The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-01-25
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Birthday OF Bobby Burns.
George Elliott of Lander City is dan
gerously III.
Religious revivals are the furore in
Denver now,
Nine. Anderson talks of coming
west to walk.
The Victoria LOTUS blonde troupe at
Recreation Hall tonight.
Mr.. D. Miller will celebrate this day
in honor of Scotia's immortal bard.
The daily LEADER is delivered at
your door for twenty-five cents per
week.
AL the post Office property at Camp
Stambaugh has been removed to Miners
Delight.
The telegraph wires from Camp
Stambaugh to Fort Washable are be-
ing placed in position.
Advertise in the daily LEADER-the
paper having a larger circulation than
any other journal in the territory.
Mr.. James McDaniels says his stay
in Colorado will only be of a temporary
nature. He regards Cheyenne as his
home.
Many a man who prays not to be led
into temptation would be awfully dis
appointed If his prayer should be
granted.
We understand Col. Murrin has been
appointed to act as a sort of sergeant.
alarms at the second council perform.
ances tonight.
The business meeting Of the Presby.
terrain sewing society at the residence
Of Mrs. &. H. Russell, on Eddy street
yesterday afternoon, was largely at
tended.
The Oates troupe were just three
hours and ten minutes in going from
Cheyenne to Denver. They went by
way Of Col. Carmichael's Denver Pa.
ciic road.
We understand there Is to be consid'
cradle fun tonight at the city hall.
"The Second Council" will meet with
Peter HANNA as Mayor No. 3" OF
course everybody will go.
We understand that Mr.. Lawrence
McGinn collected sufficient funds from
the Cinnamon to defray the expenses Of
burying Lee Ami, the Chinaman who
died from wounds inflicted by the Sid
ney rough. The county therefore will
not have to foot the bill.
The report that the Atchison, Tope-
ka and Santa Fe road had been grant
ed an extension Of time in the payment
of Its S700, 900, is pronounced by Gov.
Evans J.Sidney Brown, and others, as
entirely without foundation in fact.
No extension has been asked.
Hon. w. A. II. Loveland, president
of the Colorado Central railway, who
recently went to New York, has writ.
ten to Hon. A. r. Converse to the eff.
feet that he will leave for the west to.
day. When he arrives here railroad
matters will probably be taken into
consideration.
Prof. Cummings Cherry, of Chicago,
came in from the east yesterday. His
mission to the west is for the purpose
of finding on the line of the Union Pa
cific railway some deposit of coke or
a%scertaining by experiments, some
means of converting the present coal
into coke for Use in smelling.
A letter received here yesterday from
Lincoln, Nebraska, claims that Olive,
the alleged leader of the man burners,
was not n of the guilty parties. The
writer says Mitchell and Ketchum were
both cattle thieves and desperadoes of
the worst stripe. OF course the article
was written in the interest of Olive and
at his dictation.
Mr.. w. H. Lee, the coroner, also
objects to being killed off by the even
ing sheet, which claimed that mot a
single one was left to tell the story
MI. Lee, who was in that conflict, call
ed at the LEADER office last night and
desired this correction made. The I'M
reliability of the evening sheet is the
subject of much unfavorable comment
about town.
A short time since Col. j. W. Dear
was the successful bidder on the mis-
sionary church at old Spotted Tail
agency. By the deal he became the
happy possessor of "a, 500 feet of lumber
and a church bell. The pulpit was
thrown in for good measure. He now
contemplates entering the ministry and
occasionally sports q white cravat.
Albert G. Ford, a sergeant in the
signal service of the United States,
died in Denver on Thursday. Deceased
was a native of Tennessee. He was in
snch poor health when he arrived in
Denver that he was unable to render
any assistance at the post, but re-
manned there in the hope that under
the beneficial effects of the climate he
would regain his health. The deceased
left a wife and child to mourn his
death.
The British Blondes.
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