The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-11-21
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Local sensations are scarce

Ant Idu-tS COiuuln, on our tnlIu
page this morning.
Tom Collins is playing the deuce
around town again.
The legislature Is getting down to
business in fine style.
Now is the time to establish q freight
ing line to Custer City.
The Utes will next be cleaning the
whites out of Colorado.
Georgetown, Col, has been covered
by fifteen inches Of snow.
The Utes do not become any Meeker.
They are as arrogant as ever.
Tie Denver police want a bath
room, according to the Times.
Meanwhile the matter of our chief
justiceship remains In statu quo.
1t is about as good as settled that
there will be no horse races this season.
The council is eleven bills ahead Of
the house. The score stands: Council,
AZ; house, 81.
Word comes from North Park that
some new and rich strikes have been
made on Illinois creek.
Road agents are doing a big business
In the mountain towns of Central,
Georgetown and Nevada.
The proposed narrow gauge railroad
from Cheyenne northward doesn't re-
ceive any mention of late.
The American Union telegraph COM
pany will have its lines completed from
Chicago to Omaha within 60 days.
The members of the legislature, and
the territorial and city government will
soon go to Denver on an excursion.
Salt Lake City will soon have a min
Ing exchange. The gentiles are almost
exclusively in the mining business.
If our citizens would make a showing
of enterprise, n telephone exchange
would soon be established in Cheyenne.
Water causes more trouble in Omaha
than whiskey ever did. The citizens
there can't get down to the water
works.
The man who doesn't have trouble
some dreams on next Thursday evening
will be an exception to the rule of
Turkey.
The literary club hasn't been called
for a fall or winter meeting. But then
the club and the legislature can't meet
ut the same time.
We are now entirely at the mercy of
the flames in case a fire should break
out.-Collins Courier. Send to Chey-
enne for our steamer.
Messrs. Harrington, Dater, Masten
and Murphy, have organized themselves
into a mining company, to prospect the
Medicine Bow range.
The oyster supper given at Recrea-
ton hall, last evening, by the ladies of
the Presbyterian church, was a success
financially and socially.
Custer City is the l~iveliest mining
camp in the Black Hills. Our mer-
chants should make an endeavor to re-
gain the trade with that point.
A new musical society has been Or
ganized, with II. S. Oliver, president;
A Z. Hammond, vice-president; Hor-
ace Williston, treasurer; and Charles
Matteson, secretary.
The nominations for territorial ofic-
ers are as follows: Treasurer , F. E.
Warren; auditor, j. B. Adams; lirfari-
an and superintendent of public instruc-
tion, John Slaughter.
Three car loads of eggs from Omaha
passed through on the U. P. road yes
terday, bound for San Francisco. The
invoice is considered an eggsperiment.
If successful other car loads will fowl
low.
Two chicken thieves feathered their
stomachs last evening by stealing a Lag
full of poultry from q hennery out
Eighteenth street. The proprietor arose
in time to see the chicken fanciers dis
appear through the back gate with their
game.
A special from Falrplay to the Dem
yer Tribune tells a volume in two brief
sentences. 1t runs as follows: ''Five
days ago a young gentleman of Alma
led a blushing bride to the altar, and
to-day applied for a divorce. Cause,
too many young men,"
Messrs. Dawson and Skif, Of the
Dsnver Tribune, have tumbled grace
fully to Whitelaw Reid's idea of the
press employing Macaulnys and
Froudes. They propose to demon.
strate the power of writing history that
is possessed by newspaper men without
special study. Whitelaw should by
all means be given a copy of the His
tory of the Ute war;"
Crowded houses are the rule at the
Dramatic theatre this week. Last
night the thronged gathering was most
highly entertained by the production of
an ther in Law" and Irish Dia-
mond." Tonight Chas. Plunkett, the
veteran actor, will appear in Lost | IN
London" Katy O'Sheal - will also
be produced. On tomorrow night the
engagement will conclude.
From Larry Fee (Red Top), we learn
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