The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-03-17

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Building Inspector KIoek, of Denver,
has resigned.
The shooting club celebrated st.
Patrick's eve last night.
Go and hear Judge Fisher tonight at
the Presbyterian church.
st. Patrick's day will open at Col.
tMurrin's this forenoon at IL O'Clock.
The railroads of the United States
have squandered millions on the snow
this winter.
Work is still progressing vigorously
in the Rawhide Buttes and Silver Crown
mining districts.
The Louisiana jockey club proposes
to have horse racing at night by the aid
of the electric light.
Arizona is overdone with labor.
There are ten mechanics there for every
one that is needed.
The warm sun that is getting away
with the snow is indeed a SUI of hope
to the cattle interests.
Highest temperature yesterday $50;
lowest temperature, l39. Highest We
locity of wind, II miles per hour.
Do not forget the lecture by Judge
Fisher at the PRESBYTERIAN church this
evening for the benefit Of the reading
room.
The struggle In the Poudre canon is
a pretty fight between New York and
Boston. Thus far the former seems to
be ahead.
The immense oil fields neal Canon
City, Colo, will be speedily developed.
The necessary machinery has been or
dered from Pennsylvania.
A man named Thomas Higgins laid
on the Denver Pacific track to sleep off
a drunk, and was run over. He died
yesterday after agonizing suffering.
North Park is being doomed by the
press of Colorado. They were slow to
begin the work, but are making up in
activity what they lost In hardness.
Mrs. c. NJ. Churchill, editor and
proprietor of the Colorado antelope, is
in the city soliciting subscriptions for
her journal, which, by the way, is the
champion Of woman's rights in Colo
| RADIO.
Passenger aficyesterday: No. 3, 10
Cheyenne, 80 Colorado. 65 through;
No. A, A Cheyenne. 8 Colorado, %
through; C. CO Cheyenne, A east,
. west; d. p, Cheyenne, 0 east, 8
west.
No. 3 came In a little over two hours
late yesterday. She would have been
five hours late had she not gained three
hours time from North Platte to this
point. She will arrive in Ogden IN
time.
As the assassin who threw the bomb
that killed the ear is still at large, the
probability is that he will come to the
..land of the free and home of the
brave" and lecture on "How l killed
the car"
The Jeanette went in search Of the
North Pole. Now two government
steamers are going in search of the
Jeanette. The next congress will
make appropriations tor four steamers
to discover these two, and so on ad
if%tinitunl.
A little two year old boy of Chey-
enne observed his mother filling the tea
kettle with water, and, being very
thirsty himself, objected to the pro-
ceeding until he was first satisfied.
Said he: "No, no, 'tove dink a water
all gone; baby dink." He got his drink
first.
The Denver Southern Is a new cor
poration that proposes to build q broad
gauge road from Denver to Pueblo. 1t
seems strange that it should have no
farther outlet, but it is suspected that
it is a mutual scheme of the Union
Pacific and Santa Fe. The former
wants to get to Pueblo, and the latter
desires 70 reach DehVer.
A farmer of Cass county, Iowa, states
that be has at various times expert
mented with the sap of the box-elder
tree, and finds that it will make the
very finest quality Of white sugar, pro-
ducing much more to the gallon than
the same amount of maple sap. Here
is a pointer" for u friends who nave