The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-08-19
MINOR M%ENTION,

being enlarged.
MI. C. Trabing is building a fine
residence in Laramie City.
The Fort Laramie district enjoyed a
fine rain storm yesterday.
Yesterdays emigrant arrivals from
the south dwindled down to SIX.
Prof. H. s. Perkins has just closed a
very successful musical season at Clear
Lake, La.
This is not a good time for DER con-
~servative men. The enterprising plant
thrives best here.
The big SHOW, already announced,
will positively exhibit at Cheyenne on
Thursday, August "a.
Remember, that so far as Sells
Brothers vast menagerie and circus is
concerned, all other shows simply do
not exist.
The Laramie City Daily Times has a
new city editor in the person of Chas.
F. Wilson, of Denver, Mr.. DeCourcey
having resigned.
The baying hounds, the popping fire.
arms, the eccentric Marks and his
fully an eccentric donkey are IN the
road headed this way.
Good wages are offered but men do
not respond in Truckee-in Trukee.
Lumbermen are scarce and hard to find
in Truckee-in Truckee.
One reason why Cheyenne is growing
so solidly and will continue to do 80, is
that our solid citizens are demonstrate
ing confidence in the city. They point
the way for capitalists to follow.
]. H. Hopkins has established a tie
camp on the north fork of the Poudre,
10 miles from Rustic, and will fill the
contract for furnishing $4,000 ties next
winter.-Fo Collins Express.
The Episcopals of Fort Collins will
have a new church ediice on the
corner of Oak street and College
avenue 1t is proposed to use the old
church for school purposes.
1t is stated'that there are 400 acres
of potatoes planted In Virginia Dale,
and the yield will be many thousand
bushels. Two men are named whose
crop will aggregate 1000 bushels.
Workmen are rapidly finishing off a
store in the Stebbins & Post building
for occupancy by Mr.. Ulman that
work may be commenced IN the Fergu-
son and seventeenth street corner.
A daughter of j. Il. Cornforth, now
IN Denver, claims to have been the first
white child born in this territory. We
have no reliable data as to the name of
the first papoose, or the color of its
eyes.-lBoomerang.
An event has occurred in the family
circle of Thos. Durbin which wreaths
his face with smiles and causes him to
appear unusually pleasant. The event
is a promising boy. All concerned are
doing well.
The new sidewalks in front of the
residences of Messrs. Post, Swan and
Annette have every appearance of be-
ing fine institutions. If they prove
as durable as they are smooth and
even, they will be lust the thing.n
When a certain man got a charter for
a street railway in Denver a few years
ago, he was thought to be crazy. But
he made a fortune out of it. Perhaps
the man who asks for n similar fran
chise for Cheyenne would also be
termed crazy.
1t is stated that the Union Pacific
opens up its Gunnison line to Parlins
on the 10th. 1t will be into Gunnison
itself within a month. The track of
the Oregon Short Line Is now seven.
teen miles west of Montpelier and will
reach Soda Springs by the LIST of Sep
TENDER.
Depot Policeman Thomson has not
yet ''put that uniform on" but he has
hung out a ribbon upon his hat which
makes him all the more a target for
the thousand and one questions with
which over anxious travellers always
lombard those who will give them the
slightest opportunity so to do.
j. T. Clark. of the Chicago, Milwau-
kee and st. Paul railroad, once the D
ular general superintendent of the
Union Pacific railway, arrived last
evening on a special train and was re-
aaiuad urfth Oaa, a,-oo -.