The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-04-08
CITY JoTTINGs.

The backbone of winter Is broken.
More trees were brought yesterday
from Colorado.
The Durant hop will take place
Thursday night.
Senator" Joe Crutchfield has min
ing on the brain.
Eighteen hundred shade trees have
already been planted in Cheyenne.
Kate Claxton, the fireproof actress,
will appear in Omaha on Friday night.
The recent snow and rain storm will
be excellent for the grass. Stock men
are jubilant.
The Odd Fellows of Evanston will
celebrate the twenty-sixth anniversary
of the introduction of the order into
America.
The arrivals yesterday at the Rail-
road house were w. p. Newhard and
wife, Denver, and j. W. Parker, of
Greeley.
Hon. Church Howe, formerly of Wy
oming, was in Omaha a few days ago
on business. His health has greatly
improved.
The Evanston Age has again ap-
peared in the Wyoming horizon. 1t
hopes by perseverance, sweet oil and
cash to rise to the zenith.
A large band of Utes are Ell route
from Colorado for the Wind river val
ley on a buffalo hunting expedition.
They were last seen ear Rawlins.
All the motions for the continuation
of the Olive case have been overruled
by Judge Gaslin, and the trial, it IS
said, commenced in earnest yesterday.
A special car passed through yester-
day from Pennsylvania en- route for the
Pacific coast. 1t contained a wealthy
but consumptive young man who is in
search of health.
Rev. E. d. Buckner, who preached
on Sabbath day in the court house, will
remain here during the present week
and oficiate again for the Baptist peo-
pie next Sunday.
The force in the office of the Carbon
county Neus has been reduced to one
man. He edits, sets the type and does
the press work for both the Netcs and
Rocky Mountain Courier.
Not only has the LEADER furnished
the San with telegraph matter ready for
the forms, but it at the same time kept
it up to its own standard of excellence.
The LEADER is a newspaper.
Hattie l.. Gould, of Monroe, Wis
%consin, wants information about Jacob
Todhunter, jr., who left Sedalia, Wis
%consin, for Cheyenne about five years
ago. A large fortune has fallen to
him.
If there is any n thing that will
grab a man by the coat collar and haul
him down through memory's hall, it is
to stand idly by and see a troop of
children enjoying the childish rapture
of sliding down the banisters.
YOU'RE an Episcopalian, 1 be-
lieyep" said q gentleman yesterday
morning in an enquiring tone to the
youth around the corner. NO."
said he with tears in his eyes, ''I'm
a Missourian but I'm sorry they
found it out in Cheyenne"
A special a came from the west
yesterday, carrying several officers of
the Southern Pacific railroad. The
party, which proceeded to Denver, was
composed of the following named: r.
P. Hammond, Charles F. Crocker,
Frank McCoppin and J.. E. Foulds.
From Denver they will go to ST. Louis,
thence to New York city.
Having nursed the Sun six months
by feeding it with several columns of
telegraph matter set up and ready for
the forms, the LEADER thought the
sickly thing ought to try and Ego it
alone" for awhile. Yesterday morn
ing's whine reminds us of the mewling
infant so graphically described in
Shakespeare's ''Seven Ages"
Missouri has appropriated $40, 900 to
aid immigration in that state. This is
about 300 to each county. Meanwhile
the stream continues to flow through
Missouri to Kansas at the rate of a
thousand per day, and the reason is
that the enterprising Kansans began
advertising the resources of their state
years ago, while the Missourians were
%sleepinp.