The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-02-21
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Gathered Here and thsrs BY a~.L.adsr" Re
porter.

The Bell telephone has been intro
duced into Denver.
Ogden people are talking about build
ing an opera house.
John Dunn, shot by Jacob Fuhrman,
appeared on the street yesterday. 81
Salt Lake City Is very dull. So pas
sengers from the west stated yester-
day.
Superintendent Bob Law returned
yesterday from u business trip to Lar
annie City.
The weather between Cheyenne and
Ogden is reported quite warm and no
snow exists.
Fairfield, Iowa, boasts Of a girl baby
one month old, which weighs two and
three-fourths pounds.
The Union Pacific pay car has once
moro rendered the employees at this
point contented-temporarily.
Omaha is getting to be a very wicked
town. Her papers are filed with ac-
counts OF ~elopements, suicides, etc.
We are under obligations to Mr..
Charles L. Adams, news agent on the
Union Pacific railroad, for recent
favors.
The Alert Hose company hop in Nc
Daniels new haii last evening, was
numerously attended. It was the best
hop of the season.
The regular meeting Of st. Marks
guild, which took place at the r~ectory
Of the Episcopal church last evening,
was well attended.
8. B. Markham and George Walsh
report having seen a squad Of Indians
on Tuesday last near Court House rock,
on the North Platte.
The full text of the anti-C Chinese i'm
migration bill, as passed by the senate
and sent back to the house, will be
found on the inside OF this issue.
A passenger on the east bound
train yesterday brought us thu
news that the contract for grading the
Utah Southern railway has been let.
Rice's combination, which has beer
playing to good houses in San Francis.
CO, will pass through Cheyenne in a
couple Of days, en- route for the east.
workmen were busily engaged yes.
terday In removing the huge piles OF
earth thrown up on Seventeenth street,
incidental to the construction of the
sewer,
The people Of Nevada are about try.
ing the experiment of running their
state, county and municipal govern
ments upon a silver basis, with a triple
standard.
The Victoria LOTUS blonde troupe
Is about played out. Two members left
the troupe at Salt Lake City, two at
Eureka, M at Carson and another at
Virginia City.
He was buried last night In the real
Of the LEADER Office. His last words
were: "I'n never write any more poe
try on spring. Plant a cactus bush
over my grave"
There is no excuse for a man to 20
shufiing through life with his hands in
his pockets, and no more animation
about him than an old door mat on
which everybody wipe their feet.
We are in receipt Of an invitation to
attend q social party to be given this
evening in the Carr block, by the
Young America Hook & Ladder COM
pany. Messrs. Kuykendall and Wilson
constitute the invitation committee.
This evening Right Reverend Bishop
Spaulding will deliver a lecture on
Lambeth Conference" This confer
ence in England was visited by Mr..
Spaulding, and those who hear his
lecture will doubtless be greatly in
strncted thereby.
The Denver Tribune says the physi-
clans of that city, without exception,
express a large degree of In
the prevalence Of true d~iphtheria.
There have been over 100 cases of diph-
liberia Of mild type in Denver this sea
son, but there have also been a number
of the severest form.