The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-01-23
MINOR

Denver is receiving a moral purging.
The Swedenborgians are to erect a
church in Leadville.
1t was reported as showing quite I've
ly yesterday at Sherman.
The American Union telegraph COM
pany is coming west to grow up with
the country.
Jim Keene, the Wall street and Chi
cago wheat speculotor, has an eye on
North Park.
One of the best paying branches of
business in Leadville is that of justice
of the peace.
Fort Collins cares more for North
Park than for the mining district To-
Gated near by.
In~cendiaries are numerous in oma-
ha. A little stretching Of hemp might
prove an effectual remedy.
Diffenbach Bros. are driving 1000
sheep into the Black Hills. The sheep
were purchased on the Muddy.
The new Wyoming road will traverse
a very rich region of country. Farms
will spring up all along the line.
"A line of four-horse stage coaches, to
run from Fort Collins to Crescent City,
North Park, will be started in May
next.
]. e. Horton received a telegram yes
terday from James Dowlen, on the
Chug, saying that his horse is at II. b.
Kelly's ranch.
John Butler, a Leadville miner, fell
down a shaft on Monday last and
broke his leg. He was formerly u cow
boy on Horse creek.
At the Congregational church this
evening the young peoples meeting
will be held at Z O'Clock, and the regu-
lar prayer meeting at 7:30.
Almanacs are growing as plentiful as
bibles throughout the west. But we
fear W. do o make good use of either
branch of the valuable literature.
Another delegation of Chicago capt.
talists will come to Cheyenne, accord
Jog to the Inter Ocean, to invest in
North Park mines before the price
gets too high.
d. f. Crelly, one of the contractors
for the Windsor hotel, Denver, was
seriously injured on the head Wednes-
day by the falling of a piece of wood
from the building.
Sergt. Jerry Morgan, charged with
having stolen a tent from the quarter
masters department at Camp Carlin,
will have a hearing to-day. 1t was to
have taken place yesterday.
1t looks now as IL tho White river
Utes will go to the Uintah reservation
while the southern Utes will be allowed
to 60 on a reservation on the Grand
river. This will not suit the Colorado
| folks.
The residence of Bishop O'Connor, of
Omaha, was burglarized on Tuesday
night, and n quantity of clothing and
jewelry stolen. Six months ago the res
idence suffered from a similar depreda-
ton.
Court will v on Saturday MORN
ing at 10 o'clock, only to hear the mo-
tion IN the Sawyer-B eaucaire case, and
on Monday morning all cases awaiting
decision will be decided, the Boughton
and Hecht case included.
The court martial convened at 10
O'Clock yesterday morning. The case
OF Lieut.. A. b. C%rittendon was re-
sumed and the evidence concluded.
This morning the court will reassemble
and continue its labors in the Price
Hart trial.
Eggs are eggs, these days, madam"
observed a merchant yesterday to a
lady who objected to the high price of
the hen fruit. 81 am glad to know it,
sir" replied the lady customer, "they
were mostly chickens l got from you
last SUMMER
Five Denver lads left their homes
the other day for a career of hunting
and fighting Indians in the mountains,
and got as far as Golden. There they
were captured and returned to their
homes. Trashy novels for boys had
turned their heads.
Edwin Mills, arrested for purchas-
ing a tent from a soldier on Monday
last, was acquitted yesterday on his
trial before United States Commission
er Fisher. There was no mark upon
the tent whereby it could be identified
as government property.
Two Leadville miners attempted to
melt some Hercules powder on a stove
the other day, when an explosion oc-
CURED, demolishing the cabin and scat
tering the stove into atoms. The only
piece of furniture in the place that was
not shivered, SO to speak, was a large
mirror. One of the miners will die
from the effects of hi. injuries.
The Washington correspondents of
the Denver papers are rs much at vari-
ance usually as it is possible for three
newsgatherers to be. Why don't they
meet together at midnight in Denver
and compare notesP Then there will
be sufficient harmony among their dis
patches to prove that there are such