The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-12-15
GLEAN1NGs.
From the Journals Of The Great west.


A citizen was recently robbed of eighty
dollars near Sturgis City, D. T. The
robbers are under arrest at Sturgis.
The end of the government line is to
be at Camp Rnhlen, and Deadwood will
be the loop. The headquarters will,
however be at Deadwood.
A stage driver employed by Dorsey s.
Co., mail contractors between Bismarck
and Fort Keogh, recently salted a mine
and swindled a party of miners out of
$500. He then skipped the country.
The Custer City Herald contains
some interesting Information regarding
u recent rich placer strike near that
place. 1t says some Of the richest
placer deposits ever discovered in the
Black Hills have recently been discov.
cred about mile and halfabove Gus
ter, in what is called Last Chance bar.
The pay streak, however, is Of limited
extent being about 90 feet in length,
with an average breadth of loo feet.
Four men took out S7J in day, wheel
ing their dirt for washing 400 yards.
Water is obtained from French creek.
The gold is very coarse, nuggets being
frequently found that weigh fifty cents.
Gayville, D. T., is said to be ''de-
serted village.', All the Inhabitants
have moved away.
There are now two schools in Rock
erville, both by competent female
teachers, and well attended.
The Florman mine at Galena has
the deepest incline of any mine in the
Black Hills, having reached u depth of
nearly 50J feet.
General Fremont is proving himself
non-partisan governor, and attends to
business. "Tne senator from Arizona
will possibly be his title one of these
coming years.
A Colorado man is exhibiting in
Denver magnificent pair of horns,
which lie wears on his brow by divine
right.
Judge Brearley, now visiting Omaha,
gives the Republican glowing descrip-
tion of the prosperity of Deadwood.
Snow two feet deep at Colorado
Springs. Is -
The Weathersby troupe was greeted
with crowded house at Denver on
Friday night. q
"Old. Lige," the eccentric colored.
man at Denver, is dead. He was a
Fifty-niner.
The people Of Omaha are endeavor-
ing to have nail works established
there.
| Noah Martin was recently found
murdered near York, Nebraska. He
had been to York to sell some grain.
1t is believed lie was murdered for his
money.
Mrs. Ann George, SO years old, died
in Georgetown a few days ago from
neglect of her son and daughter, whose
time was mostly occupied in drinking.
The Valley Home and Firm declares
that the late irrigation convention, of
Colorado, was convention of rival
ditch companies, managed by few
who had axes to grind.
James, the Crook City postmaster,
who was convicted Of Irregularities, is
still confined in the jail ut Rapid City.
". G. Ralston, the San Francisco
banker, is reported not dead but living
at his ease-in Europe.
The Deadwood papers scout the idea
of Frank Green being road agent
Green is now in Jail at Laramie City
resting under that charge.
The authorities at Dsadwood are
trying to prevent the citizens there
from carrying firearms.
Business between Rapid City ant
Rockford. in the Black Hills, ha
grown TO such proportions that it ha
been found necessary to maintain tri
weekly pony express between the tw
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