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, 1889-08-24
A FOUR WEEKS, TRIP.
Impressions Gathered by a Traveller
Through the Territory.

George East and DR.. Holcombe have
returned from a trip of 800 miles through
Laramie, part of Crook. Fremont and
johnson counties. They have been alb
sent four weeks. Mr.. East says that
some sections of the territory through
which they passed are dryer than they
have been known for the past twenty
years. During the four weeks they were
out they encountered only one brief
shower. Notwithstanding this they found
fair crops in all sections where agriculture
has been attempted. They found more
coal than anything else on the trip. At
nearly every ranch at which they stopped
the ranchmen had coal specimens gath
cred in the immediate ne~ighborhood. The
town of Bonanza at which the Rustler is
published is in the Big Horn basin and
consists of half a dozen log cabins. They
were particularly pleased with the ~rustling
editor Of the Rustler, Joe DeBarthe. The
showing of oil in the basin seemed to be
the greatest feature of the section. 1t is
claimed that it is 90 per cent pure.
What section of the territory pleased
you the most in your ,ravels?" was asked
Mr.. East.
The country lying south of the North
Platte River. Taken as a whole l didn't
find any. land that suited me quite as
well as the Wyoming Development COM
pany about Wheatland. There is such a
big body of it susceptible of irrigation
that one cannot help being delighted with
1t. l came across some very good land
and some very poo land in my travels but
none could be irrigated in such an i'm
mense body as that about Whearland.
Too much, however, cannot be said of the
oil and coal deposits. They are of such
an extent as will amaze anybody who
travels over the immense scope of country
hich contains them"
, 1889-08-24
UNION PACIFIC CHANGES.
Ed Dickinson TO Assume Management
of the Entire Nam Line,

A dispatch from Shoshone, Idaho, says
that the jurisdiction Of Ed Dickinson is to
be extended to Ogden, making hin gen
eral manager of the Union Pacific. No
change will be made in the official roster
for the present, but the same will be rec
ognized at the meeting of the board of d.
%rectors, to be held in October. At this
meeting the Jurisdiction of Traffic Mana.
ger Mellen will be extended to cover all
lines, and he will report direct to the vice
president. 1t is also possible that the de-
partment Of general superintendent will
be revived and the title conferred upon
Dickinson. President Adams denied that
he anticipated resigning his position. His
mission over the road is for the purpose
of preparing a special report, which will
be presented to congress at its next SEES
sion. He would not say hat it was to be
in any way connected with the Cultivate
bill, but was of the opinion that an effort
would be made to bring about action Of
congress on the bill at the next session.
, 1889-08-24

As foreshadowed in a letter read at the
last session of the city council. j. X.
Jeffrey has enioined the city council from
conducting sewer discharge over his land
on the south side. When complaint was
made, Alderman Roberts, chairman of
the water and sewerage committee, stated
that the use of the ditch had been ten
dered the city by its owners and that its
use was not at all injurious. Mr.. Jeffrey
thinks differently, however, and a temper
airy Injunction %forbidding the construction
of a covering for a ditch has been issued.
The case will come on for a hearing next
Tuesday. In the meantime there will be
no trouble and it is possible that all differ,
ences will be amicably adjusted.
, 1889-08-24

A consolidated record of scores made
at the Platte department of rifle compe-
tition at Bellevue range has just been is
sued.
The Seventeenth infantry has the best
regimental record and the team from
Fort Russell placed the Cheyenne garri-
son at the head of the fort list, with a
per cent of 55.05. Niobrara is second,
Robinson third, Bridger fourth and
Washakie fifth. The best individual rec
ord was made by Lieut.. Goodin of the
Seventh. Sergt. Leonard Dietz. who led
the Fort Russell squad, stands seventh
in the individual list of ffty-fve.
, 1889-08-24
Cattle Business Good Enough.

ISIOCk JOUTHUI.I
Mr.. w. B. Slaughter, a widely known
cattle man of Socorro county, New Mex
leo. was here a day or W lately. His
business in this territory was to sell a lot
OF cattle that were shipped from his
ranch to Wendover earlier in the season.
These cattle came up III June and have
since been held in this territory for sale,
but Mr.. S. has been held at home by a
broken arm. They number $500 head,
nearly all steers, two and three years old.
He says that though the cattle industry
has been down for some time. it is good
enough for him; and he thinks there are
many indications that better days are
coming in the not distant future.
, 1889-08-24
THE DEMON STEER.
A Mastodon Steer of Very Pugna-
cious Temperament.
Resents the Efforts of Range Riders
to Effect his Capture.
Charged Into a Camp at Midday
akd Killed a Big Bear.

George Wilson, a well known cowboy
who arrived from the northern ranges
yesterday afternoon. met a party of kin
dred spirits in a local resort last evening
and RECALLED the assembly with current
gossip and tales of adventure. In relat-
ing one of the latter George was accused
of drawing the long bow, but he indig-
nantly repudiated the charge and declared
vigorously that the purported facts could
be verified by full a score OF veracious eye
witnesses.
According to Wilson there has roamed
on the ranges adjacent to the Platte and
Laramie Rivers for these many years a
mastodon wild steer whose aggressiveness
and power make him the dread of every
round up outfit. This combative beef
bears not a brand, but no ''rustler" dare
appropriate him.
The demon steer, as the pugnaeious
brute is called. knows no fear and with
lowered head. glisteniug eyes and sonor
GUS below will charge upon anything in
his course. Time upon time has he been
rounded up with his comparatively docile
companions, but he invariably rushes
past the line riders as if no such obstruc-
ton to his fight existed. Once a CY
outfit determined to effect the capture of
the big fellow, but after he had gored two
horses and scared the wits from half a
dozen riders the undertaking was aban-
doned.
This prairie terror only last season in a
fit of a rage at those who dared TO Intrude
on the peaceful solitude of the range
charged at midday into a camp creating a
panic to which was ideal quietness the
clatter incident to the stampede of the
tabled bull in the china shop. There was
a scattering of equipage and a disordered
fight of the diners. One OF these latter
was so incensed that contrary to all or.
ders he sent a six-shooter ball after the
massive steer. but the missile few wide of
its mark.
Wilson asserts that he will undertake
to prove that the demon steer killed a
large bear in a fair fight on the Sybille
three years ago and the cowboys will bet
all their earthly belongings that the De
mon can conquer any bull in the terri
tory. The combat with the bear was a
terrific affair. Bruin was forced to the
defensive from the first and for a time
pluckily me- the fearful onslaughts of the
frighting steer Earring the great form with
blows from his paws. The activity OF the
steer was marvellous. He played round
his antagonist as the sparrer annoys his
foe and at nearly every charge ran his
long, sharp horns into the bleeding sides
of the bear with the wicked swish"
which accompanies an effective sword
thrust.
Wilson thinks the Demon steer" will
die of old age. The man who attempts
his capture takes his life in his hands.
, 1889-08-24

A. j. Boutwell,, the Carbon county
stockman, postmaster at Sweetwater,
sponsor for the town of Boutwell, and one
of the citizens charged with the lynching
of Averill and Ella Watson, was here yes
terday. Mr.. Boutwell, has lately inter-
ested himself with other enterprising
monied men in a big irrigating scheme
and it was company business which
brought him to the city. A large area of
land is to be reclaimed.
, 1889-08-24
Laramie.
boomerang.

1t is settled that Hon. Leroy Grant
goes to Cheyenne, September /. to as
sumo his duties as receiver of the land
office.
The Laramie Park and Fair Associa-
ton Is perfecting its arrangements for a
meeting on September 3, 4 and 3.
Purses aggregating 81, 500 for racing will
be offered.
Albany county has it in her power to
make an excellent farm and garden ex-
hibit at the territorial fair and ought to
do so. If our wheat, barley and potatoes
can be eclipsed in the territory we would
like to know it.
A miner from Beaver creek was selling
his gold dust at the Wyoming National
bank to-day. Miners are in almost every
day from the Douglas creek district for
the purpose of selling their gold.
, 1889-08-24
Self Defense Against a Dangerous Foe.

Forewarned is not forcarmed in the
case of those who incur the risk of an
attack from hat dangerous foe malaria,
unprovided with a means of defense.
But if those in peril are aided, sustained
and reinforced with the great fortyfying
safeguard, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters,
miasma, prolific breeder of evils manifest
ed in the shape of bilious remittent and
chills and fever, ague cake, dumb ague,
and the calentura of the isthmus and Cen
trail American coast, is nullifed and rem.
dered harmless. Our western pioneer
settlers and miners, dwellers in tropic
lowlands, and visitants of and dwellers in
malarious localities in this country and
many quarters of the globe, have for
years been acquainted with the fact and
are constantly provided with this unparal-
led defensive medicine and remedy. All
disorders of the stomach, liver and bowels
rheumatic and kidney complaints and
rheumatism are conquered by it.
, 1889-08-24
Sunday school missionary.

Mr.. Harry A. Durham, of Wheaton,
ILL.,, who has been engaged as the Sunday
school missionary for Wyoming, and
whose work was arranged for at the terri
torial Sunday school convention here in
June last, is expected here to day to be-
gin his work. There will be a meeting at
the Baptist church at 3 o'clock Sunday
next, when the workers of this city will
meet Mr.. Durham, and all are cordially
invited.
, 1889-08-24
'Rah for the 'Raps.
Lander Mountaineer.l

The Raps who have been visiting the
Utes, have begun to arrive in small bands.
1t is said that they won about $50 ponies
from their willy brethren. horse racing
etc. The average Rap looks like he
hadn't sense enough to come in out of
the rain, but he's cute for all that. Last
spring they entered a measly little
flea bitten pony against Tough" Mil
ler's fine thoroughbred racer Thunderbolt
and beat him half the distance in a
quarter-mile dash. o the Rap is child.
like and bland, but he gets there just the
the same.
, 1889-08-24
Tax Notice.

CHEYENNE, Wyo., Aug. 20, 1885,
To the Taxpayers Of The Oily Of Chey-
enn Public notice is hereby given that
on the 18th day of August, A. ID. 1889,
the tax list 81 the city of Cheyenne for
the year 1889 was delivered to me and i'm
mediate payment Of the taxes therein lev
led is hereby requested.
If any tax Is not paid on or before
Sept. 20, 1889, | shall proceed to collect
the same by distress and sale of personal
property. A. u. hELLEY,
City Treasurer.
, 1889-08-24
For good hack service call telephone No. Q

There was a terrible epidemic of dys-
EMERY and bloody fux in Pope county,
Illinois, last summer. As many as five
deaths occurred in one day. Messrs.
Walter Brothers of Waltersburg, sold
over $50 bottles of Chamberlain's Collie.
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy during
this epidemic and say they never heard of
it's failing in any case when the direc-
tions were followed. 1t was the only
medicine used hat did cure the worst
cases. Many persons were cured by it at
ter the doctors had given them up. 25
and so cent bottles for sale by b. b.
David, druggist.
, 1889-08-24
A Veteran Gone.
GArmy and Navy Journal

fHTHHy HHu NHNy JOuTHHI.I
Mai. j. w. Roder, Fourth artillery,
died Wednesday night at Buffers insane
asylum, Providence, r. l.. He tried to
commit suicide a few weeks ago. He
served in the regular army as a private
from 1855 to 1862, when he was com
mlssioned second lieutenant Fourth artil-
lery. In 1864 he was promoted as first
lieutenant and in 1879 as captain. He
received the brevet Of major in 1865.
DR.. Grimes and Capt. Smith of this
city were both well acquainted with de.
ceased. He and the latter were in the
same COMPANY.
, 1889-08-24
MeteorogicallY speaking.

OBSERVERS OFFICE, Cheyenne, Aug.
%. 1SS9.-At s a. m. this morning an
area of low barometer was central at Fort
A~ssinaboine, where the barometer read
30. IA inches, being a fall of "a inch. in
twenty four hours. Tbs rainfall was as
follows: Pueblo and Santa Fe trace, Fort
Elliott .06, Galveston % inches.
Range of temperature In Cheyenne
from As to 60 degrees. For the
twenty-four hours from midnight to night
warm and fair weather.
, 1889-08-24
Postmaster winn.

Mai. l. G. Vim, editor of the Lander
Clipper, has been appointed postmaster
at that place. Maj. Vim edits a good
newspaper and is himself a fine type OF
Western manhood. For a Republican he
is tolerably fair minded and personally he
is a man among men. He has labored
faithfully for the town of Lander and that
delightful region and merits the substan-
tial recognition accorded him.
, 1889-08-24

We desire to say to our citizens that for
years we have been selling DIR. Kings
New Discovery Tor consumption, DR..
Kings New Life Pills, Bucklen's Arnica
Salve and Electric Bitters and have never
handled remedies that sell as well or that
have given such universal satisfaction.
We do not hesitate to guarantee them
every time and we stand ready to refund
the purchase price if satisfactory results
do not follow their use. These remedies
have won their great popularity purely
on their merits. DR.. w. N. Hunt, drug
gist.
, 1889-08-24
TOWN TALK.
Cosby Little Paragraphs Picked Up
Throughout the City.

Mehesey, the %furrier, has zone to Salt
Lake with his stock.
Timers have commenced work on the
roof of the boiler room of the new shops.
The big addition to the United States
penitentiary at Laramie will be finished
Aug. |.
Cheyenne's delegation to the G. A. r.
encampment at Milwaukee leaves this
evening.
ii. o. Shultz. the well known butcher,
has opened a meat market opposite the
city hall
Roberts & Kelley have sold lot 4, block
2, in Roberts Place to Mrs. Bridget Ro-
gsn; 500.
At their ranch in Crook county Kill
patrick Bros. Il Collins have 1000 acres
in small grain.
An Illinois Central surveying corps
claims to have found a practicable route
across the Big Horn basin.
DIR. Birney the nose and throat special
ist will return Sept. 4 and remain several
months, practically locating here.
John Webb, a Little Laramie ranch
man, has wheat five feet high that will
yield thirty-five bushels to the acre.
Elmer Iiams. says the Lander Clipper,
delivered the first load of new wheat at
the mill and Frank Nicol the second.
Frank and Henry Avery. Lander valley
boys, aged 10 and 10, killed a big bear in
the Wind River mountains last week.
Miss Mary Verable and John r. Hall
of Boulder county, Col, were united in
marriage by Judge w. F. Lee yesterday.
A car load of Clydesdale horses, con-
signed to Morton & Drake. at Parvo,
Utah, passed through the city yesterday,
An excursion party which spent yester-
day at N. X. Davis horse ranch was COM
posed of members OF the Queen Anne
club.
Rev. ID. l.. RAIDER has gone to Almy,
Uinta county, to assist to morrow in the
dedication at that place'o a new 81, 900
Methodist church.
Mrs. Dunn, the crooked Salvation
Army annex. left yesterday. She was
unsuccessful in her efforts to secure trans
portation from the county.
When Co. B next appears in a dress
drill at the armory it will amaze its most
ardent admirers. The boys have i'm
proved wonderfully in drilling.
Since his last trip to Cheyenne Con-
tractor Sharp has undertaken the erection
OF a seven story dry goods house at Kan
sas City. 1t is a half million dollar Job.
Twirler King, of The disbanded Aspen,
Colo, State League ball team is sojourn-
ing in Cheyenne. He has been seen in
the box during several practic, games at
the fair grounds.
The Palace Barber shop, opposite the
Inter Ocean hotel, is the finest in the
city. Five first class artists employed.
For a quick shave and a stylish hair cut
or the best bath in the city, give them a
call.
Wanita, A. G. Beckwith's sensational
Aberdeen FLY. has been first in three
2:22 trots on the Montana circuit. In the
last event she defeated a field including
Little Joe in three straight heats; best
time 2:23.
Walter Daniels, a Waterman in the
Laramie yards, attempted to board
a moving passenger train Wednesday
night. He was violently thrown and had
his ankle badly fractured. He was taken
to the Denver hospital yesterday.
, 1889-08-24

Kentucky Belle, a lewd woman fined
in Justice Lees court yesterday, is a sad
die colored wench about whose features
still linger traces of beauty which once
lured men. Years agone Belle was the
pet ofa Southern congressman and &C.
companied him to Washington. There
her extravagant beauty created a decided
sensation.
, 1889-08-24

w. A. Richards and family, Red
Bank, Wyo.." appears on the Inter
Ocean register, indicating that the new
surveyor general has reached the scene of
his future labors. He will assume the
Office to which he has been appointed
Sept. l.. Mr.. Richards is an intelligent
looking physical giant.
, 1889-08-24

Thirteen editors and their families,
travelling as the Pottawotamie press asso-
citation of Kansas, passed west Yesterday
enroute to Salt Lake. To a reporter for
The LEADER President Campbell, of the
association says the party will spend sew
eral hours in Cheyenne on returning if
arrangements can be made.
, 1889-08-24

Maj. Bennett, the extensive traveller
who spent sixteen years on the Sandwich
islands, will lecture at Keefe hall Mon
day.
The lecturer is thoroughly familiar
with his chosen subject and being a man
of more than ordinary ability will surely
entertain his audience.
, 1889-08-24

10 calling for offerings at Harmony
hall Thursday evening, Capt. Stacey
asked the congregation to be liberal Is
possible. She said that she must fare
better in order to gain strength to carry
the bass drum.
, 1889-08-24

Henry Downey's house cat recently
gave birth to a litter of kittens which in
cludes a two headed monstrosity, which
was thriving up to Yesterday when it was,
according to one of the Downey boys,
loaned to a Sun attache who neglected to
return il.
, 1889-08-24
a Little Cloud.

There are rumors here of a squabhle
between the Street stable car company
and the Burlington. 1t is said that the
railway company has refused to haul sew
era trains made up of the improved stock
cars.
, 1889-08-24

Send two cents in stamps to Il. L. To-
max, general passenger agent Union Pac-
ciic railway. Omaha. Neb., and secure a
copy of Outdoor Sports and Pastimes,
containing complete rules for lawn tennis,
croauet and base ball; lust issued.
, 1889-08-24
For fine watch repairing.
David Miller. 3l9 w. 18th street.


The Burlington has made a rate from
Cheyenne to Milwaukee of $50. 65 for the
G. A. II. encampment. The only change
of cars will be at the union depot in Chi
cago. j. +. MCCLUNG, Agent.
, 1889-08-24
The Denver Tournament.

Aspen hose No. l won the 100 foot wet
test at Denver Thursday in "a 4 5. The
hub and-hub race. 600 feet, was won by
the All-Americans over the Anglo-Amerl-
cans in %.
, 1889-08-24

Fred Bohnstead has sold out his inter
est in the firm of Bohnstead & Yeager to
AL. Gaines. Mr.. Bohnstead will act as
manage of the new firm.
, 1889-08-24

Burnett's Extract at
L. S. JOHNSTON & BRo's.
, 1889-08-24

FOR RENT-Nicely furnished rooms
in Maple terrace. Apply at Rhodes K
Troxell's.
, 1889-08-24

DOR RENT. Two handsomely fur
l. nished rooms at Castle Dare.
, 1889-08-24

Ftor1ca1 Dept; Cheyenne, Hyo.
, 1889-08-24
FOR RENT.

For SALE-Old papers. LEADER office.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-10-16
The Origin Of Wheat.

Wheat, which is now the bread corn Of
twelve European nations, and is fast sup
tIanting maize in America and several in
fsrior grains in India, was no doubt widely
grown in the prehistoric world The Chi
ese cultivated it 2700 B. c. as gift direct
from heaven; the Egyptians attributed its
origin to Isis and the Greeks TO Ceres A
classic account of the distribution Of wheat
ever the primeval world shows shat Ceres,
having taught her favorite, Triptolem IS,
agriculture and the art of bread making.
gave him her chariot, CELESTIAL vehicle
which be used in useful travels for the pur-
pose Of distributing corn to all nations
Ancient monuments show that the cultiva-
ton OF wheat had been established in Egypt
tefore the invasion of the shepherds, and
there Is evidence that more productive varie-
ties OF wheat have taken the place of one, at
last, OF the ancient sorts. Innumerable va
rieties exist of common wheat Col. lie Cou-
tour, of Jersey, cultivated $50 varieties. Mr..
Darwin mentions French gentleman who
had collected SD varieties and the great firm
Of seed merchants, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ct
Gle, cultivate about twice as much in their
trial grounds near Paris. In their recent
work on LES Meilleurs Bles" NJ Henry L.
oe Nilmorin has described sixty-eight varie-
ties of best wheat, which he has classed into
seven groups, though these groups can hardly
he called distinct species, since NJ Henry L. de
Nilmorin has crossed three of them-Triticum
yulgare, Triticum turgidum and Triticum
durum-and has found the offspring fertile
Three small grained varieties of common
wheat were cultivated by the first lake
jewellers of Switzerland time of Trojan-waI)
and as well as by the less ancient lake dwell
ers Of western Switzerland and of Italy, by
the people of Hungary in the stone age, and
ty the Egyptians on the evidence of brick
Ct pyramid in which grain was imbedded,
and TO which the date of 1859 b. c. has been
assigned.
The existence of names for wheat in the
most ancient languages confirms this evil
oence of the antiquity Of its culture IN all the
more temperate parts of Europe, Asia and
Africa, but 1t seems improbable that wheat
as ever been found growing persistently in
0 wild state, although the fact has often been
asserted by poets, travellers and historians
Edinburgh Review
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-10-16
ADVICE To aoTHHRs.

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crying with pain of cutting teeth2 If so,
send at once and get bottle of Mrs.
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teething. Its value is incalculable.
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ach and bowels, cures wind collie, soft
ems the gums, reduces Inflammation. and
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for Children Teething is pleasant to the
taste. and is the prescription of one Of
the oldest and best female nurses and ply,
sicians in the United States, and is 70,
sale by all druggists throughout the
world. Price % cents per bottle.