The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-10-24
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ported on the Chug yesterday morning.
Prof. Robinson will have dancing
this evening. The new quadrilles now
taught.
Who is more sprightly than Katie
Putnam? Ssllies of wit bubble forth
from her in a never ending stream.
Owing to the number of amusements
tue Cheyenne literary society have post
poned their regular meeting until No
vember 9Th.
That hunting party did not start for
Fort Collins last night as expected, on
account of the severe weather. They
will probably go down to-day.
G. e. Strom has re-modeled his place
OF business on Fifteenth street, put
ting in a new front and otherw wise i'm
proving his store and saloon.
The train dispatchers on the Union
Pacific must have slept unusually sound
on Sunday night, as all the trains were
on time Monday except No. 4.
A sixteen-year old Swede, named J.
c. johnson, fell under a freight train
at Laramie recently, crushing his left
leg 80 that it had to be amputated.
There will be a meeting of the ladies'
guild at Governor Hale's this after
noon ut one O'Clock. Gentlemen are
invited to come and spend the evening.
A man named James Feeney was
stabbed in the back at Laramie, In a
drunken row Sunday night, by w. H.
Loyett. The wound is painful but not
dangerous.
The highest temperature yesterday
was $40; lowest, 23o; mean tempera-
ture, 22o; mean humidity, 76 per cent;
highest velocity Of wind, II miles per
hour; melted snow 10.
Our mucb-talked of and greatly need
ed Jail is yet to be got. Now we get 1t
and then again we don't gee it. We
have the old reliable telegraph pole,
however.-Carbon correspondent.
Cheyenne is an excellent show town
until Manager Rhodes deluges us. The
prospects, however, are good for the
presence of a galaxy OF talent never
before seen west of the Father of
waters.
A message received from Sheriff
Sharpless yesterday, stated that he had
unwittingly passed the perpetrators of
the outrage at Schwartz's ranch, but
had found where they were and would
probably capture them soon.
The plank sidewalk in front of Con-
yerse's stable on the corner of Seven
teenth street, is badly 10 need of re-
pairs. Perhaps it would be cheaper to
fix it now than to stand a suit for dam
ages after some one has fallen through
and broken a leg.
The telegraph worked badly last
night. For some time no communica-
ton could be obtained with Omaha,
and for several hours no press dispatch
es were received. Ice on the wires and
unfavorable a~tmospherical conditions
were the cause Of the trouble.
Henry Ritterling, OF Fort Laramie,
was married yesterday to Marguerite
Hairs by Rev. E. S. Chapman. The
fair bride came all the way from Ham
burg, Germany, to meet her ~expectant
lover, and they were married immedi-
ately upon her arrival in this city.
Mr.. S. H. Kennedy, of the wool mar
ket, and Mr.. Castlemaine, the Chicago
tanner, will arrive tomorrow, to start
up the tannery at Gloversville, near the
city. They will also decide as to wheth-
er or no the glove and mitten factory
will be rected.-Boomerang.
Only one mile of grading remains to
be done on the Oregon Short line, which
takes the road to Burnt River canon,
its terminus for the present. 1t con-
meets there with the Oregon Railway &
Navigation company's line, which road
will not be completed, however, for
several months yet.-Boomerang.
1t is reported that the people living
in the northern portion of Sweetwater
county will soon begin circulating a
I%etition for signatures, asking the legis-
lature to make a new county out of
northern Sweetwater and Uinta coun-
ties, which is to be called Lander coun-
ty, and to have the county seat located
at Lander.
]. T. Foster left a pair Of horses
standing in front of the Inter Ocean
yesterday, and they took a notion to
have a little trip on their own account.
They ran down Sixteenth street at a
lively pace and finished up by plung-
ing into the open sewer at the corner
Of Eddy street. They were hshed out
without serious injury.
The Carbon mines are producing
more coal just now than ever before in
their history. Carbon is consequently
growing, and as a consequence No. 2,
the gsntlemanly agent there, Mr.. G. G.
Randall, is so crowded with work that
he doesn't even have time to button
his ~toothpick shoes or properly adjust
his crushed strawberry tie.-Boomer-
ang.
Yesterday morning a stranger went
into Gray 81 Pearse's drug store and
called for a lne porcelain crucible, one
capable of sustaining a high degree of
heat. He answered very we'll to the