The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-09-15
The political pot begins to simmer.

AhO pOiiIlSat pOb DOBiho w olulllCi.
Eastern grapes are found on the mar
ket now.
The auction bell ladens the air With
its brazeI music.
Gayly the grasshopper thrums his
feathers on the dry prairie.
The "R" is present and the era of
molluscular christianity begun.
Some of the cutters on frequented
streets are in a disease breeding condi-
ton.
Cheyenne is rapidly becoming a town
of fine residences as well as of 1ue bust
ness blocks.
S~tonecutters are still shaping the
light colored stone for the new Presby-
terrain church.
Seagraves has removed his Hill street
store iuto the Stebbins & Post building
adjoining Ulman's.
Twenty-one e~migrants arrived from
the south yesterday afternoon and de
parted westward, no
A large number of the Wyoming ex-
cursionists to Denver returned by
yesterdays D. P. tram.
The passer-by at the school house
hears nowadays the voices of the child
rem singing their school songs,
The train dispatchers are now very
comfortably situated in the east DOM
of the U. P. roadmasters' office.
To-day a big excursion from Salt
Lake and whereabouts will pass through
this city en- route to the Exposition.
The railroad men should organize
themselves into a company of R. r
National guards. All they lack are the
arms.
A passenger on yesterdays No. 8
said that the prairie fire east of US
passed by the train was at least 20
miles long.
r. s. Van Tassell is having a fine
patent stone walk laid in front Of his
residence, and one before E. NJ. Slack's
g n is complete.
Cheyenne is so frequently mentioned
and always with such towns as Denver,
that strangers imagine a city of l 5000
or 10000 inhabitants.
A prairie fire raging in Colorado near
our line joining its smoke with that of
the Sidney fires makes a very misty
distance" out of the eastern and south
ern horizon.
A few days hence and the new fall
style of dry goods boxes will ornament
the sidewalks in front of the various
dry goods stores. They will not be cut
by us this fall.
The pinto hats which are becoming
so popular among the COW boys and
some other boys, appear for all the
world like an old stone 'colored SLOUGH
hshed out of a slime covered frog pond.
The ringing of the auction bell in
spires Cynic to remark, that inasmuch
as most of our desirable young ladies
are disposed of to the highest bidder,
almost any society figure is an auction
belle.
Territorial Secretary Morgan is busy
making out the notifications required
by law to be given the various county
commissioners to establish voting
precincts, &c, for the election of No
vember Z.
Mr.. J. f. jenkins received a telegram
yesterday saying that DR.. Bliss would
not be able to preach Sunday before
the Presbyterian congregation as
nounced, as he had been previously
engaged elsewhere.
The old residence of l. r. Alter
which stood on Sixteenth street has
been mounted on rollers and is journey
ing towards a Seventeenth street loca-
ton. Meanwhile the work OF
ting for "A new residence on the old site
is progressing.
According to a special to the Boom
erang from Fort Steele, Kit Walters a
marker at the military target practice
was looking through a hole in the butt
when a wild shot struck him in the
head, killing him instantly. His home
was in Baltimore.
The continued developments of the
past few weeks in the Silver Grown
neighborhood are very favorable and
seem to warrant the assertions made
that a smelter will be erected in this
city soon. The latest discovery on
Middle Grow creek carries native
copper.
1t would seem that the bill poster
who has been putting up the "Old
Shipmates'' paper, was trying to draw
a crowded house under false represen-
tatlons when he places his starry ban
ner e Sells Bros. circus bells and
leaves intact. 1--WE have the only two
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