The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-07-19
MINOR MENTION.
Fishing parties are all the 60.

Omaha, was damaged by fire the other
night to the extent Of $1,000.
Road agents of late have confined
| their raids to cleaning out small ranches.
They strike for nothing higher than
grub and ammunition.
The Leadville Eclipse changed hands
the other day, Nelson Halleck becom-
ing sole proprietor, G. P. Wallihan,
manager, and r. G. Dill editor.
Mr.. S. F. Emmons, Of this city, will
take charge of the mineral surveys and
geological explorations of Colorado this
summer. See telegram IN first page.
Buffalo Bill will return to Cheyenne
on or about the first or second of Aug
ust, and produce his celebrated play in
which appear frontier characters, Indi-
ans and others.
Wood Fogelsong was out last evening
for a short walk. His head has CON-
pletely recovered from the effects of the
dreadful shock. But the internal
straining has left him sore.
Prospecting in the North Park camp
is going on vigorously now that the
snow is about all melted away. Some
good returns are expected from the
Cheyenne parties now there.
The Denver Ners says 1t is limited
that the new management of the Den
yer Pacific will make a pretty clean
sweep of the officers, and that all the
Kansas Pacific men will be retired.
Frank Hargis, Harry Fisher and
wife and her mother. and William An
necke will leave this morning for a fish
ing tour of several days duration.
The fish will doubtless suffer wherever
this party may go.
Ed. Hurlbut, who has been making a
tour of the eastern and southern cities,
will be with us again In a day two.
During his absence he visited the scenes
of his military career, West Point
Deadpood Times.
A bill will be presented to the house
at the regular session of congress set
ting aside and appropriating 100000 of
the proceeds Of the internal revenues
collected in Dakota for the erection Of
a territorial penitentiary at Sioux Falls.
The Sheridan house park is Bis
marck's 200" II contains two buffa-
los, male and female, two bears, an
antelope and q deer. A few prairie
dogs and gophers will be added. A
mountain sheep and lion will be accept
ed. The female buffalo was lasoed
from a steamboat, while swimming the
Missouri.
A special TO the Omaha Republican
from Osceola, Neb., date Of 10th inst,
says: about three hundred persons
had gathered in Meyers hall tonight
to witness the play of Queen Esther.
About half-past 8 the floor gave way
and precepitated the entire audience to
the ground floor. Several persons were
badly injured, but as yet none are re-
ported killed.
The Omaha base ball club passed
through yesterday. They are program
ed for a game at Laramie City this
afternoon, then Ogden, Salt Lake, Sac
ramento and San Francisco in the order
mentioned. Returning in September,
they propose playing at the same points.
Enough money has been already guar
anteed to make the trip financially
successful.
The fishing party composed Of Prof.
N. E. Stark, c. N. Potter, Mr.. Ster-
ling, II. s. Oliver, and s. A. Bristol, of
the LEADER, returned yesterday even
ing after quite a successful fish and
hunt of several days duration. They
say they caught a large number of fish,
but the LEADER has no other evidence
than their word for it.
There are one or two highwaymen
who have located themselves for several
nights In the neighborhood Of Champa
street, Denver, between Seventeenth
ard Nineteenth street, and stop persons
whose business demand their attention
until the later hours. Several gentle
men have been stopped at different
times, and have succeeded in frighten-
ing the attempted robbers off.
Horse thieves are still troubling Red
Clouds agency. The Indian depart
ment u that 700 horses have
been run off by white men from the
agency, and the military authorities
cannot interfere on account of the posse
comitatus law of last year, although
the stolen horses are driven past Camps
Sheridan and Robinson. Something
should be done with these thieves, for
nothing will incite the reds to hostility
SC quick as to steal their ponies.
A special dispatch from Leadville to
the Denver Tribune says that Gibson, a
miner on the Little Miami mine, on
Stray Horse gulch, was descending the
shaft on Thursday morning, and had
gone down about thirty feet from the
surface when the machinery gave way,
and he fell to the bottom, a distance of
one hundred feet. His left arm was
broken, his right hand badly crushed,
his nose torn of, and internal injuries
received. 1t is feared that he cannot
recover.
U. S. Senator Ferry, of Michigan,
| .Judpe Tyner. first assistant nostmaster