The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-06-09
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Look out for a wedding or two be-
fore long, as they are sure to come.
The district court will sit to-day to
dispose of some United States cases.
Prayer meetings were held in most of
the churches in Cheyenne last evening.
The movement to organize Crook
county, it is said, will be pushed in
earnest.
Highest temperature yesterday. 80;
lowest, 4So. Highest velocity of wind,
30 miles. Rainfall, Is of an inch.
Judge Bean sentenced Thos. Dud-
ley to ten days. Imprisonment on a
plea of guilty to a charge of petit lar
ceny.
Laboring men are engaged among
the immigrants as fast as they land at
Castle Garden, and are sent west to
work on the railroads.
The lecture by Lieut.. Schwatka at
Fort A. Russell, this evening, will
doubtless be largely attended. 1t will
prove very interesting.
oHieer ingalls, arrested a mule and
a COW yesterday-the former for using
obscene language and the latter for
creating a disturbance.
1t. ~Schwatka, the famed Arctic ex-
plorer, will relate his hunting expe-
r~iences in the Arctics, in a lecture at
Fort Russell this evening.
1t is the time OF year for tramps to
be represented, but they seem to be
quite scarce this season, or at least they
give Cheyenne a wide berth.
While we are having SO many shows,
concerts, ETC., why don't somebody get
up a grand ball, it would at least be q
change, If not for the better.
When the Denver reporters can't find
anything else to Ego for,u they attend
spiritual seances. As a class, reporters
are generally spiritually inclined any
how.
The inmates of the county Jail at
Denver, have established a system of
laws for their own guidance, and q
court and proper officers to execute
them.
Laramie City, too, has also caught
the disease-we e the opera house
fever, and the papers up there talk as
though the. people meant business.
GOOD enough"
Work is progressing vigorously on
the Julesburg branch of the Union
Pacigc, some 200 men being nov en-
ployed. This road will leave both
Greeley and Evans out in the cold.
Passenger traffic yesterday: No. 3, 4
Cheyenne, AZ Colorado, So through;
No. A, 10 Cheyenne, IA Colorado, 81
through; C. c., Cheyenne, 10 east, 0
west; d. p, 7 Cheyenne. o east, 8
west.
The success of Il firemen's tourna-
ment in Cheyenne on the great Fourth
is already assured. The committees
and leading firemen are all hard at
work, and the people are nobly backing
them.
Affairs in Judge Beams court Lave
been quite lively for q day or two, and
in fact business must be good with the
judge all the time, for he has doned a
bran new and elegant suit Of summer
clothes.
Judge Slaughter, the territorial SUI
p~erintendent of public instruction, has
received the returns provided Tor by
law from all the counties of the terri
tory except Uinta. They will probobly
arrive to-day.
The district court will convene again
this morning at nine O'Clock, at which
time the criminal campaign will be re-
sumed, All jurors should take fair
notice, and be on hand promptly at the
hour indicated.
A very refreshing shower occurred
Yesterday evening between six and seven
O'Clock. A fair quantity of rain fell,
and for a time there was considerable
Emusic in the air" in the shape of
thunder and lightning.
The meteorological table published
elsewhere, is a valuable one, as it gives
the records of the past ten years. Our
readers will appreciate the enterprise
of Sergeant McGovern, the signal Off
Ger here, in compiling these tables
monthly.
While the 1remen of Omaha we're
practicing with the Pompier scaling
ladders on Monday last, an accident
befell two of them, named J. 7. Baird
and II. Kroitsh. They were seriously
hurt by falling, and the latter is deemed
seriously injured.
Several FIRE companies from abroad,
including the Bates and Noodle Fish
er, of Denver, one company from Boul-
der, one from Golden, two from Sid
ney, and probably others, will come to
Cheyenne on the Fourth to participate
in the tournament.
Messrs. Ed. Rose and f. S. Smith
have swelled the contributions for the
fremen's tournament to s1,145. These
gentlemen deserve great credit for their
good work. BY the way, there will be
organized a gang of antiques for the
parade on the Fourth.
Articles of incorporation of the Mis-
scuri Pacific railway company of Ne