The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-04-19
sPLlNTERs.
Cleaned From the Press Of Wyo.
ming and Adjoining
Country.

tWenty-one lnvalids In the Catholic
hospital at Leadville.
New Mexico boasts of her first fatal
railroad accident. James Madden, a
brakeman, was run over and killed by
a freight train the other day.
A Fort Collins man lost ten tons of
hay last week through the instrument
atty Of a man who wanted to burn over
a grass plat, and succeeded beyond his
most sanguine expectations.
Martin Gaylord was Wednesday con-
vlcted at Eureka Of selling liquor to
Indians. Under the law of Nevada
Indians are competent witnesses in
such cases. A stalwart Lo, who speaks
good English, was a witness against
Gaylord, and fastened the crime upon
him. This is supposed to be the first
Indian ever sworn in a court of Justice
III Nevada.
The Las Animas Leader says that a
young man, giving his name as George
I. Elliott, gave himself up to Sheriff
Hickman the other day, representing
that he was a deserter from company
F. Fifteenth infantry, stationed at
Fort Union, and was trying to get east.
He was footsore and hungry, and had
evidently lost his grip" He says he
would rather be in the military prison
than in the army.
The Leadville Eclipse says that a few
days ago, while a gentleman was cross
ing the range, on his way from Ten
Mile to Leadville, he came upon a wagon
which had been temporarily abandon
ed upon the summit. 1t was loaded with
liquors, and surrounded by a party of
tramps who had taken advantage of its
deser ted condition and proceeded to
help themselves to all that they could
hold, and were in all stages of intoxic-
alton.
The Salt Lake Tribune has the follow
ing: "On Tuesday last a Mrs. Hunter,
of South Cottonwood, brought the body
of her dead child to this city for burial.
The child died of diphtheria, and the
mother took the body to the house of
her sister, in the Tenth ward. When
a coffin was procured, the dry-goods
box il which the body had been packed
was thrown out in the yard. The child
rem around the neighborhood were play
ing in the yard, and four of them crept
into this box. Three of the children
have since died of d%iphtheria and many
of the young folks are now down with
the loathsome disease In that ward.n
According to the Independent a cut
ting affray took place at Garland the
other night which threatened serious
results. A man named Alexander Bell,
who seemed to have an old grudge
against Phillip Lamey, being under the
influence Of liquor, went to Lamey's
house about ten o'clock at night and
get into an alteration, during which
ne stabbed Lamey twelve or fifteen
times with a pocket knife. Lamey's
hands and arms were badly slashed, and
one thrust Of the knife reached into the
lungs. Although seriously hurt the at
tending physician says he will get oyer
it all right.
The Leadville Revsille having been
forced into a corner or the High Line
problem as to whether a railroad If
built would be operated during the
winter months on account Of the snow
says: IF built upon the ground, it
would have to be lined with sheds al
most its entire length, but, if construct
ed upon solid trestle work three or four
feet high, then all the snow that would
bank over would easily be swept off by
passing trains. The proximity of dense
forests all along the route would render
this method of railroad building as
economical as grading, and it could be
constructed as rapidly"