The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-07-12
mIhOA MENTION.

The Odd Fellows met last night and
installed officers.
Why cannot Cheyenne be lighted by
electricity or gas.
Ben Zallinger has been made city edi-
tor of the Denver News.
John T. Raymond's engagement in
Denver has proved a decided success.
This makes Griscom's forty-ffth
day. As a faster he Is a decided sue
cess.
The latest in mining circles is q rich
strike Of carbonates, in the Black
Hills.
Charley Goodseh came in from North
park on Sunday, and win go out again
to-day.
C~hicago's mortality list swelled up
to over 500 last week, sunstrokes caus-
ing many deaths.
The valleys in and around the Black
Hills have been blessed by an abund-
ance of rain of late.
The Middle Park mines are looming
to the front. There are some rich true
assures in that new camp.
Private residences are springing up
all over the city. This is an unmistak-
able evidence of prosperity.
Mr.. George Garrett, Of the Laramie
Boomerang, came down on a visit Sum
day, and will return home to-day.
Eureka papers announce with joy
that the building of the Eureka and
Colorado River railroad is assured.
The Denver Republican contained a
cut of the proposed new court house
for Arapahoe county Yesterday MORN
ing.
Cheyenne t~ransacts more business as
compared to its population than any
other town or city in the United
States.
The fremen's tournament will be
one Of the most interesting and excit-
ing eyer held in Cheyenne, from pres
ent indications.
Ex-Attorney-Genera Devens visited
the court house yesterday, and COM
plimented the officials highly on the
building and management.
A war between France and Italy
would not be a bad thing. That is, it
wouldn't increase the number of organ
grinders In this country to any extent.
Peter Anderson passed through
Cheyenne yesterday for Ogallala, to
purchase a large number Of cattle to
add to his herd in northern Wyoming.
Rev. o. l.. Fisher will preach at the
NJ. e. church this Tuesday evening.
The fourth quarterly conference for
this station will be held at the close Of
the sermon.
The Greeley, Salt Lake & Pacific
railroad has let a contract for forty
miles Of the grading. The road runs
from Greeley via the Poudre canon to
the Pacific slope.
In consequences Of the Sunday school
convention at Laramie, the meeting of
the teachers union bible class is post
poned till Friday evening at 8 O'Clock
p. m. in the reading room.
Near Hustled, on the D. & r. G., a
~lunatic laid down on the track with
suicidal intent, but the train was
stopped and he was taken off. He re-
fused to utter a word, so that he is not
known.
"a pound of pluck" said General
Garfield long ago, sis worth a ton of
luck" 1t was a sort of prophecy of
the situation Just now. In the struggle
with death all that a man is counts for
him.
There are s~ixty-one inmates of the
county hospital, at Denver, at the pres
emit time. Once last winter the number
reached ~ninety-eight. That was the
largest number ever boarded at one
time In the institution.
At a meeting of the American
Fourth of July committee at Salt Lake,
Saturday, 1t was determined to hold a
rousing celebration when President
Garfield had passed the critical stage,
to jolify his safety from the assas-
SINS power.
Says the Teller Times: supt. Lafe-
yer has received instructions to put all
the men to work on the mines of the
company that he can work to advant-
age and profit. This will give employ
ment to a great number OF men, and
give our mining interests a fresh i'm
petus.
An unknown man assaulted o boy
named Harry Craft, on Sixteenth and
Wynkoop streets, Denver, last evening,
and after brutally beating him pitched
him through n window, the glass cut
ting a painful cash In his ride sight.
The wound bled prcfusely. and medical
aid had to be summoned. The man
who made the brutal assault made his
escape fore the police arrived upon the
scene.
Says the Black Hills Times: Tues
day night and Wednesday morning the
parched valleys and whitening cattle
ranges were revived by q steady,
soaking rain, which was badly needed.
Providence has favored us this season
at the very critical moment when we