, 1885-10-02
SHORT STORIES
Gathered by Asking Everybody
What Do You Know"
Things Which are too Little to
Carry a Head.


Chilly nights.
More strike talk.
The general feeling is, "Oh, give us a
restl'
The applause of the little ones is
splendid.
The Congregational socials are delight
full affairs.
News was never so scarce. Is this a
calm before a storm2
The solid people would like to see quiet
restored to Wyoming, and they'll have it
yet.
There were ten or fifteen Cinnamon in
one of the east bound emigrant cars yes
terday morning.
Sheriff Sweeney came in from the west
Yesterday bound for Fort Collins, with a
stock thief in charge.
Any one finding a q. A. X. badge with
the rank Of Officer of the Day attached
to it will please leave it at this office.
Judge Lee hired two men to put up
his stove and thus strengthened his
chances of redemption in the hereafter.
The s~luggers did some beautiful
knocking out" in Denver Wednesday
night They knocked $1,000 out Of the
gullible public.
Patronize home industry, for home
industry always ~patronizes home estab-
lishments. The best way to kill a town
is to send abroad for mechanical labor.
The Woman's Missionary Society will
meet at the Congregational church this
afternoon at 3 o'clock. Mrs. j. S. Taylor
president, Mrs. p. F. Powelson, secre-
:ary.
The sewer on Ferguson street, by being
stopped up, filled the cellar of Zehner,
Jackson 4 Buechner Wednesday. The
writer has been drained out and the pipe
repaired.
Judge Lee had four cases of plain
drunk before him yesterday. Three were
women and one a man. The women
paid their fines Of so each. The man
went to jail.
The following deed was.fled for record
in the county clerks Office yesterday;
John f. Coad t. Chas. McGarvey, lots
3 and 4 in block 234, city of Cheyenne.
Consideration, sl,1O0.
The Signal Service officer reports that
the highest temperature yesterday was
6s. 70; lowest, 5000; mean temperature;
40. 7; mean humidity, 56.3 per cent; high
est velocity of the wind, II miles rerhour.
The west bound train which left here
Wednesday night met with a slight acci.
dent at Carbon. A journal ON the com
missary ear broke, but there was no other
damage except the detention of No. .,
which arrived here yesterday about five
hours late.
Alonzo Roscoe, a gay vacquero. went
into partnership with a stranger ON a big
spree Wednesday in this city, and when
Alonzo awoke yesterday morning his
quondam friend was gone, also his
pocket book with nearly 5000 and some
valuable papers.
San Francisco has a thumb mark craze.
The prints of peoples thumbs differ so
much that it is proposed to use thumb
marks for signatures and Identification.
The thumb is also proposed to be used
to identify Cinnamon so that they may
not avoid the restriction act.
There was a report on the streets yes
terday that a man had been killed on the
plains by his horse falling on him. 1t
arose from the fact that a Mexican cow
boy in the employ of Kleine was brought
to this city and taken to the county hos
pital who had been injured by a horse
falling upon him, dislocating his shoulder.
He sustained some other bruises, but none
of a serious nature.
Many complaints have reached this
office lately that The LEADER is pur-
Joined from our subscribers premises early
in the morning We propose to put a
stop to this petty thieving. There are
too many people who want to read THE
LEADER without paying for it; but we
will make it our business, hereafter, 10
see to it that these people are made to
pay at least a years subscription price
for stealing a single copy ofTHE LEADER.
w. Cavendish, a brakeman on the
Union Pacific, was relieved of about S45,
a seal and some other small trinkets, at
Schuyler, Tuesday. The articles were all
in a pocket of a pair of pants which was
hanging up in a caboose. The car was
vacated for a few minutes, when the
money was stolen. Cavendish says he
say a spare, reddish faced man with nut
ton chop side whiskers, wearing a blue
sack coat and dark pants around there,
and believes hat he is the party who went
through his pocket.
The most thorough and cowardly
traitors to the country that have eyer
lived, not excepting the most blatant
rebel that existed in 'Gl, are they who
are in this day %endeayoring to prevent
harmony between sections. They would
destroy the results of what the armies
fought for through four bloody years and
that for which thousands of brave men
laid down their lives-a glorious union.
Benedict Arnold, in the midst of his
scheme to betray the colonies, was a
patriot compared to such men. And of
such are the bloody shirt and o%utrage-mill
howlers to-day.