The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-05-10
U ABOUT US.
The Drift of Fact and Gossip In Our
NeIghboring Towns.

NeIghborInE Towns.
A Welsh society has been organized
in Denver.
DR.. Solomon Treat died in Denver
Monday.
The Denver pest house has Is small
pox sufferers.
Lawrence Barrett is coming west,
BE is at Omaha at present.
The meeting of the Denver Jocky
club commences Saturday.
The Colorado Methodist Review is a
new UNCONVENTIONAL weekly in Denver.
Stevenson, of Salt Lake, was victor in
the recent walking match in that city.
The anniversary of the birth of
Thos. Moore will be celebrated in
Omaha.
The old directors car of the U. P.
BY. is being remodeIed into a day
coach for use on the line.
The Homestake mining company has
aled a contest against the application
of the Lead City town site.
Omaha has a railroad reading room
designed for the roadmen and ~inaugu-
rated by the Y. NJ. q. A. of that city.
Denver has been experiencing a brief
famine during the past few days. AS
high as ST on the hoof could have been
commanded Sunday.
Mrs. Brinkley, wife of the superin-
tendent of the U. P. car shops at
Evanston, made an unsuccessful at
tempt al suicide Friday morning last.
But 40 miles of track remain to be
laid on the Burlington & Missouri ex-
tension to Denver. Work is being done
from and towards Denver and it is ex-
pected that the last spike will be driven
by June LIST.
Eliar Perkins will lie about Fort Col
Inns neighborlng towns Saturday
night. At his next stop he will lie
about Fort Collins. He has a faculty
VI iJihB abouO OllO COuulJ Guudl W a
arst-class vagabond's.
The employees of the Utah G Wynn
ing railroad Office are enjoying them
selves to the utmost, bat will soon have
to take the road for a summer in the
mountains, re%surveying. stalking the
route, etc.-IOgden Pilot.
Texas cattle in order are being rush.
ed forward to Chicago and an early
market at remarkably good prices aver
highest 'S1 quotations. All things
seem to promise now a most favorable
season for stock growers.
Eastern railroads will help the Min.
ing exposition project by making heavy
reductions in freight rates on all arti.
cles intended for exhibition. Letters
received yesterday by the exposition
managers, say that the Baltimore &
Ohio will make special rates on arti-
cles shipped from Ohio and Indiana:
that the Lake Erie & Western will
make special rates from all points; and
that the Chicago & Grand Trunk will
return articles brought over their line
free of charge.-Denver Republican.
The president has granted a respite
in the matter of the sentence of Crow
Dog, to the 7th day of July, 1882. Thus
is being perfected the full6llment OF
our prediction that he would never be
hung for the offerse Of which he stands
convicted. He is likely to cut no high.
er a figure in the premises, than that OF
being a defendant in a test Ease where
by the government is to extend its juris'
diction over that class of offeuses.-
Black Hills Times.
The Ute reservation, about which
there is SC much discussion, comprises
about one-third of the entire area of
Dakota territory, or some 45, 900 square
miles. 1t extends from our southern
boundary to the northward, spanning
about two-thirds Of the distance from
the southern to the northern bounda-
ries. This vast area Is occupied by
some 5000 Indians, young and old, OF
an area of some six miles square to
each person in tine nation. 1t contains
an average of more arabic land than
any other section of the territory, SINH
lar in extent, besides it is all splendid
ly adapted to grazing purposes. The
extinguishment of the Indian title and
its aqusition to the government do
mains, has now become a,political nee
essity to tire geucraf-severnmeDt, and
financially so to the Hills and all of the
country westward to the Pacific coast.
AT present it is but a financial octupus
stretching across a worlds commerce.
Wonderful Power.
When a medicine performs such cures
"a Kidney Wort ia constantly doing H.