The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-07-19
MINOR MENTION,

its Monday morning cuts.
Misses Pinneo and Curtis viii ride 3
match in Le&dyille next week.
The Thermometer registered l07o in
the shade at Fl. Collins sunday.
The tournament the p, Hazel Kirke
the 26th, and the excursion the 2sth.
Keeler's pack train viii leave Chey-
enne depot to-day for Fort Mckinney.
Several hose teams and the team of
the hooks were out practicing last ave.
ming.
Vegetables are being hauled from
northern Colorado, to this city to
market.
Firemen should see the notice of a
meeting at the city hall tonight, pub
lished elsewhere on this page.
The Carbon county Journal has en-
tered upon its third year under the
most favorable circumstances.
S. Richard Berlin. a prominent citi-
zen of New York, committed suicide
in Deadwood recently by taking poison.
Bnffaloes are SO plentiful on theLittle
Powder river that they scare the horses
on ranges, and stampede them to the
foothills.
Highest temperature yesterday. 80,
lowest, 629; highest velocity of wind,
l6 miles per hour. Total rain fall since
Friday, so.
Messrs. Sturgis a Lane bought q
band of $500 cattle Yesterday, from
Mr.. Kelly, Of Oregon. The cattle are
Oregon natives.
Stout street, Denver, boasts of a
lad thirteen years old who, weighs 213
pounds, and he is still growing fat,
gaining a pound each week.
John Best, of Central, resigned the
Office of mayor a few days since be-
cause the grand jury indicted him for
selling liquor without a license.
Judge Peck's bible reading Gloss at
the reading room this evening. These
readings are very popular and the I'M
terest In them is growing every week.
Messrs. M. f. Maley and T. Joe
Fisher returned last evening from
Norh Park, where they went on a sum-
mer's tour. They are much improved
in health.
A Harlem man has discovered the
secret of success. He let's his wife
catch him kissing the hired girl. and
straightway she declares she can do the
Homework herself.
Mesrrs. Lear u McGrath will re-
open their old stand on Eddy street
this evening with a grand free lunch.
They still retain their wholesale estab-
lishment in Teller City. Mr.Lear re-
mains in Cheyenne while Mr.. McGrath
is in Teller.
w. J.. Seeley and J. G. Thompson
have returned from Copperopolis and
both have located what they consider
to be good beds Of copper andj silver
ore. They report the miners as being
very busy, and sanguine as to the wealth
of the district. ?
A special train pulled into the union
depot, Denver, Saturday night, having
on board Gen. W. ]. Palmer, Hon. Ly-
man X. Bass, and Messrs. Clark Mel
lon and Charles Kinsley. The party
put up at the Windsor, and left yester-
day morning for the north.
orve Quick. of Fit. Collins, left sud
denly on last Saturday leaving a num-
Der Of persons to remember him, and
passed through this city on the same
day going east. He was formerly a
prominent harness dealer of Collins but
his liabilities exceeded his assets some
what and he consequently skipped.
Tie final arrangements for the tour
nament are being made and every
promise is given of success. 1t is now
probable that eight outside teams will
participate, as follows: Two hose and
one hook from Denver; one hose from
Laramie; one hook from Fort Collins;
one hose from Boulder; one hook from
Golden; n hose from Idaho Springs;
a I'd possibly n hose from Omaha.
The south half of two lots at the cor
ner of Ferguson and Nineteenth streets
has been purchased from Hon. T. Dyer
for the purpose of removing the Presby.
terrain church building thereon. 1t is
calculated to worship in the old build
ing until the projected new one is CON-
pleted, which will be erected on the
present site. Mr.. Dyer dealt gener-
ously with the church folks aud gave
them a fine bargain.
Copperopolls Ore.
Messrs. Dickson & Co. have heard