The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-05-29
CAUGHT ON THE FLY.

Inc Colorado central employees were
paid off yesterday.
Look out for the Sabbath school ex-
~cursionists to-day.
Frank Hurlbut went to his rahch
yesterday morning.
The p~ostofice at Sage Creek, Sweet
water county, has been discontinued.
Postmaster o. p. Goodwin, is the
name by which he is now designated.
The grand jury sent to the district
court nine indictments yesterday even
ing.
Prayer meeting at the Presbyterian
church last night was unusually well
attended.
E. w. Hurlbut will leave on Friday
for a brief visit to West Point military
academy.
Some necessary repairs have recently
been put on the floor in the p~ostofice
building.
d. J. Mccain expects to leave on
this afternoons train for his home, on
the Niobrara.
Commodore Trufant and Col. E.. p.
Snow are doing excellent service on the
decoration committee.
The members OF the petit jury are
expected to waltz to the court house
this morning promptly at nine O'Clock.
On Saturday the Laramie City base
ball club will depart for Salt Lake to
play u match game with the polygam-
lists.
Capt. s. p. Ferris, of the Fourth in
fantry, is commandant at Fort ID. A.
Russell during the absence of Gen.
Wesley Merritt.
West Meyer having declined to quail
ify as treasurer for the Upper Horse
creek school district, the present in
cumbent, MI. o. p. Goodwin will hold
over.
The receipts from the Presbyterian
strawberry festival were even greater
than reported in yesterday mornings
LEADER. The net proceeds were
S154.1 10.
Spaun is the handsomest, Carroll the
wittiest, Johnson the most laxative and
Mann the quietest. Miller wanders
from grave to gay, and Col. Steele is
the most positive.
A book agent was knocked down by
n hotel bus yesterday afternoon at the
depot. Two wheels of the vehicle
passed over his cheek. The bus will
have to undergo repairs.
The Chicago Times and some other
journals were mistaken when they pro-
claimed the removal of Indian Com
missioner Hayt. He Is still at the
head Of the Indian bureau.
The postmaster general has ordered
the establishment of n postofice at
Powder River, in Carbon county, Wyo-
ming, and the appointment of John
Livingstone as the postmaster thereof.
Mr.. WI. Sturgis, who, with n party,
left Cheyenne some weeks ago for the
Big Horn country, returned to this
city yesterday. He reports that Mr..
Ellis and the other members of the ex-
petition will shortly return home.
A Texas postmaster has put up a no.
tice requesting shippers Of r~attlesnakes
to pull the teeth out of the things be-
fore mailing. He says he has been Bit
ten twice already from neglect of this
kind, and 1t is growing monotonous.
Mr.. Ed. P. House, the stengrppher
for the present term of the district
court, wa formerly a resident Of Wash
ington city, where he filled several i'm
portant positions with credit to himself
and fidelity to the government. A
brave soldier in war he was no less true
in a civil capacity.
On the 10Th inst. A. S. Bartlett, of
Livermore, Colorado, lost u span of
valuable horses. After a thorough
search through northern Colorado and
southern Wyoming he found them yes
terday in the vicinity OF Granite
Canon. 1t was a clear Ease of estrayed
horsefesh.