, 1884-04-22

Meeting with the main on Fifteenth street
is being put in.
The excavation work is completed and
the foundation is being laid for the gas
works, which will be rapidly erected.
The alley in the rear of the the +. T..
Warren Mercantile block is being cleaned
out, and the debris of the recent fire
removed.
1t is proposed that the school observe
next Saturday as 'Arbor Day, in setting
out trees aud shrubbery in the school
house grounds.
There is to be a sociable under the
auspices of the Young Peoples Christian
society at the Congregational parlors on
Thursday evening.
j. A. Borie, station agent, has secured
Il two months lay off. A. &. Chapm,
from Cheyenne, is acting agent.-Sidney
IhmdeaLer Telegraph.
The Denver Republican reproduced in
full the account given by THE LEADER of
the recent encounter with the mountain
lion near Pine Bluffs, in this Territory.
There are twenty-one prisoners in the
County jail at present, and there is no
room for those who are yet to come except
they are placed three and four in Il cell.
Judge Bergman yesterday apportioned
the insolvent estate of Charles Wild, de-
ceased, among the creditors, who get Il
trifle less than thirty-two cents on the
dollar.
The knowing ones say that the value of
real estate south of the railroad track has
increased twenty-five per cent since the
building of the new school house in that
locality.
The new pavement is now all down in
front and to the west of the Catholic
church and parsonage, and is one of the
best and l%evelest to be found anywhere in
the city. -
Some persons who came into the city
with hay yesterday report the roads in a
very bad state for the greater part of the
way from here to the foothills. They get
SIS per ton for their nay,
The performance to be given by Lew
Johnson's Original Tennessee Plantation
Singers will be in some respects the
u%niquest ever given at the Opera house.
No one should fail To attend.
At the land office yesterday three desert
filings Were made, two pre-em ptions
(proofs), one timber culture filing, n
homestead and two applications for min
ing patents, covering in all 2, 100 acres of
land.
There were two pretty important old
DRINKS before Judge Lee yesterday, one
of them wore a uniform but they were
both named Doe. They will Doe Il little
work on the streets of the city for a few
days.
An effort will be made to secure the
services of Rev. Joseph Cook, of Boston,
in the way of a lecture. in the cause of
Christianity and moral reform. 1t is ex-
pected that he will be here about the 10th
of May.
The building which dropped from the
temporary foundation on the corner of
Sixteenth and Ferguson streets on Satur-
day, was raised again yesterday and start
ed on its journey to the western part of
tile city.
leon Geurgc, vino was sent to the
penitentiary for seven years from the Dis
trict court here, and who subsequently
received n pardon through the ~strenuou
Intervention of friends, is again in the
penitentiary.
''Taffy' Thompson was brought before
Judge Fisher yesterday charged with hay
ing imbibed IA little too much ''taffy. "
The Judge was ofthe opinion that ''Tafy'
ought to take a little trip to the calaboosc
and it was so ordered.
Several of the societies and organiza-
tons in Cheyenne that have been invited
to participate in the Decoration Day ex-
ercises propose to set about drilling in
order that they may be a little better pre-
pared for the interesting occasion.
Mr., H. j. Ross has just finished the
job of putting up a telephone line for J,
Pettibone from Fort Steele, south, to
Saratoga formerly Warm Springs, on
the North Platte river. The telephone
now works excellently between the two
points, and the skill displayed by Mr..
Ross in successfully establishing this diff
cult line is much commended by those
most interested.
There was an unusually large attend
ance at the Young people = meeting at the
Congregational church on Sunday evening.
The exercises were conducted by Miss Clara
Stanley, and some remarks made by an
old gentleman, a stranger in the city,
created a profound impression. A. com
mittee on programmes, consisting Of the
Misses Taylor, Stanley and Bullock, and
Messrs. Tracy and Stanley was appointed.
.'.f A Bad Runaway.
Last evening while Mr.. T. Dyer and
another party were returning into town
after a drive in the country and when
near the bridge atthe foot of Seventeenth
street the horses took fright and over
turned the buggy after which they escaped
and ran away. Both were somewhat
bruised though not badly injured, but4up
to | o'clock this morning the horses had
not been found.