The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-04-26
CITY AND VICINITY.
Yesterday was a May day.
Has the wet season passed?

Aouuk ioih5 anu oOulc OlucE Out5, are
already preparing croquet grounds.
Pierce is still in town canvassing for
his magazine, but finds 1t up hill work.
This is the anniversary of the intro
duction of Odd Fellowship into Amer.
lea.
II you are a hog, go to Leadville.
Bacon is worth fifteen cents per pound
there.
There is some talk Of planting trees
around the public school buildin q.
Why not?
Live business men advertise In news
papers, dead ones on the graveyard
tombstones.
Several Leadvillians arrived yester-
day on foot. They III trying to get
back to Wisconsin.
A meeting will be called by the origi-
nal members to reorganize the Red
Stocking base ball club.
1t is an old saying, but a very pretty
one, that a blush is like a pretty girl,
for 1t becomes a woman.
The lawyers are brushing up their
thoughts and their books preparatory
for the May term of court.
Gov. Hoyt, Secretary Spates and
others went yesterday to Fort Russell
and witnessed the dress parade.
Cattle suffered considerably In the
neighborhood of Fort Laramie dur
ing the recent snow and rain storms.
The supreme court yesterday had
under discussion the case of p. Ware,
jr., & Co. ct al VS.. John Wanless ct al.
Gov. Hoyt yesterday authorized T.
G. Bruen. Of New York city, to act as
commissioner of deeds for this terri
tory.
An eastern capitalist contemplates
working the salt springs in Crook coun-
ty, this territory, during the coming
summer.
Etiquette says a call should not be
less than fifteen minutes In length.
Book agents have been known to re-
main longer.
The members of the fire companies
turned out promptly yesterday AS
usual. Cheyenne has reason to be
proud Of her 6remen.
The total income to the county for
all licenses issued since the Hrst day of
January to date, amounts to twenty
three thousand dollars.
The father Of ]. d. Jones, killed on
Thursday by the cars, has not yet re-
sponded to the telegram sent him, an
nouncing the fate of his son.
Everybody hereabouts, who know
him, are glad to learn that Mr.. D. Z.
Rhodes, sick at Leadville, is recover
ing. He has many friends in our midst.
The altar for the new Catholic church
was shipped from Chicago for Cheyenne
Oh the 2lst inst, and will reach here
about the I'd prox. Its cost is nearly
1875.
Eleven valuable horses were started
yesterday for Deadwood. They will
be put on sale, and will doubtless
bring a good price, as good horses are
in demand there.
The Literary club of Cheyenne held
another interesting meeting last night
in the parlors of the Inter Ocean hotel.
The programme consisted of readings,
Rotations, essays, etc.
The firm of Gottstein, Idelman &
Co. has been dissolved by mutual con-
sent, Mr.. Gottstein retaining the Dead
wood branch, and Idelman and Frank
lin the establishment here.
Road agents are reported in the vicin-
ity of Fort Mckinney. A party who
arrived yesterday in Cheyenne, says
stock thieves also abound. Efforts will
be promptly made by the law abiding
citizens up there to crush them out.
The editor who wrote: "When the
schoolmaster sat down upon a bent pin,
he suddenly arose and remarked: I did
not see that 'pin-a.fore,'" has been
publicly assassinated by a mass meet
ing of bis fellow citizens, called for
that purpose.
Since the year 1879 began there have
been issued s14, 646. 1S in warrants by
the county treasurer, on the order of
the commissioners. OF this sum S10,-
Ss6 70 have been redeemed, leaving an
outstanding indebtedness of the county
of SO, $50. 80.
Chief Justice Fisher held a special
term of the district court yesterday for
the purpose of admitting to the bar
Hon. A. Worth Spates, secretary of the
territory, who was admitted to prac-
tice law on a certificate from the SUI
preme court of Maryland, presented by
Hon. w. R. Steele.
When ]. D. Jones was injured by the
cars, the news few rapidly owe the
city, ard by the time the account of
the affair had been repeated a few
times the facts were fearfully distorted.
In n portion Of the city the people
had it that 1t was Geo. W. Jones Of the
gun club, who was the victim. In an
other part Of the town the citizens
were led to believe that 1t was G. NJ.