The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-06-27

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AANAAf ~ NSHASNH A"S NANNSH AaS N@'
assumed a very respectable size, and
the foliage of which form a very prom
inent feature in a bird's.eye view of the
town, rustic delightfully."- in the breeze
about the only rustlers in Laramie; to
which may be due the slow growth Of
the town compared with its natural
advantages and the advantage of being
a favored railroad town. AS Il rule,
the business men there seem to be very
conservative. They have made most of
their money (of which there is consid-
erable) from the slowly accommodating
profits of trade, and are as slow to in
vest in what, while promising large re-
turns, may involve considerable risk; had
Laramie a proportionate number of the
live. energetic business men of the en-
terprising stamp which characteriLus
the business men Of the Magic City,
they might use their stamps to more
advantage for the town. There are eX-
ceptions to Laramie's conservative rule,
and to these m or two is due to a very
large degree the progress and prosper
ity which the town is making.
w, H.. Holiday is doing much for the
town by an enterprising investment of
his abundant means. The new Holt
day block, in which Laramie's theater
will be located, is a very fine block, in
deed, and IN imposing building. 1t IS
built three stories high, and the first
and second stories will be devoted to
the histrionic amusement. This build
ing would be a credit to any town.
There seems to be a deal of build
ing doing about town in the way of
small dwellings aud larger residences
scattered around the business portion
of the city.
A great deal of attention has been
paid to ornamenting private grounds
and improving the appearance of the
streets, which attention, supplemented
by an abundant supply of water, has
been successful in producing numerous
Gne lawns and long lines of thrifty
shade trees-a very pleasant diversion
from the dun-brown m%onotony of this
prairie country.
Judge Blair is in the town. We met
him at the Thornburg. He was la
menting the recent long succession of
storms. Said he, in reply to a sugges-
ton of ours
"Yes, those eastern storms have
been awful, perfectly awful but our
storms here have been equally fearful
in their results. TO be sure. there has
not been that loss of life which has
hung 80 many of che Iowa door-knobs
with Grape, but"-and his voice sank
into a whisper, so earnest was he
''but the way the wind has ruined the
circus bills is terrible, just. terrible
Last evening, IS | was walking down
by the bill boards upon my usual twi-
light rounds, will you believe it, that
beautiful exhibition of the show print
ers' art, representing the beautiful
and shapely riding astride OF
four fiery, untamed steeds abreast, has
been utterly demoralized The wind
has torn off the scanty skirts which
so ftfully Gliding to her graceful form,
limbs, 50 she hangs over the similarly
dilapidated coursers with II wonderful
disregard of the laws of gravitation
If these winds continue they will tear
of the scanty remainder Of her more
scanty wardrobe, and one of her arms,
perhaps, and then | shall have to re.
frain from walking in that part Of the
town! could summon up courage to
witness the loss Of the arm with Chris
tian fortitude, but
And here the judge became so
affected that he could not give utter
ance to his thoughts, and after dealing
out as much ready-made consolation as
we thought he could bear, we van
dered out into the dusty gusts of cool
Laramie air and reflected upon the
peculiarities of people in general, and
the idiosyncrasies of Wyoming judges
in particular.
Tie boomerang is very pleasantly
located in u very fine block, above
Knadler's livery and every time that the
latest apprentice takes a rig to go out
on a picnic with some other fellows
girl, Barrow gets off a rig IN HIM about
''using the livery of Knadler to serve the
devil in with all the sanctimonious
gravity of a man to the m~anner-born,
Nye is east now-Bil Nye-loOking
about for a postotice appointment
which is wandering about there, so
says the Times, SAID appointment being
somewhere in the neighborhood Of st.
Paul, Judging from the location Of the
Bill. In his absence the office is not
badly d~emorallZed, but rum along in
the rut, as from shear habit.
The Times is about to move across
the street from its present quarters into
larger and more convenient rooms n
story nearer heaven, a move which
may elevate Laramie journalism out of
the street personalities which have
heretofore afforded recreation and copy
for the contemporary editors on dull
days. From the endearing comments
which each paper applies to the other,
we might judge that the rival locals be-
long to the same church. This we
know to be untrue. Each has an indie