The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-12-16
Aaitp Esansr.
SUNDAY. 40, 1883.


umn.
Lots OF fun every evening at the
skating rink
A large lot of fine christmas trees can
be found at MASKS.
The boomerang has added another
column to its pages.
RHODES & Troxell are selling an Inn
mense quantity of holiday presents.
The skating rink is the place to spend
the evening and to have a jolly time.
The Congregational bell was moved
from the old cupola to the new, on Fri.
day.
The witnesses on the Rodgers muir
der case are arriving. They are sup
posed to be here onthe nth.
The lsdies of the Episcopal congrega-
ton will hold a ''cbristmas market" in
Library Hall, on Wednesday evening
next.
About $4,000 stock In the electric
light company at Laramie has been sub
scribed for, and about forty lights en-
gagged.
Leave orders at Mrs. Chains green
houses for holly wreaths, misietoe,
christmas green's, rosebuds and cut
flowers.
The colored people of the city are In
curing as to who the colored man Is
who Is collecting money for a church in
Cheyenne.
Highest temperature yesterday, 45o;
lowest temp, 10o; mean temp, 32c;
mean humidity. SO per cent; highest
velocity Of wind, 30 miles per hour.
The band connectedTw with the Boston
operate minstrels played the tune of
'Garry owen." in front of the opera
house last night. This piece was the
favorite of General Custer.
Artist Asch has produced a spirited
crayon drawing of a calf branding
scene, which Is worthy OF notice. 1t is
life like ana we'll conceived, really q
very creditable production.
1t Ia well to remember that in the
matter Of christmas presents, Messrs.
Rhodes & Troxen invite everybody to
call and see their fine and cheap pres
enta- They are handsome, useful and
economical.
Jolly Jack Friend had better give his
subordinates on the Journal q brace.
Its last issue contains about a half col
umn of news taken from the LEADER,
but credited instead to an obscure local
sheet.
Yesterdays ace was q farce and a
hasco. "Pittsburg'' won the first heat
in LOB. Johnny being evidently
pulled for all he was worth, and then
went dead lame; the q C being award
ed to "Johnnie" on his going around
the track once mort.
MI. W. b. Hackney has Just arrived
from Wyoming. He reports cattle as
more than holding their flesh thus far,
the fall having been remarkably fine.
In the northern partof the territory the
Iange is especially good. and prospects
are generally very hattering.-Droyers'
journal. :
Salt Lake Tribune: Stock men In
Utah are holding on to their cattle and
increasing their herds. hence the num-
Der of beef animals sent out the past
season is much smaller than last year.
The number shipped in 1882 aggrega.
ted about $4,000, and the number
this year will not reach much owe 25,-
900.
Mr. S. II. Kennedy informs US thai
about 5000 sheep pelts have thus far
been handled at the G~loversyille tan
nery-wool pulled and hides beamed,
broken and liused. He is in need Of
more pelts, having determined to run .
few thousand more through the same
process before curing them.+Boomer-
ang.
Returns show that the present yeaI
far exceeds any year In the export Of
cattle and sheepfrom Canada. The to.
tai cattle shipments and for which space
has been contracted In steamships "
the 3lst of December next were 55,874.
total sheep, 113,725. There has been
no appearance of scab since the restrict
ions.
We find in the Indian Farmer THU
statement: A lot of beef cattle recent,
sent from Canada to Liverpool were n
badly housed and accommodated thai
many of them were torn to shreds b,
the horns Of the others, and8the deat
and dying and injured were SO numer
GUS that the shipment was almost a to
tai loss.
There was an error in the Item yes
terdsy US to Cornish, the Bun Dane
murderer. He was convicted Of muir
der In the second degree and not man
slaughter, as was e~rroReously stated
His sentence was imprisonment for lif,
in the penItentiary at Joliet, but sen
tence was suspended pending the revie'
of his Ease by our Supreme court in Jan
uary-
A locally we'll known young ma
walked his horse up TO the fence at tb
race track yesterday and tried to jun
him over it. The horse raised his fort
quarters about a foot and gracefully fe
over on his head On the other side; hi
rider also going out Of tbs saddle hsa
Fret. 1t vas altogether 9 very intsl
sstfng exhibition Of horsemanship-