The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-10-13
MINOR MENTION


Election day IS days hence.
North Park again looms up
The opera house project has siilIsd
for ls5D.
Some d the forests IN the Black Hills
are Oh ire.
Highest Temperature yesterday s.
lowest rs.
Democratic county convention this
afternoon.
An art sale is in progress at the
Dramatic theater.
The weather seems To have broken
loose and beyond reeapture.
Prayer meeting at the Methodist
Episcopal church tonight at 7:30.
Fears are entertained for the scarcity
Of feed for stock on the ranges this
winter.
The highest Office in the gift OF the
nation is the signal Observers Office on
Pixies Peak.
The spots In the sun don't bother the
old man half so much as the freckles on
the daughter.
The u. L. government directors car
came in from the west yesterday and
went down TO Denver.
Several Pittsburgh capitalists are en-
gagged in the project Of erecting a man.
moth rolling mill in Denver.
Advertisements continue 10 crowd
b columns Of the LEADER, and We
shall soon be obliged to enlarge 1t.
The miners OF southern Colorado
talk Of turning out en- masse and mas
sArreing the Ute nation. It's probably
all talk.
The men who sang beautiful Snow"
and when wlntry breezes blow
should come 10 the plains and get for
their pains good freezing in. the month
Of Octo.
Passenger traffic yesterday: No. 3, 2
Cheyenne, 10 Colorado. AZ through;
No. 4. 4 Cheyenne, IS Colorado, Al
through. &. C., 8 Cheyenne, 8 east,
3 west; ID. +. Cheyenne, IS east.
A subscriber asks: "wil you please
give the altitude Of Cheyenne, Lara
mic City ard North Park2" Cheyenne,
9 O7J feet; Laramie City, 1928 feet,
and North Park, about 10, ZOO feet.
You who say religion is a dull thing.
go to the Baptist prayer meeting to-
night at the court house, and be con.
WINGED Of your error. Special invita-
tion To those who do not attend public
worship.
A small frs in the residence Of Mar
shal Ryan, Sixteenth street, near
House, called out the fire department
shortly before noon yesterday. The
flames were extinguished before the ar
rival Of the firemen.
The young peoples literary society
met ut the residence of Col. +. +. Snow
for the purpose Of electing officers for
the ensuing year. The following is n
full list OF the officers elected: Presi-
dent, e. n. Potter; vice president, C.
w. Riner; secretary, Frank ii. Clark.
The value Of the water pipe extension
up Seventeenth street was demonstrated
yesterday. The iremen laid their hose
To Marshal Ryan's residence in short
order and could easily have ex-
tinguished n heavy blaze. Without the
extension much time would have been
lost.
Elsewhere We speak of the wires be-
tween here and Laramie City being
down and that the associated press pa
pers OF California had n special locomo-
tive To carry dispatches between these
points last night. The San Francisco
Chronicle, which is no in the ~associa-
ton, also had an engine to carry its
specials. This is genuine enterprise.
The Western Union wires between
Cheyenne and Laramie City broke last
night, and the California papers flew
into paroxyisms OF disappointment aud
Immediately demanded that a special
engine he kept carrying dispatches from
Cheyenne to Laramie City that they
might be forwarded to California. The
engine was procured at n cost Of $3.50.
Salt Lake Tribune: 1t was an open
secret that at a priesthood meeting OF
the mormon church held last evening,
the n thing that the church leaders
had not dared to participate had been
contaminated. II was the boosting OF
John Taylor to the presidency, not Of
the Twelve, but Of the whole church.
equal to the position occupied by the
late Brig. The counselors are, first,
George Q. Cannon, second. Joseph f.
Smith, whose position among th,
Twelve ART supplied by +. NJ. Lyman.
II Tooele, and John Henry Smith, o.
this city.
MILITARY MATTERs.
Lieut.. Rogers Birnie, jr., and viii