The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-07-20
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Tournament tomorrow.
See the hremens' calls elsewhere.
Polar waves seem to be out Of fash
ion.
The visiting fremen will arrive this
afternoon.
No. 3 was we'll loaded with west
bound passengers yesterday.
The Rio Grande railroad will reach
Durango in about one week.
Wyoming is fast being settled up,
even in the most remote parts.
There were several arrests yesterday
for violation of city ordinances.
The opening at Lear & McGrath,s
last evening was largely attended.
This season is proving an exceptional
one for rain. The record for July is
good.
Chicago is surely a city of crime.
The average newspaper takes a page TO
record it.
The teams were all out practicing
last evening for the tournament to-
morrow.
Sheriff Garrett really as~sassinated
BILLY the Kid" but then he wished to
take no chances.
A humber OF the directors of the I'm
ion Pacific railroad passed east yester-
day in a special car.
Dean Stanley is dead, and his re-
mains will be buried beside those of his
wife in Westminster Abbey.
The railroad machine shops are very
busy, and are giving employment to a
large number of mechanics,
The largest beef steak on record was
the stake of 100 beeves ON the result of
a recent horse race in Texas.
II the celestial water works only keen
up their. lick there will be no further
trouble about water in tine city.
Highest temperature yesterday. $50,
lowest, G2o; highest velocity Of wind,
81 miles per hour. Rain fall, .O6.
MAX Muller is in favor of spelling
reform. IN Y. Herald. Well, let
him spell it; no opposition will be Of.
fered.
business in all departments contin-
ues to increase, which shows conclu-
sively that Cheyenne is in a prosperous
condition.
There are 1900 dentists in this
country, and yet mothers will pull the
teeth of their infants with a string tied
on a door latch.
Judge Carroll's boquet in the county
clerks Office yesterday took the cake
and several bakeries, and the returns
are not all in.
Most Of the colored population Of
Richmond, Va. are driven into the re-
vival meetings by reason of supersti-
tious dread of the comet.
1t is expected that the excavation for
the new opera house will be COM
menced this week. There is abund-
ance Of stone and brick on hand.
A Jackson county (Ky.) man OBJ
tanned a position as school teacher by
promising in writing not to marry or
drink while the school term lasted.
The date of the tournament was
changed to accommodate outside teams,
and IL they don't come in force, the
fault does not lie with our home fire.
men.
The Winona Republican says that
Minnesota and Dakota have better
reason to anticipate n good harvest
than any other section Of the wheat
producing region of the northwest.
Philadelphia, or rather the Pennsyl-
vanians, will try a bi~-centennial next
time. They propose next year to cele-
brate the two hundredth anniversary
of the settlement of the state by Penn.
A live stock company was organized
at Ogallala the other day, with a capt.
tai stock of 5000, 900. Messrs. Pres
ton, Mabry and other Texas cattle
are at the head of the organiza-
ton.
The following teams are expected to
arrive on to-day's trains: Hose team
from Larapie City; Hook No. . and
the Woodie Fisher and Tabor hose
teams Of Denver; the hooks Of Idaho
Springs; n hose and one hook team
from Boulder.
Thoughtless contributors who write
on both sides Of the paper need not be
surprised If their articles do not ap-
pear. Spring and summer poetry,
however, may be written on both sides
of the paper.
The Denver Republican very truly
says: Denver is too large to longer
tolerate public fire bells. Firemen only
should know the location of fires. The
bells gather crowds who can only in
terfere with the firemen's labors.
Alarge number Of private residences
ire in course Of erection, and many
more will be built by fall. Thus new
are coming to this city almost
laily to locate, and find at once bust
hess to enter, suitable to them in every
particular.
The valuation of city property for