The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-05-17
MINOR MENTION.

Vice President AIthur's resignation
is in order.
FourOr five DRINKS are eorralled in
the city jail.
ConkliRg's resignation was probably
the greatest effort of his life.
Gus. Williams will bring his bur
lesque company to Cheyenne on June
eth.
The. designations of conkling and
Platt was the sensation of the day
yesterday.
Don't forget the lecture at the Pres
byterian church this evening by Mr.. J.
c. Baird.
An extended account of the murder
of 1t. Cherry will be found on the sec
ond page.
The supreme court will conyene this
morning to the hearing of the
fee bill case.
A branch is being built to connect
the Kansas Pacific and Colorado Gen.
trail at Denver.
The Deadwood papers have q first
class row on hand owe the building of
a new school house.
The Pittsburgh Telegraph says that a
Cheyenne man calls his wife Gap"
because she snaps at him.
Highest temperature yesterday. $50;
lowest, 50o. Highest velocity Of wind,
Is miles per hour. Rainfall, .05 inch.
The various Sunday schools of Chey-
enne have appointed committees to
arrange for a union picnic in the near
future.
"Peculiar People" is the subject of
the talk at the Presbyterian church this
evening, by the associate editor of the
LEADER.
We surrender most of our space for
the telegraphic news from Washington,
which is particularly interesting this
morning.
The Soldene opera troupe passed
through Cheyenne on their way to Col
orado. They sang in Fort Collins
last evening.
An exchange says that a sure remedy
for Sickness caused by travelling on the
cars is to place a piece of writing paper
over the chest next to the skin.
Messrs. Lear & McGrath will leave
for North Park to-day to establish a
wholesale and retail liquor store. They
will take a good stock with them.
Fred Hopt, the murderer, who was
captured in Cheyenne last summer, and
is under sentence of death, attempted
to escape from jail in Salt Lake the
other night.
Passenger traffic yesterday: No. 3, ~
Cheyenne, Is Colorado, 40 through;
No. a., 10 Cheyenne, 80 Colorado, %
through; G. c., IL Cheyenne, A east,
6 west; ID. r., . Cheyenne. 10 east, 4
west.
The Denver police arrested a crimi-
nal on Saturday evening, when his
friends gathered together intent upon
~rescuing him. The police not only re-
sisted successfully, but arrested the
rngleaders and jailed them.
The civil suit of the United States
VS.. n J. Mccain, contractor for trans
porting Indian supplies, is now pro-
crossing in the U. s. district court at
Omaha. The government is bound to
trouble Mac as long as he lives.
A well known jurist suggests that il
the democrats of the New York legis-
lature are sharp they will unite with
the anti Conkling element and elect
Judge Robertson to the U. 8. senate in
place of Conkling, and thus break up
the senater of the Hyperion curl. A
very good suggestion, indeed.
The citizens of the first ward will hold
an election to-day for the purpose of
filling the vacancy in the city council
caused by the resignation of J. L..
Kimball. Hon. John L. Davis is the
only candidate so far, and it is a high
compliment to this gentleman that no
opponent is put up. He should get a
handsome vote.