The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-07-09
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Fruits come in season and they make
one go out of season.
The Denver Telegraph, published on
Sundays, has appeared. |.
Fort d. A. Russell has several -four
ishing literary societies.
Denver is complaining bitterly OF the
water supply, as ii is filled with oil.
George H. MILFORD and B. F. Hatch
will leave this morning for the North
Park mines.
Prayer and teachers meeting will be
held in the Presbyterian church this
evening at 8 O'Clock.
Now that the grand game OF base
ball has been started, several local
matches are promised.
Meeting at the Congregational
church tonight at 8 O'Clock. Scripture
reading: Romans, s:2S-3s.
The sultry weather of yesterday vas
felt more severely than that of any
other day this summer.
Let's see, can't another firemen's
tournament be gotten up at which the
prizes will be offered in good faith?
Road agents are now paying their
attention to freighting outfits, in order
to ecure provisions and ammunition.
Denver Republican: lone of our
prominent clergymen was confined in
the city jail for a short time yester-
day.
Thomas NJ. Fisher and Il. J. Fisher
left yesterday for the North Park
mines. They will be absent several
weeks.
Laramie owns the Pioneer COW
of Wyoming. Times. And the first
calf is the Times man. That's why he
is a coward.
The daily handful of Laramie prom
ises to reply to the LEADERS structures
Tin the course Of n couple of days.
Fine editors up there.
Wood Foglesong, our efficient and
popular city clerk, is rapidly recovering
from the severe illness occasioned by
the fall from his horse on the Fourth.
The evening concerts by the Fifth
cavalry band at Fort Russell. are ''pat-
ronized" by many Cheyenne people.
The music IL excellent and enjoyed by
all.
III Anthony Comstock reads Mondays
issue of the Laramie Times he will have
the proprietor arrested for circulating
obscene reading matter through the
mails.
Capt. ellis, Q. NJ. D., and wife and
Major Ferris, Fourth infantry, and
wife have been visiting friends at Fort
Sanders. They are now on a fishing
excursion TO the Poudre.
Several of the ''boys', are Offering
rewards for the man who first proposed
going To Laramie .-Leader. Look in
the Albany county ail.-Times. By the
way, does he go by the name of Hill
man, or Watson, or Whitingp
The county commissioners met again
yesterday. All the members were
present. The report of the county
treasurer and clerk were submitted to
the board, examined and found correct.
After the allowance of a few bills the
board adjourned until Thursday, ut 10
O'Clock.
There was much disappointment last
evening among most of the people of
Cheyenne because Of the failure of the
Pinafore company to appear. Various
reasons are assigned for the shortcom-
ing, among which is that the male
members of the troupe got shot in the
neck while in Boulder.
The round-ups in Colorado were not
as thorough as they should have been,
as the Denver Nelcs says: "a number of
large cattle growers intend going over
the roundup routes again. 1t is stated
that the work in some localities was
poorly done, and that q great many
cattle are still at large
MI. S. II. II. Clark, general manager
of the Union Pacific and Kansas Pacific
railways, president of the Utah and
Northern, and Omaha & Republican
Valley road, etc., formerly was a con
ductor on a construction train on the
Central railroad of New Jersey. There
is no doubt that he was n good one
Rdilcay Age.
Elsewhere will be seen the advertise
ment of the Transfer stock yards, To-
Gated at Council Bluffs. The Messrs.
Swan Bros. of Cheyenne are at the
head of the concern, which fact insures
good and fair management. The CO.
pacity Of the yard is 10000 head of
cattle per day. Telegraphic commune
cation is had with all the leading mar
kets of the world.
Eliza Hodge, aged twelve years, who
was living with her uncle, Mr.. S. w.
Spencer, No. 322 Bent street, died yes
terday of typhoid fever. She was born
at Carlisle, Ills, in '67, where her par
ents reside, but she had made her home
in Cheyenne for several years. The
burial will take place this morning at
10 O'Clock from the residence of her
uncle. As she was n member of the
Presbyterian Sabbath school, the schol-