The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-04-08
nIN0R MENTION.


city bitches.
Trout fishing Is legal in Colorado
streams. but not in Crow creek.
Highest Temperature yesterday. a.
lowest, %; highest wind, IL miles.
A half dozen tramps are being utl-
ized in cleaning put the city bitches
Pnirie schooners win soon be sailing
over our plains bound for northern
Wyoming.
Canadian laborers have been secured
to work on the Denver & Rio Grande
extensions.
Marshal Ryan and his able assistants,
YAM ThOmasOn and Bob Ingalls,,
make good oyerseers Of ditch work.
The baggage room at the depot is be-
ing enlarged. Commodore Trufant's
increasing business requires consicen-
BILE more latitude.
Senators Teller and Hill don't agree
very well In the senate. They are diyid-
ed on the Ute business, and the result
Is that foreign senators must settle
things for Colorado.
There are two applicants for the lease
OF the proposed Tabor opera house in
Denver, viz, Manager McVicker of
Chicago, and Messrs. Love. Thai &
Co., Denver. In either case the opera
house would be in good hands.
Passenger traffic yesterday: No. 3,
IL Cheyenne, 100 Colorado. and 40
through; No. 4, I Cheyenne, s Colora-
do and q through; Denver Pacific, IS
Cheyenne. IA east, 6 west; Colorado
Central, IL Cheyenne, II east, 4 west.
Service In the Presbyterian church
this evening at 7:30. Subject: "Yet
there is room."-Luke l4:22. Thank
ing the young people who played and
sung. rye. there Is ROOM for more to
help. Singers generally invited to
help.
A special Central Pacific car was at
tached to No. 3 going west yesterday.
II contained ID. o. Mills and party.
Mr.. Mills is n big California capitalist,
and was once president Of the Bank of
California. lie resides In New York
most Of the time.
The Omaha Republican has put on a
bright, clean suit OF new type, and its
appearance is therefore wonderfully i'm
proved. With a good looking paper,
and plenty of brains to direct, the
Republican Is destined for even greater
suecess than has uniformly been its por-
tion.
A committee Of council went out to
the point where the city ditch taps
Crow crock, and inspected the ditch
down 10 the lake. II needs 10 he
cleaned out and repaired, In places, and
the work will be done Immediately.
General Merritt will furnish assistance
as the post derives its supply Of water
from the same source.
A special to the Globe Democrat says:
The senate Judiciary committee has
determined to report adversely on the
nomination Of s. Newton Pettis. as
associate justice for New Mexico. II
Is understood that n careful examina-
tion into Mr.. Pettis' mental and moral
fitness for the position discloses such
facts rs will make his rejection by the
senate inevitable. There are some
u~nsavory matters in his record that
renders defense by republicans i'm
practicable" Mr.. Pettis Is the gentle
man who was first appointed to the as-
sociate j%usticcship of Wyoming, when
Judge Peck contemplated going to New
Mexico.
Life in Leadvllle is very pleasant
to those who enjoy blood curdling ex-
element. One Of the many pleasing
incidents Of that totally depraved burg
is thus related in a Denver Tribune
special: At II O'Clock tonight Tues
dayI Tom Kelly, n NOTORIOUS charac-
ter, was shot and killed In this city by
a police officer. The affair wa the re-
suit Of a quarrel which had occurred
between the officer and one Ed Burns,
a well.known Desperate and friend of
Kelly. Burns escaped, but is closely
pursued, and will probably be captured
within the next twenty-four hours.
Great excitement prevails throughout
the city, and the Tabor and Highland
Guards are nov under arms ready to
be called out ut n moments notice.