The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-05-20

GIeAninZS OF ~NeiEhborhoOd News
from Oar ExchanEeB.

Frank Mayo appears in Omaha next
week.
Greeley is increasing the size of its
large hotel.
Silver Cliff will soon have II large
three story hotel.
The Laramie City telephone exchange
starts of with fifty numbers. "
The Comfy Barton company will ap-
pear In Omaha on the 29th inst.
The annual council of the Episcopal
ian diocese of Nebraska commenced at
Omaha Wednesday.
The wyoming" Is tie name of a
new Missouri river steam boat. 1t Is
the largest ever on the river.
The Union Pacific railway will begin
their excursions to various Colorado
mountain towns from Denver to-day.
The sixteenth national encampment
Of the Grand Army of the Republic
will be held in Baltimore from the 21st
to the 23d Of June.
The first boat to go up the Yellow
stone was the Bachelor, which arrived
at Glendive recently, and went on to
Rosebud and Coulson. There were
few passengers and no freight.
The McAulay hose company Of Silver
Cliff will give a grand ball on the oath
inst, for the purpose of raising funds
to place a competing team in the COM
ing Colorado 6remen's tournament.
Mr.. Phillip A. Julien, city editor of
the Denver Evening World, and Miss
Marion V. Beveridge, of Washington.
were united In marriage in the parlors
of the st. James hotel, Denver, Thurs
day morning.
Mr.. ]. T. Dayton writes a friend here
that at least five square miles of coun-
try Immediately surrounding the new
copper discovery south of the city has
been located-mostly by Cheyenne and
Denver parties. -Boomerang.
The completion of the Missouri
Pacific railroad to Omaha was relc.
brated by the citizens of the tera"u af
Omaha Thursday, an excursion OF st.
Louis people joining the citizens of
Omaha In the festivities.
At present the Union Pacific locomo-
tive department has at the shops in
Omaha nearly 700 men, or about eighty
less than there was in February. The
car shops have from 700 to 800 men,
double the number that they had a
year and a half ago.
A special train brought the Madison
Square company from Manitou juno
tion to Denver Thursday over the Den.
yer and New Orleans railroad. The
distance, 80 miles, was made in two
hours and sixteen minutes, and the last
t~wenty-three miles were made in TWEEN
ty-ive minutes.
MI. s. B. Stewart informs us that
the contract for carrying the mail from
Fort Collins to Teller has been awarded
to a Washington party named j. D.
Emerson, who offered to do the work
for 50, 400 per year. Mr.. Stewart will
continue his stage line as passenger and
express business will justify it. He
will also derive toll to amount to about
81, 800 per year from the mail contrac-
tor.-lFort Collins Express.
The woman Sarah Kizer, recently
brought to Laramie City under arrest,
was brought before Judge Nye Thurs,
day and sentenced to six months in the
county Jail for keeping a house of i'll
fame near Fort Fetterman. The case
is almost revolving n in detail, and
the punishment, while the seyerest
under the statute, is altogether incom,
mensurate with the crime, as the
woman engaged all her children in the
~nefarious business, the Oldest a boy
whipper-in, being but seventeen.
Apropos with yesterdays cold
weather is a following correspondence
to a Colorado exchange from a Wyom'
ing sheep ranch: Holidays ranch is
on Dale creek about equally distant
from Sherman and Tie Siding, and
about 1900 feet lower than Sherman,
pleasantly situated in the mountains
surrounded with high peaks and pic.
turesque scenery. The storm lasted
Sunday and Monday, with about four
inches of snow on Tuesday. 1 rode to
Tie Siding in a wagon, and as we neared
the station we found that there had
been a great fall of snow; we had to &C
through drifts six feet deep. Two
engines got stuck nea Laramie and
had to be helped out by snow plows. !
haven't been so cold this winter as
was last Tuesday, IL it was the 9Th
day Of May. We commenced shearing
on Wedne sday and found it uphill
work; the weather being too cold. We
found the sheep in a bad condition,
very poor and badly troubled with the
scab. From ali accounts all fJck5 in
these parts are troubled with the same
complaint.
Money made by buying clothing at
Polack's m2tf