The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-05-21

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Omaha is TO have a new evening pa
per-1he Telegram.
win there be any races at the Chey
enne driving park this year?
Denver will have a paid fire depart
ment and five or. six steamers.
Highest temperature yesterday, 66o
lowest, 33o. Highest velocity of wint
10 miles.
Many an ofiiceholder resembles /,
point, inasmuch as he has position with
out magnitude.
1t o looks as if the present theate
Will render the building of an operl
house unnecessary.
The people of Silver Cliff will have .
glorious time to-day in celebrating tn,
advent of the Rio Grande road.
The spire of the union depot hotel II
Denver will be 134 feet high and will
be surmounted with an electric light.
The revised edition of the scripture.
was issued to the world on Tuesday b,
the.ton, but none has reached Cheyenne
Most men, who ought to know some
thing new for the reporters, know moth
ing, and it is pretty hard work to know
that much.
There Is a base ball nine in Hayer
ly's Mastodon minstrels. and they ar,
always ready to play against local club.
wherever they go.
lowing to the illness of G.. A. Pieron
net, he was not examined on the charge
of numbering s. A. Graves. He may
waive an examination.
Newspapers are springing up at the
rate of two per day. There will be
over 700 newspapers added to the list
during the present year.
The car has to have every dish Of
his food sampled before he eats it. AS
a consequence about a dozen casters
per month are poisoned.
A large number of ladies and gentle
men went down to Chalk Bluffs yester.
day on a picnic excursion. Another
party has gone this morning.
James C~rothers, a resident of ON.
aha, attempted suicide on Wednesday
by taking morphine, but the physicians
brought him through safely.
First comes spring, then summer,
then more spring, then winter, and
some summer, then a good deal more
but why go winter further details.
A good train load of Denver excur.
sionists will leave Cheyenne this morn.
ing for the purpose of witnessing the
great 20-mile race between Minnie
Pinneo and Nellie Curtis.
A party of Englishmen were on board
OF No. 3 train yesterday, bound for the
Yellowstone park region, to look fol
a suitable cattle range. They contem,
plate putting in a big herd.
The city council met yesterday after.
noon as n %canvassing board, and found
that Hon. John E. Davis had beer
elected unanimously to fill the position
of councilman from the first ward.
Passenger traffic yesterday: No. 3, II
Cheyenne, sc Colorado, % through.
No. A., l Cheyenne, 3 Colorado, 81
through; C. c., o Cheyenne, 6 east
west; d. p, II Cheyenne, IA east, :
west.
1t is thought that Billy Leroy is a,
the bottom of some of the stage coacf
robberies in southern Colorado. He /,
the man who escaped from q Kansa.
Pacific train while EN- route to the peni
Tertiary.
The board of directors have not We
received a satisfactory sketch Of al
opera house. The architects are a
work on sketches and, as o as on
that is appropriate is made, the regula
plans will be drawn.
Silver Cliff has just organized a com
pany OF militia and calls it the INC
Medley Guards" after Gen. J. T. Nc
Neeley, the well known attorney there
The guards are named after a fine an,
worthy gentleman.
Some time ago Jay Gould summone,
a clerk from Omaha to do some specia
work, which occupied six weeks, an,
as he babe him good by said: IN,
cashier desires to see you" The younI
man called, and was surprised to re
ceive a check for 49, He remon
strated, saying he had not earned II
butthc only answer was: 1.-THE old ma
has given the order, and you mus
take it,"
A Saguache special to the Denve
Republican says: Reliable information
from Los Pinos agency says that SHAY
anaux, chief of the Uncompaghre Utes
was at the agency a few days ago an,
stated that the Utes would probabl,
not submit to be removed to the new
reservation because there was no grass
there. To show that he was honest IL
his convictions, Shavanaux offered t
bet n hundred dollars that he toli