The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-01-15
HIEoH M~ESTION,

The club house will soon be COM
pleted.
There are 102 lawyers in Denver, and
others are still flockipg in.
The trains yesterday were '~'stale,
fiat and Improbable to the newspa-
per prilgrims.
Highest temperature yesterday AZ;
lowest 10; highest velocity of wind Sc
miles per hour.
Work on the Baptist church is at "A
standstiIl owing to the general consid-
erness of the werther.
Mayor Carey is fastening back TO
Cheyenne and is expected to arrive in
the city tomorrow or Monday.
Cheyenne can boast of more good
looking young ladies than any other
town of its size in the far west.
The weather was good enough yes.
terday for what there was Of it, but
then it was a little more rapid than
necessary.
Corners, the Denver policeman, will
not be permitted to engage in any
wrestling matches while a member of
the force.
A regular meeting of the city fire de-
partment will DO held on Monday even
ing for the election of officers to serve
during the ensuing year.
Invitations have been issued by Wy
oming C~ommandery No. 1, Knights
Tcmplar, for their seventh annual re-
ception, Friday evening, Jan. 81,
1881.
The Laramie Times is getting TO be.
somewhat thin in some respects. II is
very hard TO learn anything in regard
TO what is going on at that place from
a perusal of its columns.
W. =. Carroll on yesterday received
a call from citizens Of Buffalo City and
johnson county generally to locate
among them, and quite liberal induce
ments were offered for that purpose.
The city council met last evening as
a c%anvassing board and found that the
gentlemen were elected who were men
toned in the Wednesdays LEADER as
being successful in the election of
Tuesday.
The warm winds which we are get
ting from day to day are favorable for
the stock on the plains as they melt the
snow everywhere. Taking it all In all
tile winter thus far during the present
winter has been quite favorable for
stock.
The members of the bar of Cheyenne
talk.of more effectually perfecting the
organization which now exists and ar
ranging for stated meetings for useful
purposes during the balance of the
winter. The idea is a good one and We
hope to see it acted upon.
The small boys, and, for that matter,
some of the older boys, are beginning to
get just a little excited over the appar-
ent determination of the proper author
tiles TO more efTectually enforce the
school laws. We predict that there
viii be a radical change in regard to
this matter in avery short time.
The opera house scheme seems to
have died out altogether and it looks
very much as though the plan suggested
by some of purchasing the Presbyterian
church building rs soon rs that church
gets ready to build (which will not be
very long will be the final sequel of the
opera house business in Cheyenne.
Somehow it appears to be a very bad
thing for newspaper fellow to make any
complimentary mention of a young lady
or anybody else, for that matter. Do
this once and the reporter may u well
make M hiss mind first as last that
thereafter he will be looked upon
simply as IN individual whose business
it is to puff people up and entitled to
no consideration whatever. In other
words he is supposed to do such things
rs a matter of course; at all events this
appears TO be the opinion of some peo-
pie.
The high art mania is cutting high
jinks in Boston, and the house painters
have become confirmed impressionists.
a Highland district man who wanted
his house re-painted, called upon n of
the craft. "Well,n said the painter,
what's your taste? | can give you a
harmony in green and white, or a SYM
phony in lavender and brown, or u noe
turne in yellow and blue" And the
householder, whose life had been given
up like that of the condition of the
races of mankind, was terribly embar-
rased, and obliged to say he didn't
know
Denver Times: Gov. Pitkin will leave
the state to-day in order that an oppor-
tunity may be afforded the Hons. Tabor
and Wolcott to test their claims to the
lieutenant governorship in the courts if
they so desire. His excellency does not
wish both gentlemen to assume the du-
ties necessary during his absence, but
merely for each to approve one voucher,
both of which will be duly refused pay
ment, and thus the matter be brought
before the supreme judges for final set
Element. Should the gentlemen refuse
to act, the governor will wash his
hands Of the whole matter, and the