The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-04-12

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Yesterday was 8 bad day for solss-
of the fest.
The season is not only backward, but
it is backing.
Too much weather to the square inch
in this light air.
Our young folks can travel to May
parties on sleds.
Half Of our exchanges spell the word
gauge" incorrectly.
A fine quality of marble has been
found near Frisco, Utah.
This is a sort of buck winter; the an
tipode of squaw summer.
The stock-growers are rapidly getting
into shape for the round-ups.
The Baptist church folks will soon
give a concert in aid of their building
fund.
Considerable interest is manifested
over the forthcoming new translation
of the bible.
The snow is very good in its way,
hut say, McGovern, ism it being slight
ly overdoneP
The u. p. surveyors car CANT up
from Evans yesterday and went down
to Fort Collins.
Highest temperature yesterday, so;
lowest, 10. Highest velocity of wind,
II miles per hour.
The memory of man runneth not TO
the time when the Missouri was as high
a on Saturday last.
There are two new and bright stars
at Chase's theater Miss Erba Robe
son and Jennie Lindley.
Judging from an item in the Dead
wood Press, gambling is fashionable in
the parlors of that city.
On yesterdays west bound train was
Willie Edouin's Sparks" company,
bound for San Francisco.
The people in Crook county are
watching the organization of johnson
county with much interest.
There will DO a business meeting OF
the w. C. T. IT,. this afternoon at 3
O'Clock at the reading room.
There is a Horton reclining chair car
on each of the Colorado trains now.
They are usually well patronized.
The Black Hills stockgrowers' asso-
citation met on the same day that the
Laramie county association met.
II the amountNof litigation continues
to decrease as at present. there will
soon be one lawyer for every litigant.
The report of Casto's duel on Sand
creek, was an April fool affair. None
but the Laramie papers were taken in,
The Silver Cliff mill has started, and
the Prospect says that it treats ore at a
cost of not more than three dollars per
ton.
The Denver gas works will be doubled
in capacity. The managers have clear
grit TO do this in the face of the coming
electric lights.
The Deadwood Press has been sold
to Jas. s. Bartholomew and George W.
Major, and it will be called hereafter,
the Black Hills Herald Press.
The Kitchen Brothers have pur-
chashed the ground OF the late Grand
Central hotel in Omaha and will short
ly begin the erection of a four story
hotel.
They 10 say that Gov. Ordway ia
much like his excellency. He wants a
change of base, but will hold tight to
the present, for fear the future will
bring worse.
There was a on the streets
yesterday that the Union Pacific bridge
over the Missouri had been washed
away. 1t was not learned how the ru-
NOR originated.
The city of Deadwood has demanded
81, 500 as its share of the license fund
received by the county treasurer since
the incorporation of Deadwood. A le-
81 fight is likely to ensue.
Passenger traffic yesterday: No. 3, 4
Cheyenne, II west, IS through; No. 4,
0 Cheyenne, Q east. 20 through; C. c.,
8 Cheyenne, s east, 7 through; D. p,
6 Cheyenne, S west, 2 through.
The Sidney,& Black Hills stage line,
has been the most reliable mail carrier
in the west. 1t hasn't missed a single
mail all winter. Superintendent Voor-
his should be proud Of such a good rec
ord.
The treasure coach took 1896, 900
worth Of gold from Deadwood to Sid
ney the other day, the result Of a
months cleanup of the Homestake
mine. Wouldn't mind owning that
mine ourself.
Recurring to the comparison between
the two most destructive elements, fire
and water, we are reminded that water
will extinguish fire, but fire can't get
away with water, nor can anything
else, in fact.
A new road is Incorporated to run
from West Cliff, the new town west of
Silver Cliff, and the depot of the Dem
yer & Rio Grande road, over to Rosita,
passing through Silver Cliff. The line
will be fifteen miles long.
HIM.