The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-11-19
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and mud.
The freighting business to LeadviIle
is growing.
Now let the hostile Utes investigate
the commission.
Moneyed men Of the east are becom-
ing afflicted with mine itch.
No law can be made that viii COM
pei an Indian to tell the truth.
Most of the state governors have is
sued Thanksgiving proclamations.
1t is proposed to have Denver heated
by steam. according to the Holly system.
Gambling is now prohibited on the
two railroads from Cheyenne to Denver.
They telephoney story of the tele-
phone, which is told in another place.
Guns and ammunition are being for
warded to White river from Camp Car
lin.
Sowerwick, Douglas, and Johnson
would look real nicely in wings-with
cloven feet.
Messrs. Cass Davis and Fred War
rem are to open the Inter Ocean bar at
an early day.
The Ladies' aid society, of the NJ. E.
church, will meet to-day at the parson-
age, at . p. m.
Prayer meeting at the Presbyterian
church this evening at 7:30. Subject:
Psalm xxx. LA.
Rev. j. F. S~palding, bishop Of Colo
RADIO, will hold communion service at
St. Marks next Sunday.
The editorial force of the Sun has
been increased. Slack has purchased a
new pair Of scissors. Times.
The usual meeting at the Congrega-
tional church tonight at u O'Clock.
All invited. Come and welcome.
The unreliable Utes are only too re-
liable. Their mutual reliability is
what saves them from the hangman's
moose.
Professor Tice, who predicted such a
glorious scene of shooting stars, is a
fraud. At least the showers failed to
shower.
Salt Lake is troubled with opium
dens. There are over fifty white
women in the city who are addicted to
opium smoking.
The Utes are not good Indians, nor
will they lie as long as they live. The
best missionary work is to make real
good Indians of them.
New papers are always started to ''hl
a long felt want" They frequently
stop, for the same long felt
want in the EDITORS stomach.
Custer City, in the Black Hills. is
booming immensely. Two newspapers
are about to be started there. The pro-
~jectors are in the east purchasing ma
terial.
The Utes will next ask: us there
any law that will prevent us from kill
ing the peace commissioners before the
troops have time to arrive at the
agencyp"
Cornet playing by telephone is a new
accomplishment. A man in Central
City, Colo, played on such an instru-
ment and the music was heard plainly
in the Republican office at Denver.
Deadwood's new evening paper, the
Press, has the handsomest typograph-
ical appearance of any paper in Dakota.
1t is just out, the first number having
reached the LEADER office yesterday.
Another full house greeted the
Plunkett combination last evening at
the Dramatic theater, to witness the
| production of "Fanchon," that beauti-
full French drama. The performance
was most acceptable to the audience.
Tonight "Euchre" will be played.
The three card monte men mentioned
in yesterdays LEADER as having VIC
timized a citizen of Denver while travel
ing on the D. P. road to Cheyenne,
were discharged by Justice Eyster OF
Denver, for want of jurisdiction, the
crime having been committed in
another county.
Maj. J. P. Mulligan and Charles F.
Powell will depart to-day for the Vel
lowstone Park, going directly from
Cheyenne. The major will combine
business with pleasure, looking out for
good ranges and making sketches for
Harper's Weekly. The trip will con.
sumo five or six months time.
Mr.. Hardin introduced a very sug-
gestive bill in the house yesterday,
namely, a bill for an act to protect
poultry. Poultry are to have rights
which covetous persons are bound to re.
spect. Rev. Father Hayes having lost
considerable from his hennery will
doubtless give the bill his moral support,
at least.
The members Of the house speak in
the highest terms of the efficiency and
accommodation Of its chief clerk, Mr..
H. Wood Foglesong. He is thorough
ly experienced, and the fact that he is
the unanimous choice of a republican
body, although he is democratic in pol
itics, proves that his worth counts
stronger than party predictions every
time.