The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-04-12
NEWS sREVITIeS.


Grass is plenty all along the north
Platte.
The bitches will be well supplied
with water tomorrow.
The outlook for Olive, the mar burn
er, now looks decidedly gloomy.
An interesting meeting was held in
the Episcopal church last night.
Rev. E. D. Buckner will preach two
sermons in the court house tomorrow.
The Baptist church Sabbath school
scholars will give a concert on the Goth
inst.
d. j.. Mccain has already made five
trips to Cheyenne in the interest of his
case.
A number of handsome trees will be
planted around st. Marks Episcopal
church.
Special Easter Day services will be
held tomorrow morning in st. Mary's
Catholic church.
Lindley Murray was again cruciied
in the local columns of yesterday morn
ing's Hornbloirer.
Some Of the most conspicuous charms
Of young men nowadays are those on
their watch chains.
John Martin is said to resemble the
deputy sheriff in B. McCauley's great
play of Jarvis Section"
The most useful pedestrian is the
man who walks the floors nights with
the baby to keep 1t from crying.
The Cheyenne library will be kept
hereafter in the reading room, under
the auspices of the ladies' association.
The losses of cattle in the northern
part of the territory by storms during
the past winter, do not exceed one per
cent.
The breaking of an axle to the en-
CINE between Sidney and North Platte
delayed the west bound train five hours
yesterday.
We shall probably hear no more Of
the Mccain case until the 10th of May,
to which time the matter has been
postponed.
s-Sportsmen should all attend the
meeting of the Cheyenne gun club to-
night in the parlor of Stebbips, Post &
Co.'S bank.
Mrs. Pagan, who skipped out for
Tennessee, leaving a number of bills
unpaid, owed Terry & Hunter the snug
little sum of $3.50.
A very pleasant musical and literary
entertainment was given last night at
the residence of Mrs. G. A. Searight
on Twenty-Hrst street.
Lieut.. Grimes has been ordered to
Fort Laramie to build a branch militia
ry telegraphic line. He hopes to send
his family east before he is obliged to
push to the front.
Mr.. A. W. Haygood, Of Granite can
on, took a wagon-load Of Leadville
miners out to the Silver Crown mining
district. 1t is predicted that Colorado
miners will be pouring into Wyoming
by hundreds q month hence.
The death Of that ''consumptive pa
tient" on Saturday at Ogden, men-
toned in yesterday mornings Horn
bloper was duly detailed in the columns
of the LEADER IS early as Tuesday.
E%nterprising folks are those at the lit
tie Office around the corner!
The Highland mining company in the
Black Hills have their new shaft near
the Golden Terra extension down ITO
feet. The principal work, however,
is being done at the other end Of the
mine. The mill is running very smooth
ly, and the mine is paying well.
1t is stated on good authority that
the proprietor Of the Cheyenne Sun
will quit the publication Of that sheet
on and after the first day Of next May.
He will then devote his entire time to
the working Of his mining claim at
Silver Crown in this county. We wish
him success in his new enterprise.
Recently the Wyoming and Dakota
water ditch company purchased the
Boulder ditch for $4,000. They have
a force of men at work making repairs,
and the company propose to keep it
filled with water, so that parties wish
ing water for mining purposes "a have
it at reasonable rates. The fiume has
a capacity for 1880 miners inches ~
water.
The Laramie City Times and Sun
need not fight over the question which
Of the two papers publish the most
news. 1t is six Of one and half a dozen
Of the other. Whenever the people
Of this section, from Sidney to Salt Lake
City, want a newspaper that gives all
the news, they subscribe for the Chey-
enne LEADER, which has a larger cir
culation than all the other daily papers
Of Wyoming combined.
BLACK HILLS MINING MATTERS.