The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-08-26
MINOR
A new dry goods firm.

Yesterday was a bad day for railroad
brakesmen.
Laramie City is contemplating a
bicycling club.
Marks and the mule and the dogs
form a managerIe, sure.
Born: Aug. 25th, to the wife of j.
b. Libby, of this city; a son.
Carpenters are laying the second floor
joists in the Masten block.
Workmen will Monday
the removal of the old UlIman market
building to make room for the bank
block.
Justice Bean sent three common,
uninteresting DRINKS to the cooler yes
terday in default of payment of the fine
imposed.
Our dvertising patronage has some
what crowded IL reading columns
this morning. 1t tells of business,
however.
Among others the LEADER hears the
name of Hon. Jno. W. Hoyt, strongly
urged as a candidate for the territorial
delegateship.
Workmen have commenced OF He'll
mans store building adjoining Mas
tens new block, having already laid
the flo >r ioists.
A SIN III whirl of dust for a few mo-
ments yesterday, just to remind US that
this is Cheyenne and we are dust, or at
least, dusty.
Yesterday was the birthday of E. W.
Mills, of this city, and his children
celebrated it in a fitting and pleasant
manner with presents and a social
time.
A lost watch was the Only thing re-
ported as stolen in the circus crowd
Thursday, and that was afterwards
found in the dust where it had fallen,
and returned to the lady who lost it.
DIR. Hayford and Justice Nye now
have the journalistic field to them
selves in Laramie City. The Sentinel
and Boomerang will probable continue
to lie together in harmony as hereto
fore.
Coroner Guenster brought down the
moose which was around Gibbons neck
when he - came to his death - at Rock
Creek. 1t is a genuine hangman's
knot, and must have been made by an
expert Boomerang.
Some enterprising folks in Omaha
asked Hon. Horatio g. Burchard, U. s.
Director Of mints, what the prospect
was for a mint in their city. He said
he wouldn't discourage them, but he
thought a good factory would be of
more benefit to the city than a mint.
e. A. Tucker, the Englishman who
visited the Salt Lake insane asylum,
\ writes: " have during the last four
months. visited four asylums in New
South Wales, three in Victoria, two in
Adelaide, two in Tasmania, three in
New Zealand, one in Honolulu, three
in California, one in Nevada, and the
one in Utah, and in no instance have
/ seen sights 90 horrible as those in
Salt Lake.
Boomerang: In Cummins they had a
sensation the latter part Of last week.
Sam Smith vas shot at on the street by
DIR. Baker, who was arrested and on
Monday placed under $3.50 bonds to
keep the peace. He claimed that
Smith had, while under the influence
of liquor, used insulting language to
his family. Prior to the shooting Mr..
John Baker, a son of the doctor, had
attempted to shoot Sam, but the
weapon was taken from him.
A correspondent of the Salt Lake
Tribune says of the Denver Exposition:
80 far the visitors have been few.
The railroads are bringing three OF
four hundred persons a day at big rates
instead of three or four thousand al
small rates. They are doing their
stupidest to deter people from organic
ing any more industrial expositions in
the Rocky Mountains"
The editor of the LEADER received
yesterday an anonymous letter making
a request for the application of news
in a certain department and containing
a complimentary reference to the i'm
provement in the paper. Due atten
ton will be paid the request. Wha'
value ought to be placed on the com
pliment could have been estimated haC
the writer given his name.
A young yag was brought befor'
Justice Bean yesterday to answer thu
charge brought against him that of get
ting his living and a deal Of dir
without rendering value-received. II,
was found guilty and received an appli
cation of the firm hand OF the Law
which sent him spinning to Laramie
Justice Bean frequently sentence
them to Laramie) but lnasmuch as tn
fellow was a boiler-maker and anxiou
to work, they all are-in their minds,
1t was deemed sufficient punishment t
allow the fellow to stop within the cit
limits without the ypenetentiar
of that moral burg"-humburg.