The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-02-13

The King solomon mining company,
of Deadweod, will shortly erect a 100
stamp mill.
A Miss Tubbs teaches a school in
Custer City. She doubtless hoops II up
for the boys.
Rapid City, Black Hills. will soon have
a large building erected by the local
library association.
No. 3 train was light Of passengers
yesterday. People don't banker after
travelling these days.
The Denver city council has ordered
5000 photographs of the city for dis
tribution in the east.
A discussion on the subject of bap-
tism is being carried on in the columns
Of the Laramie Times.
The Montreal telegraph company Of
Canada is now in danger Of absorption
by the Western Union.
An enterpii Using southerner proposes
to bring n large number of colored girls
out west for hired help.
Highest temperature yesterday, $50;
lowest temperature, go. Highest vc-
locity Of wind 10 miles per hour.
a bill is pending in the Dakota legis-
lature making the position Of clerk of
the district court an elective Office.
1t is said the postal card has de-
creased the sale of writing paper s12,-
000, 900 annually in the United States.
A dairyman, writing to the st. Louis
RepnJlican. contends that the disease of
pleuro-pneumonia Is contracted from
sick horses.
Things must be getting duh in Dead
wood when the adult males put in their
time ''canning''dogs and sending them
out to scare teams.
Tom Murphy, a negro comedian,
engaged at Chase's tbeater, was
killed recently in Colorado. lie was
run over by a railroad car and had both
legs cut OF. He died on the following
day.
Deadwood Pioneer: Il. b. Coleman,
the %iolliest being in all Wyoming, and
one of the heavy stockgrowers Of the
northwest, arrived from Jenny's stock
ade with n drove of fat cattle yester-
day.
Passenger traffic yesterday: No. 3, s
Cheyenne, is Colorado, IL through; No.
4, G Cheyenne, o Colorado, II through;
U. C., 6 Cheyenne, A east, 3
west; d.. p, 8 Cheyenne, 0 east, A
west.
"Do you follow n sedentary occupa.
tionp" asked Judge Bean. loosely, of a
vagrant. ''Welll | should relax my
features" was the response; "all the
money 1 have had in ten years l got
from sitting on jnries'"
Custer Chronicle. The stock up the
Cheyenne river is for the most part
looking and doing well. Goodell and
Lane have lost some of their through
but no more than the ordinary
percentage expected in the winter.
The Green River Gazette is yet in its
infancy and we kindly suggest that it
its directory of territorial Of
because the following named per-
sons are no longer in Office: 1. q. Whip
pie, J. q. Horton, Luke Murrin, and
Simon Durlacher.
A special train will leave Cheyenne
this morning at 1880 O'Clock for Fort
Collins for the benefit Of residents Of
Cheyenne who wish to attend the fun
eral of the late Joseph Mason this
afternoon. The train will depart from
Collins Mt 4 O'Clock.
The subscription list of the LEADER
has increased largely since the begin
ming of the year. The pioneer news
of Wyoming, ever in advance of
its competitors, will therefore hold the
field against all claimants. Adver-
tisers knowing this fact, govern them
accordingly.
The most enjoyable event for the
amusement. loving people of western
Wyoming, will be the grand mas
queradc and ball ut the Maxwell house,
Rawlins, tomorrow, Monday evening.
Mr.. Shelter, the manager of the hotel,
is making extraordinary preparations
for the entertainment.
No. 3 train, coming from the east,
was five hours late yesterday owing TO
detention by storm down in Nebraska.
She went out Of Omaha with two
engines, and it was only from Sidney to
Cheyenne that she could get along with
one engine. The Pullman conductor
describes the storm that prevailed in
eastern Nebraska on Friday rs the
worst in the experience of the civilized
Aletter from Lance Creek, dated the
4th inst, to one of our subscribers gives
a very favorable account of the condl-
tion of cattle in that locality. The ice
is all melted out OF Lance and Hat
creeks and the cattle are looking well
with splendid prospects OF wintering in
first rate style. The total loss this
winter in that section will not exceed