The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-01-27

w. Donellan will be the cashier.
bThe Homestake mining company Of
Deadwood is about to bilud a railroad IA
miles long to a heavy timber region.
A special c. ID. q Q. car was attached
To No. 4 train yesterday. 1t contained
two Of the directors of the G. b. & @.
road.
That affair at the Hay creek coal
mines assumed the proportions Of a
riot. The matter should be inyesti-
gated.
After viewing the weather one is i'm
pressed with the belief that as the head
of the signal service Gen. Hazen Is not
a success.
At the recent FIRE in Deadwood the
hose was turned on l.. +. Whitbeck,
foreman of the South Deadwood hose
company.
A Deadwood girl aged IL years was
abducted from her home the other day,
and turned up after a long and vigilant
search unframed.
There were lively times at the depot
yesterday. Besides the regular attend
ants there were many passengers who
changed cars here.
The visiting Scotchmen from Laramie
City went home last evening. They
expressed themselves a highly pleased
with their reception and treatment in
Cheyenne.
George Reynolds, the mormon who
was sentenced to two years. imprison,
ment, in the ~penitentiary, has served
out his term and is around in Salt Lake
getting subscriptions for relief.
The two female pedestrians, Mile
and Fannie Christina, came up from
Denver yesterday, and went west. They
challenge any woman in the world TO a
walk Of twenty-four hours or 6 days.
Passenger traffic yesterday: No. 3, 10
Cheyenne, 81 Colorado. 40 through;
No. A., 2 Cheyenne, 0 Colorado, %
through; q. g., Cheyenne, 4 east, .
west; d. p, IL Cheyenne, 80 east, 2
west.
The Brooklyn Argus says: 1t took a
Harvard student only two years to con-
quer Latin, but he was four years
learning to throw the lasso so as to n
able him to ear $50 per month on n
Texas rancho.
There was recently a plot found in
Nevada to capture and carry Off Sena-
tor Fair and demand a ransom of
$500 600. The scheme failed because
Fair failed to 60 to the place lie had APP
pointed for business.
Mr.. John Fraser, ST., will open the
Key City house to-day. lie intends to
set out a good bill of faro and make
table boarding a specially. Mr.. Fraser
has had experience in this line, and will
doubtless make a uccess of the Key
City.
There was a shooting affair at the
coal mines on Hay creek, in the north
ern portion of Laramie county, recent
ly. The parties to the same are all
residents of Deadwood. II tried at all
the guilty parties must be tried at
Cheyenne.
Laramie Times: The new hospital in
this city was formally dedicated to-day,
Father Hayes, Of Cheyenne, officiating
in the ceremonies. The building is now
finished and occupied, but in a very un-
settled state as yet. The Sisters hope
to have everything in good order in a
few days.
Iii is a remarkable fact that our terri
torial library does not possess n single
volume of Wyoming supreme court re-
ports. Most Of the states OF the union
are represented in full on the library
shelves, but Wyoming's single volume
of reports is not to be found there. A
gift from somebody Is in order.
There is n committee OF tar and
feather vigilantes organized in Dead
wood to look after men of immoral
tendencies. After detailing the tarring
and ~feathering of a man, the Pioneer
adds: 1.-THE committee so we are in
formed by a very terse note, have their
eyes upon a certain well known negro,
a lawyer not unknown to fame of a par
ticular kind, q sporting man, and an
other whose Occupation is not given.
Their fondness for children has been
observed, and has afforded a topic for
serious discussion
The picture OF Robert Burns which
was displayed at the banquet on Tues
day evening last, is the property of Mr..
R. NJ. Galbraith, of Laramie City. He
sent it down to be framed and used on
the occasion OF the banquet. This was
done. He admired the frame and was
about to purchase it when he was both
surprised and gratiied yesterday morn
ing by being presented with the hand
some article by the visiting Scotchmen