The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-12-24
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happy.
Good weather for a campaign-at The
freside.
Children of wisdom will hang NJ
their stocking tonight.
The Internal regions came nearly
freezing over last night.
Judge K%uykendall is on his way homt
from the hills to spend the holidays.
Sheep ranches in the Hills suffer
from the depredations of mountain
lions.
Colorado witnesses the organization
Of about twenty mining organizations
weekly.
Prayer meeting at the Presbyterian
church this evening at 7:30. Subject,
THE Incarnation"
Hon. W. II. Hibbard, superintend'
emit of the Cheyenne 81 Black Hills
telegraph line, is in Deadwood.
Eggs are very scarce in the Hills, and
worth 80 cents. Even delicate and in
disposed eggs are at a premium.
Eggleston, the Rosita, Colo, muir
dercr, jumped his bonds of $4,000.
His bondsmen had been secured.
Deadwood desires a town organiza.
tion in order to have an eve gaping
NAV of a treasury IN which to pay
taxes.
Fred F. Schrader, formerly of st.
Joseph, Mo-, has just taken the posi-
l-tion of city editor of the Denver Re
publican.
A Mexican named Pedro Maez, was
killed on the Rio Grande road last
Monday. He was formerly n herder on
the Chugwater.
The passenger trains on the Northern
Pacific road lay over all night at Fargo.
A fine road, that, when it can't run
trains in the dark.
The NJ. Z. sabbath school will give
an interesting concert this evening at
the NJ. L. church at 7:30 O'Clock. All
are invited to attend.
The night that Hamlet strolled out
to see his fathers ghost, was probably
n like last night, for he said of the
weather "'Tis an eager and a nip
ping air."
The cold snap Of yesterday caused
many frozen ears and feet. Among
those who suffered to the extent of hav-
ing frozen ears, is Geo. w. Jones, the
telegraph operator.
The Cheyenne LEADER ably advo-
Gates the voting Of $500, 900 in bonds
to the railroad in Montana. 1t is ex-
pected the vote will take place in about
a month. -Denrer Times.
Emanuel Stran, a brakeman on the
X. p. road, was severely crushed and
had an arm and a leg taken off by fall
ing under an engine, near Denver, on
Monday. His injuries may prove fatal.
Old bachelors won't hang up their
seeks, nobody else will do it for them,
and besides il they did hang them up
nobody would fill them. They are GER
tainly in a bad plight, and it is well
that leap year is approaching.
The Laramie Times prints in parallel
columns two articles. One appeared in
the Times on Dec. II. The other ap-
peared in the Hand Bill on Dec. 81.
The latter published 1t as original.
The Times proves it to have been a
clear steal.
1t was rumored on the street last
evening that two COW boys had been
frozen to death ON Monday night on a
ranch north Of the city. The rumor
could be traced to no reliable source,
although the weather was cold enough
to make it true.
Deadwood Pioneer: The hook and
ladder truck, which was burned in the
little blaze that occurred some time
ago, is to be reconstructed. Messrs.
Hood & Scott have donated the soft
lumber, and Mr.. Miller, the hardwood
necessary to finish the machine.
A wild cat broke from his cage in the
Denver Scientific Museum, 2s2, 10th
street, just above Lawrence, last night,
and when the place was opened this
morning the cat disputed the right Of
any one else to its place. 1t was then
killed by being punched with an iron
rod.-Denrer Times.
A fictitious baron, who had been
playing it big ON the people of Denver,
and succeeded in getting board free
and obtaining lots of property belong
ing to other people, and finally made
love to a married womanighile he swim
died her husband out of $500, was ar
rested in Golden on Monday and taken
to the Jail in Denver.
u BY an accident the name of Lieutel-
ant Silas A Wolf, Fourth infantry, was
omitted from the resolution of thanks
rendered by the legislature 10 the sur
viving officers and men Of Major
Thornburgh's command for gallant
conduct in the fight and at the be-
sieged camp on Milk river. Much to
the expressed regret Of members of both
branches of the legislature the omission
was discovered too late to rectify.
They are all DESTROYS of acknowledging
his m%eritorious services. Lieutenant
Wolf is a native Of Pennsylvania, and
graduated at the Military Academy in