The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-02-26


journ sine die to-day.
Judge Bean was loading up three
wagons for a ten horse team yesterday.
The days are growing much longer.
The sun now rises at 6:3S and sets at
$40.
The fee bill will come up for argu-
ment and decision in the supreme court
this term.
The prices of staples In Deadwood
have advanced owing to the snow
blockades.
Highest temperature yesterday $50;
lowest temperature 37o. Highest We
ocity of wind, % miles per hour.
The Ute treaty was written in sand.
It's a spread out failure-on6 of the
many made by the present administra-
ton.
A shanty is not usually very popu-
lous, but the king OF Ashantee proposes
TO put $4,000 men into the field against
the British.
A lady in San Francisco, whose eye
was put out by q rocket on last Fourth
of July, has recovered 81, 900 damages
from the city.
Edward e. Cheever, who killed Thos.
E. Garland in Colorado recently, has
been bound over in the sum of 5000
for the action of the grand jury.
A bill is pending in the Pennsylvania
legislature to compel physicians to write
their prescriptions in plain English.
The physicians are moving to defeat the
bill.
And now a scientist arises to say that
that tea-drinking causes red noses. A
million red-nosed men that we know of
will in turn arise and call that scientist
| blessed.
Fort Collins column Denver News:
Maj. Glafcke, of the Cheyenne LEADER,
stopped off on his way home from Dem
YER. The major is m Of the eminent
journalists of this country.
Passenger traffic yesterday: No. 3, 6
Cheyenne, 90 Colorado, 80 through; No.
IA, 8 Cheyenne. Z Colorado, % through;
Z. g., 6 Cheyenne, 8 east, Q west; d.
p, 8 Cheyenne, 6 east, 4 west.
The lot business is growing so brisk
ly in Fort Collins that when a man
buys a lot in the afternoon he takes it
indoors at night to prevent covetous
persons from getting away with it.
Somebody Is playing havoc with the
dogs in town, by poisoning them. 1t
seems, however, that the worthless ours
escape while the ine and valuable dogs
sketch on to" the poison every time.
The furry in stocks in Wall street
yesterday don't worry us any. That's
one of the advantages Of being poor.
We are never harassed by a tumble In
stocks-or a tumble in anything in
fact.
To enjoy a sausage, all that is neces-
sary is faith, hope and charity-faith,
in the sausage; hope, that 1t isn't a part
of your own dog; but IL 1t is, charity
enough to believe that the man didn't
know it.
The Tedmon house, Fort Collins,
Colo, under the management of Mr..
Geo. s. Brown. the experienced hotel
man, is dong o most lucrative bust
ness. The house is first-class in every
respect; finely furnished throughout,
and has large and comfortable rooms.
The attendance is courteous and the
fare is the best. Mr.. Brown knows how
to keeps hotel and the travelling public,
as well as the Fort Collins people have
become convinced of the fact.
When they had finished lunch ut a
certain lunch counter in Cheyenne,
they asked the price. The man in at
tendance said: zone piece of pie, fifty
cents ; n cup of coffee, twenty-five
cents-seventy-fve cents" One of the
party grumbled a little about the price.
Hereupon the old man behind the coun-
ter Strengthened himself up, folded his
arms in a dignifed and said:
stranger, look at me. Do you suppose
I am staying out here for my healthpn
The readers OF the LEADER will re-
member that some time ago it pub
lished an account Of a New York lady
named Mrs. NJ. Z. Potter, who became
engaged to q Mormon in Arizona, and
went on to Silver Reef, Utah, to meet
him. 1t transpires that the Mormon
wooer needed a nurse worse than a wife,
and when the lady found that her at
fanced was an aged and confirmed in
valid, she respectfully declined to enter
the marriage relation. According
ly, she win soon return home to New
York and will remain for a few days
with Mrs. L. W. Mills, an olden time
friend.
A/Mr. T. G. Johnson. the electric light
man, ~canvassed the city yesterday for
subscribers to the proposed electric
light in Cheyenne, and obtained about
twenty business houses. AS soon as
forty are obtained an electric light
"plant" will be put down. The reason
that forty are wanted is that the
machines are made Of forty candle
power, hence there must be 40, 80 or