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, 1891-05-21
OH, MYI OH, MY!
A Tender-HeRrted Missourian Wants
Miller Turned Loose.

A f~our-page letter has been received at
the governors Office asking for the re-
prieve and pardon of Charlie Miller.
How Impraoticable some well-meaning
but sentimental people can become is
shown by a few extracts from the letter as
follows:
ATHENS, Mo-, April 6, 1891. To the
Governor of Wyoming. DEAR SIR: A
few days since l read in the st. Louis
papers the sentence OF Charlie Miller, and
have been greatly troubled over the mat
ter since. and my object in writing to you
is to ask YOU to reprieve him or let the
case be taken into the supreme court.
Oh, don't you think he is too young to
meet such a dreadful fate2 II he was a
man in years AMI had always led a bad
life l could only say Oh, it's too bad, but
be knew beforehand and the poor man
must abide the consequences. But a
child, a boy only Is. Oh. only think, some
parents never mention such things to
their poor dear children.
OH l canpot think you will let this
thing go on when one word from you can
save him. Obi Just for one moment
think if it was your own dear boy, would
you or could you say nor
Don't you believe God will pardon this
boy2 If you don't l trust such cruel laws
will be abandoned. l never did nor never
shall believe that it is right
to take life for life or keep one IN prison
a life time for any deed. OH think of
DOOR, Maynard girls, if their lives had to
be taken for crimes fully as bad, how
MANI would be left? Not only girls, but
young ladies and married ones, too. There
seems to be injustice somewhere.
| feel like if l had all the wealth on
earth | would gladly give it to be allowed
to and see the poor child and ask him:
Charlie, if you could have your freedom
once more wouldn't you be a good boy,
and never do another wicked thiug?"
and have him tell me Yes" and tell him
that the governor had reprieyed him, and
see the look of life once more on that
poor pale face. No words could express
my 10Y. God alone could know.
| will close by asking you again, will
you please save him2 Will you please
answer ADELIA CoNDUTrTE.
, 1891-05-21
A CLOSE CALL.
A Span of the New Viaduct Falls
With a Crash.
Two Workmsn Go Down With
Timbers and Iron Work.
The Accident Will Likely DELAY
Work Several Weeks.

The first accident which has occurred
in the work of building the new viaduct
startled the city yesterday afternoon.
While the accident was unfortunate 10 the
TACT that the completion of the viaduct
will be delayed several weeks, there was
fortunately no loss OF hfe and the two
men who were injured can be congratu-
lated from a very narrow escape from
death.
Martin O'Brien and T. j. Davis we're
working on the top ofthe travelling crane,
finishing the work ofputting one of the long
spans 10 place, when the traveller suddenly
tell, carrying both men down in the runs,
Davis was thrown some distance striking
on his shoulder, but escaping with a few
bruises. His partner, O'Brien, was
caught in the midst of the falling timbers
and iron work, and had a wonderful es.
cape from being crushed.
AS soon as the crane fell a number of
men rushed forward to help the men out
and found O'Brien wedged in between
two of the heavy timbers and the iron
spa The two men were carried by their
friends to a room in the depot where DR..
Maynard examined them and found that
o Brien had several ribs broken but no
present evidence of internal injuries ex-
cept laccration of the lungs by fractured
RIBS. He was carried to his room at the
Simmons house on a stretcher, and last
evening was resting quietly aud doing
well. Davis walked over to the Metro
politan by himself and was more worried
about his partners condition than his own.
The accident was caused by the yard
men who, while switching some cars, let
90 of a caboose and kicked" it into one
of the guy ropes supporting the crane on
the east side. The p which is los
feet long was held Mp by the crane, and
the shock of the caboose set the crane,
which is forty feet high, to swaying and
broke the guy ropes on the west side,
causing it to topple over to the east. The
contractors had permission to block up
the track while at work there. and we're
trying to hurry up work and clear them
when the accident occurred.
The damage will mount to about So
600. which Mr.. H. G. Jenning of Den
yer, the sub contractor, will endeavor to
recover from the company. A new span
will rave to be sent from Pittsburg and a
new crane built, all of which will probably
delay the construction of the viaduct for
at least several weeks. The iron work OF
the viaduct, if 1t had not been for the ac-
cident OF yesterday, would have been
completed by the first of june.
The span is twisted out of shape and
some parts were broken by the fall. while
the crane is a total wreck, as the timbers
are broken and twisted.
The crash caused by the fall was heard
on the streets up town and as the report
spread that two men we're killed an i'm
mense crowd soon gathered about the
wreck willing to offer assistance which,
fortunately, was not needed.
, 1891-05-21

At the opera house for one night only
McFadden's Uncle Toms Cabin COM
pany will present that great and realistic
play Uncle Toms CABIN. No play OF
the present generation has made such a
success, nor has any OF them been
presented year after year to crowded
houses.
Ii is a perfect picture of Southern
plantation life.
This is perhaps the only play adapted
to church-goiug people, as it Is refined,
chaste aud moral. Cute music, jubilee
singing, two Topsies, four bloodhouuds,
and a good company, interesting, anus
ing and instructive.
A grand street parade is given each
day, interesting alike to old and young.
Don't fail to see it.
Sale of seats commences this morning.
, 1891-05-21
POINTS.

H. S. Kuykendall came up from Den
yer yesterday.
Mrs. S. A. Williams OF Rockdale is re-
gistered at the Inter Ocean,
Hugh Gaisford returned from Iron
Mountain yesterday afternoon.
Miss Kate Kelly has returned from a
visit with friends IN Fort Collins.
Mr.. A. NJ. Clark of the C. G. c. went
west last evening on a business trip.
7. NJ. Herrick, a well known ranchman
from the Goshen Hole region, is in the
city.
Mrs. W. f. Miller and two children
went to Douglas yesterday, where they
will visit the family of Mayor Bolln.
Marshal Rankin came. over from Lara
mic yesterday, where he has been to
release some prisoners from the pen
itentiary.
Hon. A. d Chamberlain of Converse
county came IN yesterday. lie noticed
great activity at Orrin Junction. A num-
Der of cowboys from Montana are at the
Junction waiting for cattle shipments
from the South.
, 1891-05-21
THE GRAM II
Cases to be Presented It Its Coming
Session.

District court convenes on Monday next
and the prosecuting officers for the county
are working hard on the cases to be pre-
sented to the grand jury.
A number of important criminal cases
will be tired. The most important ones
are the Parkinson aud FillebroWn cases.
The particulars of both the murders for
which Parkinson and FIllebrown are held
are familiar to all and as both are cases of
circumstantial evidence, interesting trials
will be the result.
OF the less important cases there is the
charge against Peter Fly and Jerry Gra-
ham for receiving stolen goods and keep
ing a fence" A man named Brae will
be tried for horse stealing. Mrs. Davis
will DO tried for setting fire to Prof. Stan
toms barn and Henry Bates will be tined
for obtaining money on bogus checks.
, 1891-05-21
The Wyoming Delegation.
Denver Republican,

The caucus OF the Wyoming delegation
was held at the city hall Yesterday. Hon.
j. G. Baird presided.
Considerable discussion was INDUCED in
before a resolution on the silver question
was adopted. 1t was finally decided that
Wyoming favored the free and unlimited
coinage of silver, product of the United
States:
A resolution was passed in support of
the project OF the United States granting
the public arid lands to the various states.
The protection of lead, and a friendly
spirit toward the railroads was urged upon
the congress as 3 wish of the Wyoming
delegation.
, 1891-05-21
TOWN TALK.
Cosby Little Paragraphs Picked III
Throughout the CITY.

Sheriff Kelley intends to 60 out to
Granite Canyon today to look up wit
nesses in the FIllebrown case.
The pay car came IN yesterday and the
railroad boys are happy.as the past month
has been a good one all around.
Mr.. w. J. Wilkes, chief clerk in the
Cheyenne postoffice, Is making the assess
ment of city property for County Assessor
Stable.
Nicely furnished rooms on first and
second floors at Whitcomb house, corner
Ferguson and Tweneieth streets. Accom-
mediation first-class.
The trial of Harley Mccoy for the muir
der OF Inspector Hawley in Denver, was
commenced in Greeley yesterday, where
Mccoy has taken the trial on a change of
venue.
A letter received here yesterday from
Fremont county states that ~prospectors
and miners are coming in great numbers
to the recently discovered mines north of
Lander.
At the municipal election at Lander
last week the majority of the votes were
in favor of granting a franchise for a
water system and now the city expects to
have a water system at once.
The prize fight to take place in San
Francisco tonight is attracting a great deal
of interest here among the sporting in
clined. Jackson is the f%avorite and it is
hard to find any Corbett money as every
one is afraid of him.
N. C. Cash, formerly of the Dyer hotel
barber shop, has purshased the Elite bar
Der shop at 309 West Seventeenth street.
where he can now be found by his friends
and former customers. There are three
chairs in the Elite and frst-class artists,
Mail Carrier Gross was accosted by a
little child on the street Yesterday morn
ing who had a letter to mail. will you
please take this letter to Denver. Mr..
Mail Man, and give it to my Aunt Hat
tie2" the child asked in its innocence.
The mail carrier took tho letter from the
little one. promising hat Aunt Hattie
should receive the letter all right.
, 1891-05-21
Saw Mil for Gold Hill.

The Republican is informed that D.
Lindscott has sold his saw mill on the
cheyenne & Northern to Abe Persinger,
and that it is going to Gold Hill. 1t is
all loaded on the cars and en- route to
Laramie. and will 90 into the camp over
the Libby creek road now being cut
through by Capt. DaYton's party. Mr..
Persinger is an old time freighter and will
get this mill to Gold Hill in good time.
Once landed in Laramie, as it doubt
less will be this week, 1t can follow closely
in the wake of the road builders and
would meet with no obstacles right now
for forty miles out in the direction of its
destination.
, 1891-05-21

The betting in the new shops is in place
and yesterday the shafting was tested aud
proved satisfactory. By next Saturday
the machinery will be in working order
and will be tested, The machinery is all
of the latest and most improved patterns
and the shops are the best equipped of
any in the West. There is one machine,
recently invented, which bores a square
hole in wood, and is the only one of the
kind in the West.
, 1891-05-21

Keefe hall was the scene of a very en-
ioyable dancing party last evening. The
party was gotten up by a number of the
young men forming at one time the '2I"
club. The hall was neatly decorated and
brilliantly lighted and the music was per-
feet. Over fifty couples were in attend
ance and a program of sixteen numbers
was danced.
1t is hoped this Will not be the last party
under the same auspices.
, 1891-05-21

1t appears that Cheyenne will be ia.
vored with a series of religious meetings,
conducted by Elder PegR OF Fort Collins,
Colo.
Mr.. Pegg represents the Seventh Day
Adventist denomination aud is well known
throughout Colorado as an able expoundeI
of the doctrines of this church.
The meeting will be held IN a large au-
dience tent, and will commence as soon
as the weather will permit out OF door
meetings.
The public will be duly notified OF time,
place and all the particulars.
, 1891-05-21
AN INDIAN WAR CLOUD.
Movements of Troops IL Anticipation
of Trouble Among the Sioux.

Special Dispatch to The Leader.
OMAHA, May Authorization de-
vcloped today which may mean more
trouble with the Sioux. Gen. Brooke
announced that he would shortly start on
a tour among the late hostiles to ascertain
their condition. A telegram from Rose
bud declared that the Indians of that
agency have heard of Brooke's intended
visit aud knowing he would be accom-
panied by troops they became excited.
Gen Brooke wired that to allay the In
dams fears he would bring with him only
troop +, 9th cavalry. which is composed
entirely of Sioux, but in anticipation of
developments, troop f of the 9th cav
airy, now stationed at Fort Washable,
Wyo., has been ordered to Fort Robinson
by way of Casper and troop B of the 9th
cavalry will go to Fort Washakie. Capt.
Chas. +. Humphrey, assistant quarter
master of the department of the Platte,
left for cheyenne today On business con-
nected with the service, in haste.
, 1891-05-21

Maj. Harry q. EGbert, Capt. James NJ.
Burns and Lieut.. George II. Roach have
been detailed to meet as a board Of ex-
animation TO m into and report up
on the qualifications of such sergeauts of
the 18th infantry who are eligible for and
desire the position OF post q~uartermaster
sergeant.
Private Sam t. Bondhus, company f.
18th infantry, has been granted a furlough
until September LIST when, at his " re-
quest, he will be discharged from service.
, 1891-05-21

The Wabash Line is now running its
Canon Ball train from Kansas City to
Toledo, vestibuled, leaving Kansas City
at eco p. m. making direct connections
with all trains from the West at that
point.
Free reclining chair cars and Pullman
buffet sleeping cars from Kansas City to
Toledo, at which point as well as at Fort
Wayne aud DEFIANCE, direct connection is
made with all the limited trains for the
East, Southeast, and Northwestern points.
This is a star route. Ask for your
tickets via the Wabash line.
G. NJ. Hampson, commercial agent
1927 Seventeenth street, Denver, Colo.
G. l.. Allen, travelling agent.
DENVER, March Is.
BLACK and COIOred silk
SbfrTS nj ~. "HrhS,.
, 1891-05-21
He HAD FIrIebrown.

Sheriff bingham, OF Fort Morgan, told
Sheriff Kelley yesterday that he was spot
ting a mar whom he was sure was File
brown. The Colorado man was rather as
tonished when he was told that Fillebrown
was safe in the county Jail. Sheriff Ding
han had not heard Of his capture and was
nursing the sweet morsel of an expected
reward for bis arrest.
, 1891-05-21

The Omaha Bee says; The new pass.
enger shops of the Union Pacific at Chey-
enne have been completed and the ma
chinery is nearly all in place. Mr..
Mcconnell, superintendent of motive
power, will 80 to that point in a few days
in order to put the shops in running or.
der
, 1891-05-21

Jay Gould aud Sidney Dillon may be
all right; so are we when we offer as We
do now lots in the following blocks on
small cash payments, followed by monthly
installments on Easy terms: Blocks Is,
IS, 49S, sos, 5B7, SIS. go, 622 623.
V RINER & JOHNSON.
, 1891-05-21

If Henry Busse will put up his forfeit
in the bands OF any responsible party, it
will be covered by me auG terms and con
ditions made to suit him.
GEORGE MEssICK.
, 1891-05-21

and buy a lot of Riner & johnson before
the prices run higher. You will find
above a list of blocks which contain lots to
be had on easy payments.
, 1891-05-21

Cheyenne now has a well equipped
wood yard, with machinery for making
kindling. See WIN. Murphy's ad in an
other column.
, 1891-05-21

Thursday, May 20. to the wife of H.
Hermansen. 523 West Sixteenth street, a
son.
To the wife of Henry Shoels, a daugh-
tor
, 1891-05-21

WisdOm's Robertine Is the only thing
now used by fashionable women to per-
pctuate a beautiful complexion.
, 1891-05-21
ARNICATEu EUREKA CREAM

Is the finest and most effectual lotion TOR
chapped hands, rough and sore skin, es-
~peciallY prepared for this climate and
pleasos every body. Try it. Twenty five
cent bottles. Druggists
, 1891-05-21

Wisdom's Violet Cream will keep the
skin proof against the effects of severe
weather.
, 1891-05-21

Ii you want to please your h~ousekeeper
try Jack Frost -four
, 1891-05-21

If you want to see the very nobbiest things you
ever saw in the way of Suits and Overcoats, you want
to go to Hellman's. This season will eclipse all
others in the way of handsome goods, and we fatter
ourselves that our line is a beauty. We are going to
make a speciality of low prices, and want to show you
what we have got.
Our line of Hats and Caps is a dandy, and we
can say the same of our Boys Clothing.
, 1891-05-21
The World Enriched.

The facilities of the present day for thc
production of everything that will Con
lICc TO the material welfare and comfort
os mankind are almost unlimited and
when Syrup of Figs was first produced
he world was enriched with the Nv
perfect laxative known, as it is the oul,.
remedy which is truly pleasing and re
freshing to :he taste and prompt aui
ehectual to cleanse the system gently in
the Spring time or, in fact, at any tine
and the better it is known the more pop
ular il becomes.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-11-06
rna low BIrth Rate In France.

The results of the recent census in
France have moved one of that country's
statisticians to declare that the republic
must count more and more on naturalized
foreigners to defend the republic. At
present there are only twenty five births
for every 1000 inhabitants, and an Eng
lish journal commenting thereon says:
"The balance of power in Europe has
been shifted even more conclusively,
perhaps, by the birth rate than on the
battlefield. A hundred years ago there
were three Frenchmen to every Prus-
sian Today there are only four French
men to every three Prussians. For
every Frenchman born into the world
last year there were five Prussians. The
population of France in Europe, by the
new census, is 3s,095, 900. That of the
German empire in Europe is 40, 422, 1923.
Whatever may be the case with their re.
spective armies, Germany is beating
France hollow in the cradle"
Los Angeles herald., 1891-11-06
Specter Photographs.

Mr.. Arthur S. Green, an American
photographer, gives the following meth
cd of making the camera source of
amusement by the production of "ghost"
or shadow" pictures-for example, a
seated man starting back in terror from
his own specter. Make background of
the proper size by stretching out some
black material. Place the subject, draped
in white or in light clothing, in the right
attitude to the right or left of the center
of the background, then focus the cam
era and expose the plate for half Sec
ond. The impression will be that of a
shadowy and ghostlike figure. Take a
chair and table, placing the chair in the
center of the background, and the table
on the side away from the ghost.
Seat the subject in the chair, with his
head turned to the ghost; focus again,
and give the plate a full exposure, which,
if the light is good, should be about two
seconds. Develop and print in the usual
way. Any objects to be seen through
the ghost should be photographed with
fifteen seconds exposure before taking
the picture of the ghost. Other devices
Of the kind might be mentioned, but it
will be more interesting to leave them
to the ingenuity of the amateur.-New
York Advertiser.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-11-06
How a Spider Ruined a Nation.

When the French quartermaster, Dis
jonval, was confined in prison by the
Dutch at Utrecht he sought to beguile
the tedium of his prison life by atten-
lively studying the habits of the spiders
which frequented his cell, and eight
years of imprisonment gave him leisure
to be well versed in their ways In De-
cember of 1894 the French army, on
whose victory over the Dutch depended
Disjonval's restoration to liberty, were
in Holland, and the victory seemed GER
tain if the frost, which was then of I'M
precedented severity, continued.
The Dutch ENJOYS had failed to ne
gotiate a peace, and Holland was de-
spairing when the frost suddenly broke.
The Dutch were now exulting, and the
French generals prepared to retreat;
but the spiders Of Disjonval's cell fore
warned him that the thaw would be of
short duration, and he knew that his
little insect weather monitor never de-
ceived him. Accordingly he contrived
to communicate his weather knowledge
to the army of his countrymen and its
generals, who duly estimated his Obs
jonvals) character, relied upon his as
surance that within few days the
waters would again be frozen so as to be
passable to the French troops.
They delayed their retreat; within
twelve days sharp freeze set in, and
the French army triumphed. Disjsnval
was released, and spider had brought
ruin to the Dutch nation.-St. Louis
Renublic
Los Angeles herald., 1891-11-06
Fishing for Ducks.

In India an ingenious scheme is prac-
ticed for taking ducks on line, which
is attached at one end to a flexible stick
stuck up in the mud, the other extremity
having a double pointed needle of bone
attached to it. The latter is baited by
stringing upon it some grains of corn.
Presently along comes Mr.. Duck, swal-
lows the needle and finds himself cap
tive the moment he tries to fly away. In
old times the Cape Cod fishermen de-
pended largely for bait upon the sea fowl
they took on their voyages. To catch
them they threw out fishing lines with
hooks on the ends, to which were at
tached chunks of cod liver. The latter
foated because of the oil they contained,
and INJURIES, gulls and other birds swal-
lowing them were quickly pulled in,
skinned and chopped up.-Interview in
Washington Star.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-11-06

at is very difficult" said a business
man, "to make people understand that
one can't always employ young men
starting in life just to please our friends
who recommend them to us. It's bad
business policy to employ more men
than one needs. In these days of close
competition, no business man can afford
to spend money unwisely A certain
volume of business justifes and demands
o certain expenditure in salaries to carry
on that business. 1t isn't fair to us to
ask us to increase our salary list when
there is no excuse for so doing 1t isn't
fair to our trusted and efficient employees
to ask us to employ new men and yet
maintain our salary list. We can do
this only in two ways. One is to pare
off enough from the salaries of the old
men to provide salaries for the new men.
Another is to discharge old men to make
room for the new. You see that both
plans are out of the question. other
things being equal.
people who send promiscuous letters
of recommendation often cause US a
great deal of embarrassment. One likes
to please friend, and yet one cannot
always, in justice to himself or others,
do this. And have you ever noticed
how many of these letters of introduce
ton describe the bearers of them as bril-
liant young men, who will prove of
value to those who employ them? Hard
ly one man in a thousand of those de-
scribed in this way fulfills the promises
made for him. Do those who write such
letters ever consider that if big bust
ness house employed all the men who
brought letters of recommendation to
the firm it would be overwhelmed with
employees within year and driven into
bankruptcy in two years by its stupen-
dous salary list?-New York Tribune.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-11-06
Printing by Dog Power.

Printing machines are usually driven
by steam or gas motors, but the machine
which prints certain newspaper in
America is run by dog power. A large
wheel about ten feet in diameter and
two in width is connected with the driv-
ing rigger of the machine by means of a
belt; strips of wood, for foothold, are
placed foot apart on the inside of the
wheel, where Joe, the journalistic
dog, walks his weary round, and thus
causes the wheel to revolve. Joe has run
the press for about FIVE years, and has
faithfully earned his board and lodging,
but it is now about time for him to feel
ill and "turn it up" being unabl e to con-
tinue turning it round.-London Tit
Bits.