The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-07-18

An exhibition or tourn ament of the
Cheyenne fire department will probably
come off during September.
Major Sumner, of the Fifth cavalry,
has arrived at Fort d. A. Russell,
where he will take station.
Local lovers of fast horse flesh are
looking longingly after some of 1t in
anticipation Of the fall meeting.
Wire the dogs not muzzled?-Times.
Bay-cause they may how to strich-
canine. Put something harder.
DIR. F. e. Clark purchased q resi-
dence for himself yesterday, paying
therefor seven hundred dollars.
The talk about organizing a stock
company to build a beef packing house
at this point has subsidized somewhat.
An Immigrant train passed throug h
Cheyenne yesterday, several schooners
of which were drawn by cows yoked
like oxen.
In another column will be found the
city ordinance recently passed by the
council in relation to water in the city
bitches.
One occasionally hears talk of the
projected Cheyenne & Black Hills rail-
way, showing that all interest in the
enterprise is not lost.
Joseph Mason, of Fort Collins and
a former resident of Cheyenne, is in
the city, shaking hands with his old
friends and acquaintance here.
The fertile valleys Of northern Wyo-
ming are fast filling up with settlers.
Many an emigrant destined for the Pa
cifc coast concluded to remain in Wyo-
ming.
The hay crop in Colorado, where IT.
rigated, promises to be larger this year
than last, but where water could not
be applied, hardly a half crop will be
obtained.
The board of control of the terrific
rial iiremen's association will probably
convene at Sherman during the latter
part of July or the first week in
August.
The Postmaster General has ordered
a change of the name of the postoflce
at Fort Mckinney, Wyo., to Rochester,
and the retention of E. U. Snider as
postmaster thereof.
AT a meeting Of colored citizens in
Omaha Monday night steps were taken
for the celebration Of the emancipation
of slaves in the West Indies, which
took place August LIST, 1884.
The yield of wheat throughout Colo
RADIO will be much heavier than was
expected a few weeks ago. 1t is esti-
mated that No. 2 wheat will yield an
average of from 20 to 81 bushels to the
acre.
The new headquarters Cor stockmen,
recently opened on Sixteenth street,
under the auspices of the Wyoming
live stock association, are speedily be-
coming the popular resort of all inter.
ested in the live stock business.
Men are wanted to represent Lara
mic county in the legislature who un-
derstand and appreciate her interests
and wants, and who have the ability in
act and speech, to z~ealously labor for
the same. Never were such men more
necessary in this county.
$500
The roundup will leave Pine Bluffs
about the Goth inst, following down
Pole creek to Julesburg, where they
will divide, part coming up the Platte
to Greeley on the north and part on the
south side, following the same pro-
gramme as in the first roundup, but
doing the work more thoroughly.
A man named Higgins, who was ar
rested at Leadville some weeks ago, and
taken to Denver, on a charge of taking
a money order that did not belong to
him, had a trial in the United States
court and was on Wednesday sentenced
to two years Imprisonment in the peni-
Tertiary at Lincoln, Nebraska. He will
be taken there by United States Mar.
shall p. p. Wilcox as 500 as the court
adjourns.
The st. Paul Press dis covers that
"the thirty-eight states were repre-
sented at the Deadwood, Black Hills,
celebration of the glorious Fourth by
thirty-eight young misses in a car of
state, nearly all bearing the names OF
Minnie, Mamie, Hattie, Kittie, Annie,
Lille, Maggie, Allie and Birdie,n and
adds: THE names of the mothers and
grandmothers Of all these misses have
probably been discarded as unmusical,
out of date and altogether disagreeable;
and it is not improbable that in twenty
or thirty years the popular names Of
to-day will be equally distasteful to the
girl of the period, IL not entirely OBJ.
solete."
William Mccall, the reformed drunk
ard, will lecture in the M. E. church
on Friday night. MI. Mccall served q
one year term in the territorial peniten.
tiary, having been convicted Of burgla.
ry in Uinta county, As evidence was
discovered afterwards, from the real
Lperpetrator Of the crime and others,