The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-03-02
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souri,.
Omaha is arranging for the paving of
her streets.
Senator Rhodes has purchased the
Fort Collins Courier.
The Deadwood council perpetrates a
circus very frequently.
Very encouraging reports come from
the copper mines up north.
The excursionists are due in Chey-
enn at one O'Clock this afternoon.
Some very important legislation
awaits the action of the legislature.
Denver will be made a port of de-
livery, the bill having passed the house.
The testimony in the Sergeant Mason
courtmartial ease is closed. The argu-
ment will men to-day.
There are fourteen cases on the su-
preme court docket; there were sixteen
last year, and twenty the year before.
The Leadyille correspondent of the
Denver News says the Wyoming visi-
tors took in Leadville thoroughly on
Tuesday night.
Rev. Geo. II. Cornell was on Wednes-
nesday ordained to the priesthood in
Laramie. Rev. 9. H. Seymour preached
In the afternoon of the same day.
do you speak German2" was asked
of n of Laramie's giddy butterflies of
fashion the other evening. mo, but 1
dawnce it," was the reply of the maid
en-.
The Leayitt speciality company is a
good one. The show will b, given at
Library hall, Mr.. Rhodes having leased
1t and contracted to put in a stage with
scenery full and complete.
There was an alarm of FIRE at Fort
Russell Oh Monday night. 1t was
caused by a defective nue in the store
of thu post trader. Although the ex-
element was great for a time, the dam
age was very slight.
A commercial drummer wrote the sig
nature Of Gen Spinner in excellent style
style on Inter Ocean register yesterday.
lie did the same thing recently in a San
Francisco hotel and the reporters were
soon busilY engaged in searching high
and low for the famous gentleman Of
the eccentric autograph.
Our correspondent with the excurters
says that many of the party are sea sick
from the car ride. Well bet seventeen
cents that if 1t is the men who are sick,
the source of their sickness is the ca
bose, and what it implies; If it is the
ladies, they were affected by the high
altitude.
Hotchkiss, the crank who pranced
along Ferguson street one Sunday
morning in Hottentot costume, was
placed in the cooler last night for safe
ty to himself and the community. A
spell had seized him, and his actions
were 30 queer that Officer Ingalls, was
called in. Something ought to be done
for Hotchkiss. He appears to be a
hopeless crank.
Highest temperature yesterday, $50;
lowest, $50; highest velocity of wind, 80
miles per hour; mean temperature,
44o mean humidity. 40 per cent. Else
where-FOIt Washable, at 1:09 O'Clock
p. m. Cheyenne time, temperature, Ole,
wind, west, clear. Deadwood, tenn
perature $40, wind southwest, fair.
Denver, temperature $40; wind east,
fair. Cheyenne, temperature $40; wind
west; clear.
Prof. Aughey, Of Nebraska, tells the
Rawlins Journal that Wyoming in a very
few years will not only be the largest
oil. coal and soda producing region in
the world, but will be the largest gold
producing as we'll. He gives his reason
for believing 80 to be in the geological
formation of the territory, which, he
says, is the grandest n most interest
ing and diversified in the country. He
expects to visit us again next summer,
and thinks strongly Of making Wyom-
ing his future home.
Several interesting neutrality-suspicious.
In Europe are reported. Near Caltani-
setta, Sicily, several caverns have been
found, which are evidently burial places
from the period when the an
Gent Sicilians had already been ousted
colonization had begun. At Nordrup,
Denmark, the remains of seven human
bodies have been found under a few feet
OF pumice stone, numerous bronze OBJ
jects, gold rings, Roman glasses, mos
aics, glass beads, etc., being also dis
covered among the remains.
When our legislators become rushed
with business they might take pattern
after the Canadian house of commons.
. recent paragraph says. lone Of the
most rapid pieces of legislative wotk
accomplished in the house Of COM
mons took place last evening. The bill
granting the bank of Prince Edward
Island an extension of time in which to |
re-establish itself, was passed thr ugh
all three readings in two or three min
utes. The same bill will be passed in
the senate at the earliest opportunity,
the object being to allow the manage
ment Of the bank time to complete GER
negotiations now in progress in
England"
The admission Of Dakota into the
union has heen auraad uDop ao far au