The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-10-16
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Our mining dlstricts are attracting
much attention from experts
The Rice Evangeline company will
remain in Denver another week.
The Evangeline opera company is
scoring a marked success in Denver.
The musical people of Laramie City
will give a musicale Monday evening.
Prof. jerks, Col. E. P. Snow and ].
B. Adams will go to Silver Crown to-
morrow.
The passenger from the east was late
yesterday on the account of Chicago
connections.
Highest temperature yesterday 44ci
lowest ITO; highest velocity Of wind "a
miles per hour.
From present indications, next sea
sons mining enterprises will be numer'
Gus and booming.
The Plunkett Constellation played
Lost in London" at their Laramie
City benefit Friday night.
The local of the LEADER thinks that
he is a pretty healthy skeleton. but he
isn't built On Visscher's plan.
Omaha has "M'liss'' at the academy
Of music and all who go M'liss-in to o
rare treat, judging from reports.
Laramie City grocery stores will close
at 8 O'Clock evenings after the 18th inst.
The clerks are correspondingly happy,
The Denver & Rio Grande r. r. /:
pushing its extension toward Black
canon and on TO Salt Lake as fast as it,
facilities will allow.
The potato crop in the Black Hill.
seems to have been a success-more SC
than the carbonate crop which had
such an early start, apparently.
The passenger train for the east was
unusually light yesterday afternoon,
there being no difficulty at all in OBJ.
tanning Pullman Accommodations.
Denver promptly made offer of aid to
Kokomo after the recent confiagration,
but the offer was declined with thanks,
as there were no cases of restitution.
Prof. jerks, Prof. Aughey. Gov.
Hoyt, Col Snow and others will visit
the Copperopolis and Hartville mining
regions this week. Prof. jerks is an
English mining expert, with a specially
in copper.
The only p~roffered violence to Gut
teau during his arraignment was from
an over-zealous drunken man, who
tried to borrow q revolver from some
one of the audience. OF course he did
not get the weapon.
DR.. Chas. J. Skinner, of Denver, died
Friday night at his residence in that
city. He had been suffering for several
months from acute blood poisoning, con-
tracted while performing a surgical
operation and died from the effects
of it.
Additional working force has been
put on the Western Union telegraph
work at this point, a party Of men hay
ing arrived from Omaha and Denver.
The work is about twelve hours behind
on account of the break, which has not
yet been fully repaired.
The Denver press is very much taken
up with local politics. One paper
charges another with being a railroad
organ, and they all ~retaliate, "you're
another" Whatever the backing may
be, the people reap the benefit in fine
specimens of newspaper work.
The marriage is announced to take
place between Lieut.. Chas. w. Mason,
of the 4th infantry, and Miss Mamie
Ross, daughter of Capt. F. H. Ross.
Both parties are favorite members Of
Cheyenne society, and will receive the
congratulations of a host of friends.
1t is said that the furniture for
Apostle John Taylor's new Armelia
palace cost $4,000, and it is claimed
that the building cannot be completed
for a less cost than 800, 600, ali of
which must make a pleasant subject for
contemplation to the mormon 1.-THE
payers.
A lady passenger on the west bound
train, asked one of the members of
the depot crowd Friday, ''If there were
many Indians in town." to which the
fellow calmly replied. mo there are
only a few in to-day" And the lady
regained the Pullman car thinking that
the recent storm had made a dull day
for the noble red man.
1t was Officer Smith who arrested the
man for fast driving Friday, and he
didn't pay his $15 fine as promptly as
might be. In fact he thought the city
authorities were to fast" and not he,
allowing he would board out the fine.
One nights lodging, however, in the
city hotel was sufficient to incline him
to pay the fine, which he did yesterday.
Yesterday afternoon a chambermaid
of the Walker house found a bible in
one Of the rooms, with the name of
Bill Nye, Laramie City, inscribed on
the fly leaf. It was probably left there
by the absent minded humorist when
on his last visit to this city. 1t will be
placed in the cabinet among other curl.
o%sities, appropriately tabled. Salt
Lake Tribune.
A number Of spiritualistic citizens
held a seance last evening which was