, 1885-09-15
SHORT STORIES
Gathered by Asking Everybody
What Do You Know"
Things Which are too Little to
Carry a Head.

The schools are going again.
Work on the a~rtesian well will begir
again.
o. n. .. Club ut the West end rink
tonight.
The boys don't give a fire any show
in Cheyenne.
The newspaper or individual that says
THE LEADER is in favor of Chinese labor.
lies.
A Laramie team can beat a Cheyenne
team unfairly in Laramie, but not in
Cheyenne.
The LEADER is opposed to murder,
arson and pillage, even if the victims are
only Cinnamon.
The b. II. L. Society will shortly give
a delightful parlor concert at the Congre-
g~ational church.
Mrs. Visscher received another invoice
OF millinery goods by last evenings ex-
press from the east.
A large audience attendedMrs. Henry 3
lecture last night at the Methodist church.
Her subject was, what is hat Boy
Worth"
The German people of Cheyenne are
invited to the Mannerchor picnic, to be
given next Sunday provided the weather
permits.
Judge Lee had four cases before him
yesterday, two drunks and two soiled
doves One drunk paid, the fine, the
others went to jail.
Judge Fisher had one ~wrongdoer be-
fore him yesterday. The man was
charged with disturbing the peace, plead
guilty, paid sl3 and went on.
The Signal Service officer reports that
the highest temperature yesterday was
1872; lowest, 44.5 mean temperature;
63.4; mean humidity, 69.3 per cent; high
est velocity of the wind, 80 miles per hour.
The encampment committee met last
night and paid of all the bills and passed
resolutions thanking the people of Chey-
enne and Fort Russell for their assistance
in making the reunion such a pleasant
success.
On Sunday morning during u strong
wind the awning on George A. Draper
grocery store on Ferguson street was
blown down and broke two large plate
glass windows, causing a damage of two
hundred dollars.
The coal department of the Union Pa
ci6c railroad pays the same price per ton
for mining coal to white and Chinese
laborers. White men. being the best
workers, earn, however, better wages
than the Mongolians.
The Evanston Knights of Labor have
published a set of resolutions in which
appears the following: That we deprecatC
all lawless measures and riotous conduct
in this country, where men can gain their
rights by peaceful and lawful means.
Some officers had a job last night at the
stairway in the Mercantile block that
can't be told of in print. Type isn't
strong enough to stand it. They lariated
the drunken beast however and got him
into the jail and turned on the hose.
There are something less han n mil
lion copies of the governors report o.
two years ago piled up in Governor War.
ren's office to be given away. They con.
tain a good map of Wyoming and much
valuable information concerning the ter
ritory.
At Plum Greek, Neb., ON the UnioI
Pacific railway, Saturday, during a heav!
storm, a boy wa killed by lightning, 4
heavy wind prevailed, and much damag,
was done to buildings i'll the town a
well as to farm houses in the surrounding
country.
1t is said that the No. As of Larami,
intend to challenge the Alerts, of thi
city, for a hose race for $500 a side. 1t i
further said that " gentlemen in thi
city stand ready with the cash burning il
their right hand trowsers pocket to ant
for the Alerts.
There are a number of people here
abouts who make a good deal of nois
about Chinese labor, and yet get thei
Washing done at Monaghan wash houses
because they do IL a Hde cheaper thai
the Cheyenne steam laundry. Iluma.
sel6shness will crop out occasionally.
The Mannerchor held 4 meeting las
Sunday and admitted ten new members
giving the organization a membership Q
over fifty, with numerous other appIica
cations. The society decided to have
picnic next Sunday at Duck creek. .
committee was appointed to purchase
piano.
There are some able-bodied Dseudolc
gists among Denver reporters. One Q
them in yesterdays Neus tells of a hnc
driver who spins a yarn about what haT
pened to him the night before. and insid
of t~wenty-four hours he works in III
doings of three days, which are accounte
for in the story. and a great many 9TH
days in which a woman is taken to
lunatic asylum, where she is "a raviu
maniac
1t is the intention Of the coal cempan
to employ only white men in the mines
Carbon and Almy, near Evanston, an
for the present, Cinnamon only at Roo
Springs. All the white miners at Roo
Springs who were not engaged in the rio
will be offered work either in the CarbC
or Almy mines. So soon as arrpngemen
can be made and white laborers e
perienced in coal mining can be found, 1