The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-05-13
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Ths printer Lakes his 20.
Ths sinner zip hs wssplnEiL
The farmer swArms his b b.
The printsr daily sets hIs N m.
The canister ells his & e
ms lawyer gather An hlsyy.
when he has tried his K Il;
The sheriff ever ON the cG
The gambler risks his a
sunstrOkes are reported in the east.
The hegrra for North Park has fairly
set in
Utah looms up with some mining ae-
The Denver Eaes will boom for Field
hereafter.
The frst circus in town will be Dan
Castello's.
The opium dens Of Denver are being
closed up.
House repairing and building are go
ing on lively.
Decoration Day will be given the
go-by throughout the new west.
It is the fashionable thing for eastern
ladies' TO visit Europe unaeeompanied
by gentlemen.
Now the cousin In the country shows
her appreciation by sending boxes Of
arbutus by mail, packed In wet cotton.
The Joy case stiil holds the attention
OF Judge Peck. There are nj extraor-
binary phases OF the case 10 report to-
day.
Baptist "Dime sociable'' tonight at
| the residence OF Mrs. Thomson. No.
405 Sixteenth street. A cordial inyi-
tation 10 all.
yThe Laramie Times doesn't boom 50
much for the Jim mountain mines
now. Wherefore, neighbour Haven't
been bitten, have your v
The wires in the east were In bad
condition last night, owing TO storms,
aud n Of the results was that our
press report was seriously intertered
with.
This afternoon the Pinafore troupe
will play in Denver for the benefit Of
Miss Aggie Yates, the lady who was
injured so severely In n runaway acci-
dent q short time since.
Passenger traffic yesterday: No. 3,
10 Cheyenne. 70 Colorado, and Il
through; No. 4, 10 Cheyenne, 8 Colo
RADIO and Sc through; Colorado Cen
trail, 10 Cheyenne, Q west, 30 east. ID.
p, IS Cheyenne. Z west, 2 east.
The sheep In New Mexico are doing
very poorly. The long season OF drouth
has dried up the grass, and the sheep
are too poor 10 sustain their lambs.
About seyenty-Bve per cent. OF the
lambs dropped this season have died.
Three Of the convicts who recently
escaped from the Laramie City peniten-
tiary, were re~captured by the captain
OF the post, $50 miles north Of Fort
washakie. They are Charles Condor,
alias 1.-THE Kid,n Myron Bots and Geo.
Taylor.
The chief OF our fire department has
gone to North Park. Well, he can
easily be spared. There has been only
one fire here in five months. For that
matter, all the members Of the Gre de-
partment might safely go to North
Park.
The Black Crook company, in Lead
VILE, gave a street parade n day last
week, and while the goddess Of liberty,
or some other female In scant clothes,
was riding on the top OF n chariot, she
was knocked bottom side up by a tele-
phone wire. From the vigorous excla-
nations In n masculine voice, which
followed, the street loafers lost all
interest In the female.-Denrer Times.
Capt. John Metcalf, Of Laramie City.
wa found dead In his bed on Tuesday
morning last. Deceased had been all
ing for several days and refused to take
medicine. Capt. Metcalf has resided
in the territory for thirteen years, and
has had much mining experience. The
Metcalf mining district was named In
his honor, he and another man being
the first prospectors there. Up to the
time of his death he was superintend.
ent Of the Keystone mine.
Capt. L. NJ. West, contractor and
superintendent Of the New York fun
ing company at Rapid City, Black Hills,
was on No. 4 train yesterday. He Is
on his way to the work. This company
has over 200 men employed, and is
making an imm ense ditch and proposes
to work placer mines by the hydraulic
process. The capital stock Of the COM
pany is $3.50, 900. There Is considerable
risk assumed by the company, although
the prospects are very good. They ex-
pect TO reach bed rock at so feet, and
hope for big returns.
Wreaths, crosses, cut flowers and
| choice plants for sale Mt the Seventeenth
street conservatory.
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