The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-10-04
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THURSDAY, OCT. A, 1888.
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last Of the week.
The Union Pacific train from the
west was an hour late last night.
Yesterdays wind had one good effect,
it cleaned the streets thoroughly.
The ''Serious Family" last night was
a serious matter indeed for the com
pany.-
Katy Putnam is expected here about
the 18th or 10th instant. She needs no
commentator as an actress.
The National Park hotels, which
have been open since August /, will
close at the end of the month.
The Union Pacific company have re-
duced the rates on first-class ores from
Butte to Omaha from S22 to 800 per
ton.
Officer Nolan arrested two colored
women Tuesday night as disorderly,
and yesterday they paid SIS each at the
Justices court to get free.
Officer Sullivan is improving in health
but it will be some time before he is
able to resume his duties. He will be
welcomed warmly On his return.
Preparations are being made to fur
nish the electric light in the sleeping
rooms at the Inter-Ocean hotel, and
several have already been put in.
The highest temperature yesterday
was 4So; lowest, 400; mean tempera-
ture, 42o; mean humidity, 81 per cent;
highest velocity of wind, % miles per
hour; rainfall, .02.
A Chinaman employed at Dyer's no.
tel has beer arrested for stealing soap
from the laundry, bis thefts having ex-
tended over a considerable period, and
he will be tried to day.
The ladies of the "Working Band,"
connected with the Congregational So
ciety, will meet at the residence of
Mrs. ]. S. Taylor at 3 O'Clock this
Thursday afternoon.
A new mining district has been
formed about seventy-ive miles north
of Green River, and about twenty-five
miles north of Big Sandy station IN the
overland stage line.
Wind and rain made yesterday dis
agreeable and recalled 10 the mind of
the average young man longing
thoughts of the ulster which he pawned
to supply his best girl with ice cream.
The performance at the opera house
last night, while really meritorious and
worthy of a better recognition at the
hands Of the amusement-goers of Chey-
enne, was poorly ~patronized. owing to
the inclement condition of the weather.
Special cable reports to the Drovers
Journal indicate a heavy supply of
American aud Canadian cattle, and
prices barely steady at 10 cents per
pound, dressed, for choice cattle.
Sheep higher; tops, IA cents per
pound.
Evans, Colo, has a murder case,
Peter Clark, of Denver, having been
shot and instantly killed in a saloon in
that place by a half breed, while trying
to stop a quarrel. The murderer is
now in the Greeley Jail and l~ynching is
talked of.
The difficulties that Contractor Ryan
has met with in the construction of
the sewerage thus far, would have APP
palled an ordinary man, but we are
safe in saying that the work is moving
right along and will be a satisfactory
job when finished.
The firm of d'Hemecourt 81 Bailey
will superintend the construction of the
big ditch on the north side of the Platte
river, to be built by the North Platte
I%rrigating and Ditch company. Mr..
Bailey will go north in a day or two to
begin the work.
Chicago continues to outdo herself.
Receipts of cattle for the week endingsI
September 30, were As, so head, exclu-
sive of l no calves, making the largest
receipts of cattle on record. The pre-
vious banner week was. October %,
1882, when As, 2S6 cattle arrived.
A laborer named Moore while assist
ing in tearing down the ruins of the
old Star restaurant wa injured by an
iron bar falling and striking him in the
face, breaking and cutting the nose
badly. DR.. Marston dressed the wound
and otherwise attended Il the injured
lar
John STANDARD, a married man who
some weeks ago left Omaha and his
wife and took another mans wife with
him, has written his wife from Chey-
enne to come and join him. He has
found out that his old love is the best
after all. Mrs. S. will leave for the
west in a day or so.-Omaha Bee.
The Chicago Herald says: !" 1t was a
hard thing to build a church, a harder
thing to pay for it, and a harder thing
still to fill it, is the disheartening re-
mark of a WORKOUT preacher at Chey-
enne, Wyoming territory" Respect
fully referred to our n~eighbors over the
hill for observation-disclosures.
We are requested to deny the state
ment that an insurance company is
trying to rebuild William Lindemyer's
building, the fact being hat MI. Lin
demyer received the face of his policy
on October 2, 1888, from the Fireman's
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