The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-09-16
N MENTION.

Omaha begins next Monday with let
ter carriers.
The present month sees the red har-
vest moon,
Omaha is full of visitors to the state
fair, women's suffrage convention &c.
Trees out of the reach of the city ir-
rigating bitches are perishing with
thirst.
The present dry time breaches a
sermon for private wells and wind
mills.
Yesterdays shower was gladly wei
coined by the parched town and land
about.
A number of Cheyenne's business
men are in the east. buying goods for
the fall trade.
A brakeman, Shannon by name, fell
from a freight train at Silver Creek,
Thursday, and was killed.
The grocery firm of McGregor &
Trevette, corner of Eddy and Seven
tenth streets, has been dissolved, Mr..
Trevette retiring while Mr.. McGregor
will continue the business at the old
stand,
Yesterday, was placed on record at
the County clerks ONCE the location of
notice Of a mill site neal Hartville in
the Platte canon district, the l~ocators
being, John Eames, V.IK, Hart and-J.
S. Bartlett.
A large number Of excursionists ar
rived from the west yesterday, consti-
tuting Utah's delegation to the Denver
exposition. An extra Pullman was at
tached to the Denver Pscicfc train to
accommodate the party.
Boomerang: r. Galbraith and wife
sail from Glasgow, Scotland, Fri
day, for New York and Laramie.
They will return on the same steamer
they went on, the Bolivia, and will
reach home about October LIST.
A body of American citizens, free
and independent. in exciting times.
f1ops around like a hen with its head
cut of. A head is necessary to a pub
lie as well as a human body and in
this case two heads are not better than
one.
Mr.. VIM. Sheidley, of Sidney, Neb.,
was among the prominent cattle men
here. He reports everything flourish
ing very nicely in that section, but he
thinks they have been having a little
too much dry weather .-DroYers Jour
nal-l2.
The city streets we're never in a
rougher condition than now. The
large amount of excavation which has
been going on during the past season
has scattered gravel along the streets
which add pebbles to the accumulated
dust and makes travel unpleasant.
Mr.. o. Swift. the agent of J.J Ston-
er, states that subscriptions enough to
insure the completion of the project of
issuing a photographic bird's-eye view
of Cheyenne have been secured. The
copies will be delivered as soon as the
the work of printing them can be done.
A systematic course of pilfering fruit
cars on the U. P. freight and passen-
ger trains has led to the issuance of an
order requiring an inspection of all
fruit cars at Sidney, North Platte,
Grand Island, Omaha, and Council
Bluffs. Conductors are held RESPONSE
BILE for loads. and pilfering employees
will be dissmiSsed.
A boy named Loud, appeared before
Justice Bean, yesterday, upon the
charge by Geo. Z. Parker accusing him
of stoning his house; a change Of
having been taken from Judge Slaugh-
ter's court. The complainant mot zap
pearing the case was dismissed and
judgement for costs entered up against
the complainant.
The LEADER desires to acknowledge
the receipt of a copy of the compiled
statutes Of Nebraska at the hands of
the able compiler, Hon. Guy A, Brown,
OF Lincoln. Mr.. Brown has been
~singularly successful in eliminating the
NClpIuBO AAohi Nv lhWo anu DICStnJllk
them in a concise and m%ethodical man
ner. This index, too, is a marvel of
~exactness, a fact, which lawyers ap-
preciate next to good work in the text.
Even in the midst of this extremely
dry time when water is practically non
est and danger of fire is imminent,
people are EXTERNALLY careless in the
use of the destructive element. Thurs
day night, near midnight, the wind fan
ned up a flame IN q bed of Goals where
VIC kmen had been melting lead or at
tending some work for the Stebbins &
Post building. Observers extinguish-
ed the fire with water else a dangerous
flame might have been kindled as the
place abounded in loose shavings and
chips.