The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-07-12
MINOR MENTION

" AidOOSSuACS against Lt NOu
gregational church property is about tc
be removed.
Lawrence Barrett, the great TRACE
dian, will play an engagement in Den
yer next week.
Marshal Ryan has a notice in this
issue of the LEADER. which all tax pay.
ers should read.
The bells and beaux OF the Magic
City will go to the campmeeting at Fl.
Collins tomorrow.
A number of west bound passenger.
stopped off yesterday and made exten,
siye purchases in the city.
To-day is the anniversary of the bat
tie Of the Boyne. There will likely b,
20 trouble in the L. 5. or Canada ovei
its celebration.
The Council Bluffs papers speak in
high terms Of the new transfer stocl
yards at that point. Cattle are arriving
in large numbers.
The LEADER is in receipt of a premi.
UNI list of the Larimer county agricul-
tural association to be held at Fort
Collins, Colo, during October.
A good sized delegation will go down
to the Fort Collins camp meeting to-
morrow on the excursion train. Cool
groves prove a big attraction.
Bumpus witnessed "Pinafore''
With placid and unrufied mind,
But jumped about the room and swore
Just for a tiny pinahind.
A large number of government freight
teams were engaged in hauling corn
from Camp Carlin yesterday to the
Union Pacific freight station, to be
shipped to Rock Creek.
The excursion train for Fort Collins
will leave the Cheyenne depot to-mor-
row morning at 6 O'Clock railroad time.
Returning, it will leave Fort Collins af-
ter early evening services.
The County commissioners met yes
terday at the court house as a board of
equalization. They got as far as the
letter c on the assessment roll, and will
continue their labors to-day.
Dwight Corey will take his girl and
visit the camp meeting at Fort Collins
to-day. Rumor says that it is quite
probable they will require the services
of one of the many parsons at that
place prior to their return to Cheyenne.
Denver has an abduction case that is
not an abduction case, and 1t a
scarcely be called by any other name.
A girl fifteen years of age. left home
and the trouble is to fix the RESPONSE
bility upon her ex-brother-in-law who
was divorced from her sister recently.
1t is an interesting case.
Owing TO the prevalence of weeds in
Lake M%innehaha, the water has been so
poisoned that myriads of dead fish are
floating on the surface. The stencil in
the vicinity, on a MONDAY, is simply
uncomfortable. The proper authorities
should see that the weeds are removed
and the nuisance abated.
The Union Pacific railroad company
Is engaged in filling up two spans of the
bridge across Crow creek, leaving only
the center one open for the passage of
water. A steam shovel has been work.
ing several days shoveling dirt from the
bank of the Fort Russell track, and
that of the Union Pacific, for this pur-
pose.
The Deadwood Pioneer says n large
gang of road agents, horse and stock
thieves, r lurking at the mouth of
Lightning creek and Old Woman's
Fork, Wyoming. They ran off nearly
two hundred horses belonging to the
English stockmen, recently located. 1t
is said that these rich foreigners are so
disguised that they have telegraphed
their agents in Colorado and Wyoming
to purchase no more stock. They will
try to hold their three ranges, but will
keep their stock already purchased far
enough to the south to be safe till next
year, when they intend to try it again.