The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-09-22
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Work on the Rswlins srtesian well
Is fairly under way.
Our exchanges generally went into
mourning on Tuesday morning.
The Laramie City depot is undergoing
repairs and will be enlarged somewhat.
Both the Times and Boomerang. of
Laramie City, went into mourning on
Tuesday.
Highest temperature yesterday 70o;
lowest 40; highest velocity Of wind %
miles an hour.
Goodell's fine new residence on the
hill is awaiting the work of hnishers to
make it one of the incest in town.
An English visitor, fresh from Bow
Bells, said be never saw % much real
estate represent so little godlinees rs
Cheyenne.
Daddy Grimes Is getting out joists
lively for the new opera house. 80 rs
to have them ready for Weybrecht to
push ahead.
The Laramie City Y. NJ. c. A. pro-
pose to furnish and ft up room over
the post office in that city, for q public
reading room.
Specimens OF Colorado wheat received
q special prize offered by the Rural Ne,e
Yorker, for the Ave best heads of
wheat, recently.
As may be seen by the stock sale re-
port elsswere. cattle sales in Chicago
for parties in this section, Tuesday.
were very heavy.
The window and door frames for the
new opera house on the FIRST floor are
being placed in position and the walls
laid about them. The work Is pro-
crossing nicely.
The North Park and Vandalla COM
pany is involved In litigation, parties
having made an application for q patent
for lands including q portion Of the
former company's ground.
The Chinese have hit upon q popular
idea, or is 1t just an expression Of q uni
vtrsal thought II we Americans wish
to speak to some one vi do not know,
we address him as "Oh, sayl" The
Chinese manager for this territory, is
known similarly as Alb Say.
Yesterdays train from the east was
two hours behind again. 1t was q
heavy train, and q slight accident to
No. 4, going east Tuesday near Alkali,
still further delayed 1t. The accident
to No. 4 was merely the pulling out Of
a drawhead, and was but q temporary
embarrassment.
Huntington makes a big threat when
he says the Central Pacific people will
build . rival line to the Union Pacific
and about 100 miles north Of the latter,
1t would have been more effective II be
hadn't said the project would be aban'
doned, provided the Grangsr-O Oregon
extension Of the Union Pacific was also
abandoned. The extension will go on,
regardless of the threats.
Train Nc. z going west from this city
Tuesday met with an accident, which
fortunately did not result In the loss of
life. The engine jumped tho track, and
was going SO strongly that it bent q
steel rail double beneath the boiler.
The engineer ard fireman leaped from
the locomotive in time to escape Injury.
No harm was done, save a 7little shock,
to aught but the rolling stock.
There is a new spiritualistic paper
called the Spirit Telephone, and in the
department devoted to those Of the
spirit land who want to communicate
with this mundane sphere 1t makes
many a Spirit Telephone story-funny
in its absurdity; and some Of the speci-
mems Of poetical and literary genius
which have. 30 1t is stated, found birth
on the other side, would reflect severely
upon the talents Of the veriest school
bow.