The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-01-13
MINOR MENTION.

ly these days.
Invitations are out for the Burn:
banquet.
The stand-on-the-street young mai
isn't very busy these days.
Denver clamors for a skating rink
They need a little Cheyenne enterprise
down there.
An effort should be made to number
all of the houses in the city. Many o.
them were never numbered.
Judge Parks, appointed to Wyoming,
served on the bench of Idaho from
March, '63, to April, '65, when he re-
signed.
Il is Commissioner Hathaway whose
office is to be supplied by the special
election in johnson county, MIR. Hath.
away having resigned.
A new furnace and rolling mill COM
pany has been organized in Denver. The
works are to be completed and in run
ing order during the present year.
The people of Denver are in a guam
dairy a to whether they want the city
hall of stone or brick. 1t is plainly in
timated hat there is a $15, 900 steal in
the matter.
Highest temperature yesterday, $50;
lowest, 80 highest velocity of wind,
16 miles per hour /; mean temperature,
100; mean humidity, 80 per cent; melted
snow, .01.
The offices of the governor and secre-
tary of Arizona territory are vacant,
and hsYe been for some time. There
are IA dozen candidates for the COVER
norship.
The meeting was we'll attended at
the reading room last evening notwith-
standing the cold. Meeting tonight
again, to which everybody is invited.
Come and take part in the bible read
ing.
The Choctaws, Of Indian territory,
still vigorously protest against any rail-
road having the right of way through
their nation. To force the matter Is to
create a great deal Of trouble for the
future.
A western congressman, who has
been an intimate friend and follower of
Blaine's, writes to a friend in this city
that Arthur is showing himself to be
such a good fellow that they will have
to keep him in view for 'S4.
The strange disappearance Of NJ.
McElvoy, cabinet maker at Camp
Carlin, last Saturday night, is as yet
unexplained, no trace of him having
been found after careful search, and
his many friends have almost come to
advance the theory of suicide.
The Gentlemen's driving park, of
Denver, was sold on execution on
Wednesday last, Hallack s. Howard
becoming the purchasers, for S1,10o,
subject to certain trust deeds amount
ing in the aggregate to $4,000. The
Gentlemen evidently proved to be very
poor i~nanciers.
The Illinois state peniteutiary au-
thorities have offered to take all Of
Wyoming's convicts sent up for periods
of six months OF more, and keep them
gratuitously during their term Of SER
vice. The convicts are to be delivered
at the door Of the penitentiary. The
offer carries with it a guarantee to give
each discharged convict a new suit Of
clothes and $40 in money.
Now that the plumbers In the opera
house are busily engaged in their work,
it is not out of place to suggest that the
building committee should take some
precautions in case of fire, by placing
suitable plugs and hose in the interior
Of the building, as may be done with
but little expense, and should be done
at any expense. The recent terrible
theater disaster at Vienna has awaken
ed the municipal authorities In the
various cities TO the provision for the
safety of large audiences in various
amusement places, aud no less pains
should be taken here in Gtting up snd
making this In all respects one Of the
finest theaters in the west.