The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-03-16
PEN, PENCIL AND SCISSORS.

Considerable water, snow and mud,
yesterday.
Court house improvements progress
ing rapidly.
Eleven arrivals at the Metropolitan
hotel yesterday.
st. Patrick's Day ball at Recreation
Hall on Monday evening.
Judge Edmunds of the bulldozer has
the Chinese question on the brain.
The loss of sheep in Wyoming, by
the storm. is heavier than was expect
ed.
A man named Keene or Kane is re-
ported missing. "IIopelessly in debt"
tells the whole story.
On account Of debt the Denver street
cars have again been seized, and all
/ The hop given al the Key City house
last night was well attended. Mr..
Westover's parties are always a sue
cess.
Colorado sheep men lInve suffered Sc
verely by the storm. Their losses far
exceed those of our Wyoming sheep
raisers.
The relatives of Ray Com .leS, who
was frozen to death on Pole creek last
Friday, talk of renewing the body to
New Mexico.
Telegraphic communication is now
had between Cheyenne and Custer City.
1t is expected that Deadwood will he
reached to-day.
Holt, the stationer and bookseller
was busily engaged yesterday putting
shelving in his new establishment at
the old Polack corner.
The examination of pupils took place
in the public school yesterday. A short
vacation of one week will now be given
to allow the pupils to take a rest.
Mr.. F. L. Addoms informs us that it
Is the intention of the masonic fratern-
ity to move their lodge apparatus into
the new temple, sometime during the
coming week.
1t is now thought that Warren
Clough, of Nebraska, under sentence
of death for killing his brother, will be
pardoned. One Jack Trent, a crack
burglar, has confessed to committing
the deed.
During the late storm n woman nam
ed Patterson, with four children, were
showed mp in n dug-Out, six miles south
of Byers, Colorado, for forty hours,
and when taken ont were unable 10
speak or stand up.
The western bound passenger train
"a three hours late yesterday, owing
to delay in leaving Omaha on Thursday
morning. The outfit, upon arriving in
Cheyenne, consisted of two Pullman
and two day coaches.
We are requested by Hon. 4. H..
Swan, chairman of the Board of Coun-
ty Commissioners, to state that n meet
ing Of that body will take place at the
County Clerks Office in the Court House
on Tuesday morning next at l0o'clock.
Charlie, who is an ex-deputy sheriff,
ex-base ballist, eX-iireman, ex-clerk and
several other KS, has silently folded his
tent and departed. Pecuniary embar-
rassment is Mt the bottom of the affair.
He left word that in the future his ad-
dress will be Brooklyn, n. Y.
"Lonn Forester, of the Forester
troupe, came up from Denver yesterday
and went west to Laramie on the be-
lated train from the east. lie goes
there to meet the Adah Richmond oper-
attic troupe which will appear here one
evening next week under the manage
ment of the Forresters.
Connoy and Mccain who were miss
ing and supposed to have persisted at
Cooper's Lake, on Fridays storm, have
been found. Connoy was found frozen
to death and Mccain has been found
at a ranch with his legs badly frozen,
but he may recover; we CLEAN from
ilt 'otlililltt.
The body OF a man was found Il
couple of days ago on Dead Mans
creek, back of Bald mountain, and very
near the Colorado line. The body had
been buried in the earth, and left with
n foot and n hand %protruding from
the ground. The parties finding the
body believe the man was murdered
and then buried.
George W. Hanley, who had already
been bound over OH two separate char
ges for cattle stealing, in the sum of
81 900 each, was put upon trial in JUS
tice Slaughter's court yesterday again,
for a third charge of theft. He waived
examination, was again bound over in
the sum of 81 900, and went to Jail. 1t
will take just $1,000 bail now to rescue
him from Boss Carr's clutches.
On Thursday night no prisoners be.
ing in the calaboose the door was left
open, and during the night an intoxi-
Gated soldier wandered in and went to
sleep. Early yesterday morning Officer
Bean looked into the establishment and
found the boy in blue sound asleep.
Upon being awakened the soldier ex-
pressed n desire IN he allouad to po 70