The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-05-08

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The Sd cavalry band has q good pro-
gramme for this afternoons band con-
cert.
1t is probable that the .'Plrates of
Penzance" party will soon visit Chey-
enne.
The advertisement of Haverly's
Widow Bedott company appears else
where.
1t is safe to say that 10000 laborers
could find immediate employment in
the west.
Some of the Fort Collins people are
growing mad over the county boundary
question.
1t costs western counties but little TO
prosecute offenders. They generally
plead guilty.
Two classes of men are always on the
strike In this vicinity-the blacksmiths
and drummers.
Two thugs relieved a German emf
grant Of his money in Omaha by knock
ing him down.
Highest temperature yesterday. Go;
lowest, 43o. Highest velocity wind,
p miles per hour.
Who is responsible for the attempt
to deceive the public by publishing only
a part Of the water ordinance?
The water rates fixed by the ordi-
nance recently passed by the city
| Gil, appear elsewhere In this issue.
Mayor Boyd will run his own opera
house in Omaha, and has selected as
manager MI. r. L. Marsh, of Chicago.
There are one hundred miles of track
to lay on the Julesburg extension, and
they will be laid by the latter part Of
July.
Within the past ten years 1890 car
couplings and drawbars have been pat.
ented, yet but five patterns are in gen.
eral use.
The Union Pacific road is negotiating
with Soldene for the lease Of her mouth
for a railroad tunnel on the Granger
extension.
The Saroni troupe is in Colorado
and In imminent danger Of humiliation.
They are endeavoring to escape to the
mountains.
Cannon and other mormons are hard
at work to GUST Gov. Murray, Of Utah.
But they are not succeeding to any
great extent.
A Spanish proverb runs. alive with
the wolves and you will learn how to
how'll That's what the man from
Bitter creek says.
Misses Pineo and Nellie Curtis are
busily engaged in training at the Dem
yer race track. The 90 mile contest
comes off on the Goth.
The city council will meet as a board
of equalization on Tuesday afternoon,
to lear any complaints that may be
made relative to equal!zed assessments.
One of the reasons given for. the
failure to publish that report of the wa
ter ordinance which fixes the water
rates, is that 1t would kill the scheme.
Nuff sed.
The president would nominate his
excellency for the receivership Of the
land office at SItka, Alaska, but is
afraid that the senate might get into
another deadlock.
Parents who obtain poison for YER
min should be careful how they allow
it to lay about the house. A little child
in Denver swallowed some corrosive
sublimate and died from the effects.
Peculiar People, will probably hear
something of interest to themselves by
attending the lecture on next Tuesday
evening at the Presbyterian church.
Tickets, 25 cents; for sale at Hollis.
Passenger traffic yesterday: No. 3. 10
Cheyenne. Z Colorado, 43 through;
No. 4, O Cheyenne, IA Colorado, so
through; G. c., IL Cheyenne, 4 east,
7 west; d. F., 10 Cheyenne. II east, Z
| west.
II our taxpayers, after paying taxes
and water rent under the new dispen-
sation, have any cash left, they will do
well to subscribe to the stock Of the
Cheyenne and Fort Russell horse rail-
road, which scheme is next on the list.
Our readers will observe that in the
schedule of water rates which the peo-
pie Of Cheyenne will have to pay nnder
the new dispensation. there are mini
mum and maximum prices noted. The
former are the rates charged In Denver;
the latter are the rates to be charged by
the new water company. 1t is indeed a
fortunate thing that there Is limit to
these charges.
Do our citizens approve a scheme
which takes away from them the main
water ditch, the two lakes and the ir-
rlgating bitches, which have cost thou.
sands of dollars, turns this property
over to the water company without
consideration, and permits that COM
pany to charge exhorbitant rates for
water used for irrigating purposes and
which is run from these very lakes
through the bitches now owned by the
cityP
chiidren's Shoes.