The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-05-01
NEWS BREVITIES,
Picked Up Here and There BY 4 Leader
Reporter.

One Individual was fined yesterday
by Judge Bean for intoxication.
The colored Masons of Nebraska are
holding their grand lodge at Omaha.
The Colorado state temperance con
v~ention was held in Denver yesterday.
Just as we go to press we have
no report Of an attempt to shoot a
king.
Prayer ana teachers meeting were
held last night In the Presbyterian
church.
Train men who came in yesterday
report heavy rain in the vicinity of
North Platte.
A couple of tons of ore from the
Granite Canon mines were shipped yes
terday to the Denver assay Office.
William Goldworthy lost his life in
the Highland mine. Deadwood, on
Monday, by the falling of rock upon
him.
Hon. E. p. johnson will act as
United States attorney for Wyoming
until the new appointee, Judge Charles
81. Lamon, arrives.
An interesting meeting of the
Methodist aid society was held yester-
day afternoon ut the residence of Mrs.
Hinman, on Eighteenth street.
Ga .-"
John Peterson, who came to Cheyenne
from Deadwood several weeks ago and
pretended he was deputy sheriff of
Lawrence county, is adjudged a fraud.
City Marshal Ryan had a force Of
prisoners at work yesterday on Six
teenth street clearing away rubbish
which had accumulated during the past
week.
1t is understood that a shooting
match will take place tomorrow after
noon between some members Of COM
pany I, Fourth infantry, and the Chey-
enne rife club.
A Sidney dispatch to the Omaha Re-
publican says at the time Joe Smith was
killed there were six of the horse
thieves in the outft-"Doc" Middleton
and five other desperadoes.
A Cheyenne physician says that of
eighteen births which have taken place
under his immediate observation In
this city since the beginning of the
year, all but three were girls.
As nobody would accept the position
of postmaster at Albany, Uinta coun-
ty, the discontinuance of the office at
that place was rendered a necessity on
the part of the postmaster general.
Supt. Congdon, of the locomotive
department, and Supt. Stevens, Of the
car department, Union Pacific railway,
Omaha, came in on Tuesday, and left
yesterday afternoon for Salt Lake
City.
At a meeting held in the Congrega-
tional church last night, Mr.. and Mrs.
E. p. johnson were chosen delegates to
attend the session of the Congregational
association to be held soon at Boulder,
Colorado.
President Hayes, who distinguished
himself on the battle field during the
civil war, took the rebel brigadiers
down a peg OF two by his message. He
is not afraid to resist the encroach-
ments of a despotic congress.
On the 7th inst, at 9 O'Clock p. M,
sixteen grand and twelve petit jurors
will be selected for service during the
approaching term of the district court.
The drawing will take place in the
office of County Clerk ]. X. jeffrey.
There will be a musical and literary
entertainment this Thursday evening,
In the hall of the Ladies' reading room
association. The proceeds will be de-
voted to defraying expenses of said as
ISOLATION. Admission only twenty-five
cents.
The Summit mine, on Whitewood,
above Pennington, Dakota, is proven
to be a big mine. A shaft is sunk on
the vein to the depth of ninety feet,
and a cross-cut run from the bottom of
the shaft, a distance Of sixty-six feet,
all of which is in pay ore.
A Cheyenne schoolmistress while
taking down the name and age Of one
OF her pupils, and the name and age of
his parents at the beginning of the
term, asked him, whats your fathers
nameP" "Oh, you needn't take down
his name; he's too old to go to school
to u woman" IA the reply.
Bald mountain, in the Black Hills,
is apparently the Mecca of half the
prospectors in that country. The edi-
tor of the Deadwood Pioneer has been
shown gold quartz taken from 1t, COW
cred with free gold besides silver rock
showing sulphurets and native silver as
rich as the ores of famed Potosi.
The Western Nebraska Stock Grow
ers' association have elected the follow
ing officers forthe ensuing year: Thomas
II. Lawrence, president; Thomas Kane,
vice-president; G. Ferris, secretary and
treasurer; II. V. Redington and Henry
Tussler, executive committee. The
roundup will commence on the 14th of
May, and work west to Antelope, Neb.,
where they will meet the Wyoming
roundup.