The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-08-10
PENCIL POINTS.
Shall we hear Beecher Lecturer

District court will convene again on
Monday.
Laramie county has about sixty miles
Of railroad. .
E. E. Keith, of Greeley, has corn
seven feet high.
Potter and his w~heel5arrow left Car
bon on Monday.
And nov the Green Riverites are
going wild about base ball.
Get ready for the eclipse. 1t will
take place next Monday night.
Never ask a young lady why her back
hair doesn't match that in front.
A Mrs. Palmer was brought in from
the Ten Mile ranch, very sick, yester-
day.
We understand the Swiss Bell Ring
ers will perform here on Monday night
next.
Four thousand cranberry vines were
recently planted by r. Bennett, of
Greeley.
The Big Horn hotel at Green River
wa recently damaged by fire to the ex-
tent Of $500.
Tony Pastor and his troupe are COM
ing. Everybody will go. See adver-
tisement in this issue.
Bishop Simpson will re-dedicate the
Methodist Episcopal church building
tomorrow at Fort Collins.
The new books recently received by
Judge Slaughter add greatly to the ap-
p~earance Of the Territorial Library.
Sturgis Brothers will shortly remove
to the building formerly occupied by
Cuthbertson & Young, Seventeenth
street.
The Marting family, mentioned in
our Carbon correspondence q couple of
days since. are now performing at Nc
Daniels.
Narrow-gauge cars, fiat, box and cat
tie, for the Utah Northern road, are
being built at the Union Pacific shops
in Omaha.
The western-bound train yesterday
brought in 100 passengers, % of which
went down to Colorado, and 10 stopped
off in Cheyenne.
John j. Moore, the Fremont postal
clerk, now awaiting trial at Laramie
City, has written a letter to the Omaha
Republican avowing his innocence of
robbing the mails.
A man named Ross, from Greeley,
was fined S43 and costs yesterday before
Justice Slaughter for being drunk on
Thursday evening and insultinga we'll
known Cheyenne lady.
The last clean up from the Father
De Smet mine, in the Black Hills, was
between sixty and seventy thousand
dollars. One 2O-stamp mill yielded
sixteen thousand dollars.
The sociable at the residence of Mr..
]. V. Jillich, on Seventeenth street, last
evening, under the auspices Of the Pres
byterian church was well attended, and
the evening spent pleasantly by those
present.
People who are always longing for a
lodge In some vast wilderness wouldn't
be happy If they had one. First thing
they knew they would be looking for
hAe cents worth Of fine cut, and a
morning paper.
Miss Elizabeth Painter, Of South Pass
City, Sweetwater county, Wyoming, is
anxious to learn the whereabouts of
her mother, Mary Painter. Any infor-
nation addressed to the above will be
thankfully received.
The entire cost of the new Union
Pacific depot on the Missouri river, op-
posite Omaha, is about 800, 900; the
plan was gotten up by Superintendent
s. H. H. Clark, and was commenced
about fourteen months ago.
Major Genearl John Pope, command
ing the Department of the Missouri,
has telegraphed that he expects to be
Denver on the 18th to talk with
Gov. Routt about the San Juan coun-
try and military protection for it.
During last month the Union Pacific
Land Department sold %, 304, n acres,
receiving therefor sos, 79S. %. During
the month thirty-ive emigrant teams,
averaging five persons to the team,
crossed the Omaha bridge. In addition
to this, LOG foreign emigrants were re-
ported and checked at Omaha.
The matter Of Chinese cheap labor
has assumed SO threatening a phase in
the Black Hills that a Caucasian
League has been organized to protect
the interests Of the white miners. A
meeting was held on Monday night at
Elizabethtown, and action taken to
prevent the employment of Celestials.
The search for the woman who was
lost near Central City, in the Black
Hills, is being continued, but without
success. Abont thirty persons are still
trying to learn her fate; among the
number being ]. G. Horton and ]. w.
Hurlbu, formerly of this city. The
woman in question went out to pick
berries and failed to return to her