The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-08-17

onahsis tournament viii b for home
teams
See czig a G&rdhsr's Boe4I ldYsr-
1ssnentA.
Ths An1rioaa SGodkssaa i enlarged
and otherwise improved
Indians are running on cattle along
the Northern Pacific road
The newest mining excitement Il In
the Wood river country, Ihaho.
Highest Temperature yesterday, 75o;
lowest, 52o; rainfall. % Of an inca.
Col. Murrin says the best irrigation
this summer Is done with Budweiser.
In Omaha they have Rosewater 70
publieansi in contrAsts 30 suppose. 10
whisky demoents-
The Sioux at Pine Ridge agency IN
afraid Of old Spotted Tails Sioux, and
predict hostilities o
Prospectors are nocking out Of the
Gunnison country by the hundred and
are thoroughly ~disgusted.
The fne lawn Of Mr.. II. @. Hay
ranks high IS One Of C~heyenne's beauty
spots. IL Is the finest lawn iu the
west.
n Judge Pease wishes TO wager .
silk hat on Hancock, our associate edi-
tor will accommodate him. What say
you, Judgef
There are no Maud Mullers In south
ern Wyoming 10 rake the meadow
sweet with hay" All the Mands are
up north and their feet are .'brown and
bare" too.
Passenger traffic yesterday: No. 3.
10 Cheyenne; u Colorado; 20 through.
No. 4, 8 Cheyenne; o Colorado; AZ
through. G. C., 10 Cheyenne; II east;
0 west. ID. p, o Cheyenne; q east
Rawlins journal: some fifty teams
are In from Fort Washable after Indian
freight. they all have Indian drivers.
and are accompanied by some fifteen
young bucks. all in charge Of Mr..
Hancock.
Deadwocd Pioneer: As q Of Dead
woods legal profession stood watching
the o~vercrowded Sidney coach yester-
day morning, he feelngiy remarked:
"if I was going on that stage this
morning, I'D 60 tomorrow"
Before Messrs. Craig & Gardner To-
Gated in Cheyenne, house furnishing
goods were sold at exhorbitant prices.
The firm came here intent upon doing
business on fair principles, selling
sound goods ut q fair profit and dealing
honestly. They still adhere 10 their
programme. and will sell honest goods
rs cheap rs they can be purchased any
where In the west. Call ON them and
examine goods and prices, after having
seer those elsewhere.
THE press gang are under obliga-
lions to Mr.. Thomas, Mr.. Barnum's
gentlemanly press agent, for courtesies
extended. He took charge Of the lost,
strayed or stolen reporters; showed
them through the different departments
and made himself generally agreeable
10 the mob. "-Liaooln Democrat. And
rs no passed you into tho circus tent
did he remark TO the d~oorkeeper.
''The clergy Of this city," and did the
old fraud OF n doorkeeper grin as though
he had not heard that ame remark n
thousand times before, In n thousand
different townsp-O Omaha Herald.
Relative to the death OF Judge Sher-
wood. who died recently In Cheyenne,
the Binghampton, N. Y, Leader says:
"A letter received In this city announ-
ces the death of Benjamin Sherwood,
at P~lacerville, Cal. on July 18th. His
death was sudden, having a lt Of apo
plexy, although for some time hishealth
has been poor. Mr.. Sherwood was
born In Chenango county, but came to
this city while n young man and prac-
ticed his profession rs q lawyer for
many years, when he removed to Cali
fornia- lie was n genial sort Of n man,
but In some matters our older people
will remember him rs somewhat eccen-
tric."