The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-02-06
NEWS NUGGETS,
Carefully Gathered and Prepared Tor the
Benefit Of Our Readers

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st. Valentines day is approaching.
Assessment Of city taxes will o be
in order.
Railway conductors hop tonight in
Denver. ElmTo
.Quite a number of stock men
the east are in the city. q
A full coach load of passengers left
for Deadwood yesterday.
A Laramie City undertakes offers a
chrome with every coffin he sells.
Wood Foglesong, the new city clerk,
has formally entered upon his duties.
The market will soon be flooded with
comic and sentimental "wolentines."
The Pioneer hook and ladder COM
pany held q business meeting last night.
Phineas c. Pease was found dead in
Peck Gulch, near Central, on Sunday.
The Murphy movement has reached
Deadwood. Several hundred have signed
the pledge.
Billy Chamberlain has been painting
and otherwise improving the interior of
his theatre.
The Reno court martial moves slow
ly. 1t rarely gets through with one
witness a day.
The members of the moot council
talk of holding another meeting on
Saturday night.
Miss Maud Brooks has returned from
a Ave months sojourn among friends
and relatives in Cincinnati.
The Chicago Times Is the only paper
east Of the Missouri river that dare say
the Indians should be exterminated.
The bullion product of the principal
mines Of California, Nevada, Utah and
Arizona aggregated last year S41, l00,-
100.
Leadvilleis SO full Of people that arm
chairs are engaged twenty-four hours
ahead for sleeping purposes, at a dollar
each.
Judge James A. Bean has opened a
neat little justice shop over Nimetz'
tailoring establishment on Seventeenth
street.
The goddess of Terpsichore seems to
be a little sick this winter. Not half
so many hops are given rs during last
season.
The religious services held under the
auspices Of the Baptist church ut the
court house will continue every night
until further notice.
Offers have already been made by
contractors to deliver ties for the Chey-
enne & Black Hills railroad Mt half the
usual cost for such work.
Gus. Trabing, Of Medicine Bow, now
visiting Cheyenne, wants the new rail-
road project to succeed. He is willing
to ''put a shoulder to the wheel.
Col. John s. Dormer, editor of the
Register Call, has received the appoint
ment Of deputy internal revenue collec-
tor for thenorthern district Of Colorado.
Erlanger, the Denver banker who
absconded in 1872 with s35, 900 was
quite recently caught in the Sandwich
Islands. He will be returned to Denver
for trial.
The rector of st. Marks parish in
vltes all persons connected with the
parish to he at the rectory this (Thurs-
day. evening, and desires q full at
tendance.
John Terrill, who was severely in
jured by a mine explosion Mt Black
Hawk, Colorado, some time since, ar
rived here yesterday. He will put him
self under the care of one Of our physi-
clans.
Moore Kingsford, of the Laramie
City Times, is furnishing the patrons
Of that paper with much spicy local
news. Although n new hand at the
business he succeeds remarkably in his
efforts.
Mining camps in Tombstone district,
Arizona, present a lively appearance,
and work on a number Of mines is be-
ing pushed ahead. Many improve
ments will be made us soon as lumber
becomes more plentiful.
The Presbyterian sociable will meet
ut the residence of E.. Maggie, ESQ.,, on
Seventeenth street, this Thursday
evening at u O'Clock. Charades, tab
leaux and music are being prepared.
Go and take your lady.
Gov. Hoyt expects to leave on Mon
day for a tour in the western portion of
the territory. While absent he will
lecture at Evanston, Rawlins and
probably at Green River. AT the first
named place he will deliver two lee
lures.
1t was base ball, now it is pedestrian.
ism-and women have got it bad. A
man with a wife who can make it in
eight minutes and twenty seconds has
a legacy, sure. Among the good quail
tiles to be mentioned of .'the coming
woman is that she a make her mile
in six minutes.
Jim Collins, alias 'Brocky Williams
was bound over yesterday by Justice
to appear at the next term of
thedistrict court. ''Brocky" Is an old
prison bird, having served one term in
the Wyoming penitentiary. He is up
this time for attempting to pass u