The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-02-21
MINOR MENTION

to good business in Denver.
The republicans of Leadville are raj
lying thus early in the campaign.
An incendiary fire in Omaha the
other day destroyed two large frame
houses.
A company in Leadville offered to
bond Dan Krapp's mine for 100000 and
he refused,
Gov. Murray, of Utah, win o go
to Lalt Lake and the citizens there are
preparing to give him a reception.
A. NJ. Rouse, of Boulder, claims TO
bsYE invented a new concentrator by
which $40 ore can be pro6tably treated.
The prisoners in the county Jail have
a joyful time every day in singing,
they having extemporized a minstrel
company.
a stranger named D. W. Fuller fell
down a Leadville mining shaft 100 feet
and was instantly killed. The remains
were shipped to Boston.
Our bachelors are going down in the
fight of leap year slowly. Charley Terry
leads the van. The rest of the boys
look rather lonesome, and are ~sprucing
up, too.
Sherman, the painter, in
this issue Of the LEADER, that he is
prepared to do pitch and gravel roofing;
he also has the asbestos fire proof roof
ing. He guarantees all work done by
him.
The Chicago s. Rock Island railroad
has now an entire steel track, with the
exception Of ten miles east OF Council
Bluffs. During 1879 the company laid
more steel rails than In any previous
year.
The recent order of the postmaster
general will cut of the postof1ce at
North Park, as it was established sub
sequent to July LIST, 40. 1t will not be
restored until congress makes appro-
priations.
Household help is In demand. A
speculator could make a good thing by
importing servant girls from the east.
There would be no trouble in getting
plenty to come, once they know that
girls are married of very rapidly in the
west.
The billiard Don of Dyer's hotel is a
popular place of resort. The tables and
cues are kept in the best Of order by
Charley Bryan, who understands the
mode thoroughly. Charley is himself a
good player, and experts are always ac-
commodated with a good game.
The Cheyenne driving park ~associa-
ton was vitalized yesterday by the filing
of the articles of incorl Grafton. 1t is
proposed to lease the ground back of
Major Talbot's place and enclose the
track with n substantial close fence.
There will be a number of races during
the coming season.
An average Of twenty a loads Of
steel rails a day are forwarded from
Omaha to various points on the Union
Pacihc-Fremont, Grand Island, Chey-
epne and Laramie-to replace the iron
rails on this road. The Union Pacific
has now over 700 miles Of steel rails,
and it will not be long before the entire
track between Omaha and Ogden win
be laid with steel.-Omuha Republican.
A party of miners from Nevada were
on this mornings train, en- route for
the carbonate fields of Leadville. In
conversation with one of them, we
learned that considerable interest is
taken by the mining populace of Ne
vada in the North Park discoveries,
and we were assured that the capitalists
Of that state would send men here as
soon as spring opened to inquire into
their merits. -Ldramie Times.
Arrangements are already made for
beginning work on the new Wyoming
road on April LIST. So said Hon. ]. L.
Clark, general superintendent of the
Union Pacific, to the writer yesterday.
Mr.. c. was pressed with business and
had only a limited stay, so he couldn't
converse long. But he said that the
road will be of standard gauge and will
be rushed through with all possible dis
patch. Iron is even now being made
for the same. Tfains will be running
on one hundred miles of the road by au-
tumn.