The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-06-11
MINOR MENTION
Grand jury this morning.

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hence to Denver.
A wave of shows seems to have fair
ly struck Cheyenne.
The Alert nose company is receiving
many new members.
Omaha wants her tramps rounded up
and run out Of town.
Ask Thos. NJ. Fisher Of the attempt
to rob him while going home Monday
night,
Charles Thurman, city agent of the
Omaha Republican, is in jail on a charge
Of bigamy.
The Red Cross society will in all
probability hold their meetings at the
Masonic hall.
After showing in Cheyenne the b.
Macauley combination will go to Cen
trail City. Col.
Many a man has gone to Leadville as
a tourist or investor, and has come
away a tramp.
The Omaha Bee has been enlarged to
an eight page paper of SO columns. 1t
looks very neat.
The johnson literary association
held another Of their interesting meet
ings last night.
Some Of the fast horses around town
are already under training for the
Fourth Of July races.
Harry Clifton being asked yesterday
how he liked his sentence, replied:
That Corlett is a son of a gun."I
A local archery club Is proposed.
By the way, what has become of all the
clubs that Cheyenne has already organ
| lied?
The Barlow, Wilson, Primrose and
West minstrels have a base ball nine
and viii play all local clubs wherever
they show.
About all the spare cash in Laramie
is being put in the North Park mines.
There will be none left to entertain
visitors with.
The final strawberry festival of the
season will be held at the Dramatic
theater this evening by the ladies of
the NJ. Z. church.
1t is becoming an old song in this re-
gion-that of Leadville playing out.
The population Of the bubble Is de-
~creasing alarmingly.
A fresh cemetery has been opened in
Leadville. 1t is called Mount Hope.
Yes; a good motto would be: "Ye who
enter here leave hope behind"
In speaking of the relics to be exhib-
tied at the loan exhibition, the Denver
papers raise the question of their
g~enuineness by adding that they are
bono.ide.
E. A. Slack was trying to engage
passage west on the emigrant train yes
terday. He wants to move on toward
the occident and grow up with the
country.
The Laramie Times persists in claim
ing for its village the right to have a
fourth of July celebration. Next we
shall hear the Times claim Laramie's
right to keep the Sabbath.
Sheriff Draper in going through and
searching the several cells Of the county
Jail yesterday, found two keys, partial
ly finished from wood, and several
other articles, to be used in an attempt
ed escape from Jail.
Edwin Forrest" is a good piece of
horse flesh. He was driven to
wagon recently on a common New
York drive, by Mr.. Bonner, who
weighs 1870 pounds. The result was the
splendid time 2:17t-just Dexter's best
record OH the race track.
Sergeant Marshall of the second cav
airy band, attempted suicide at Fort
Keogh, yesterday, by shooting himself
through the head with a pistol. Al
though alive at last accounts, his life
was despared OF. Domestic troubles
are assigned as the cause.-Deadwood
Pioneer.
John Williams, the United States
prisoner who cut the cable on the ferry
boat at Fort Fetterman, was brought
down to Laramie Saturday evening,
incarcerated in the county Jail during
the night, and taken over to the peni-
Tertiary yesterday morning for safe
keeping-Iines .
A young lady tried to obtain a posi-
tion as saleswoman in O certain dry
goods store in this city, q short
time ago. when she was asked by the
raven-complexioned, sid~e-wiskered kid
glove expander who attends to his en-
ployer's interests during his absence,
What clerical experience have your"
replied in q simperingg manner, well
not much sir; I only Joined the church
a short time ago."
The Fourth of July committee met
at Mr.. Nagle's Office yesterday after
noon, to receive the report Of the
finance committee. The total amount
collected and subscribed was reported
to be about $3.50. The committee,
after considerable discussion, decided
to confne the exercises on the Fourth
to a grand Inauguration of the Chey-
enne Trotting Park, under the auspices
Of the Cheyenne Trotting association.
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