The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-06-21
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your nickels for a circus ticket.
Highest temperature yesterday. 80;
lowest, 53o. Highest velocity of wind
81 miles per hour; rainfall, Is.
The friends of Conkling are very few
in Cheyenne, but those who sympa-
this with him, are very positive in
their ideas.
The No. ! round up was at Hazard
on Sunday and will proceed up Crow
creek to the foot hills, where the round
up will be finished.
Sailing OH Lake Minnehaha has got
to be very popular of late, and many of
our people are availing themselves of
the privilege now afforded them of TAX
ing a sail.
In consequence of the dedication ser
wees at the Baptist Church, the teach
ers' union bible class Is postponed to
Thursday evening, at eight O'Clock, at
the reading room.
Remember the Halleck q Howard
sale at the McDaniels warehouse to-day
at one O'Clock pm. Every business
man, and especially those dealing in
liquors, etc, ought to be present.
Col. Emery is a man of very positive
ideas. On Sunday he listened TO the SER
mon Of Rev. C. NJ. Sanders, and now
insists in most positive terms that it
vas the best sermon he eve heard de-
livered in Cheyenne.
A large party of the friends Of Mr..
and Mrs. Max Idelman met at their
residence Sunday evening, and a very
pleasant time was the result, which
was made lively by the splendid music
furnished for the benefit of the gather
ing by Mr.. Idelman and Mr.. Edward
Kaufman, one of the brothers of the
bride.
Governor st. John, of Kansas.
claims that already the prohibitory
liquor law of that state has proved a
grand success. In Topeka, a city Of
10000 inhabitants, he says there has
DCtn bul OnC aiiOob vi vi unhGnuloo
since May II, when the law went into
effect. and that wal a nan who got
drunk on bitters.
"Clara Belle" the lady correspond
ent of the Cincinnati Enquirer, who
writes from New York, says: "Do you
know what a martingale ISL 1t is that
lnots ~ tho rams 80 TIM ar,au krn.rh
which the horses tail is thrust, and it
serves to hold the whole toggery of
straps back in place. Well, women
wear martingales now"
A grand time Is anticipated by all
lovers Of good horseflesh during the
races on the LIST, I'd and 4th of July
next. There will be a large crowd in
attendance, and "A host of visitors from
abroad will swell the number to greater
proportions. The management of the
Cheyenne Driving Park Association is in
first-class, experienced hands, and our
people may, therefore, anticipate q
glorioust time.
The Lacy boys of Madison, Wis,
went to a m%enagerie and became filled
with the idea of starting a beast show
of their own, using such material as
was within reach. They painted
stripes on a white pony for a zebra,
sheared the hind half of a big New
foundland dog for n lion, cut off the
four legs of a calf for a kangaroo, and
were about to make a tailless cat by
chopping, when their father dis
covered them.
Among the events of the present
week will be the opening in Boston,
says the Journal, of an iron-bound
chest, which wa closed, locked and
riyetted fifty years ago, with the in
junction that it was to be opened by
the family in June, 1881. What the
chest ontainsis-anknown to the own
ers, and as there are but two heirs, a
division of the spoils will be readily ad-
1t is supposed to contain coin,
and it is hoped that a missing title
deed will be found which will settle, or
unsettle, several titles.
The fight between the Sioux and
Crees, reported by telegraph last week,
appears to have been between the latter
and Sitting Bulls band, twenty-eight of
the band being killed.
The Crees are a tribe of British Am
erican or-more properly speaking
territory Indians, who have
not, for long years at least, left the do
lniaion of the great mother except on
some snch foraging expeditions a those
Of last autumn, when they came south
to the line, and met some rowing Black
feet in hostile encounter. They are
represented as nomadio in habit, and
declining to have an abiding place fixed
for even a short time, but appearing at
Fort Ellis or Walsh with the usual
regularity when the periodical distribu-
ton of ammunition and clothing, food
and hunting implements takes place.
Athletic, brave and Unborn with hatred
the Sioux, that they should sieze any
to fight them is not strange,
and it becomes probable that Sitting
Bull and his band, who. on leaving the
vicinity of Woody mountain, travelled
east of north to Gu 'Appelle
postofice, a mail trading station on a
stream of the same name, emptying into