The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-08-27
MiKsa MENTION.


The Emily Melville comic opera com
pany will play in Cheyenne abont Sep
tember %.
Workmen commenced laying the side
track to the freight house yesterday
afternoon.
Laborers were engaged yesterday in
cleaning out the Seventeenth and Eddy
street bitches.
Highest temperature yesterday S7o.
lowest 57.5o; highest velocity Of wind
Is miles an hour.
A life convict named Foster made
his escape from the Lincoln peniten
tiary, Wednesday night.
There are about ten strictly Jewish
papers published in this country, sew
al of which are printed in Hebrew.
Prof. ]. T. Allen, of the U. p. land
department, has been getting specimens
OF Colorado grain for exhibition at the
| Nebraska state fair.
Frank Fossett. prominent in the lit
erary history of Colorado. died at the
Windsor hotel in Denver. yesterday
morning, of consumption.
An order for a 81, 900 vase, or bowl,
to be presented to the best drilled bat
tallion at Yorktown, has been left with
a New York jewelry firm.
There are six stations to be located
on the Julesburg extension. between
Greeley and Julesburg. The first sta
tion below Greeley will be Ilif.
A camping party from Fort Collins
caught 728 trout from the Poudre
river during a months encampment on
its banks, and the party was not a very
large one either.
George B. Denny, representing the
American Israelite Of Cincinnati, made
the LEADER Office a call yesterday even
ing. He is taking In all this western
country In the interest Of his paper.
An accident occurred yesterday to the
train Of stock sent out by Evans &
Brewster, at Duncan station, near
Columbus, by which four ears out of
the train Of nineteen, were wrecked.
Dewey s. Paul were arrested in Fort
Collins by Deputy Sheriff j. w. Muir
ray, for selling liquor at Lulu, Grand
county. without proper license; also J..
W. Norvell for the same offense at the
same place.
The mormo apostle, George @. Can
non. said recently, In substance, that
the mormons break the laws Of the
country continually. by polygamous
marrlages-and what is the country 60
ing TO do about 1t?
Our readers, il in want of hats, caps.
clothing or anything else worn by gen.
tlemen, should read Mr.. Polack's no
tees in this issue of the LEADER. He
has q fine assortment and sells at very
reasonable prices.
The Carbonate Reporter, the organ Of
the new carbonate find In the Black
Hills, has proven q little premature.
and is gathered In. West Virginia. the
town that bolsetred It. Oh was bolstered
by it, is being gathered In likewise.
In Laramie City recently, while the
father was off on a drunk and the
mother away from home, a little child
was locked in a house alone for eight
hours, liable to the numerous accidents
which SO small a child could not avert.
The emigrant passage for the west,
was unusually heavy yesterday. There
were five cars in all including one car
of Chinese. These latter were a weird
looking set with their shallow, marked
faces, eager eyes and numerous gestures
keeping time to an equally fantastic
tongue.
OF curse the LEADER should have
noticed the bright new dress in which
the Denver Tribune appears, but the
fashion editor has been laid up with
lockjaw, brought about by trying to
pronounce the name of the latest new
bonnet, and matters of dress have been
sighted.
A birthday party was given last
evening by Mrs. N. M. Madison, to
her daughter, Miss Henrietta Smith.
Many invited guests were present, and
all had q very COED time. The young
lady received a number of valuable
presents bestowed upon her by her
many friends in this city.
Yesterdays train for the east was q
heavy one. There were two fruit cars
which with the express, baggage and
five or six sleeping coaches made a train
of about eleven or twelve cars. Az
usual, all the Pullman accommodations
were taken and a number desiring to go
east from this city were disappointed
The car of Chinese on the emigrant
train, yesterday, attracted considerable
attention from the platform gang.
Said one bystander: "Those are the
Chinese students, aren't theyp" To
which another, "Yes, hard looking
customers, those" And a third, with
all the sage gravity Of personfied wis
dom, remarked: "Well, it don't do any
good to educate those cusses, anyhow"
And he gazed through bis cigar smoke
with evident satisfaction with Yankee
superiority and pitying contempt for
the car of heathens which had inspired
the remark.
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