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, 1890-10-21

Sheriff Whitmore, of Sweetwater had
quite a time taking a couple of %convlcts to
Joliet last week. Near Medicine Bow
the men, who were handcuffcd together
made some excuse to get to one end of
the car. Before anyone realized what
was going on the prisoners dashed out the
door and jumped out into the night.
Wbitmore went right after the men. In
the morning he ran on to a ranch and
asked for a team. A hired man went out
to the pasture to catch up some horses.
He came running back aud told Whit
more that the men were out in the hills
near there. The sheriff quickly ran them
down.
, 1890-10-21
RAN WILD TO GROVER.
Exciting Ride of Alb Rswstead, a
Burlington Switchman.
Forty-ihres Miles on the Hurricane
Deck of a Box Car.
A Broken Brake and a Rapid Iour.
ney Down Hill.

Alb. Newstead is a mild hammered ro-
bust young man employed as a switch
man in the Burlington yards at this point.
The other day Newstead had an ex.
perience calculated to subdue even a quiet
personality.
They were shifting cars at the upper
end of fifteenth street Near the Burning
ton roundhouse a box cas, with Newstead
on the hurricane deck, was Kicked out
on the main line quite violently. It is a
stiff down grade at this point and the car
had attained good Roadway before the
switchman started to set the brake. The
appliance was out of whack and broke en-
tirely when Newstead began twisting.
Here was a pretty pickle. The car was
o moving at an eighteen or twenty mile
clip and speeding up at every revolution
of the wheels. Besides this the rider
knew that the grade was lower clear to
Grover Colo, that there were several
quick pitches and sharp curves between
cheyenne and the station named.
Newstead decided on a course without
much delay. He figured rightly that to
jump was suicidal; that he could just as
well leap for earth when the car left the
track as while it wa boiling along on the
rails. There was no train on the road
and the chances of running down cattle or
horses were not enough to ripple the ner-
vous system of one daily exposed to the
dangers of a switchnan's life. The crew
AMI passenger of the box car concluded to
remain. lie had an exciting ride, and
fortunately escaped without a scratch.
Along went the rafting old box car at
better than express speed. Newstead
was reconciled to the situation and rather
enjoyed the novelty of his remarkable ad-
venture. People along the line we're
startled by the advent OF the strange
special and the stock grazing by the right
of-way gazed curiously at the wild train,
then turned tail and ran.
Near Grover the grade lessons and for
some dist ance beyond the track is nearly,
if not quite. level, and approaching
the station the car slowed up. Three
miles east it came to a dead stop and the
switchman walked back to the station aud
reported to Cheyenne.
With the instinct of a railway man
Newstead timed himself. Between start
and finish just an hour elapsed; distance,
forty-three miles.
The remarkable ride OF the Burlington
, 1890-10-21

AT Sloan's lake near Denver Sunday
there was a wrestling bout between Cock
neY Sterling of Cheyenne and Billy
Purcell, otherwise known a the Saginaw
Md. Sterling was to throw the kid
three falls in thirty minutes. and sue
ceeded in doing it in five minutes less
time. For the benefit of the wrestlers, a
low platform had been erected at the
eastern side Of the pavilion. It was
twenty-four feet square and doubly roped
ABOUT like a prize ring. It's floor was
covered with a soft, stuffed carpet.
, 1890-10-21
SeaIette Garments.

whose inherent.value is indisput-
able. The Satins are finished
under the old Swiss process of
Furnishing, that adds both bril-
liancy and strength, while the
buttons used are real seal, thus
making garments that defy com
petition. We assert with conf
dence that never before have we
been in position to show such a
VARIED and comprehensive line
Of Cloaks. An unlimited bust
ness experience, however, and
buying direct from the largest
manufacturers for SPOT CASH,
enable us to sell these
, 1890-10-21
TUESDAY. OCT. 81. 1890.
TOWN TALK.
Cosby Little Paragraphs Picked UP
Throughout the City.

McKinley's bin now holds null sway.
And. II we can trust in rumors.
IL ushers in a Guild, cold day
For American consumers.
The Newcastle Democrat has sus-
pended.
Union Pacific pay checks were received
yesterday.
DR.. R. B. Grimes office is oyer Chey-
euue National bank.
Samuel Atkinson was yesterday in
stalled as clerk Of court.
There will be a regular meeting of the
ety council this evening.
Crow Indians are hauling pats from
Sheridan with $50 four horse teams.
More than 1000 bushels of grain have
been threshed near Lusk this season.
Hereafter the Cheyenne & Northern
uiu will leave at 9 a. m. instead of IL.
The red sandstone and pressed brick
uIs OF the Alert hose house are mp to
The first story.
The Northwestern is building a spur
hOu Glenrock u the red sandstone quarry
near that place.
viii Murray, of the planning mill, is
building a residence next the corner Of
Eddy and Twentieth.
The tools lost in the Newcastle oil well
three months ago have been recovered
and drilling has been resumed.
Alarm clock 81. 25, 2 dozen pencils Sc,
brass lined rule 25c, Counterpart 600,
! heavy overall 75c. Black Flag.
Thos G.. Ross. who was in the Jenk-
ms & Ross shoe house. is here from
Nebraska aud IS likely to relocate.
Z. A. Whitney and associates of
! Sheridan, have applied for authority to
a~ganize the First National bank there.
Prof. Marsh, of Yale college, has lately
visited the fossil camp on Lance creek,
Converse county. He is delighted with
the seasons work.
Engineer Butler is making specifications
for sewer connections for Superintendent
Middlston,s Office and the boiler shop.
Bids will be invited today.
Attorney Stoll has located in the
Thomas block and R. w. Breckons offices
with him. A. G. Campbell remains in
the Cheyenne National Bank block.
DR.. Appel haying returned from his
eastern trip, has resumed his Office prac-
tice for the treatment of the eye, ear,
nose and throat. Carey block, . to 4
p. m.
Joel j. Hurt will winter nearly all Of
his sheep near Lusk. He has a bunch Of
10000 near there already. He has de-
clared himself Tin" with all schemes to
kill wolves and coyotes.
, 1890-10-21
AFTER EASTERN MONEY.
The Mission of a Man Who Goes
East Today.
A Deal for Cheyenne Lots Closed
by Telegraph.
Supplemental TO Sundays Article
on Headquarters.


The LEADERS Sunday story on Union
Pacific headquarters was a very popular
article. This paper intends to publish
only that which is true and the people
have come to know this. The conse-
quence is that they accept statements
which coming from other sources would
not be entertained for a moment.
The Sunday issue Of the paper was
great in demand and though nearly 1000
extras had been printed 1t was necessary
to strike off an edition Of 100 yesterday
and that supply was exhausted before
night came.
There are few doubling the early aban-
Comment of Omaha as Union Pacific
headquarters, but several shrewd citizens
mentioned Denver as Cheyenne's rival In
the matter Of succession to Omaha. But
one man whose name would carry great
weight here were not privilege Of tbs use
withheld, says that Denver is a dead
cock in the pit In the battle
royal. The Union Pacific started to move
headquarters out there once and then de-
cided that the town wouldn't do. This
after a building had been put up. The
structure intended to house the vice-presi-
dent and heads of departments is now
the Grand Central hotel. 1t is near the
union depot, is a big, boxy brick.
The vacant ground Immediately east OF
the depot here has been reserved as the
headquarters site.
AFTER EASTERN CAPITAL.
Russell L. Tracy leaves for the East this
morning. His mission is to interest
monied men of localities in whish he is
acquainted in Cheyenne. He carries a
huge trunk of literature. including the
proper proportion OF the illustrated and
other editions of this paper.
A LEADER reporter met Mr.. Tracy in
the Western Union telegraph Office at IL
O'Clock last night. He was reading a
message. which he handed over with a
smile. 1t was an order from an Ohio
customer to close on his behalf a deal Tor
some Cheyenne lots, and the considera-
ton named was by no means small Mr..
Tracy was instructed to make a draft for
the amount.
THE OUTLOOK.
Business in all lines is picking up here
and a good winter, to follow with a lively
spring and summer, is confidently antlci-
patel. Several big realty sales are on the
stocks and the activity will be very
marked within ten days.
, 1890-10-21
A Few Words About Our
PLUSH
GAR MEM rs
and the Pushes used in them.
and the Pushes used in them.
While there are quantities of
Plush CIoaks

on the market, there are COM
paratively few whose chief requi-
sites r quality, fit and work
manship. These highly impor-
tant factors are the foremost con
%siderations by the manufacturers
of OUR CLOAKS, thus placing
us, as their agents in our city, in
a position to offer GARMENTS
surpassed by none for richness
and durability of material, for
taste and elegance, for comfort in
fit and for reasonableness in price.
The Plush used in these gar
ments is made of double twisted
silk, while the color is the best
London dye, thus imparting to
the fabric unusual strength and
beauty, SO that in truth they are
genuine
, 1890-10-21

Milton T. Richardson, editor and pub
Usher of Boots and Shoes, New York, Is
visiting Cheyenne, the guest of. his
brother, Alderman Warren Richardson.
The visitors paper property ranks along
side the leading trade journals Of the
world. Ii is issued weekly and carries a
hundred pages of advertising matter,
special articles, miscellany, correspon-
dence and editorial. Publisher Richard
son is a cultured and refined gentleman
thoroughly in love with his business and
has had a highly successful career in his
chosen field.
, 1890-10-21
A Horse on the Engineer.

The railroad boys are laughing at an
engineer who got an extra ton of coal out
of a local dealer on the grounds that he
was entirely out and his family suffering.
while be had at the same time half a ION
in his bin. He thought he had played it
fac on the dealer, but the same night
SOM one lifted the top of his bin and
caTted awav the whole ton and a half,
and now the Joke is on the other side.
, 1890-10-21

w. N. MoNerling. a ranchman of
Deadman creek in the Virginia Dale
country, brought into Laramie last week
the scalp of a mountain lion and a good
story Two weeks ago the beast, which
was a fierce monster, dashed into a small
beef herd. pulled down a big y~earling and
carried off his prey. McNerling found
the carcass and doped it with strichnine.
The lion came and Toasted and was able
to get but thirty yards away. The beast
had been poaching on Deadman creek
several months
, 1890-10-21

The Wyoming Hardware Company will
sell you a good No, s cook stove for sl4.
A first-class self feeding, nickel plated
heating stove for $50 so. Little Jewel
lamps, central draught, Rochester burner,
noted Tor brilliant light and saving of oil
safe and convenient, price, SIPS. Other
goods at proportionately low figures.
Don't forget that this establishment vii
remain IN Cheyenne, and be a permanent
institution when some of the stores which
come in between taxes will be
, 1890-10-21
Superior CIoaks

at lower prices than the long time
buyer must ask for inferior goods.
Notice that all our garments
r constructed with the cele-
brated BURKHARDT PATENT
FLY FASTENER. The fly is so
made that the garment is closed
and opened Independent OF the
Plush, thus avoiding all wear on
the front of the garment. No
lady, after seeing its. usefulness,
can be satisfied with a garment
not possessing it. A. L. Burk-
hardt & 20. are the patentees and
owners of this valuable invention
and as we r their sole agents in
this city it "a he procured only
of us. Don't EGI in asking to see
it when you come to our store.
Very Respectfully,
, 1890-10-21

G. N. Potter declines the chief justice
ship.
E. w. Mann. has been mentioned, and
it is said again that the vacancy will not
be filed till after the assembly session,
when will be given to Judge NJ. G.
Brown as a balm to his wounded feel
ings after the senatorial campaign.
, 1890-10-21

W. d. Pease, the civil engineer, is up
near Casper making a survey for an irri-
eating plant to be put in by j. NJ. Carey
with the design of retaining a large tract
of wild land. The canal is to be three
miles long and twelve feet wide on the
bottom. Water will be taken from the
Platte river.
, 1890-10-21

Special Dispatch to the Leader.
Rock SPRINGS, Wyo.. Oct. Gothic
miners held a mass meeting yesterday to
consider the project of asking for more
wages. After a long session they decided
to ask Tor the reduction of a ton from
$3.50 pounds to 1000. The men are
now working but about two days a week
and Are not satisfied at all.
, 1890-10-21

Two cars of coal were received here yes
'erday morning from Rock Springs and
most of the cars OF a long train from the
west last night were loaded with coal. A
ualn is on the way from the Acme mine
At Louisville and the Burlington is likely
bring IN a train. The famine is prac-
tically over.
, 1890-10-21
The show Tonight.

Prof. Lowanda's Gift show closed a
very successful engagement here last
night. Madam Lowanda's mind reading
was a big card for the company. and is
alone worth the price of admission. The
gifts we're freely and impartially dis
trihnted.
, 1890-10-21

Rev. j. Lester Morton, first rector OF
the Episcopal church at Rock Springs,
has gone to New York to withdraw from
the priesthood and will engage In business
at the coal camp. He will run a marble
yard and an undertaking establishment.
, 1890-10-21
ruIrrs.

l.. +. Wells is in Denver.
Rev. Father Nugent is in Denver.
Mrs. f. Z. Addoms is up from Denver
visiting Mrs. II. f. Glover.
Harry Bowman. the young st. Louis
travelling man, is i'll at the Inter Ocean.
Mrs. II. L. Anderson, wife OF Chief
Clerk Anderson, will arrive from Salt
Lake today.
, 1890-10-21

Nice suit of clothes S., pair OF blankets
sl.25. good overcoat sc, excellent gloves
40 cents, ~overalls so cents. socks 81 per
dozen pairs. All goods new and good.
Bakers Beehive store, Seventeenth
street, next to Cheyenne National bank.
, 1890-10-21

Sumson, the ney photo artist, has
..pTroughlv reftted the Capitol avenue
nery and is now doing a splendid busl-
as bis prices are the lowest that have
c caef been offered for frst-class work in the
, 1890-10-21
The World Enriched.

The facilities of the present day for the
production of everything that will con
duce to the material welfare and comfort
of mankind are almost unlimited and
when Syrup of Figs was first produced
the world was enriched with the only
perfect laxative known, as it is the only
remedy which is truly pleasing and re
freshing to the taste and prompt and
eHectua1 to cleanse the system gently in
the Spring time or, in fact, at any time
and the better it is known the more pop
,,i,r - Iaoo-aa
, 1890-10-21

Madame Lowanda, the mind reader, at
the opera house tonight. Tells dates OF
coins, reads sealed letters, tells your age,
, 1890-10-21

c;nsery purchaser of a 5O-cent ticket re-
pn,es one chance on the presents. Every
,essrnaser OF a 75-cent ticket receives a
prssao.a seat and two chances on the
, 1890-10-21

Or any number of cards. Ladies' Wis
ting cards written in the most elegant
styles at the Business College. Othce,
room Al, Commercial block.
, 1890-10-21

thapt. sieey tender my most heartfelt
for No. 70 railroad friends and neighbors
my ls,a oy Nacts of kindness toward me in
'ate bereavement.
Mrs. p. j. KELLEY.
, 1890-10-21

Prof. Lowanda and his mysterious cab
met at the opera house tonight. Admis-
sion so cents; reserved seats Isl; children
o.
, 1890-10-21

A hotel where you can get solid and
substantial value for the money expended
is the Occidental. Good table board rs
cents per meal, or 81 per week.
Board and room 81 per day.
The Occidental has good rooms and is
well and comfortably furnished through
out. Visitors to the city will find the
Occidental a good stopping place. 1909
Thomes street.
, 1890-10-21

PfmnsDtmg an all IT'S
branches promptly attend
ed TO by e. LII
Leape orders at SchsUetcE-
ert's hardsUare store, Sir
fpen.fh street.
, 1890-10-21

Opera house tonight. Prof Lowanda' I
carnival OF novelties. One hundred ele-
giant and costly presents given away free
OF charge.
, 1890-10-21

New mattresses. 80. so; new woven
wire springs, 81. rs; second hand heating
and cook stoves at lowest prices. Every
thing delivered free. Corner T~wenty-6rst
and Themes. L. Bohnsted. Manager.
, 1890-10-21

New York Counts and Extra Selects at
the G. @. G.
, 1890-10-21
Card,

Prof. Lowanda at the opera house to-
night.
, 1890-10-21

presents. child receives one chance on the
, 1890-10-21
Picture Framing at Turn
bHtL's---au ssetU snOMIdtngs
---fRe patterns.


Blood Hounds.
| have for sale a few thoroughbred
blood hound pups, safe to handle as
guard for premises. or trained to run
human track. For particulars address.
A, NJ. SPARHAwR, Sheriff, Lander,
Wyo.
, 1890-10-21

Beef. voal, mutton, lamb or pig at the
G, &. q.
, 1890-10-21

McRinley's bin now holds null sway,
And. II we can trust in rumors,
IL ushers in a Guild, old day
For American consumers.
, 1890-10-21

genuine
, 1890-10-21

Very Respectfully,
, 1890-10-21

Business in all lines is picking up here
and a good winter, to follow with a lively
spring and summer, is confidently antIci-
patel. Several big realty sales are on the
stocks and the activity will be very
marked within ten days.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-06
THE POWER OF TAMMANY.

There was probably never an instance
IN which the intelligence and character
of an American community were more
| generally united at the polls against it
dangerous and irresponsible asses than
at this election. There is not one. even
among the conspicuous leaders of Tam
many Hall, who would be accepted as a
representative of the character, industry,
ability, and public spirit of the city.
! Nevertheless Mr.. Choate wisely advised
good citizens that the organization of
Tammany is very complete, and its
power very great. 1t hesitates at
nothing, and it counts on the
worst and lowest motives. 1t counts
also upon the indifference of many
good citizens, and the feeling that at
such times one side is as bad as the other.
But no reasonable man can hold such an
opinion of this controversy. Every in
telligent citizen must feel that defeat
would be the disgrace of the CITY,
Harper's Weekly.
The foregoing was written and uttered
only week before the election in the
great metropolis that has long been con-
trolledand ruled by the mailed hand of
that political monster. And yet, with this
fresh reminder of the history of its arbi-
trary and iniquitous sway. the masses of
the city again fell down before it and
continue it in power How the closing
words of the paragraph quoted must
haunt the seemingly doomed people of
that municipality o.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-06
WHO INVENTED THE STEAMBOAT.

Some industrious citizens of the United
States appear TO have undertaken Il
demolish the standing of big men of the
country. One of them has now reached
Robert Fulton, of steamboat fame, and
it begins to look as if Robert, as an in
ventor of that useful article, will have to
go to the rear. The evidence in this
case Is documentary. 1t appears in a
newspaper, which is prima facie proof
that it can't be wrong. Mr.. Thomas Nc
Andrews, a reputable lawyer of Nash
vile, has papers to establish, beyond a
doubt, that Edward West, at Lexington,
! KY, in the year 1897, invented and put
in operation a steamboat fully six years
before Fulton had perfected his ideas.
The paper is copy of the Western
Spy and Hamilton Gazette, bearing date
of August II, 1901, which gives an ac-
/ count Of this pioneer steamboat. The
paper says that West, who was the
father of the famous painter, went to
Lexington from Virginia in 1885. He
was an educated matchmaker, and spent
all his time on steam machines. He in
vented the first nail-cutting machine
ever made, and sold it for $4,000 1t
tells of the trial trip of Vests new boat
on Elkhorn Creek, at Lexington. in 1893.
A patent was obtained but the boat was
not heard of again until 1901, when it
was taken to Cincinnati and created a
sensation.
Mr.. McAndrews is equipped with cor
rohorating testimony in the shape of an
article in the Lexington, Ky.) Gazette of
April 20, 1916, which mentions a new
boat designed to ply as far as New Or
leans, and adds that lit works on a plan
invented by Mr.. West nearly twenty
years ago, and in a manner different
from any other steamboat now in use
The models of West were DESTROYED. it
seems, when the British captured Wash
ington in the war of 1912.
The steamboat named the ''Clermont."
on which the fame of Fulton rests, did
not make her trial trip up the Hudson
until August, 1907. 1t will be remem-
bered that Fulton's invention raised up a
noisy multitude to dispute its originality,
and that he was almost impoverished by
litigation to defend it.
The claims of Mr.. West are a triAe
late in arriving on the stage of his
tory, but they deserve to be honestly
sifted
These points are suggested for the con-
S Iteration and investigation of enterpris-
ing gentlemen who will constitute the !
passenger list Of the Salt river fleet that |
weighs anchor this morning. \ timely |
topic, for their meditation.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-06

| MIS-. FRANK LesfIe - opposed 70 woman .
rule. She says they are more unmcrlifg!
| than men.
The only woman licensed as pilot or
/ the great lakes l. Miss Jessie Langford. Of
| Duluth. She Is the owner q a yacht
There are over 100000 fruit trees IN
Los Angeles county. Cal, oue Of the larg
est individual farms being owned BY Nine
Modieska
Carlotta Patti. the daughter Of Adelina
PATHS dead brother Carlo. ia living in
squaIor and wretchedness on Canal street.
New Orleans
Miss Haller Hor1itz. whose engagement
70 Claude Ponsonby. % England. j. Just
announced, il q niece Of a Halter Gross.
Of Philadelphia, and named after him.
The Duchess DUES. who furnished Bon
isnger With bis money, il the owner Of the
Weave Cliquot champagne business. which
she iEhsritsd from her mother.
Mrs Henry Ray. Of Prospect Hill. v. J.,
has passed her iI2th birthday. Her bus
band was cook iu the war q 1872. AMI vas
also cook for Gen Washington
Miss Jams Grzydon. professor q Greek
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"a years % are, and - perhaps the young
est college professor ia tie United 5tstes.
MARY ". Whitpey, who Suo-eedsd Maria
Mitchell a. profez-or - astronomy 80 Va
Ear. advocates TIE study Of zslsnos FOR giris,
With tie express % ect d d3sclf. llnlsg theif
emotional nature
Hiss Golden. a daughter a re grez,
Eugiish I1b>ral, j. g member q ths Lon
don county council she has taken . great
interest IN ~orkizEmsn's ciDbs. and "a
written effectively o. ths evicsions ia Ire
and
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