The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-04-22
n MENTION.
Spring is very spring.

Washington ioi the ~ePuInceAs
The pleasures of presidential life
have doubtless been already realized
by Mr.. Garfield.
Highest temperature yesterday. $50;
lowest, $50. Highest velocity of wind,
8 miles per hour.
Mr.. J. W. Rifle has bought the in
terests of his partners in the Teller
City, North Park, sawmill.
Constable Nolan arrested q young
man named Frank Collins, yesterday on
a charge of larceny by bailee.
Jobs are SO common in Denver that
they are already charging 'jobs" in
connection with the new city hall.
There was a car load of graders on
No. 5 train yesterday. bound for
Granger. The men numbered forty-6ve.
The power of the press was illustrated
in Denysr on Wednesday last, when a
pressmaneh had his thumb smashed In a
jobber.
Lake Minnehaha is very low at pres
emit. not deep enough for ducks to swim
at some points. 1t is the intention to
ill up the lake this spring.
Sheriff Boswell learned the other day
that some Of the Laramie school boys
carried pistols. He went to the school
and inspected some OF the boys. The
result vas the discovery of n revolver
Passenger traffic yesterday: No. 3, IA
Cheyenne, Is Colorado. 50 through;
No. 4, 8 Cheyenne, 7 Colorado, So
through; G. O., IL Cheyenne, 4 east,
2 west; d. p, Cheyenne, 3 east, !
west.
&There does not seem to be anything
In the way Of breaking ground for the
new opera house early in May. The
trustees are alive and active, and will
push things as hard as they can be
be pushed.
Invitations are issued for the Odd
Fellows ball, which will be given at the
railroad house oil next Tuesday evening.
The affair will be a splendid one in every
particular and will doubtless be large
ly attended.
Mr.. Thos. Sturgis, secretary Of the
Wyoming Stockgrowers association,
gives notice In this issue of the LEADER,
that he has at his Office ready for dis
tribution, roundup posters containing
full particulars Of the round-ups In
Laramie and Albany counties, Wyo.,
Cheyenne and Sioux counties, Neb.
and southeastern Dakota.
Hon. II. Haas, chairman Of the COM
mittee Of arrangements for the celebra-
ton Of the 62d anniversary Of Odd
Fellowship, has received definite word
from Laramie City that the lodges
there will come to Cheyenne to partici-
pate. There are two lodges In Lara
mie, and they will bring with them the
4th infantry band from Fort Saunders.
The Laramie lodges will be warmly re-
ceived in Cheyenne and our citizens
will take pleasure in entertaining them
most Hospitality.
The Union Pacific has complained Of
bad faith on the part Of the Central Pa
cifc company, and Commissioner
French thinks the first named company
would be justified in asking for the ap-
pointment Of a receiver for the Central
Pacific. Mr.. French has no doubt of
the power Of the government to protect
its interests, under the ninth and tenth
sections Of the Thurman act. He has
started for San Francisco with one of
the most expert accountants Of the
treasury department .-Denver Times.
1t is reported, and upon good author
ity, that at Cheyenne river, on the
Pierre road, cattle are dying much
more rapidly than at any time during
the winter or spring. This is owing to
the fact, that, feed having been exceed
ingly scarce during the winter, they are
necessarily weak, and now the wet and
muddy condition of the country is
against their ranging for feed. Our
informant states that the cattle in at
tempting to get feed sink to the ground
In the mud, and being as they are, very
weak, are unable to get up and in that
condition perish.-Deadtoood Times.
No correspondent eve experienced
the trials and vicissitudes of active life
during u military campaign as did
Archibald Forbes. He was twice
wounded while witnessing battles
being in the thickest of the Highland
was the first man with the German
army who entered Paris. There he was
half killed bya Partisan mob and left on
streets for dead. He o o recovered
and managed to send O lengthy and
graphic account Of the capitulation Of
Paris to his paper, the London Daily
Nelrs. Mr.. Forbes will relate his ex
periences in a lecture at the Dramatic
theater on Saturday evening. Reserved
seats free Of charge, at Hollis book
store.
The disparity of the exe in churches
is placed by Zion's Herald at two t
one in favor Of the women, and the
same paper also makes the following
rather startling statement: "If we wert
to take the churches right through the
country, we should probably find that
not more than one.tenth Of their mum.