The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-05-21
NEWS BREvITIES,

AACPoAc lOl III hlCLlth . loul ia
ment.
Congregational church festival to-
morrow night.
District court will meet again this
morning at 8 O'Clock.
Very little sickness in Cheyenne.
We are a healthy people.
Dan Forester was sent up yesterday
on the charge of yagrancy.
Fort Collins is full of strangers, and
the hotels are all doing well.
About twenty persons went down
yesterday to the Denver races.
Several Thousand pounds of freight
we're started yesterday for Deadwood.
The st. Mary's church choir contains
some of the best musicians in the west.
Hon. A. II. Swan yesterday received
another splendid buggy from the east.
The spring running meetings of the
Denver jockey club commence to-mor-
row.
The Congregational church festival
will be held in MASKS new dramatic
theatre.
Our jail is full of criminals, haihng
for the most part from Laramie City
and Sidney.
II. N. Orr, who has just returned
from Texas, bought while there n choice
herd of cattle for this market.
District court met yesterday and
took up the Mccain case, which the
lawyers concluded to postpone again.
Sheriff Draper is daily expected
back from Saint Paul, with Billy Web
ster, the murderer Of Adolph Quincy.
The military fever has seized several
Of our young men, and a company win
probably be organized at an early day.
Pat Kelley, with his force of men, is
busily engaged repairing the telegraph
wires between Cheyenne and Laramie
City.
George M. Pullman, president of the
Pullman palace car company, is ex-
pected in Denver this evening or to-
morrow.
Edward A. Eggleston murdered w.
H.. Connect at Rosita, Colorado. on
Monday. Trouble about q business
transaction.
Charles Hecht expects to leave to-
day or tomorrow for Quincy, Illinois,
after another lot of choice horses for
this market.
Col. Luke Murrin, was engaged in
an extended and laborious search for
dot Tog," last night. He failed to
find him laid away on ice.
The workmen having completed re-
pairing the Congregational church,
prayer meeting will be held there this
wednesday, evening as usual.
The trial of James O'Neill, for steal
ing an o%vercoat and three boxes of ci-
gars from Lear's saloon, booked for
yesterday, was postponed until to-day.
The approaching term of the district
court will be a lengthy one. Besides
many civil cases, there are also a large
number Of criminal cases on the docket.
The Rockford en- base ball club has
defeated the Omaha club three times
In succession. Come out here Crock
les" and see u Cheyenne white stock
ings.
Messrs. Gueck and Greentree have
named n of their Granite Canon
mines Bismarck" 1t will now be
their biz to make their marck in min
ing matters.
Methodist camp meeting win COM
mence in the grove near Fort Collins, |
on Tuesday July 9Th. Many Cheyenne
church people intend to go down on
that occasion.
Capt. S. A. Shepperd, of Denver, |
the popular ticket agent of the Atchi-
son, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad, has
been appointed agent of the Cunard
line Of ocean steamers.
]. B. Durbin, ESQ.,, who has returned
from an extended visit to his Bear
creek cattle ranch reports grass in ex-
cellent condition, and cattle never
looked better in that section.
Mr. Thomas Creighton and twenty
five other prominent citizens of Pease
county have petitioned the aid of Gov.
Hoyt in securing a permanent county
organization in that fertile portion of
Wyoming.
Twenty bars of silver, from the Ar
go, Colorado, smelling works, were
brought up yesterday on the Colorado
Central railway, and shipped east; des-
tination, Fourth National bank, of
New York.
Miss Ella Beecher, a Colorado
Springs school teacher, accompanied by
a man named Stevens, attempted to
ford the Monument in a carriage on
Friday. The lady was thrown from
the carriage and nearly drowned before
rescued.
Prayer and teachers meeting at the
Presbyterian church this evening at 8
O'Clock. Subject at prayer meeting:
''Our Light Afiictionso-2C Cor. 4:S-1s.
Subject for teachers meeting: "The
Holy Spirit Promised'-Joel 2:2s-32.
Cordial invitation given to attend.