The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-05-15
MINOR MENTION.

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pushed vigorously.
LIENS are scarce and the prospects
for sensations bad.
A number of young girls are disap-
pearing from Leadyille.
Laramie City raised g. 900 to subsi-
die the stage line to North Park.
A man named B. /. Pratt committed
suicide in Omaha on Thursday last.
The anthrax cattle disease at Council
Bluffs and Omaha is being stamped
out.
Highest temperature yesterday. TSP;
lowest, 400. Highest velocity of wind,
20 miles per hour.
The visiting school teachers who
came to attend the institute have hied
themselves homeward.
The Mastodon minstrels, under the
management of j. H. Hayerly, will
show in Cheyenne on the 23d.
The Denver Times says that a nail
factory will be erected there this year
and in operation before December.
The Utah & Northern road is in good
shape again for travel, all the III effects
of the big washouts having been cured.
Green River is substituting the only
physician in town. Green River has
but one lawyer now-the county attor-
ney.
A little Cheyenne boy has discovered
that Adam and Eve were never babies,
because there was nobody to nurse
them.
Betty Ditto, alias Betty ssThe Same y
was arrested by Officer E. s. Smith yes
terday, for breaking a window on Six
tenth street.
Commodore Trufant's appointment
as superintendent OF the union depot al
Denver, has been confirmed by the un.
ion depot management.
A large number Of reserved seat.
have been sold for the "Widow Bedott''
show tomorrow evening. Secure your
seat while a choice remains.
Trickett, the Australian oarsman,
who was defeated by Hanlan in Eng
land, is coming to the United States to
participate in sculling ace
Denver proposes to purge itself NOR
ally. But then this means that only
the poor offenders will be cleaned out.
The rich mes can 60 on as usual.
Constable Nolan bagged a tramp
named Carl Bennett, yesterday, and he
was given a dose of ten days by Judge
Bean. He will do duty on the streets
to-day.
Passenger traffic yesterday: No. 3, 10
Cheyenne, 81 Colorado, Sc through;
No. 4, 8 Cheyenne, 16 Colorado, 3S
through; @. c., II Cheyenne. 4 east,
6 west; d. p, o Cheyenne. 4 east, Z
west.
The lecture, peculiar People" by
one of them,(J G. Baird) will be deliv-
cred in the Presbyterian church on
Tuesday evening next. Tickets, %
cents; for sale at Hollis. Proceeds for
the benefit of the W. C. T. u.
The Ease of C. A. Hoyt VS.. the The
City of Cheyenne, being an action to
recover the SUM of 800 damages for
injuries sustained by plaintiff by reason
of an alleged defective sidewalk, was
tried before Judge Slaughter yesterday.
Decision reserved until Monday after
noon.
BY reason Of heavy blasts in the Ra-
cine Boy mine at Silver Cliff, large stones
are hurled into the streets. The Pros
pect says that on Thursday a large stone
fell in the midst of a party of GENTLE
men who were standing in the street
talking.
The nomination Of Hon. John E.
Davis for city council is a good one.
Mr.. Davis has had much experience in
parliamentary bodies and will bring
ample capacity to fill the position, If
elected, which now seems assured. He
has served two terms in the city council
and has also represented this county in
the legislature, In all places of trust
he has always been faithful to theinter-
ests Of his constituents. No better man
could be selected for the position.
WARD MEETING