The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-09-18
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Prayer meeting at the Methodist
church this evening.
The Denver Pacific road will reduce
the fare to Denver during the coming
week.
This is about the first year that Chey-
enneites can talk about the sere and
yellow leaf.
The Baptist association of Northern
Colorado and Wyoming will meet in
this city this evening.
There was q pleasant surprise party
at the Hubbard mansion on Seventeenth
street on Tuesday evening.
The valentines to taxpayers from
Judge c. Miller have ceased to lutter.
Charlie has completed the job.
There was a string of stock cars
nearly a mile long laying idle on the
side tracks at the depot yesterday.
Cottage prayer meeting at the resi-
dence of Mrs. De Witt, Sixteenth street,
this evening at 7:3o. A cordial invita-
ton to all.
There not being sufficient members
Of the city council present last evening
at the city hall, the meeting was again
declared OF.
A car load of excellent looking Cali
fornia bucks was received yesterday by
NJ. E. Post, esq. They II In a corral
on the west end of 10th street.
Mrs. Virginia Bell has rented the
frame building on Ferguson street,
next to Keefe's carpenter shop, where
she intends to open a boarding house.
A telegram from Laramie City says
Louis Johnson, an employe Of the
Union Pacific railroad, wa killed there
on Wednesday. He fell OF a freight
train and was run over.
The ladies' aid society of the Metho-
dist church met yesterday at the resi-
dence Of Mrs. wulfjin. They are pre-
pairing for their church fair which
takes place the first week in October.
1t looks as though 1t may be a profit
able business during the coming winter
for people to fall down on ricketty and
icy sidewalks, and realize a couple Of
hundred dollars damages from the city
therefor.
Sixteenth street was the scene of a
trial Of pugilistic skill yesterday be-
tween Policeman Ingalls, and a soldier.
Bob not being anxious to get bruised,
retreatcd behind the butt end of his
pistol, which In the scufie was sent fly
ing skywards.
Hon. Carl Schurz, secretary of the
interior, Webb G. Hayes. son of the
president, and party, are expected tc
arrive in Cheyenne to-day on the east
bound train. They will go to Denver
this afternoon. While here the Fifth
cavalry band win serenade them, and
our leading citizens will call and pay
their respects. fI
A certain young gentleman received
a cutting rebuke for his impoliteness
yesterday which is worth repeating. A
number Of young ladies were seated in
one Of the court house windows to
watch the drilling Pythians. The gen
tleman sat in front Of them on the bal
cony, and In a languid, but truly Amer.
lean fashion, raised his number four
teen sized shoes on a level with his
head, when a bright-eyed, sparkling
specimen Of female ~vivacity, with o
twinkle in her eye, and a nudge to her
companion, said, 81 beg your pardon,
sir, but we came here to ses."
The North Park fire still is burning
and destroying vast amounts of proper.
ty. T. A. Sturgis received information
from there yesterday to the effect that
the woods on the mountains over u
large area were ablaze, with no hope
Of being extinguished until heavens
hose turns loose, or some natural OBJ
structions stop 1t. Sturgis & Lane
have been trying to get two thousand
head of beef cattle out of there for
some days, but are obliged to relinquish
their efforts in that direction until the
su~ffocating smoke through the burning
region abates somewhat.
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