The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-04-20
SPLiNTERS.
Cleaned From the Press of Wyo.
ming and ADJOINING
Country.

moving southwark for the purpose of
making another farewell tour of the
United States.
Tho Old Fellows are taking active
steps to organize a lodge in Lead City
D.. T. and are meeting with the most
gratifying results.
OF 10000 Cinnamon employed on
public works in California only six have
been discharged for m~isbehavior. This
looks bad for the rest of us.
The Mormon Church beggars are
passing the plate for Sc, 600 to complete
the new tabernacle, a kind of useless
appendage to the hippodrome.
Mr.. VIM. Harlow of Lead City, D. T.
had a bullet extracted from one Of his
hands Saturday, which had been there
for nearly four years. Doctors Dickinson
and Hunter performed the operation.
The author of the San Francisco pas
sion play has decided to put it on the
stage again and contest the legality of
the ordinance passed by the board of
supervisors prohibiting such represent
atoms.
The insane asylum at Yankton has
been completed and the five insane per-
sons, who have been in keeping At the
insane asylum at Lincoln, have been
placed therein, and also. eighteen per-
sons from st. Peter, Minnesota.
A man who has Just retursd to Bur-
lington, from Washington, was fort
innate enough, while there, to hear a
burst of the ''derisive laughter" to
which the American congress is given.
It sounded like a appropriated mar
sliding down y single roof.-Hawk ye.
The Mason of Lead City D. t. have
been negotiating for some time for Il
lot on which to erect a building, the
upper story of which is to be used for a
lodge room, and the lower for business
purposes. The bargain has been con-
summated, and building will commence
shortly.
In Texas, recently, ajudge broke down
with emotion in sentencing a desperate
to be hanged, and the desperate, sur
prised at the scene, said, as he went
back to the Jail: Il feel sorry for the
Judge" The improbable part of this
story is that the desperate was SEN
fenced to be hung,
The garments in which JEFF Davis
was captured after the surrender of
Lee are in the possession of Adjutant
General Townsend, locked up in a
cedar chest. The secretary of war de-
clines to allow them to be examined,
but there they are-old shawl, old water
proof, old skirt, old sun-bonnet, and
all.
The citizens of Lead City ID. T. were
recently excited W a two-headed kit
ten born there. The owner Of the
mo%nstrosity thinking it an evil omen,
killed the double faced thing. 1t wa
vigorous and healthy when discovered,
and cried out Of both mouths. The
heads were fully developed and also the
body. 1t is a pity that the Hills should
have been thus cheated out of a gen.
uine live curiosity.
The Case of John B. Pearson VS.. A. W.
Whitney & Co, which has been on trial
in u district court some time, was
given to the jury Saturday, and that
evening they returned verdict in favor
of the plaintiff for 1880. A couple of
years ago Mr.. Pearson entered into a
contract with the Keets mining comp
any to crush ore from that mine for the
term of three months at SO per ton.
The company went back on the o m
tract, hence this suit.
The case of c. W. Hendricks, who is
being held in Denver on a requisition
from the governor of Iowa, on acharge
of embezziement committed at Crestop,
came up before Judge Elliott, of the
district court in that city, yesterday, on
a motion to have the prisoner dis
charged on a writ of haJeds corpus. The
ease was argued at length. At the
conclusion of the arguments, which
were continued until late last evening,
the court announced that it would re-
serve its decision until this morning at
9 O'Clock.
Bob Jackson, an employe in q
livery stable at Central D. 7. was found
dead in his bed with his skull fractured,
last Monday morning. A cloud of my
stery hangs about the affair. Jackson
was out drinking with a few of his
friends the evening before, and soon
after went to bed, where he was visit
ed by somebody who asked him how he
felt, and was answered by Jackson that
he had been hit on the head with a club.
Nothing, however, was thought of it pit
the time, but in the morning he was
found dead in his bed. This is all that
is definitely known of the affair; but it
is thought by some that Jackson, who
is subject to fits, was attacked by one
and fell, striking his head upon some
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