The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-09-05
MINO MENTION.

The Encyclopedias Britannica aend is
around again.
The Pease and Underwood ruralizing
party is at Virginia Dale.
The young people are making prepar-
atoms for another picnic.
There were visitors to the circus
from Fort Laramie, 100 miles distant.
A circus day in Cheyenne is like the
fourth of July in that it comes but once
a year.
The children and their sisters and
their cousins and their aunts were all
out to the circus yesterday.
A much needed improvement is being
made by Mr.. Masten on the corner of
Sixteenth and Ferguson streets-a new
sidewalk.
Between Denver and Golden there is
telephone communication which works
as successfully IS IL the cities were only
a mile apart.
The Bluffs City team, of Council
Bluffs, won the first prize in the hose
cart races at the Omaha tournament on
Tuesday last.
Several of the ''boys in blue'' got too
much "budge" aboard yesterday, and
bruised their hands up badly over one
| another's seats of intellect.
Lieut.. Gov. Tabor, of Colorado, sold
his interest in the Little P%ittsburg mine
at Leadville for $500, 600. He imme-
diately purchased the Matchless mine
for Silt, O00.
The firemen of Denver are preparing
for the forthcoming tournament. The
Cheyenne teams should soon begin
practice work If they would compete
successfully, for the Denver teams have
been practicing for some time.
In the American bankers conven-
tion recently held at Saratoga, Mr..
George Wilson, of the Aull savings
bank, Lexington, No., and formerly Of
Cheyennee, read a valuable paper on
1.-THE Basis Of our Financial Fallacies."
The shipments of stock to the eastern
markets are getting to be quite lively.
The Swan Bros. shipped sixteen cars
from this point yesterday. Kent and
Reel fourteen from Pine Bluffs, and
Sturgis & Lane twenty from Julesburg.
The Swan Bros. will ship eighteen to-
day.
The Alert hose company held n brief
meeting last evening and adjourned to
meet again this evening. Ii is import
ant that a full attendance of members
be had, as the team to compete in the
Denver tournament must be selected,
and other important business must be
transacted.
The reason that the result OF the
Major Wham court martial has not
been promulgated as yet, is because Of
the absence Of Gen. Crook from de-
partment headquarters. The general
is now on his way home and it is ex-
pected that the result will be made
known at an early day.
The large and disastrous forest fires
in the west were caused by the Ute
Indians. The Laramie Times suggests
that "if the United States timber agent
should prosecute the Utes for their
wanton destruction Of the timber, the
damage would absorb their annuities
for a great many years to come"
Seeing Judge Blair on the streets
the other day caused the item-hunters to
scratch their heads, and wonder what
he was over here for. The mystery was
solved yesterday morning, however, Us
the judge was seen standing on the
track about daylight peering over his
spectacles in the direction of the COM
ing circus train.
The LEADER a short time since ad-
~vocated the project of a good wagon
road to the North Par k mining dis
trict, believing that such would ulti-
mately prove beneficial to the city. The
idea has been deliberated upon since
then by our shrewd business men, and
was taken up the day before yesterday
by the county commissioners, who ap-
pointed d. Fisk TO make the necessary
surveys to that end. Their selection
was a good one, as there are few If any
of III citizens as well acquainted with
that section Of country as is Mr.. Fisk.
A wonderfully large audience turned
out to the circus and menagerie Of the
Sells Bros, and their expectations were
certainly immensely high If they were
disappointed in the show. While the
menagarie vas not as large and varied
as many that have travelled, it was yet
pleasing and instructive. As TO the
circus proper the Messrs. Sells Bros.
certainly present some excellent artists
Of the sawdust arena. Tumblers,
bareback riders, trapezists and trained
animals were all frst-class. The peo-
pie were pleased with the entire per-
Torrance, and of course the proprie-
tors of the circus were pleased at the
amount Of ducats they took in.
His excellency Governor ]. w. Hoyt
speaks in very high terms of the Doug
las Creek mining district, which is sit
uated some forty miles west of Laramie
City, and which he took occasion to
visit during his recent western trip.
He says they have two excellent mines
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