The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-07-15
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The town was well filed with
freigthers yesterday.
The mormon question should be at.
tended to at once.
The Laramie fire companies will eel
e1rate August 4th.
The Stockade postofice is no more.
General James did 1t.
The Pueblo Chigtain is writing ny
the Colorado milli0naires.
The sidewalk in front of the opera
house site is being torn up.
Another excursion party left Chey'
enne yesterday to recuperate.
A rich strike is reported in the Car,
Donate mine on Grand river.
Good reports continue to reach the
city in regard to the c~opperopolis
mines.
The Pail Mall Gazette thinks that q
financial crisis is approaching In the
United States.
A party Of eastern railroad men are
expected to passthrough Cheyenne soon,
Ell route for Salt Lake City.
Wyoming should have a press associ.
alton. The scribes could then meet once
a year and eat. drink and be merry.
A gentleman who had taken toe
much ''cold tea" yesterday, came neal
getting into fight with IN inoffensivt
stranger.
The Boulder railroad war is ended
and the Union Pacific and Denver
Western and Pacific have compromis
ed their trouble.
Maud s. beat her own time OF 2:10I
at Pittsburgh, on Tuesday. Her re
cord now is 2:103. For further par
ticulars see the article on the second
page of to days LEADER.
Passenger traffic yesterday: No. .. {
Cheyenne, 80 Colorado, 40 through;
Nc. 4, 10 Cheyenne, Is Colorado, &c
through; c. c., 10 Cheyenne, so east, IL
west; D. r., IL Cheyenne, 10 east, II
west.
Highest temperature yesterday. 100. 80
lowest, $40; highest velocity of wind,
~ miles per hour. The next highest
temperature recorded at this station
was 9So. in July, 1874. The highest In
summer here, averages about 94o.
Visch peregrinated yesterday in q
state OF undress peculiar to the back
woods of Kentucky. He had little OIL
but his shirt, that is, little to speak Of.
II to-day becomes as warm AS yesterday
was, he will be liable to leave his shirt
of. But he's cool. all the same.
10oto degrees in the shade. This Is
the hottest record of Wyoming since
the signal Office was established. II
seems as IL the crust between this
town and that internally hot place,
which Bob Ingersoll says 1t isn't, is
growing extremely thin.
By reason of a reduced appropriation,
the commissioner Of pensions has re.
commended the discharge Of over one
hundred clerks. The business In that
department is fearfully behind now,
and one can well say that 1t will go
still further behind when the reduction
takes place.
The flremen were out in bold array
last evening and did some excellent
running. The hose companies made
their coupling without accident, aud
the hook and ladder company put their
man on top the ladder In u short time.
The iremen are in good trim for the
tournament.
The Laramie Times says The fire.
men of Laramie held a melting las,
evening and it was decided to send o
competing team to Cheyenne on the
21st Of the present month. 1t was also
agreed to celebrate in this city on the
4th Of August. An invitation has been
extended to the Cheyenne irc depart.
ment to participate.
A man Ia Denver named McLearn,
who lives at No. 342 Wasoola street,
attempted suicide Wednesday night BY
cutting his throat, but was prevented be.
fore be could do himself any INJURY.
Heis suffering mentally, and that was his
second attempt to commit the rash act.
Officer Cooney was called to the house,
but friends took charge of McLearn,
and he was not arrested.
Don Carlos Velasco began his fourth
of July address In Tucson thus: "When
the New England colony proclaimed its
Independence it numbered but about
8 ,000, 900 inhabitants. The orator was
about as badly mixed up as Cannon
was in his address on the Sd. when he
thought the shooting of Garfield was
because the people Of the state Of ILL
nols broke up the nest of Navou outlaws
in Illinois.
Says the Burlington Hd,okeye solemn
ly: "Yes, daughter, you should go
somewhere this summer. You cannot
stay at home during warm weather and
live. To be sure your mother, who
hasn't been out Of town since she was
married, can stand it, but then she is
old-fashioned and doesn't know N
better, and besides she has fun enough
doing the washing and ironing. by all
means 60. Get a linen buster and a
blanket, and 60 at once.