The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-03-25

WYNN
Ranehmen along the creek bottom
are blowing and sowing.
/ The Denver police are pulling th
Chinese houses OF prostitution.
The store buildings of Cheyenne wi
be lighted by electricity in May.
Our exchanges all speak very highl
of the John A. Stevens company.
The playful road agent is bleeding
stage coaches in southern Colorado.
If Turkey must go to war, she will
soon make oleomargefine of Greece.
A small boy lost his leg under a trail
while playing on the Omaha depo
grounds.
Crabb's wagon train pulled out O.
Cheyenne depot for Fort Saunders on
yesterday.
The Fort Collins Express says tn,
town is out of debt, and has $1,000 In
the treasury.
This is a wonderful administration
Two very important appointments have
been declined.
Highest temperature yesterday $50.
lowest 500; highest velocity of wind "a
miles an hour.
The Stevens company, after playing
in Cheyenne, will go to Denver for a
weeks engagement.
English critics are beginning to as
cuse Punch of copying outright from
American funny papers.
There are 10000 DOL processes for
treating ores, each being cheaper than
any other process ever discovered.
A new track has been built around
the washout near Fremont, and, a a
consequence, No. 3 was on time yester-
day.
Farmers are blowing in Wyoming.
Well, there's some blowing done in the
east, too, but they are using snow
plows.
The m~onotony OF Incorporating min
ing companies in Colorado is varied by
a rush OF railroad construction CON-
panies.
The sewing society of the Presbyte-
rian church will meet this afternoon at
the residence of Mrs. G.. A. Starlight,
Ferguson street.
Denver has an ex-policeman who is
crazy on the subject of religion. The
Denver police force Is liable to make
more men crazy.
At the Presbyterian church this even.
ing there will be preaching preparatory
to communion, and also installation of
officers Of the church. Services will
begin at 1880 O'Clock.
The Cheyenne amateurs returned
from Laramie City on yesterday. They
were honored with a crowded house in
Blackburn's hall on Wednesday evening
and gave the best satisfaction.
Passenger traffic yesterday: No. 3, @
Cheyenne, 80 Colorado. AZ through;
No. a., 4 Cheyenne, @ Colorado, IA
through; c. C., G Cheyenne, 0 east,
8 west; d. p, . Cheyenne, 8 east, o
west.
Germany now ranks third in popula-
ton of the great countries in the world.
The recent census shows a population
of 45, 194, l72. Russia and the United
States stand first and second and France
fourth.
The new code in Indiana, recently
approved by the house of representa-
tives, takes away the jury power to
prescribe sentences, and gives 1t to the
judges, in all cases except those Of a
capital nature.
A speed indicator is being tested on
the caboose Of Conductor Il. +. Craw-
ford. 1t is designed to record the speed
made from station to station on a prop
erly diagramed sheet, and this is filed
away for reference.
Our western word "blizzard" has at
last got into the dictionary. In the
latest edition of Worcester 1t is defined
as a heavy snow storm, accompanied by
a hurricane and extreme cold, which
comes on without warning.
The stiffness Of the night was dis.
turbed at about half past ten O'Clock
by an alarm Of fire, which put every.
body on their mettle, it being the FIRST
alarm for many months. An investi'
CATION resulted in finding that the real
Of the old Eagle house (unoccupiedl
corner Seventeenth and Themes streets
had been set on fire. All the FIRE com
panies were promptly on hand, and the
flames were soon subdued, with bul
slight damage to the building.
Deadwood Pioneer: We have 1t from
good authority that it is the intention
of the cattle men north Of the Nortl
Platte river, to drive their cattle u
Fort Pierre next fall, and ship then
over the Northwestern instead Of driv
ing them east and shipping by tn
Union Pacific road, as they have don
heretofore. The reason for this is tina
they can get much better feed by tn
way of Fort Pierre than by the way G
Nebraska, and their stock will be /
better condition when it reaches ma
ket.
sitting Hull.