The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-08-23
MINOR MENTION,

ments OF stock east daily.
Suits for bribery have grown out of
the water works wal in Omaha.
There was another child run over on
Sixteenth street yesterday. Reckless
driving.
There's a nice, brand new little
daughter at DR.. Clark's (the dentist)
residence.
The ID. p. train that left here on
Thursday made the run to Denver in
exactly three hours and a half.
The school commissioners are pur.
chasing apparatus for teaching and
illustrating the study of physics.
A large EXCURSION party went to
Greeley yesterday from Denver. There
were some three hundred in the party.
If the territorial assayer vas only
located at Cheyenne be would have his
hands full. As it is, ~prospectors have
to go to Denver.
There is a conclave Of detectives In
town at present working noiseIessly.
They say they will give the LEADER an
item in a few days.
The ladies of the Methodist church
are about to inaugurate a class of study.
1t will be carried forward under the
popular Chautauqua plan.
Some of the candidates on the union
ticket say that they dread the biograph-
ical brays of the Sun more than they
do a defeat at the polls.
Denver Republican: Bishop Spauld-
ing will hold communion services
morning and evening at st. Marks
church, Cheyenne, next Sunday.
There we're two cases Of drunken
ness without leave" before a justice of
the peace yesterday. They contributed
the usual amount to the city funds.
Tho government directors who went
west some two or three weeks ago,
passed through Cheyenne on their re-
turn home yesterday, in a special car.
1t is rumored' that a convention will
be held this evening at the city hall for
the purpose OF getting up another tick.
ct. 1t is not known who fathers the
project.
Recreation Hall is getting to look as
II its name was not a farce. -Messrs.
Turck d Roberts are sparing no pains
in having its interior remodeled and
renewed.
Mr.. ]. S. Taylor has received a letter
from Cheyenne prospectors now in
North Park, and they say they are
making rich strikes. The samples for
assay win soon be brought on.
The same parties that robbed the
bank ut Virginia City, Montana, were
identical with those whose whose plans
were quietly frustrated in robbing q
bank at Laramie City some time ago.
The members of the Durant fire COM
pany held a special meeting at their
rooms last evening. No business of
public Importance was transacted other
than the election of Mr.. MCGOWAN to
membership.
John Brooks started at ten O'Clock
last night to walk 100 miles in "a hours
in McDaniel's theater. His first mile
was made in II minutes. James Fl.
Kennedy, a we'll known "cow boyu of
this county, accompanies Brooks in
order to train for long walking.
A runaway occurred last evening. A
horse hltched to a buggy and also at
tached to a post, at the depot, took
fright at the movement of the yard en-
CINE. He pulled the post out of the
ground and started across lots to Six
teenth street, where he snagged the
buggy on a post, which anchored him.
Mr.. Astarito, the well known pros
pector, returned yesterday from North
Park with some of the finest carbon
ates and specimens of quartz ever dis
covered in Colorado. He will 20 to
Denver to-day to obtain assays, and he
confidently believes that after the re-
suits are made known there will be a
greater excitement than that expert
enced at Leadville.
Anderson, the carpenter who was mr.
rested, supposed to have been one Of
the party that set Gre to the suffers
store at Fort Meade, had an examina-
ton yesterday before United States
Commissioner Wilson. Mr.. Anderson
proved an alibi, and has now instituted
two actions against w. S. Fanshawe,
n for false Imprisonment and the
other for malicious prosecution.-En-
terprise.
Justice Fisher had a case brought be-
fore him yesterday through a change of
venue, which was rather interesting, as
far as the evidence was concerned.
One woman swore that another woman
called her all sorts Of names, and The
other woman swore that she didn't.
The women IN both sides swore with a
similar exactness to each side of the
affair. Lawyers Potter and Miller ar
gued the case. 1t was decided against
the complainant.
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