The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-11-08
MINOR
Prepare for winter pastlmcs,

Butchers in northern Colorado towns
slaughter Wyoming cattle.
The legislature adjourned yesterday
until next Monday afternoon.
The Bee and Republican, of Omaha,
are running a combined poultry show.
"The fall of man" will soon be re-
peated. Snow and ice will soon insure
the scene.
Two new Pullman slsepers will ar
rive to-day for the Denver s. South
Park road.
A mining suit in Utah ended the
other day by the defeated litigant kill
ing his opponent.
On third page will be found a very
instructive article on the rights of pas
sengers on railways.
The tea party given last evening, etc.
Denver Tribune, And yet General
Grant was not invited.
The recording angel has gone east
ward for further business. Stove set
ting is over in Cheyenne.
The hotel keepers of Denver have or
ganized a mutual protective association.
Beats are their great enemy.
We have finer weather ON the plains
than folks in the east have. They COM
plain of snow and sleet and ice.
A few shipments Of cattle are made
every day on the U. P. but the brisk
shipping season is almost ended.
The reception of the message by the
legislature was about as warm as the
reception to Gen. Grant the other day.
Several members of the legislature
left for their homes in the west yester-
day after the adjournment of the legis-
lature.
The Horn silver mine of Utah is
equal to the Little Pittsburgh mine of
Leadville. 1t declares a dividend If
800, 900 per month.
The Fort Collins Courier fears that
''as an Indian chief Ouray is a failure.
He has a little too much of the milk of
human kindness in his makeup"
The old timers of Cheyenne are to
meet again in the city hall this even
ing to organize a permanent society.
All old residents are earnestly invited
to attend.
A travelling agent named Lindley A.
Rosslter, confessed in Denver, on
Thursday, to having embezzled money
and goods from his employer in George
town. He was taken there for a hear
ing.
A very pleasant party was given at
Recreation Hall last evening by Prof.
D.. Mayer. The company present COM
prised some Of the most accomplished
devotees of the terpsichorean art in the
city.
The Cheyenne, Livermore & North
Park toll road company will join hands
with Stewards toll road company in tho
construction of a 6rst-class single track
from Chambers Lake into the Park
Fort Collins Courier.
The grangers of Colorado propose to
erect a monument to the late Indian
Agent Meeker. The LEADER proposes
as a suitable design II well-armed Indi-
an standing triumphant over the man
gled form of the agent lying athwart a
broken plow.
Free Smith, who broke his head, arm
and leg at the Central City opera house,
the other day, promises to get well,
owing to an extra hardy constitution
Tribune. Pretty well broken up, for a fact
Perhaps he could be gotten away with
by breaking his neck and back, and also
the other leg and the other arm.
In case of a FIRE in town now the
alarm can be heard all over the city.
The new bell is in position at the top Of
a tower thirty-two feet high, and the
striking apparatus is being fixed to-day.
This afternoon at 2 O'Clock the bell will
be given n thorough test for the space
of fifteen minutes, so that our citizens
need not feel alarmed at the vigorous
tolling. Elsewhere appears the official
notice to this effect from Hon. A. IL.
Reel, chairman OF the committee on fire
department.
Oscar Railsback brought in 100 head
of cattle from Bozeman, Montana,
for Swan Bros, which were shipped
east on Thursday evening. He started
out with 1,100 head of three and four
years old steers. or these 800 head
were left with John Boyd on Crazy
Woman's fork; 700 head were sent to
Pine Bluffs consigned to Wright and
Stoddard; and the remaining hundred
were for Swan Bros. The fact that
the latter bunch was shipped immedi-
ately on arrival here shows that the
trail did not damage the cattle any.
They were four months on the way
from Bozeman to Cheyenne.
Underwear at any price, and any