The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-01-19

AT ) O'CLOCK TINS morning an ~
| trains due here to-day were reported
on time.
The new railroad hose house is nearly
finished, and will be quite n nobby lit
tie ediice.
Stebbins, Post & Co. shipped a large
quantity of Black Hills gold to New
York yesterday.
Mr.. N. A. Arnold is pushing work
upon his fine residence, corner of Fer
guson and Goth street.
Peter Smith, of the clothing firm of
Smith Il Harrington, is closing out the
stock of his big branch house in Evans
ton.
Two large brick dwellings are being
erected on the hill east of Hon. f. p.
Johnson's residence for EX-GOv. j. \.
Campbell.
There is no change in the state of the
city. We have no organized govern
ment as yet, but everything is quiet on
Crow creek.
There is a pig-sty nuisance in the
block bounded by Goth, Eddy, Ferguson
and 10Th streets, which should be
promptly abated.
The Masonic Temple is rapidly APP
preaching completion, and the same
may be said of McDaniels' block and
Collins elegant store.
Congress is about to investigate the
subject of whisky sales, at the military
posts, with a view to prohibiting fur
Their traffic in the stuff.
Two ladies, Miss Joan 81. Campbell
and Miss Dora Pratt, have been select
ed to act as clerks in the House branch
of the Utah Legislature.
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The Miners Delight Mining conf
pany of Sweetwater county, have ship
ped east by U. P. express; during the
past two weeks, 1850 in gold.
We are still turning out the most
elegant visiting cards ever seen in Wyo-
ming, and renew our invitation to the
ladies to call and make selections.
We shall all breathe easier, when
Blackburn, Bevans, Flores and some
two score of their fellow malefactors
take up the line of march for Nebras-
ka's penal institution.
1t seems that Dan Crapp, of the
Railroad house, went to Denver to get
a divorce. He returned safely, and
now wants to see the man who started
the report of his intended marriage.
An agent of the p~ostotfice department
will arrive in Denver in Il day or two
with appointments for railway agents
for the Colorado Central. 1t is said
that three agents will he appointed.
Ben Richards, Esq, of Miners De-
light, has moved over to Atlantic City
to commence operations on the Blue
Cloud mine. lie intends to erect hoist
ing works as soon as spring opens.
Tim Coleman and jim Fairfield, two
men engaged in grading in the canon
of the South Platte river, b miles from
Denver, were instantly killed by "A pre-
mature explosion on Thursday last.
Slack is dying by inches. His disease
is complicated, being pronounced a
mixture of bonds and worms. Green
backs or trade dollars will save him,
but lie cannot obtain either. It's a sad
case.
Plastcrers are at work in the new
office for the Mountain Division train
dispatcher. When it is completed
material changes for the better will be
made in the quarters of Superintendent
Davis.
Ten needle-guns were stolen from
the armory of Company E, Fourteenth
Infantry, at Camp Douglass, on Friday.
Five of the guns have been found at
Ogden, but the thief and five more
guns are missing.
A deserted Ute squaw, grieved by the
he~artlessness of the Indian who had
only a few months previously taken her
to his wigwam, drowned herself. Be.
fore her suicide, she formally and elab-
orately cursed him. The Indian belief
is that such a curse is potent.
The reading rooms of the Y. NJ. G.
A, are headquarters for the clerks of
the city after 8 p. m. on all evenings
except Saturday. The Association is
doing q good work, and we are pleased
to see n growing interest manifested in
the good cause by u best people.
Hon. G. c. WEIGH, of Golden, who
has been prospecting for coal near Coal
creek, Jefferson county, Colo, not far
from the Boulder county line, is re-
warded by a ten-foot seam of the best
article this section has thus far yielded.
AN