The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-02-05
DAYS D0INGS.
The MiaHtise OF - Reporters Routine
Duties,

the press. Some have q vague idea
that items are showered upon reporters
like mamma upon the children OF Israel
in the wilderness. But such is not the
case, unfortunately. People are too
apt to refrain from giving any bit of
news they possess, from force of habit,
because they have a notion that the
reporters will get it anyhow. How
ever, the fact is that the news of the
day is gathered item by item, and the
reporters, like busy bees, hutter from
flower to flower, slipping gossip and
substantial ne VS. and carrying them to
those busy hives known as printing
offices.
By the by, an idea occurs 10 the
writer that an inside view of a report
er's experiences for a day would prove
interesting; that a statement of places
visited, names of persons questioned
and the items obtained, would likewise
be instructive. For this purpose we
shall print herewith the leaves of our
notebook for yesterday.
An Itemized Failure.
The first person who came into COLI
sion with the journalistic inquisitor was
the genial Mr.. w. NJ. Mast. Now, Mr..
NJ. has recently taken the cattle and
farming census Of northern Wyoming,
and he is chuck full of interesting and
valuable information. But the reporter
also knew that Mr.. Mast is under oath
bound secrecy until his report is
printed. Quoth the inquisitor:
"Hello, Mast, what's new to-day"
"Oh, nothing strange | believe"
''When will you be absolved from OBJ
legations of secrecy"
"IIanged il ! know" replied Mr..
Mast, ''they say my report will not be
reached by the printers this year, and
l must wait until then. However, the
interior department may use some of
the information in assisting the board
OF Immigration that is to be appointed
for this territory"
"a board of immigration?" qneried
the Faber lend.
"Yes, there is some talk Of it in OFF,
cial quarters. You know that Kabis
has gone to Germany for the purpose
of inducing immigration to Wyoming.
He knows of good agricultural valleys
in this very county that will supply
farms for several thousand people,"
"And you can't give me any direct
information, then"
"No, l am sorry l can't; l must OBJ
serve my obligation"
A Memorandum.
Justice Bean was encountered on the
street a few minutes, and when the
news-extractor vas applied, his honor
replied that a prisoner who was under
arrest on q charge of shooting with at.
tempt to kill would be given a hearing
In the afternoon. A note was jotted
down in the list of memoranda.
The Depot
Tho next point was the depot. No
well regulated and properly balanced
reporter will neglect the depot. You
sec, n number Of items are obtained
here every day, and one meets many
friends and members of the platform
club, and besides, some very handsome
ladies are seen among the passengers
occasionally. The latter are taken in
merely in the line of art, which a re-
porter is sometimes forced TO write
about.
Well, when the writer reached the
depot, there was a good attendance
present. Probate Judge Bergman was
observed leaning against n new sextette
telegraph table that was standing on
the platform.
"Trying to get away with it?"-this,
from the representative of cheek.
"Well, yes" said the judge, II
thought it would be a good thing for
our remodeled Office"
This brought MS into contact with
Manager c. +. Annett, Of the
u. Il. Telegraph once.
lie explained that in making some
needed changes, the old tables would be
discarded and the new one, arranged
for six operators (which had just ar
rived from New York; would take their
places.
by the way, Mr.. Annett, what
changes will the Geographic consolida-
ton make i'll your Office, herep"
From to-day we shall send all COM
mercial business over to the Western
Union Office. You see the A. 81 r.
ceases to have a distinct existence"
: "Well, will the U. p. take any COM
mercial business at all?'
None, except on the liLe from Oma-
la to Ogden, and of course we shall do
all our own business
Does the Western Union gain N
overland wires by the consolidation"
"None; because the A. & p. simply
leased the lines of the U. p"
The Pullman Conductor.
This parsonage is the standing friend,
or, rather, the travelling friend, of the
reporter. He knows the names of dis
tinguished passengers, for they all
journey on the ~sleepers.
Amy n to-dayp" asked tie re-
porter, as he grasped the flesh of the
uniformed boss of the sleepers on
No. 3.
Nobody to-day" Now, there were
really a number of passengers on the
sleepers, but the reporter and conductor