The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-09-24
MENTION.

The Black Hills fair. which closed
last Saturday was a success.
The LEADER proof taker allows that
be is a sort Of . galley slave.
The Denver and South Park railroad
has been completed to Fairplay.
The citizens will hold q meeting this
morning at IL O'Clock In the city hall.
The erection OF q telephone line be-
tween Denver and Boulder has begun.
The high winds Of last evening Sc
verely disarranged the draperies about
town.
Highest temperature yesterday 68o;
lowest 42o; highest velocity of wind SO
miles an hour.
In Denver, one Quong Hi draped his
laundry on account Of the death of
President Garfield.
Yesterday was q special day at the
depot. Four special car in one day
area numerous showing.
The regular quarterly concert Of the
Presbyterian society will be held in the
Presbyterian church tomorrow even.
ing.
The opening Of the EmelIe Melville
opera season in Salt Lake was post
poned out OF respect for the death Of
Garfield.
No. 4 yesterday took east four empty
coaches, a portion Of the Mormon train
which passed through to Salt Lake the
other evening.
The New York Herald appeared 10
full mourning-every column rule
turned. But 1t is only . country
paper, you know.
Jacob Hughes, the man who received
a broken leg recently, while working
On Lapash's ranch, is getting along
nicely. His leg will be saved.
A pigeon shooting match will take
place ut 2 o'clock this afternoon at
Maj. Talbot's. Plenty OF birds and
everybody is invited to attend.
Two Chinese laundrymen of Gunni-
son were cleaned out Thursday by two
Mclean women Of the same profession
VINO did not like the competition.
In the case OF Burton. arraigned for
iobbing the u. S. mail near Alamosa,
Colorado, the jury brought In a verdict
Of guilty, which means u life time.
A very heavy train, and some minor
accidents to some freights, conspired to
delay the arrival Of the train from the
east until five O'Clock last evening.
A case has arisen In the Spanish
%cortes. or congress, that is very similar
to the Bradlaugh case In England. A
member refuses to take the prescribed
oath.
The old sign on the book store corner
has been replaced by a neat, new aud
tasty one from Tuttle's shop. 1t Is q
vast improvement, and a specimen Of
fine work.
E. H. Leibey is building a residence
on the corner Of Mason and Magnolia
streets. 1t will be a frame building
42x36 and n story high.-Fort Col
Inns Express.
The merchants of the city begin to
load the sidewalks with boxes and bales
which is a sign that new goods are in
town for the winter, as the results Of
many visits east this fall.
The Julesburg extension of the UP.
railroad lacks but nine miles of COM
pletion. The new line shortens the dis
lance from Omaha to Denver by sixty
Ave miles with a corresponding reduc-
tion in time.
The man Phillips, who was stabbed
Thursday, is still comparatively COM
Portable and may recover The per-
petrator Of the crime has not yet been
and the officers are on his track,
aud their search will probably DO sue
cessful.
The meeting Of citizens called at the
city hall this morning at IL O'Clock will
be n for the purpose Of making ar
engagements for Mondays programme,
which day memorial service will he
held throughout the country, as show
ing the respect and love we bear the
memory of the martyred Garfield.
1t is stated ON what is believed to be
good authority, that o. H. Rothaker
and Eugene Field, president and a
aging editor Of the Denver Tribune, have
been indicted by the grand jury for
libel, and that Mr.. Rothaker, now In
the east, has been telegraphed for to
to Denver immediately Den
YER Neus.
The Weekly Sun has gone back on
the daily. and Is in mourning. Either
the Weekly is a country paper" with
a ''vulgar display of black lines, or the
Sun folks have realized that there is
not "a professional journalist" running
the daily. At any rate it is a confess
sion Of error that also indicates that II
the occasion should occur again, the
daily would mourn with proper re-
spect.
A number Of young men have been
the matter Of organizing a
gymnasium, for several weeks past. and
last evening a temporary organization
was formed by electing ]. G. Baird,
president; J. B. Pollard, secretary, and