The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-02-22
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for suicides.
The banks will be closed to-day, as
it is a legal holiday.
Visscher's lecture ut the Dramatic
theater this evening.
The Burlington a Missouri road will
reach Colorado this year.
The town was very quiet this even
ing, but the wind was noisy.
Rheumatism is at present unusually
prevalent in New York city.
Silver Cliff has a water works that
never works when it is needed.
That little Ratchet story will be re-
lated in ten thousand places to-day.
New York is having more and
heavier snow storms than Cheyenne.
Come. gentle spring. ETHEREAL mild
ness, eomel" And the sooner the bet
ter.
The Rawlins Journal is assuming
metropolitan airs with solid reading
matter.
Forty different nationalities are rep
resented in the population Of New
York city.
The details of the great fire at Silver
Cliff, Colorado, will be found on our
second page.
An oil well in Fremont county, Col
orado, yields IA barrels of the oleagin-
fluid per day.
Two men were shot dead in Texas on
Sunday last. The people there will
have their Sunday amusements.
Highest temperature yesterday APO;
lowest temperature 26o. Highest We
ocity Of wind. A miles per hour.
The Denver Tribune illustrates the II.
A. W. Tabor grand opera house, now in
course of erection. 1t will be a magnif-
icent building.
VIII our ranch-readers please send
the LEADER information Of the condi-
| tion OF cattle and state OF the weather
in their respective localities?
On this, the anniversary of Washing
TOMS birthday, Visscher is going to
prove how much he excels the immortal
George in the art of telling stories.
A man shot himself in Omaha the
other day and kept his wound hidden
from the doctors for several days. This
is rough on the Omaha physicians.
No. Q train was two hours late on
Sunday owing to a broken journal on
one Of the lrst-class. coaches. The
coach was side-tracked 1t Clark's sta
ton.
A rubber-headed tack has been in
vented. Now, according to our own
private experience, it is the other end
Of the tack that needs the rubber BUSH
ness.
Asst. Gen. Manager Kimball, Supt.
Smith, Gen. Freight Agent Vining and
Gen. Pass. Agent Stebbins, are all in
| Colorado bent on Union Pacific BUSH
ness.
Passenger traffic yesterday: No. 3, Z
Cheyenne, 10 Colorado, so through; No.
A., 2 Cheyenne, 8 Colorado, 2s through;
U. e., 5 Cheyenne, Z east, A west; d.
p, A Cheyenne, 3 east, 2 west.
The Kitchen Bros, will probably
purchase the Grand Central hotel
grounds in Omaha and rebuild the ho-
tel. Omaha capitalists stand ready to
furnish the capital, taking hotel bonds
as security.
Sheriff S~harpless has added a large
wardrobe to his Office furniture. As
there don't seem to be any additional
clothing about the office, we suspect
that the wardrobe will be used for
a money drawer.
A young Denverite named s. w.
Klintz went into his boarding house ON
Saturday evening last, and remarked
that he had taken his last drink, and
had sworn off forever. In a few hours
he died from the effects of poison which
he swallowed before going to his
room.
Marshal Carr returned yesterday
from Salt Lake City, whittier he went
as a witness in the murder case against
Fred. Hopt, who was arrested in Chey.
enne in July last by Messrs. Carr and
Thomson. Hopt was tried for the
murder of the son Of Sheriff Turner, of
Provo City, and found guilty of murder
in the first degree. In Utah, convicted
murderers have the choice of hanging
or shooting as the means of their ex-
ecution.
Scientific men now say that mems
brains are made up from the white of
eggs. The announcement was made
only two weeks ago, and eggs have
gone right up. Large invoices have
been forwarded to Washington, and
hens are assuming more heirs than an
amateur pedestrian. 1t is very consol-
ing to know that all men are not
obliged to have large brains, rs strictly
first class eggs r worth ffty-fve
cents in this market.