out for the
Hills eight eight-mule teams loaded
with freight.
Nixon, '.the desperado" turns out to
be a Sunday school teacher from Men
dota, Illinois.
The people of Maryland are repre-
sented as disappearing of Montgomery
BlalT'S EeSOluClOn-
The aged mother Of Geo. E. Wilson,
Union Pacific agent at Grand Island,
recently died at Des Moines.
The country is full of promising
young men. In fact, some of them
deal almost exclusively in promises.
The funeral of Murphy Scales took
place yesterday afternoon at 8 o'clock
from his late residence on 18th street,
A boys idea of heaven is a place
where all the water pipes are perpetual
ly frozen, and the comb-box is entirely
lost.
Six Migrants were sent out of the
city yesterday, with the usual fine and
Imprisonment pending to urge them
along.
The telescope for use at that station
during the solar eclipse next July is
beginning TO arrive Mt Denver in in
stallments.
The San Francisco Mint is now turn
ing out 100, 700 new dollars per day.
This makes a small home demand for
bullion.
The world continues to move for
ward after all. "Uncle Toms Cabin"
is being played at the Academy of Mu-
sic, in New Orleans.
G. L. Holt Esq returned to the city
yesterday from his ranch. A little
sunburnt is about the only change we
noticed in his appearance.
james Creighton, of Omaha, has just
started m extensive ranch 40 miles
north of North Platte, which he will at
once stock with $500 young Texas
cattle.
The fight over the division of Brig
ham Young's estate has begun. Wen
take a little hand in, if you please. We
once were Young, about thirty-Hve
years ago.
The Virginia City, Nevada, papers
are warning laborers to keep away from
there, and wish the coast papers to n
nounce the fact that 1900 men are out
of employment.
Preparations are being made to enter
tain and banquet 1000 persons at the
inaugural reception Of the Colorado
Academy and business College at Dem
yer, next Thursday evening.
Denver fruit trees made a terrible
mistake this spring. Most of them be-
gan blossoming from II week to ten days
ago. The recent cold, windy weather
has probably destroyed the young fruit.
The cut worm is said to be doing con-
siderable damage to wheat in some Sec
tions on the Big Thompson. One man
had quite an area Of grain completely
destroyed by this pest during the last
week.
We regret to state that Mr.. Cuthbert-
son, of the forwarding and commission
firm of Cuthbertson & Young, is seri-
ously i'll. His physician has positive
ly forbidden the admission of visitors
W Ills icSlutLCt.
Immediately after the adjournment
of the City Council last night, that
body went into session as an Equaliza-
tion Board, to X mine the assessment
rolls, upon which they have been labor
ing for several days past.
1t is stated now that there are over
eighteen hundred laborers at the mouth
Of the Grand Canon of the Arkansas,
brought there by the rival lines. An
attempt at force might result in u Sc
we're and sa%pguinary ARRAY.
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fee
Co. have secured all the money neces-
sary to build two hundred and twenty
five miles of road. This will carry the
road some distance beyond Las Vegas
if it is all expended in that direction.
We understand that the Ladies'
Reading Room organization decided at
their last meeting to adopt the report
of the committee on securing a room,
and will occupy one on the lower floor
of the Carey block, Ferguson street
entrance.
The Democratic leaders in Washing
ton are exceedingly anxious to learn
the exact size of that unknown politi-
col factor calIad Tho N,t;on,J .