The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-02-10
MINOR


WE'VE SbcS, oiIpuilC "a
Jack.
There are now eighteen prisoners in
the county Jail, and Dol for more.
A number of new members of the
Turn Verin were received pm Sunday.
Scarlet fever and diphtheria prevail
among the children at Fort D. A. Rus
sell.
Omaha thinks her troubles will all be
washed down by a brand new water
works.
A vagrant was hauled up yesterday
and consigned to board thirty days with
Sheriff Draper. .l
Scion Burgess, AL. Sutherland and
VIM. Pollard expect to start for North
Park this morning.
The benefit for the La Verde family
at the Palace theater, in Denver, net
ted tile benehciaries nearly $500.
Custer City will soon have a city gov
eminent. Meanwhile Deadwood re-
mains but a simple mining camp in
law.
McDaniel's new theater will reopen
on Wednesday evening. The building
has been thoroughly renovated and re-
modelled.
Scarlet fever, diphtheria and other
infectious diseases are known to have
been spread by cats and dogs. See our
column of scientific miscellany.
Acting Governor Thomas, of Utah,
has vetoed three bills passed by the
mormon Legislature. He is doing as
Gov. Murray himself would do were he
on the ground.
The Cheyenne Sun is certainly the
most unreliable paper in the west.
Day after day it makes assertions
which it has to swallow afterwards
Laramie Times.
The Fridey soiree for this week has
been postponed in order to make ar
rangements for the grand bal masque
to be given by the popular Friday night
club, on Friday evening Feb. goth.
The Cheyenne ladies turned out in
force at the railroad election, and they
all voted for the issuing of the bonds
to the Deadwood grand trunk line,
thinking it meant a Saratoga trunk
Pioneer. Now that's not SO; is it
ladiesp
A special train ran to Laramie City
yesterday afternoon, conveying a num-
Der of persons to the Firemen's hop.
The train returned at an early hour
this morning, the passengers express
ing themselves as having had an enjoy
able time.
The eleventh annual ball Of the Du-
rant engine company will be given this
evening at Recreation Hall. The affair
will undoubtedly be one Of n very
pleasant character. The honorable
membership of the company is a sufic-
lent guarantee Of good order.
AT The naval academy, Annapolis,
Md, Wyoming is represented by John
I Arnold, In a way that it may well
feel honored. The student is the son
of Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. A. Arnold. of this
city, and is well known here. His
standing as n student of the academy
is second best in a large class, of whom
only three are allowed to take special
rank, won by scholarly attainments.
Sunday was the beginning of the
Chinese icy year, and the C~hinamei-in
town INDUCED in the wier festivities
incident to the occasion. According to
their heather customs they set about
paying their debts in order to start in
the new year square on the financial
books of the world. None but heath
ems do this. They are heathenish in
holding their debts in such high re-
gard.
A calf belonging to Mrs. Shalk, who
lives just beyond Fort d. A. Russell,
was killed a few weeks ago on the fort
reservation. A soldier named Eugene
w. Baden, Co. G, Fifth cavalry, is
charged with the offense and lies in
Jail awaiting a hearing. Another nan
was arrested for skinning the carcass,
but as he had only skinned n part
thereof, someone else having done the
first half, Justice Fisher was not very
clear on the law in the case, and re-
leased the man on his W recogni-