The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-10-07

Each railroad ticket holder is entitled
to $50 pounds Of baggage.
The Silver Cliff branch Of the Rio
Grande road is open and doing bust
ness.
Mutilated coins are purchased by the
government at the minis at their weight
as bullion.
Highest temperature Yesterday 75c;
lowest 45o; highest velocity of wind 1e
miles al hour.
Colorado will be compelled to manu-
f~acture giant powder. The easter
railroads threaten TO cut of its supply.
The express transfer at this city was
very large yesterday, and among the
multitudinous packages were forty tubs
of butter for Colorado.
For a very neat sample of paper
hanging, take a glance at the interior
of Dare's drug store, which has been
hung with new paper Of the modern
styles throughout.
Buffalo Bill is receiving additional no
toriety through the report of an attempt
made to assass.nate him in Council
Bluffs, his assailant Afing three shots
at him. without effect.
The Chinese are importing a great
deal of American -four. having found it
quite wholesome to their celestial pal
ates. The consumption of rice is de-
creasing proportionately.
One can have no idea OF the amount
OF building which has been going on in
this city during the past season until he
takes a ramble about town and treis to
count the newly shingled roofs.
The fact thatSenatorSlater would ar
rive in Washington in time to attend
the opening of the senate, was not
known over the country until it was
telegraphed from Cheyenne per the as
ISOLATED press.
George Balm Is about to erect the
largest Touring mill in the world, at st.
Louis. The large mill at Minneapolis
turns out $500 barrels Of -four per day,
but the proposed mill at st. Louis will
have capacity for making 5000
Some n ventures the assertion that
o fires are announced by the
ponies" in the railroad yards than by
the bell. At any rate the shrill whistle
Of the engine has announced many fires
which the watchful eye Of the engineer
has discovered.
If anyone thinks that Wyoming is
small potatoes among the other states
and territories, even in the matter of
potatoes, he should have examined the
lot which Ranchman Logan brought to
town, some Of which exceeded two
pounds In weight.
Among the expressed articles for the
east yesterday was a very pretty little
fawn in a wooden crate, consigned to
Emma Bowen, Marion, Ohio" The
little fellow was tame and timid, and
will be a beautiful souvenir of friends
in this western country to whoever
receives it.
The card OF Geo. W. Hoyt, druggist,
appears elsewhere in this issue. Mr..
Hoyt has a full stock of the thousand
and n articles that go to make up a
complete drug store. Besides, Mr..
Hoyt does a big business in compound
ing prescriptions, which branch is care
fully attended to.
The handsome new barn that was
built for Mrs. r. S. Van Tassel, in the
rear Of her residence on Ferguson
street, has been fully completed, and
turned over by the contractor, NJ. P.
Keefe. 1t is enc of the prettiest and
cosiest barns in the west and reflects
credit alike upon the owner, architect
and builder.
If some of the readers Of the LEADER
will look out q little early some of
these fine mornings they may see what
becomes of the missing numbers of
their paper. In several instances the
family dogs have Literally devoured the
news, leaving but a few fragments for
the family, in others, another species of
a dog has made away with the sheet.
Paper makers, as a general rule,
know by practical experience that it is
not difficult to get electricity into paper;
and some of them would he glad to hear
of some simple way to get the fluid-or
what-is-it-out of the paper. The
Scientific Ame, lean recently received a
cargo of paper that was 30 charged with
electricity that the sheets would not
separate without tearing, and they
could not run them through the press,
but were compelled to return the entire
consignment to the maker. as Its use
impracticable.
The newly appointed assistant land
commissioners for Ireland are Prof.
Baldwin, Lieut.. Col. Bayley. Mr.. Gar
land, MI. Haughton and Mr.. O'Keefe.
Baldwin is superintendent of the gov
eminent model farm and vas just
about to start for America to study the
great wheat farms of the west, when he
was appointed. Col. Bayley has lived
several years in Wisconsin, where he
has had a practical experience in farm
ing. Besides those mentioned are
Messrs. O'Shaugnessy, Rice and Ross.
Three of the commission are Protes-