The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-03-26
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The &equlttsi OF young kalloch
seems 70 give general satisfaction.
Highest temperature yesterday. $50;
lowest. 80; highest velocity of wind,
20 miles.
Ten cars of young blooded cattle
passed through yesterday bound for
Colorado.
No. 3 train got in at ten O'Clock last
evening and brought twelve passengers
for Cheyenne.
A bookkeeper in Denver got away
with eight hundred dollars Of his en-
ployers' money.
The southern tra~nscontinental roads
do not seem to cut in on the Union Pa
cifc travel any.
4 temperance exchange asks: '..Why
win a man drinkp''- We suppose it is
because he is thirsty.
Landlord Jones, of the Union Pacific,
brought out three frst-class eolored
walters from Chicago yesterday.
1t is stated that the steamer Great
Eastern has been chartered for ten
years to transport live cattle from
Texas and Brazil to England.
The John A. Stevens company will
not appear in Cheyenne this evening
as they accepted a propositionto extend
their engagement in Sal. Lake.
The talk of moving the capital Of
Colorado from Denver To- to- any
other city, is simply talk. And ohey.
enpe stands about as good a show as
Colorado Springs.
The .. X. club, composed of masters
AND misses, gave a social hop at the
Dramatic theater last evening. 1t was
well attended and an enjoyable time
was spent by those present.
The ra file for the fine large oil paint
ing at Dale creek will take place this
evening at the Railroad house, begin
ming at z O'Clock. There are a few
numbers left; price n dollar each.
A Denver correspondent says that
the loss on cattle will be under ten per
cent. throughout Colorado, and that
one-lfth of the sheep are gone. This is
by no means as bad as has been feared.
The statement Of the First national
bank, published elsewhere, is an excel
lent one, as usual. This fine institu-
ton is well managed, and is as solid as
the granite strata that underlie our
hills.
Passenger traffic yesterday: No. 3, IL
Cheyenne, 60 Colorado, II through;
No. a, 4 Cheyenne, @ Colorado, %
through; G. e., 6 Cheyenne, 8 east,
A west; D.SP.,7 Cheyenne, II east, A
west.
Freight for Denver is coming in
lively. There were over 100 cars in
Cheyenne yesterday, all heavily loaded,
billed for Colorado's capital. The
freight blockade in the east caused the
rush here.
The Salt Lake people appreciate the
Stevens company so highly that they
insisted upon them staying there until
tonight. Hence their entertainment
in Cheyenne is postponed. The date
will be announced hereafter.
Mr.. Geo. NJ. Jones reports that there
is an immense amount of snow all over
Iowa and Illinois. The Northwestern
road experienced much trouble with
snow on Thursday, and yesterdays Nc.
8 waited over seven hours on that
account.
The Frenchman who owns the herd
of camels ranging on the eastward in
the valleys bordering the Carson river,
will utilize his ''ships of the desert"
this summer in carrying goods from
the terminus Of the Carson and Colo
RADIO railroad into camps far out in the
wilderness. The camels now number
about forty, all but two or three of
which are natives Of Nevada. In our
deserts these animals find grasses and
bitter and prlckly shrubs and plants
suited to their taste, and probably the
same or varieties Of the same plants
that grow in other desert regions of the
earth. 1t is less trouble and costs
much less to grow camels in Nevada
than to rear cattle in the Atlantic
states.
Mrs. Homespun threw down the pa
per and pulled off her spectacles with
a vicious jerk. ats perfectly scand-
'lousl" she exclaimed. "For my part
1 can't see how any respectable woman
could ever wear such a thing as that.
When l vas a gal We used to wear low
necks and short sleeves, bu. mercyl''-
and here she cast a whitening glance at
the paper in her lap before fiinging it to
the floor. .'Why, what is the matter,
auntp" asked Cicely, picking up the
paper. "Matterl matter just look at
that fashion plate there, If you arc not
ashamed to look at it. 1t is perfectly
scand'lous, / say" Why, aunt" said
Cicely, her eyes brimming with fun,
THAT is only a liver-pad pictured" ~
don't care what kind of ~new-fangled
name they give to it," persisted her
aunt; ''it's %scand'lous and d%isgraceful,
and no woman that's got a spark of
modesty about her would wei be seer
In one of them