The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-07-29
HUmnLINGs.

Candidates for mayor are looming up
In Denver.
Camp meeting is In progress at oneas
da, Colorado.
This is the day set for the hanging Of
two murderers in Leadyille, Colorado,
and a large crowd present, will be the
result.
Two handsome coaches for the Utah
Central railroad, built at the Pullman
shops, Omaha, We're taken west on No.
6, last night.
Orators who can talk Estate capitalu
are likely to be in active demand
throughout Colorado during the next
few weeks.
Miss Nellie Burke, of Omaha, has
challenged Miss Mime Pinneo to ride
a twenty mile race for a purse of from
$500 to S2,5000-the race to come off at
Kansas City in September.
The gas company, of Georgetown,
will turn gas into the mains Saturday
evening when the street lamps will be
lighted up. The company has an Office
in the Fish block, on Rose street.
Council Bluffs is to have another
mammoth grain elevator erected be-
tween the c., b. g.. @. and st. Joe
depots. Excavating the foundation will
commence at once. The structure is
to be 100 feet square and $50 feet high.
The reunion of old soldiers at Lin
coin commences Sept. 9th. Several
large buildings will be built, one for
cheap berths on two full lots 1OOx132
feet; two for amusement halls, 80x120,
besides the stage and dressing rooms,
besides the 700 tents on the grounds.
-Four small boys, all below the age Of
nine years, were walked into Judge
Sopris' court, Denver, yesterday,
charged with the larceny of some money
in a tent on the river bottoms. They
had been kept in Jail over night. Ow-
ing to their youth the court dismissed
them.
At a regular meeting of Denver Di-
vision No. 1856 of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers, a vote of thanks
was offered Superintendent A. A. Egg
bert, of the Colorado Central, for his
Kindness in furnishing two special cars
for the members of that organization to
attend the funeral of their late brother,
Frank Whitney, of Golden.
The petition to the county commits
sioners Of Clear Creek county, respect
ing a new county court house and jail,
was received favorably and the board
resolved to put to the vote Of the peo-
pie at the next general election, the
question, ''Shall a county indebtedness
to the amount of $4,000, be created
for the purpose of erecting a court house
and jail in Clear Creek county"
1t is now known in Omaha that Mr..
Touzalin, of the b. & NJ, was offered
the managership of the Topeka & Santa
Fe road and declined it. This will be
pleasing news to Omaha men, not only
to know that Mr.. Touzalin was given
the opportunity of accepting so high a
place in railroad circles, but that he re-
fused it, preferring to remain in Oma-
ha where all his interests are, and
where he is highly esteemed in the pop
ular mind.
The Beaver Enterprise of the 18th
says Mr.. Roberts, of Omaha, is going to
build a big smelter two miles up the
river from milford, to work the cop
per ores Of Rockyfellows' hills. 1t
thinks the protector has a good thing,
and that the smelter will produce plenty
of matter of a rich quality. We are
glad to note this good prospect for the
Star district, though the capacity Of the
works, given in the Entdrprise at five
stacks, seems rather large.
A n legged foot race caused con-
siderable amusement on Clear Creek
street, Black Hawk, Sunday afternoon.
The contestants were two cripples, one
Charles Logue, the young man who was
80 unfortunate as to lose his leg by be-
ing run over in Denver when a much
smaller lad thanhe SNOW, and a crippled
miner who works at sacking ore at the
Bobtail mine. The race was one hun
dred yards, and was won by young
Logue who had but fairly started when
he threw away his crutch and hoped
the balance of the distance in a most
amusing nj