The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-08-03
LOCAL MENTION. !

The street sprinkler is not around of
ten these days.
The Albany county court convenes
on Monday next. 5dH
The races take place this afternoon
north of the city.
The Dakota fair will be held at Yer
million in September.
The next total eclipse in this country
will not occur till 1928.
Cerito is attracting large audiences
at the Deadwood theatre.
A full coach load Of passengers will
go out this morning for Dealwood.
The Key City Hous. a a new pro-
prietor. His name is Walter Carney
Senator Howe has been for eighteen
years in continuous Senatorial service.
The material Of the late evening
Hornet goes to Laramie City to-day.
The Boissets this evening at Recrea-
tion Hall. See notice elsewhere in this
issue.
Haverley's Minstrels win be in Dem
yer next week. They may, probably,
visit Cheyenne.
That new lot of books for the Terri
torial library have arrived from the
east and are being placed in position.
A. B. Spinney, the quack doctor Of
San Francisco, was booked at one Of
the hotels yesterday. He has got out
Of jail.
On Wednesday Joseph Taylor, an old
man Of sixty, had his neck broken at
Omaha by being thrown from his
wagon.
John Jones was taxed ~ and costs
yesterday for getting intoxicated.
Caliph Fisher allowed him to depart
after he forked over.
J. b. Pritchard, a Western Unior
operator at Omaha for the past year
has gone to Fort Mckinney to jerl
lightning and act as quartermaster'
clerk.
There is IN ordinance against fast
driving on our public thoroughfares,
but we suppose folks won't obey the
law until somebody's child gets sent
above. u ~ n
Lieut.. Clark reports that Gen. Brad
ley's command will, within the coming
week, remove from the Little Missouri
to the Belle Fourche, thirty five miles
from SpearAsh.
Miss Eliza Hanley has sued the City
Of Omaha for $4,000 damages. Sh.
fell through a defective sidewalk ant
broke n leg. At that rate she's . very
valuable woman.
Prices for cattle took q tumble in
Chicago the other day. A lot belong.
ing to the estate Of ]. w. nif, sold fcI
but s2.75 They were 4-year olis, and
had been wintered in Colorado.
Gen. Sheridan is still looking up a
suitable location for the new military
post to be established somewhere on the
northern border of the Black Hills. He
is determined to select the most ndyan-
tageous point.
W. J. Hardin, the great colored ora
tor, spent Monday in Golden, having
taken q few days from his business in
Cheyenne for q little recreation. We
had not seen him for several years, and
was pleased to take him by the hant
once more.-Golden Transcript.
The Denver Ne,os published yester
day an account Of ga remarkable sui
eide in Capron, Ill. ), which appeared II
THE LEADER last Friday morning. Ii
THE LEADER Of Monday last appeared
q denial Of the story by the sensational
barber himself.
The long delayed mail which left
Deadwood on July 23d, arrived at the
Cheyenne office yesterday. This mail
was on the coach which was robbed by
road agents July 25th, but has been de-
tanned somerhere between this city and
Cheyenne River for six days.
The Deadwood Times says p. II. Al
len arrived in Deadwood early last
spring with a lot of goods, contracted a
bill Of S55, with the Times office and
said as Don as he sold his goods would
liquidate. she sold his goods,n says
that paper, ''blew his money into the
faro banks and departed"
Joe McLane, a stock grower of Chey-
enne Wells, on the Kansas Poetic, is
missing from his home under circum-
stances which permit the belief that he
has been murdered by a body of Ute
Indians, who have been camped near
that place on a buffalo hunt. Tuesday
last McLane, having lost q valuable
horse, started for the Ute camp, in
whose possession he had reason to be-
lieve he would End the animal, since
which time he has not been seen.
There are 800 tons of ore crushed
in the Hills, at an average valuation of
$3.50 per ton, equaling 90, 900 gross.
The average expense for extracting,
hauling and milling, is s4per ton, leav-
ing a net profit to owners Of 81, 800 per
day. There are fifty placers, hill dig
pinps. and hvdraul;c c,,,r, -