The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-02-13

LANA
The mountain labored and brought
forth a mouse.
Slack's cry has always been: your
money or your reputation"
"PERJURER SLACK" ID a ft title
which he wears with becoming grace.
When a Leadyillian has nothing else
to do he can attend the funeral of n
friend.
The wooden sidewalks in Omaha are
disappearing owing to the high price of
kindling wood.
An attempt was made on Wednesday
night last to set the Wentworth house,
Denver, on fire.
The notorious Kentucky Belle"
Belle Williams, has taken up quarters
at the county Jail.
A government train of thirty-eight
empty wagons arrived at Camp Carlin
yesterday from Rawlins.
The Utah legislature named a new
county Emery, after the ex-governor.
That looks bad for Emery.
Most of Jul exchanges are increasing
their subscription rates, owing to the
exhorbitant price of blank paper.
Our correspondents at various points
have been rather silent of late. Wake
up, boys, and let us hear from you.
Gov. Hoyt should have been trans
ferred to the gubernatorial chair of
Utah. Mormondom would Just suit
him.
Neither Gov. Hoyt nor Slack have
been seen in public for two days past.
Can the truth have shamed them into
seclusion?
The trio OF Hoyt, Slack and Warren
have waged a personal war for a long
time, and have forced replies. The
provocation justi6es anything.
Slack is a fine teacher of morals, when
his neighbors know him to be a wife
beaten. Slack can't whip anybody but
a woman, and it is a pity that he should
select his wife as the victim.
NJ. q. Barrow, who was arrested in
Cheyenne for robbing the United
States mails last September, was declar-
ed not guilty yesterday at Laramie City.
The jury were out only five minutes.
Remember the union prayer meeting
at the Congregational church this
friday evening, at 1880 O'Clock. w.
ID. Pease, of the NJ. E. church, will
lead the meeting. All will be welcome.
We supposed the outfit around the
would publish something new
yesterday mornings. but instead they
furnished n few spurious afidavits only,
which have been hawked about Wash
ington for thirty days past.
Slack should send his wife east again
and obtain the services of the young
widow b." to keep house meanwhile.
Such services have heen rewarded with
a $50 pair of earrings. Perhaps the
young widow would like q 5reastpin to
match.
A party of Denver gentlemen recent
ly purchased and Sent to an acquaint-
ance in Ireland six emigrant tickets
from Dublin to Denver, to be given to
six sons of the ''auld dart" who may
want to leave landlords and come to
Colorado. Tribune.
Alexander Friel. a deserter from Co.
d, Fifth infantry, who has been ut large
in Leadville for some time past, yester-
day delivered himself voluntarily into
the hands of Deputy Sheriff Howe, and
will be taken to Fort D.. A. Russell to-
day by Sergeant Widmer. -Denrer Re
publican.
Slack, the perjured villain with a soul
fostering in crime, publishes rs affida-
Wits, things that trere neuer sporn to. 1t
is very easy to print something rs being
an oath which Is not such. As Slack
has himself S,corn 20 q lie, he would not
hesitate to perpetrate the fraud men,
toned. He is IA criminal capable of
committing anything.
Leadville's morals are on n high
plane, at an altitude as great as the city
itself. The Herald of that city says:
"The Cheyenne LEADER wants to know
why Leadville should not be made the
Of ColoradoP Because this city
is pure, and does not desire to be sur
rounded by the taints and corruptions
surround capitals"
"Seoetary Spates made a bad break
when he entered into a newspaper
war.n-Sm. AS Secretary Spates has
not entered into a newspaper war, he
has made no bad break. This ''war"
is an affair of the LEADERS,, and the
writing is all done by the regular staff.
The San is well aware of this fact, but
publishes the lie from sheer force of
habit.
Didn't l tell you Hoyt's Compound
Liniament would timber
you up? n3tf
Booths select oyster at
a20-tf DYER's