The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-02-10
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There is but little snow east of Jules
burg.
More snow, and yet we are not
happy.
Two days mail came from the east
yesterday.
Can a cow-hide in a shoemaker shop?
No. hut a calfskin.
When a pretty Irish girl is caught
they say some Boy-cotter.
The Benton case will be heard before
Justice Slaughter to-day.
Trifes light as hair sometimes turn
the whole course of a mans appetite.
The Black Hills have a bible society.
People are growing morally good up
there.
The faithfulness OF the Congressional
Record is deserving of more credit than
its pages.
The grand jury at Laramie City is
making it hot for the rapid females of
the town.
Local happenings are very scarce.
Most any sort Of u sensation would be
acceptable.
Some of the enterprising ranchmen
of the Black Hills capture mountain
lions and exhibit them for pay.
The weather clerk should BIO knocked
down and dragged TO the cooler before
he freezes himself to death.
Highest temperature yesterday, 80;
lowest temperature, 122. Highest We
locity Of wind, IA miles per hour.
It would be a stroke of poetic justice
if all OF this winters coal dealers
should become next SUMMERS ice deal
ers.
The official account Of the proceed
ings of the board OF county commission
ers will be found elsewhere in to days
LEADER.
While the members of the Denver
council have their hands in, they pro-
pose to investigate the entire police
force in the city.
j.. G. johnson, the prisoner who es-
capped from the Denver hospital, al
though shackled to his bedstead, has
been recaptursd.
A young son Of Mr.. S. J.. Smith had
his arm broken yesterday while ut play
near the school house. DIR. Corey re-
duced the fracture.
A well has been sunk in the center
of the Ninety-mile Desert, New Mexi-
co, and a windmill placed thereon.
The water is abundant and good.
The first thing to do when an Arctic
exploration expedition has been fitted
out, is to 1T out an expedition to go in
search of the first one, and so on. 49,
Judge Whitehead has consented to
attend to the business of the land office
during the absence Of Mr.. L. w. Mann,
which will be about Il month longer.
Recently the Union Pacific railway
company was the greatest corporation
in the world, now the consolidated
telegraph company holds that distinc-
ton.
When a Chinaman sends home your
washing, your shirt-bosom and cuffs
may be as timber rs an old handker-
chief, but when you come TO q raw
edged collar you will find it stir enough
to saw your head of.
An electric headlight for locomotives
will soon be tried on the Cleveland &
Pittsburg railroad. The power will be
furnished by a small engine placed b.
hind the smokestack and furnished
with steam from the main boiler.
Mr. Hugh Barton, whose range is
near Taylor's station on the Colorado
Central, states that the report Of seri-
Gus destruction of sheep in his vicinity
is untrue. His losses have not exceeded
n per day, in a flock of between six
and seven thousand.
Advices from the North Platte are
to the effect that nine inches of snow
has fallen there. On the Niobrara, the
snow laid there to the depth Of six in
ches since November last. In conse-
quence, the suffering OF cattle is very
severe, and the losses will be heavy.
The hearing in the Ease of the Terri
tory of Wyoming vs.. Benjamin Brown
was held before Justice Slaughter yes
terday, and the defendant was bound
over for the May term of court. County
Attorney Potter appeared for the prose-
cution and j. 9. Baird for the defense.
Three young lp) damsels of the town
went on a skylarking tour through the
city on Tuesday evening, and, when at
the height Of their enjoyment, Officers
ingalls, and Thomson ~''gathered them
inn to the cooler. Yesterday morning
they settled the matter by each paying
a fine OF ten dollars and costs,
"You dirty boy'' is a well-known ad-
vertisement of a soap manufacturer in
England. For permission to print this
advertisement ON the backs of the pa
per, stamps, ETC., to be used In taking
the English census, this soap manufac-
turer will pay all the expenses OF taking
the census, which will be about $500
600.