The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-05-15
NEWS BREVITIES.
Picked Up Here and There BY a Leader
Reporter.

Business is improving.
Principally sunshine these days.
Tramps continue to come and go.
W. draw a sigh..of relief. The walk
ing mania has run itself out.
The Colorado annual trotting meet
ings begin to-day at Colorado Springs.
The passenger train from the west
was fifteen minutes behind time yester-
day.
Shooting match to-day between Maj.
Ferris company and the Wyoming rifle
club.
California boasts of the deepest mine
in America. The greatest depth is O.
GAO feet.
The receipts from the NJ. E. church
strawberry festival, on Tuesday night,
were about $50.
A year Of pleasure passes like a fleet
ing breeze, but n moment of sorrow
Seems like an age.
A branch office Of the Rocky Noun
tain detective association has been es-
tablished at Leadville.
Assistant Postmaster General Tyner
reached Des Moines yesterday. on his
way to the Pacific coast.
A mans curiosity never reaches the
fapna1a afa nIarl nntfI aN-a nra 4nlla
him his name appeared in yesterdays
paper.
The postmaster general has ordered
a change of the name of the p%ostofice
at Camp Brown, in Sweetwater county,
Wyoming, to Fort Washable.
The time approaches when the eau
tious and f~ar-seeing young man will
map out a short route around town
which will not take him past an ice
cream saloon.
Only $500 of the $4,000 stolen by the
robbers at Denver has been recovered.
Just where the remainder is is a con
nundrum to all but the thieves them
selves; perhaps they coached" or buried
1t.
The ninth annual session of the Col
orado medical society will be held at
Colorado Springs, commencing Tues
day, May Goth. There will also be an
excursion to Manitou and neighboring
places of interest.
Mr.. Altman telegraphs from Silver
Cliff, Col, that a destructive fire has
just occurred there. Business houses
all around him succumbed to the fire
6end, but the establishment of Altman
Bros. escaped injury.
Officer John Curran was out yester-
day working a squad of twelve city
prisoners on the streets. Tramps are
urgently requested to strike for Chey-
enne ION the double quick" as City
Marshal Ryan will find plenty of work
for them to do.
81 don't think much of newspaper
men, and / never take any stock in
what the papers say" he said. And
then those who heard him knew that
he had tdone something that he was
ashamed of, and the papers had publish
ed an account Of it.
Mr.. j. X. Jeffrey, the efficient secre-
tary of the Cheyenne fire department,
has written q letter to Otto Gramm,
chief of the Laramie City FIRE depart
ment, detailing the recent action of the
department here in regard to organic
ing a territorial association.
Several hundred fish which had wan
dered from Sloan's lake into the ad-
joining bitches yesterday, attracted a
large number of persons to that neigh
borhood. 1t is probable that more
people will have fish for breakfast this
morning than on any previous occa-
sion in the history of Cheyenne.
A young man named Boone Sexton
was burned to death on Monday neal
Papinion, Neb., under peculiar circum-
stances. He was blowing a field, and
becoming tired, lay down in some grass
to sleep, leaving the team in the
plowed ground. While asleep the prai-
RE grass caught fire and the flames
eventually reached and burned him to
death.
Oh Lord