The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-11-11
MINOR MENTION.

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The brographic sketcher has a big jot
to put up on the legislature.
Tomorrow evening is the time fixed
for the annual ball Of the Pioneer hooks
The model town Of Fort Collins has q
Temperance Gazette; a weekly paper Of
sprightly appearance.
Leadville now has gas works. How
the gas works will be learned in a day
or two.
Biographical sketches fill up, are ca.
silly written, and that's why one-horse
editors fill up their columns with them.
Eastern parties are making numerous
inquiries from residents of Cheyenne
about the prospects of the North Park
mining district.
Those members Of the legislature who
have not yet been ~plastered in print are
praying for a meteor to fall down on
that Faber-fiend.
A regular incident of Leadville life is
the tearing down of houses on disputed
lots. These disputes are about as nu.
merous as mining contests.
U. S. Marshal Schnitger has re
turned from Hot Springs, Utah, whittier
he went to secure relief from rheuma-
tism. He was materially benefited.
The Union Pacific road will have
grass and trees planted at stations along
the road in Nebraska. Evergreens from
Wyoming will also be transplanted.
The Yankee Doodle mine at Lead
vile was sold for $3.50, 900 the other
day. 1t made the owners whistle when
the glittering cash was laid before them.
A history of the Ute war is being
written by Messrs. Dawson and Skif,
Of the Denver Tribune. 1t will doubt
less prove n forcible presentation of
facts.
Telephones in New York state are
used on wires $50 miles In length. A
%conversat on can be carried on intelli-
gently with the takers that distance
apart.
A new paper has appeared in Denver,
the Saturday Call. A perusal of the
FIRST number leads one to conclude that
the editor must have heard q Call in
tended for a different man.
The dog belonging to Mrs. Gaylord
Bell, which remained in the wreck OF
her late residence for twenty : four
hours, and crawled out unhurt, is lost
whereat Mrs. b. is in great grief.
The first number of the Carbon
County Journal, of the new manage.
ment, was received yesterday. 1t is a
vast Improvement on the reprint Of the
old Journal. Hon. j. c. Friend is
editor.
Workmen, in digging a well on Mr..
Dana's premises, yesterday, when at a
depth of twenty feet, unearthed a hand
full of old Spanish coins, one piece EVIL
IDENTIFY bearing a date under 1000.-
Tribune.
Hugo Rosinski, editor of the Post,
the German paper of Omaha, was
whipped in the street on Friday even.
ing by Mr.. Nerad, a brawny Bohemian,
who was charged by the former with
doing dirty work on election day.
The mormon press are quits indig-
nant at that Colorado Indian for claim.
ing some of the honors of the Mountain
Meadows butchery. 1t is kind Of mean
in the untutored savage, when it is re-
membered the mormons planned the
massacre and got away with the greater
portion of the plunder.-Sah Lake Trib.
ule.
The fort much resembles a deserted
village these days. No dress parade,
no band concert, no masquerade OF
beauty and fashion and nobby turnouts;
no nothing but weeping and wailing
on the part of the better sex of human.
ity, who mourn the absence of their
loved ones, who are far away on the
tented snowy fields of White river.
Prof. Mayer went to Denver yester-
day to organize a school in that city as
well as Cheyenne. Meanwhile, the
school in this city will be postponed,
but the soirees will go on as usual. The
next will be on Friday evening, at Rec
reation Hall. All persons who received
invitations to the first soiree can get
cards for the next at Joslin & Parks.
There was quite a number of prom
inent men collected about ]. w. Bru-
ner's scales yesterday morning to wit
ness the weighing Of those fine Here
ford bulls, recently purchased by MIR.
M. A. Arnold in Chicago. One Of
them, only eleven months old, weighed
1893 pounds, and the other, eight
months old, weighed 64S pounds. This
is an extraordinary weight for cattle so
young; hence the attraction.
Ranch butter and eggs, also q fine lot
of Michigan apples, at
nov9 3t PEAsE & TAYLoR's.
Ovarshnea and boo4e cham Of