The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-11-18
MINOR

ahhG tAoelS - -
ping at Dyer's.
The prevailing conundrum is answer
ed-Laymon is here.
Lancaster county, Neb., harbors a
bad crowd of desperadoes.
Meeting of live stock men at the city
hall this morning at 10 O'Clock.
Colds are very bad this season. I'm
like many things, they are to be sneezed
at.
The west bound train on the U. p.
road on Sunday was a very heavy
one.
The Meeker girls want the Utes to
go-and hear them lecture. Tickets
90 cents.
Boys are sharpening their skates and
the doctors are looking up splints and
bandages.
The city council will meet tonight.
The seat of Mr.. T. A. Caswell, who has
left the city, will probably be declared
vacant.
DIR. Crook has ordered a telephone
connection between his office and resi-
dence, Of Mr.. G. F. Annett, the agent
of the Bell telephone.
Now that the Meekers are all making
money they will probably have the re-
mains Of their father removed to Gree
lev. Col, for final interment.
In Leadville, a famine of food is
feared. But it is consoling to know
that the supply of liquid trimmings is
sufficient to last until next May.
Fred Nagle, of Omaha. died of his
self-innicted wounds. His grievance
was the refusal of his brother to give
him money to go home to Chicago.
The first farmers institute will be
held at the state agricultural college, at
Fort Collins, on Wednesday and Thurs
day, the Goth and 9th days of Novem-
Der.
One of the school rooms was SO cold
yesterday morning that the scholars
were sent home to keep warm. The
heater of the building seems not to
heat.
Jack Nolan and Joe johnson pleaded
on Saturday last, to robbing the post
Office at Bone creek, Neb. They were
arraigned in the United States district
court at Omaha.
A resident of Cheyenne, who knows
Ouray, Shaveno, and other Ute chiefs,
personally, has bet a hat that the peace
commission, including Ouray, will be
killed by the Utes.
Horton, the assistant clerk of the
house, is such an %inveterate punster
that a legislator rebuked him yesterday
in his W fashion by telling him that
he (H)orton to pun.
A tramp named L. Steinbach was
badly killed by an emigrant train on
the U. P. road, near North Bend last
Friday. He was killed in pieces-made
mince meat of and scattered extensively.
The Baptists held two interesting
meetings in Recreation Hall on Sum-
day. The morning subject was, ''The
New Birth;n evening subject, %''Infalli-
BILE Safety" The subjects were treated
in a clear and logical n
This is questionable weather for
tramping. One gets cold and numb
hanging on the break beams and is liza
BILE to fall under the wheels, in which
case the complexion is injured always
and frequently ruined completely.
Chief Douglass Ia a very wise mar
with all his savagery. He p%ronounces
the peace commission s'heap dam FOOLS"
This criticism is driven at, not the COM
missioners as men, but against the prin-
ciple Of Investigating men after they
are dead and buried.
Rev. G. NJ. Saunders, of Cheyenne,
was a guest of the late Rev. ]. W.
Pickett, during the recent meeting of
the Congregational association at Col
orado Springs. MI. Saunders speaks
in the highest terms Of Mr.. Pickett's
integrity and learning.
The lady readers of the LEADER will
be pleased to learn that a wedding will
take place at n O'Clock this afternoon,
at the Presbyterian church. Perhaps
those who are yet single would be bet
ter pleased, Gertrude-like, if they were
to stand first best.
Our legislators will be interested to
know that a Connecticut man once in
PRODUCED a bill in the legislature to pre-
vent any person in that state from fall
ing in love with any other person under
eighteen years of age, and 1t was de-
feated by only two votes.
Western men will have their western
| comparisons. A timber line is I'M
known in the east, with its low noun
tains. Hence an eastern man would
never speak of baldheaded friend as
the man with his head above timber
line. Itremained for this smooth
comparison to be made by n Cheyenn-
lite who daily gazes upon the snow COW
cred points Of Longs peak.
H. P. Joslin, of Granite Canon, re-
Gently wrote a strong letter to the
Providence r.. I.l, Journal, on the sub
ject of cattle shipments. He wrote in
answer to a statement of Zadok Street,
the agent Of the society for the proven
tion Of cruelty to animals. Mr.. Street
pictured the horrors of cattle suffering
while in transit on the southwestern
roads. Mr.. Joslin shows conclusiyely
that the abuses which exist on other
roads have no place in shipping on the