The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-06-17
MINOR MENTION.
Lieut.. Sehwatkais

md ice cream and strawberries, to-
night
DRINKS, whether good, bad or indif-
srent, are getting to be very scarce in
Cheyenne.
Mr.. D. d. Dare will take possession
of the Hurlbut Bros. drug store on the
LIST of July.
Two teams with four men left Chey-
enne yesterday for the Platte Canon
mining district.
Highest temperature yesterday. $50;
lowest, 49o. Highest velocity of wind
20 miles per hour.
The Omaha Bee says that the new
liquor law of Nebraska is working adj
mirably in that city.
There is less sickness in Cheyenne at
present than at any time heretofore at
this season Of the year.
Richardson was taking testimony
yesterday as master in chancery in the
MEG regor-G Gardiner case.
Go to the Methodist strawberry and
ice cream festival tonight, next door
to the bank, on Ferguson street.
We don't hear a great deal in regard
20 the ladies' equestirenne IA on July
4th. Has the project been abandonedp
There will be a large and fashionable
audience at Lieut.. Schwatka's lecture
this evening. Secure your seats. Price
only 70 cents.
All of the COW boys who assisted in
making the town so lively on Wednes-
day have disappeared. The round up
is again on the move.
There was no district court yester-
day, but the justices courts were lively,
and several matters of small import
ance were disposed of.
The ronnd up has passed on, and the
hilarious COW boy with jingling spurs
and broncho pony no longer cavorts up
and down the streets of the city.
A strawberry and ice cream festival
will be given by the Methodist ladies
tonight, at No. 301 Ferguson street,
next to Stebbins, Post & Co.'S. bank.
The story OF the discovery of the re-
mains of Sir John Franklin's party is a
mournful one, but full Of thrilling in
terest. Hear Lieut.. Schwatka's lecture
this evening.
The streets at and around the court
house are being fixed up, and we may
expect to see a different condition of
the public th~oroughfares in that vicin-
ity before long.
The trains going and coming yester-
day were well loaded with passengers
The regular influx of immigrants of the
mormon persuasion has commenced to
set in toward Utah.
The city council does not seem to
have paid very much attention to the
recent petition of citizens on Nine
teenth street, asking that the same be
surveyed and graded.
District court will this
morning at nine O'Clock, and consider
able business will undoubtedly be done
during the day. There will be no jury,
however, in attendance.
Fast driving through the garrison at
Fort d. A. Russell having become q
great nuisance, the commanding officer
will be compelled to close the gates I'M
less the practice Is discontinued.
While there is considerable excite
ment abont mines to the north Of us, we
also learn that there are some indica-
tions in the vicinity of Virginia Dale
which promise well for the future.
So soon as the travel requires 1t, the
Cheyenne and Black Hills Stage Co.
will run daily stages from Fort Lara
mic to Copperopolis, the headquarters
Of the Platte Canon mining district.
There seems to be a hitch somewhere
in reference to the lectures that were to
have been delivered for the benefit of
the reading room. Somehow they don't
seem to pan out to any alarming extent
OF late.
There are about 600, 900, more or less,
bull pups and barking ours in Cheyenne,
and about nineteen-twentieths Of these
ought to be sent to the dog heaven,
wherever that place is. 1t is said to
be near Sidney.
Yesterday was the last day for entries
to be made in the Fourth of July races;
but we presume that the managers will
take in a few more-or in other words,
extend the time so as to accommodate
all who desire to participate.
1t is only a little while now until the
glorious Fourth will arrive In town,
and it would be IA good plan to lay in a
stock of flags, fire crackers and "sich."
They will be needed in order to give
the American eagle a proper ''send Off"
The settlements on Snake river, 60
miles south of Rawlins, are taking a
boom this summer. Quite a number
of new and substantial settlers have
located in that region, and the pros
poets are that many more will follow
before the end Of the season.
The emigrants continue to pass
through Cheyenne in great numbers.
They are all bound for Oregon or
Washington territory, and yet they
could find Il much better country a