The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-09-20
KNOB nIENTION.

The n. L. company ship from this
point on the 22nd inst.
Sturgis & Co., have 100 cars ordered
for October shipments.
The prairie fires seem to be far more
formidable than usual.
Three drunks constituted yesterdays
police court business.
The Laramie City brass band will
give a grand ball on Oct. 90.
F. E. Warren is having a stone walk
placed in front of the Fisk block.
Machinery for the Hartville Smelter
is in the railroad yard in this city.
The Keogh RIOS. nave disposed of a
large number of their large drive of
California sheep.
There was no meeting of the city
council last evening because of lack of
a quorum of members.
Yesterdays D. P. train brought in ten
emigrant passengers for the west, and
50 first class passengers.
Laramie City experienced a freeze
Sunday night which covered pools of
water with a wintery coat.
Monday chronicled another shooting
bee in Sidney in which a sergeant shot
a private in a very effectual manner.
The Frewen's have purchased about
10000 sheep to slaughter at Sherman,
as an experimental initiation of the
establishment.
From the location notices published
elsewhere it is quite evident that there
are those who think Rawhide Buttes a
good camp yet.
The work of changing the old U. P.
telegraph and train dis~patchers' offices
into offices for Gen. Superintendent
Law progressive.
Emma Abbott is singing in Denver,
and the "Old Shipmates" compady has
gone to Leadville. They will reach
Cheyenne Saturday.
Cattle grazing in Florida, the year
round, has been practiced since the
peninsula was first settled by the
S~paniards says a recent writer, on new
ranges.
The U. p. railroad officials are con-
templating abandoning the office of snow
shed Waterman, and putting in cattle
guards to keep stock out of the wooden
tunnels.
The concentration of cattle interests
which has been going on in this terri
tory since the business assumed any
size, has been more marked this year
than eyer before.
From private correspondence it is
learned that our townsman Judge Car
roll, who recently went to the warm
springs near Fort Steele for his health,
is mending most encouragingly.
For Simon-pure Imagination and
patent-applied. for prevarication, the
Boomerang outfit possesses itself OF
the mandatory Of the staff of life,
together with the workmen thereof.
B~aggageman Chas. Hollingsworth
furnishes the LEADER with an item of
news now and then. This time the
item records the arrival of a bouncing
boy in his family yesterday morning.
J. F. Crowley now greets his friends
with a face wreathed in ~smiles-smiles
which are catching, too. Mr.. Crowley
became last night the father of a
healthy ID pound boy who is doing as
well as the parents, and that is finely
indeed.
The LEADER is probably one of a
very few newspapers which receive as
ISOLATED press dispatches illustrated.
Perhaps artistic TENDENCIES at this end
of thel line and a slow report may be
responsible for pictures of Ben Butler,
circus riders and other works of the
imaginative art.
=, 1t is the opinion of many that finer
range cattle will be marketed from the
Northwest this year than last. Upon
the whole rancbmen show a disposition
to market only good fat cattle, but there
have been some very poor specimens
sent in lately. The run of cattle from
the Southwest continues, but it is ex-
pected to slack up soon.-TDroyer's