The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-10-05
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1888.
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oCNOldl Q SAo ANPH ROA
put up.
A. r, Converse's team of trotters
way photographed yesterday.
A new hack is running on the streets
for the public use, and is reported to
be well ~patronized.
The reward for the body of Mrs.
Herman Hatch has been raised to $500
to hold good until October Z.
Major Talbot has not only succeeded
in raising big potatoes and turnips, but
can boast of a fair crop of apples.
A hundred pigeons have been ordered
by our local shots, and a social shoot
will be held as soon as they arrive.
The town is filling up again with
cowboys and white hats and jingling
spurs are becoming common sights
again.
It.was reported last night that a well
known sporting man had won $1,000
during the day and evening at a local
faro bank.
Rock Creek is a lively place these
days, ninety car loads of cattle were
shipped from there Wednesday, and
nearly as many more yesterday.
Woman's Mission society this after
noon at 3 O'Clock, at the Congregation
al church. Mrs. j. S. Taylor, presi-
den; Mrs. P. F. Powelson, secretary.
The highest temperature yesterday
was $40; lowest, 800; mean tempera-
ture, 42o; mean humidity, so per cent;
highest velocity of wind, y miles per
hour.
Down at Coolidge, Kansas, the scene
of the recent tragedy and attempted
train robbery, the cowboys run the
place. The whisky sold is of a bad
quality, and the ''boys" call it ''sheep
Dip"
The drug store of Gray& Pearse has
received a complete renovation and re-
modelling as far as the interior walls are
concerned. Everything looks new
and rich without being gaudy, includ-
ing the goods for sale.
A change has been made in the trips
of the railway mail clerks west, four
going out with each a and three re-
turning from Cheyenne and the fourth
going on to Ogden, giving all a chance
to see home oftener than before.
W. c. Irvine and z. Bergensen re-
turned this week from their trip to
Nebraska after prairie chickens. They
report the game as not plentiful, but
very wild and far flying. About sixty
birds was. the result of the trip.
john Chinaman, as he gave his
name, was tried before Justice Lee yes
terday for the theft of soapfrom Dyer's
hotel laundry, and fined $40 and costs,
besides getting 10 days imprisonment
in the county Jail. II was defended by
City Attorney Riner.
A long procession of pack animals
and horsemen passed through Laramie
yesterday forenoon. There were 173
mules in charge of thirty-eight men.
This is the party which transported
the presidential party's outfit from
Green River to the Yellowstone park.
They are now en- route to Fort Russell.
Boomerang.
The thing that is likely to hold
freight rates steady on all the north
western roads for the next few months
is the present and prospective good of
ferings of freight. The roads are all
doing a satisfactory business now,
with the certainty of u large increase
as soon as the new wheat crop fairly
begins to move.
There will be an important sale of
thoroughbred cattle at the Kansas City,
Missouri, fair November 2, 3, 8, 6, Z,
and 8, the animals offered being 300
head of polled Angus and Galloway cat
tie, owned by some half dozen different
parties. This will be an excellent
chance for parties desiring to invest in
this class of stock.
Mr.. w. G. Borland has been appoint
ed general agent of the passenger and
ticket departments of the Union Pa
cifc, with head quarters at Salt Lake
City. He will have charge of the pas
senger business in Utah and Idaho, and
in Nevada east of Winnemucca. f.
B. Mcconnell will act as general agent
of the freight department.
Would it not be about the proper
thing for Wyoming to take a hand in
the regulation of charges made by the
Hatch hotels in the Yellowstone
park. AS long as it is a portion of our
territory, it seems to us to be about
the proper thing for the territory to
see that the visitors to this wonderland
are not robbed by extortionate hotels
and livery rates.-Rawlins journal.
Architect Anderson is preparing
plans for a new block to be built jointly
by b. Hellman and H. Lindemeyer on
the site of their recently burned build
ings on Sixteenth street. 1t will be two
stories high, 100 feet deep and forty-six
feet front, and built of brick, with an
iron and plate glass front. The ground
floor will be occupied by two stores,
and the upper story arranged for Off
ces. BY this action an ornament to
that part of the city is assured.
A pretty heavy ranch and stock deal