The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-03-13
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Better weather.

lH4s Issue VI Tic LEADEh-
Denver is a very unlueky town, Sc
far as accidents are concerned.
Five unlicensed dogs were sent to
the-happy dog grounds on Friday.
We shall have a supreme court in
full blast with a full bench tomorrow.
1t wasa Connecticut minister whose
salary was s25 a year and half the fish
he caught.
An Indian chief calls his musket
Book Agent" because it is an old
smooth bore.
Surprise parties are getting fashion
able in Cheyenne. There were three on
Friday night.
"sNone but the brave deserve the
fair;" and none but the brave can live
with some Of them.
! The Cheyenne public school is pro-
crossing finely and giving good salts
faction to our peorle.
Gov. J. C. Fremont takes the palm
for brevity. His last annual message
was half a column long.
EHighest temperature yesterday 36o;
lowest temperature, PIC. Highest We
locity of wind, 30 miles per hour.
So-called Migrants are getting scarce
in this city, which is not detrimental at
all to the interests of the community.
Tram No. 3, which should have ar
rived here at LEO yesterday, will not
reach this city until late this afternoon.
The soldiers, so far as heard from,
with one exception, are all in favor Of
the prohibiatry liquor order of Mrs.
Hayes.
After the city Is lighted by the cleo
trio system, there won't be half so
much ''going to the lodge" you know,
as there is at present.
"What we want out here,n observed
a North Park miner, sis men who don't
have to stand in m place oyer half an
hour to cast a shadow"
The new reading room was opened to
the public yesterday, with a large and
well selected stock OF reading matter;
and altogether it starts out under very
favorable auspices.
There Is now a vacancy in the city
council, and just to liven things up u
little, would it not be well to hold a
snail sized electionp 1t would be a
good thing for the ''boys."
This is a pretty good time for the ay-
erage small boy. He can get a job in
the catching of unlicensed dogs, every
day in the week, and it pays better
than dealing in beer bottles.
The old ''dobie" building on Six
teenth street, in which Boyer was hung
in ~, Is in a very delapidated condi-
ton, and needs repairing or tearing
down. 1t is at present u~noccupied.
Zone by n the roses fall'' and one
by n the number of places where
liquor is sold in Cheyenne are growing
less. There are only twenty-six at
present, n decrease of forty in three
years.
If we could only induce old farmer
LeDuc to come out here to Cheyenne
and put in a few artesian wells, there
would be no trouble about water. viii
some gentleman please make a motion
to that effect?
Crow creek, whenever we have n thaw,
overfiows to a greater extent now than
1t was ever know 10 do before. 1t is
well that a good substantial bridge con-
meets the banks of the creek, otherwise
it could not be crossed even by persons
on horseback.
The water meeting, the other night,
Notwithstanding the flaming report Of
the same published by the organ, seems
to have resulted in nothing except talk,
and there does not seem to be much
prospect of the proposed enterprise
proving a success; not for the present
at least.
Thus far none of the members elect
of the next legislature have died or re-
moved from the terrltory-of course
none of them have resigned-and it is
just possible that no special election
will have to be held in order to ill any
vacancies, excepting in Albany county,
uvbara fbara 10 n t;a
l.. II. Morton, chief engineer Of the
Robinson mine, at Robinson, near
Leadville, COL, was shot and seriously
wounded, last Friday, by John H.
Cramer, a Leadville rough. Cramer
claims 1t was an accident. This is the
second shooting ARRAY in that locality
since the killing of Lieut.. Governor
Robinson.
DIR. V. p. McGillycuddy, agent of the
Sioux at Pine Ridge agency, has sent
out a notice to the effect that chief
Young-Man-Afraid-o f-his- Horses has
left the agency with a party of one hun
bred Ogalallas, for a buffalo hunt north
of Bear Butte, Black Hills. They are
all good Indians and should not be
molested by the whites.
There will undoubtedly be a large
exodus from Minnesota and Wisconsin
during the coming season, on account
of the terrible winter in those states.
If we had a commissioner of immigra-
ton, or if the proper efforts were made
by our people, a large portion of those
who will join in this exodus might be