The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-06-15
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stock.
It is estimated that at least live
thousand visitors will be here on the
Fourth.
Buya ticket and 60 down to Fort
Collins tomorrow morning. Round
trip only $50.
The Omaha Union Stock Yards are
fast approaching completion, and will
be ready for business July LIST,
We publish this morning a meritofius
little poem from the pen of "Julia
Clark" a Fort Steele, contributor.
Rev. C. Salter, Of Denver, lectures
in the Congregational church tonight.
Subject: Egypt and the Exodus"
DIR. Spinney, well known along the
Union Pacific railroad, is on trial at
Salt Lake for several diabolical offenses.
The hay crop of the Laramie Plains
this year will be far greater and inf
nitely superior to that of any former
year.
The Durant fire company held a,
meeting last night. No business Of
general interest to the public was trans
acted.
Two Nez Perces Indians passed east
yesterday on No. 4, en- route for Leav-
enworth, Kansas, to join their tribe at
that place.
Call at the postofice this morning.
You, may be able to get some Of that
mail matter you've been looking for a
couple Of days.
At least two hundred OF our citizens
will go down to Fort Collins tomorrow
morning. 1t win be one Of the most
enjoyable excursions of the season.
The Denver Democrat says that place
Is forgetting all about a Fourth Of July
celebration ''at home, y in eagerness to
attend the n we are getting up here.
The boys about town have caught
the firemen fever. They up end lad
ders and mount the roofs of stables
and coal sheds with remarkable rapid
ity.
The Fourth of July finance COM
mite was around collecting the sup
scriptions yesterday. They have col
lected about one thousand dollars thus
far. tlff
The teachers OF the Episcopal church
sabbath school cleared about S55, by the
strawberry sociable and festival given
In McDaniels' block on Thursday
evening.
Thirty thousand copies of the an
nual report Of the United States Com
missioner. relating to the Rocky noun
tain locust. have been ordered printed
by the Senate.
The large quantity and superior quail
lily Of the wool clipped from sheep ON
the Laramie Plains this season will
compensate for all losses during the big
stqrm of March last.
less than two months ago a Chey-
enne couple were made one. They
have separated already; which goes far
to prove that marriages are not always
succeeded by unalloyed happiness.
Officer Bean frightened two tramps
yesterday almost out Of their wits. He
fired two shots over their heads when
they started to run; they halted, and
upon his approach, each declared that a
bullet had grazed his head.
General Merritt, with eight compa-
MES Of cavalry, left Fort Mckinney on
Monday, for the camp on Clear Fork
creek, about fifty miles distant, where
he will remain for the present for the
purpose Of scouting.
The Could Dillon party Will return
from the west, Sunday, arriving here
at noon. They will proceed to Colorado
on Monday next, and attend a meeting
Of the officers of the consolidated Un-
ion and Kansas Pacific railroads in Dem
yer on the 18th inst. yMEN
Two boys took "a aying ride along
Seventeenth street yesterday evening.
One Of them was finally thrown from
his horse, but fortunately not injured.
Evidently the boys started out at first
on a little race, when their horses be-
came unmanageable and might have ia.
tally injured one or both.
The Hoe and Rake brigade, mnanipu-
lated by John Martin, policeman and
commander In chief ex-oficio, was out
again yesterday cleaning up rubbish on
the streets. Let us have Clearly thor
oughfares, and consequent health this
summer ven If 1t takes the united Ia
bors Of 1879, s21 tramps to accomplish
il.
A Black Hills paper intimates that
the location OF sixteen companies of
troops at Bear Butte will be q big
thing for Crook City. 1t will add
many thousands Of dollars to the COM
merce Of that thriving village. Fort
Smelling built up st. Paul, and several
OF the most important towns in the
country received their first permanent
prosperity through the location Of mill
tary posts near them.
A stsge robbery occurred in New