, 1885-11-25
SHORT STORIES
Gathered by Asking Everybody
What Do You Know"
Things Which are too Little to
Carry a Head.

Bridget Gallagher has been discharged
from the city calaboose.
Cowboys from all parts of the country
around about Cheyenne are Hocking into
the city.
The City of Cheyenne through its
proper authorities is laying in a new sup
ply of coal.
Unusual and very interesting services
are to be held at the Congregational
church this evening.
The assistants at the county clerk 5
office were kept very busy Yesterday in
one way aud another.
Work is being vigorously pushed on
the Marks block, and it begins To. assume
a new shape and appearance.
A business man on Sixteenth street
has a very hungry cat, for yesterday
she ate mp her small litter of kittens.
There will be a meeting of the st.
Marks Guild this afternoon at , O'Clock,
at the residence of Mrs. j. X. Jeffrey.
Union services are to be held at the
Baptist church on Thanksgiving day,
Rev. d. L. RAIDER is to preach the ser
mon.
1t was 5000 acres of land Mayor Reel
bought from the Union Pacific company
in Uinta county. not 5000 as reported
yesterday.
Library hall is being gorgeously deco
rated and fitted up for the grand balls
which are to take place there tomorrow
and Thursday nights.
There will be an antelope chase next
Thursday at the Nine Mile ranch, a
Thanksgiving dinner and a dance in the
evening. Every body invited.
Another lot of coyote pelts were
brought into Cheyenne yesterday by a
ranchman from the foothills who obtained
the bounty papers from the county clerk.
The Boston Live Stock company has
accepted the decision rendered by the
arbitrator. Messrs. Carey, Corlett and
Davis, in the case of that company against
f. A. Page.
The Signal Service officer reports that
the highest temperature yesterday was
4s.9'; lowest, 22.00; mean temperature
%. : mean humidity, So percent. high
est velocity of wind, u miles per hour.
Who is that Wyoming ranchman, who,
as reported in a Washington dispatch of
yesterday, has not only refused to remove
his fences already constructed, but has
begun to extend them. the order of the
president and the law to the contrary not
withstanding?
The South Congregational Sunday
school proposes to give the children a
Thanksgiving dinner, All who desire to
make a thankoffering in the shape of
v%ictuals, money, etc, arc invited to do so.
For futher particulars apply to Rev. C.
Sanders or Deacon j. J. Underwood.
The relation OF the church and news
paper, will be the topic of the prayer
meeting at the First Congregational
church this "wednesday evening. News
paper men, and all Interested, are cordi-
ally invited to attend and participate in
this meeting. Good singing. A collec-
ton will be taken for the Rock Springs
sufferers. c. NJ. SANDERS, Pastor.
A young boy like John Rogan accused
of crime has naturally the sympathy of
all grown people, until undoubted proof
is furnished of hIs guilt. Until all the
facts in the case are laid before a jury and
that body shall determine his innocence
or guilt, the boys friends should let the
matter rest An attempt to create sym
pathy for the boy by misrepresenting the
motives of the witnesses for the prosecu-
ton, will not be of benefit to anyone.
THE LEADER believes there is no one at
Fort Laramie who would wrongfully or
maliciously accuse a boy of crime. The
prosecuting witnesses may be in error;
but they should not be accused of so great
a wrong as the malicious persecution of
an infant.