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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1887
Page
3
Yesterday's high reached 74 and low 50 as Cheyenne and Northern track work neared completion. Officials report cattle shipments, new telegraph plans, and a growing board of trade amid tax talks and lawsuits, with social notices and local incidents filling the day.
A fictional exchange unfolds inside a Le Roy jail between a reporter and the horse thief Le Roy. The thief confesses violent acts from Denver Omaha Rawlins and New York while the reporter tries to avoid recall of his own past misdeeds. The scene ends with the thief recounting more brutal acts.
A pasted list records residents and visitors in Omaha and nearby areas including H Howe and J W Dickey, with many names and origins such as Saratoga Carbon County Denver Cheyenne and Council Bluffs. Mentions travel, business, telegraph work, coal mining, and a Denver medical update.
A Omaha express passenger, Thomas Stevens, famed for riding around the world, describes his trials in China Asia and England to a reporter. He plans to travel to San Francisco to promote the new nautical bicycle with two daily exhibitions near the Cliff House. He recalls mobs, stones and near misses, and hints at a future Mexico trip as a correspondent.
Fotlet Articles offer an endless variety at Rhodes and Trox. A splendid line of white and fancy shirts just received at A Potack's The Clothier.
Prosecutor Stoll said admitting contested testimony would avoid delays and save county funds. Swan case had no new developments. A telegram from Chicago to First National Bank was objected to for bearing on the case. Swan firm safeties list showed about sixteen companies with Ogallula stock valued at twenty five cents on the dollar. Several technical points were settled yesterday and argument likely to start this morning.
Lost item a leather pocket book containing $21. The finder is asked to leave name at LEADER office to claim reward.
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