The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-09-21
MINOR MENTION.


thus encourage both teacher and pupil.
Broken sidewalks still continue to
bark the shins of pedestrians after
night.
The Cheyenne Gre department has
been admitted to the Colorado 6reman's
association.
A special train will leave Cheyenne
OIL Monday afternoon for Denver. Re-
duced rates have been arranged for.
The range between Pole creek and
Horse creek, about twenty miles In
width, has been destroyed by fire for
this season.
There was a wagon loaded with pota.
toes from Virginia Dale on the street
yesterday; some Of the praties weighed
three pounds.
George Connolly, who has been pros.
pectlng in North Park for Judge
Whitehead, returned yesterday with
good specimens.
The Alert team was out yesterday
morning at daylight practicing for
their Denver run. They leave for that
city on Monday.
The presbytery of Colorado will meet
at Colorado Springs on Friday, Oct.
10th. This includes the denomination
throughout Wyoming.
A little school girl In passing some
boxes on the sidewalk tore her new
dress. She and two smaller friends
started a calico bawl then and there.
One patch Of prairie fire destroyed
about thirty square miles of pasturage
along the bank of Horse creek In the
vicinity Of Goshen's Hole.
j. C. Abney has u mail contract
which will commence on the first Of
next month, between Fort Laramie
and Camp Clark, Nebraska.
1t Is thought that q large number of
cattle will have to be taken north of
the Platte, because Of the large area of
grazing land devastated by fire.
Foliage about town begins to give
forth the many colored tints of the
autumnal season, while the leaves on
the yearling trees show hectic hints of
frost.
One Of the U. P. boys says there's a
woman in Sidney that weighs 2eo
pounds. From a distance, 1t Is hard to
tell which is the biggest, the woman or
the town.
Your best chance for round trip tick
cts to Denver, 80. 80 for fremen; all
others "a. SO. Tickets to lay over pro-
vided without extra charge, and good
for the entire fair week.
The county commissioners met yes
terday aud selected sixty names Of
Laramie county citizens, from which
the juries for the November term of
court will be drawn.
The Denver firemen have been put
to their Wits ends to secure accommo-
datlons for the visiting firemen. The
Alerts, Durants and Pioneers Of Chey-
enne will he quartered in Tappan hall.
Rumors Of several marriages in the
no distant future are floating on the
balmy Indian summer air. The Oldest
inhabitants regard such indications as
a sure evidence of an extremely cold
winter ahead.
AS the evenings grow longer the
mind Of the average young man turns
towards hops. They go to his heels or
his head and he takes them from Char
lie Turck at Recreation Hall or from
Donzelman at the Tivoli.
The Alert hose company held o spe-
cial meeting last evening, at which
Messrs. E. S. Hurlbut and Chas. Mad
ison were elected to membership. J.
G. Baird was elected to represent the
compsny in the Colorado Hremen's as
ISOLATION.
A special train on the c. G. road will
leave Cheyenne on Monday at las
O'Clock p. M. for Denver, and reach
there at 6. Round trip tickets, Are
men, $3.50; all others, $3.50. Lay
over tickets, good for the fair week,
without extra charge.
The following is the list of delegates
from Cheyenne to the Colorado fire.
mems association: Durants, Geo. Cof-
mann; ellis, P. G. Nolan; Pioneers,
Thos. Rutledge; Alerts, J.. c. Baird;
Chief Haas, Assistant Chief Frieden-
dali and Alderman Hubbard.
The fire department held a special
meeting last evening, Chief Haas in the
chair. The hnal arrangements were
made to attend the Denver tournament.
1t was resolved to 60 OIL a special train
on Monday afternoon. The Alerts,
Durants, Gilliss and Pioneers will send
competing teams.
Another Of our prominent business
houses is expanding and getting more
room to breathe. Mr.. Geo. Ketchum,
the manager Of the Collins saddlery and
harness emporium, has rented the store
formerly used as the reading room, in
the Carey block, on Ferguson street,
which room he intends to ct up as a
manufacturing establishment.
The ruins Of the Overland house, on
Eddy street, are scattered over the
sidewalk in a ~disgraceful manner.
They have been lying In that condition
now for several weeks. There is no
public sidewalk in Cheyenne that should