The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-12-08
DECEMBER WAITS.
Showing as we 60 to press.

Beware Of counterfeit Mexican dol
lars.
Only M prisoner in the calaboose
this morning.
The Camilla Ursa operatic company
will visit Cheyenne next March.
The people of Cheyenne were never
50 free from sickness as at the present
time.
A man named Norman Beck died
suddenly on the 21st ult. at Battle
creek, Wyoming.
]. Dwight Corey will be manager of
the Metropolitan hotel during Leigh.
toms absence in Maine.
Uinta county, through her treasurer,
F. NJ. Foote, yesterday paid into the
treasury Of the territory 90, $40.
Small parties Of miners are already
leaving Salt Lake for Snake river. Re-
ports from that country are quite good.
The ladies' reading room association
is said to be at present in a more pros
porous condition than at any other time
since 1t wa organized.
The Tussler brothers, whose ranch Is
thirty five miles north Of Sidney, lost
nearly fifty horses by the recent raids
of thieves in that locality.
Rumor says there will shortly be a
wedding on Seventeenth street, not a
thousand miles from the signal office.
The parties are well known.
Colorado is sadly in need of a capital
building. 1t seems impossible to Sc
cure u suitable hall in Denver in which
to hold the coming legislative session.
The name Of wyoming's governor is
Hoyt; Idaho's chief executive Is also a
Hoyt, and on the LIST prox. a Hoyt will
be inaugurated governor of Pennsyl-
vania.
The Greene taken to Laramie
City, on charge Of being a road agent,
is not Mr.. Frank L. Greene, Of Fort
Laramie, although the initials of the
men are said to be the same.
Frank Hafcr's opening in the Nc.
Daniel block, last evening, was one
Of the leading events of the week. The
bountiful repast set before his many
friends will long be remembered.
Col. Luke Murrin is making some
very attractive improvements in his
establishment. Water pipes are being
introduced, and while in Denver he
purchased a costly marble slab for his
bar.
Fred. Schwartze and his bride last
evening gave q party ut their residence
on Pole creek. Among those. present
were Hon. H. Haas and wife, Miss
Zehner, Miss Bon, NJ. Morgan and A.
ID. Butler.
Mr.. Horace A. w. Tabor, the new
lieutenant governor Of Colorado, was
In '54 a stone-cutter in Augusta, Me.
In 80 he went to Colorado, where he
became a miner and a rich man, IL 49,.
600, 900 mean riches.
The postofice at Hat creek, Wyo.
ming, has been discontinued by the post.
master general. The postmaster at
Cheyenne has been ordered to take
possession of all government property
at the Hat creek p~ostofice.
A match game Of checkers was
played at the Inter Ocean hotel yester.
day afternoon, between ]. H. Nichols
and st. George Wilson. The Judges
were Z. Cuthbertson and Gilbert Wes-
son. Nichols came out of the contest
with flying colors.
As there was no school on the both
ult., the day following Thanksgiving.
school will be held on Saturday, the
2lst inst, to make up the loss. The
two weeks holiday to be given the pu-
pills Of the public school will commence
on Monday, the 23d inst.
Wouldn't 1t be just as well for you to
take a look this morning at Josiin &
Parks double column holiday adver-
tisementP This firm has an enviable
reputation, not only in Cheyenne but
throughout the entire west. All goods
will be found as represented.
Mr.. Gale Hill, messenger for the
stage line between Cheyenne and Dead
wood, left yesterday afternoon for his
old home in Missouri, where he will re-
main about six weeks. Mr.. Hill is one
OF the pluckiest men who ever struck
the west, as the honorable scars on his
person attest. He has fought road
agents.
A report being current in Deadwood
that Mrs. NJ. V. Boughton had skipped
the country, q reporter called at her
house to see II such was the case. He
found her in bed sick, and she told him
there wasn't money enough in the
Black Hills to induce her to leave
while the charge of murder was hang
ing over her.
The discontinuance OF the Hat Creek
~postofice, and of all mail facilities from
Fort Laramie north to the Dakota line,
will be unwelcome news to the settlers
Of that region. We appeal through
delegate Corlett to the postofice depart
ment, to have this important mail SER
vice, re-established. The settlement of
northern Wyoming has been much ar