The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-01-21
MINOR MENTION,

Dit D. d. hlUpl Has lallch neli 70 q
nice little legacy left him by his grand
mother.
Mr.. Jas. E. Boyd, the pork packer
of Omaha, has killed 1900 hogs since
November first.
Highest temperature yesterday 2oo;
lowest 15o; highest velocity Of wind
"a miles per hour
There was a shooting scrape at a
funeral in Denver the other day. The
parties are disreputable.
Major Talbot will in the spring add
several thousand young trees TO his list,
which now numbers nearly 1900.
1t is said that as many as 1000 peo-
pie now living in Denver have at differ
ent times been residents of Cheyenne.
The saloon in the basement OF the
Simmons house is nov in charge of ].
II. Kelley, and will be conducted by
him hereafter.
Denver seems TO be a good place to
die in. The suicides and attempted
suicides in that city for some time past
are fearful TO contemplate.
The letter carriers of Denver have
been found very useful TO the young
dogs. The animals cut their teeth on
the calves of the letter carriers.
Coasting accidents are very numer-
GUS throughout the east. For the past
few days our dispatches have been
filed with accounts of fatal accidents
in sled-riding.
The trial in the case of Thomas Cahill
was concluded before Justice Slaughter
yesterday by the acquittal of Mr.. Cahill.
The jury returned the verdict without
leaving their seats.
Peter Hamilton was on yesterday
brought before Judge Bean, charged
with stealing an overcoat from Marks
81 Myers. He was found guilty and
sent up for 20 days.
The amount of taxes paid this year IN
Colorado is 16 mills on the dollar. In
this county it is about % mills. "You
pays your money and you takes your
choice. III you al get 1t.
Constable Kipp says that the old
Cardiff Giant don't go out of his hands
until the storage charges are paid in
full. lie has got the old man in his
custody down at the old warehouse.
No. 8 train was three hours late yes
terday owing to q detention on the east
ern division. A freight train got into
a snow drift and was held there for
several hours before assistance came.
Superintendent Walker estimates
that in 1890 the population of the
United States will be 6i,467. 900. If
this ratio Of increase be kept up the
population in 1900 will be over 81, 0J0,-
600.
Passenger traffic yesterday: No. 3, 6
Cheyenne, 10 Colorado, 1G through;
No. A., 6 Cheyenne, 8 Colorado, %
through; Z. g., Z Cheyenne, A east, 2
west; d. r., 8 Cheyenne, s east, 3
west.
In Q recent report of the district court
proceedings an error occurred. Instead
of |. w. French, bankrupt, it should
have been Adams, Green Il Co. with
which firm Mr.. French was at one time
connected.
The Presbyterian church building,
after it shall have been moved away to
make room for the new one which will
before long be erected, will make a re-
spectacle opera house, and will perhaps
be utilized for that purpose.
Among the ladies and gentlemen who
went to Laramie City last evening to
attend the select masquerade hop were
Hon. w. w. Corlett and wife, ID. G..
Rhodes and wife, j. X. Jeffrey and
wife, Miss Patterson, Miss Wood, Mr..
Geo. II. Thomas, and Mr.. Webbell.
A special meeting of the Alert hose
company was held last evening. Mr..
Fredendall, the foreman, handed in his
resignation because of his recent cleo
ton MS assistant chief of the city fire
department. 1t was accepted, and Mr..
Geo. A. Draper was elected to fill the
the vacancy.
Notwithstanding the fact that our
city authorities have for the past six
months been making commendable
efforts to secure an enlargement of the
cemetery, yet, on account of some mis-
understanding with the Union Pacific
railway company, the addition has not
rs yet been effected.
From what we can learn the winter
thus far in this region has not been
very severe on cattle, and while it was
anticipated that there would be n seri-
Gus loss to cattlemen in consequence of
the bad weather yet we are gratifed to
know that such at present does not
seem to be the case.
When a young lady gets married she
is apt to suppose that a great many
hearts will be broken on account there
of. In a short time, however, she dis
covers that the world moves on just
the same, that nobody dies or commits
suicide on her account, and then she
begins to practice with the broom and
mop. 1t is a good deal so with the
young man, for his ideas and experience
are about the same.
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