theyenne daily reader. YOL. Y. Cheyenne Daily Leader. Official Paper of the United States* TCTBUSIIKD DAILY, KXCETT SUNDAY, BY 3sr. A- 3E=jl, Editor and Proprietor. —We dqvote our space and time to day chiefly to the publication of de tails of the greet fires in Chicago, Saturday and Sunday nights. —A- Boston paper propounds the following conundrum for Darwin: Upon what principle of selection is It that of ull the darker colored horses which have white feet, twice as many of them have their white feet behind as before?” A lady once wrote to Harper’s, sending a story for which she asked twenty-five dol'ars. They liked it so much as to pay thirty-five dollars for it, and she was asked foir more. She sent several others, but they were so worthless that they hnd to send them all back and tell her to stop contrib uting. _____________ Mr. (Pendleton having said, in one of; his sophomoric speeches, that it was an appalling fact that there wasn’t money enough in the country, by $150,000,000, to pay the taxes of thd nation and States, if the people were required to pay them ull in one day, Senator Morton replies as fel lows in his Cincinnati speech ;.-“Well, now, that is a tremendous thought, and it is also an appalling tact that, if the people were requirwl to eat in one day all tkey now eat in the course of n year, they would inevitably burst.” —The much-talked-of overthrow of the famous column in the Place Vendoirio does not seem to have involved any serious destruction of property.. A competent architect es timates the cost of its restoration, precisely ns it stood before, nt a trifle over fifty thousand dollars. This-ap pears incredible. But the prostration of thecolumn only injured ten of the two hundred and seventy-four bronze platesof which its exterior was com posed, and these require but com paratively slight repairs. A saw bnrs es the balustrade and some pieces of the capital have disappeared; but these can bo easily replaced. Buy Me an 1 I’ll do Ycu Good. tt()QT AM9 PLANT. By cleanulnc the blood nnd arontdmzlhc I U liver and accretive organ* to a healthy ac a tion. thus* Pill enre. tomay ooraplamt* Ki which iirvoVlfl r.itfw t>*»r>jv*>Md ♦♦tey*c»trtd r •5 reach, such as Headache, In In thr *i;ie. j .*1 Nuinhnexw as the I.tinea and f ;,.t.Dullness 1 S Chilliness, e ,nv ti diet or a box Prepared by the Grafton Medic..m St. Mo. Sol (J by, druggisls and dealers in mod* icinet eery where jySsd£wly POSEY ,S, Y7ILSON, j£3l 22 IH. "VT KWBRICKBLOCK, Sixteenth at..near Fergi*- .Lx son, Cheyenne, Wyoming, transacts n gen •ral bawWiurttismei**. Ut i W U—. if -w W W*^**W4W n«|woißSPe: _ vc4S r2f p cw D E R It refULjf de+e reding all other preparationi for producing Kltgant, sw««f and W%eU*om*e MOLLS, BISCUITS, BREAD, 11 uriyemft ud othar GriddU C.vku. rer/ettip Pure and JlcliabU, and nUenpe remdg for immediate Tba CHEAP TSTPoIiy PmlrkO. WOBLi), and II WILL MUMP ON LA xt> 6il St A, fa imp climate, fir peart It la w«U adapts to the uaa of Heuttketpert, Miner*, Mariner*, Emigrant*. A*., «nd la tfW&Mil eUrp teepert, t%e‘§gST THtSTrCnrDSM me-.U rtUCMwp, tkeOalUg" iVLW Bf bkoefeud ft HkAI.E;n» EYTOTWHESE. ilami/aoture.Lby DOOLEY A BROTHER, SSINCW i. v rRCETafiEV/*YOR»C CHEYENNE, WYOMING, MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1871. TELE GRAPHIC! RKPOUTBD r.X i’llC..r*l,T THE LEADER. NIGHT SALT LAKE ITEMS, ETC. THE WISCONSIN FIRES. Terrible Fires in Chicago. Twenty-six Blocks Destroyed A Cojnpletc Reign of Terror. THE FIRE FIEND HOLDS HIGH CARNIVAL. 7 t.* >lw ats Tlie Flames Unchecked. New York, October T.—The Times’ Washington correspondent says that Secretary Delano has unearthed a gi gantic Indian fraud involving over sixty thousand acres of land, and im plicating several well known Indian officials of the lust Administration, including an ex-Cominissioner of In dian Affairs, A commission has been appointed by the Secretary to probe the matter, and startling de velopments are expected. Mixwal'kee, October 7.— News from tlie northern fires to-day state that they are raging worse than ever. A man who lias just arrived at Fort Howard, from Pensaukee, says that thirty men were burned to death at that place, and part of tlie town and one mill, nnd thinks that the rest lias been burned by this time. -~i4>*veni*ort, lowa, October 7. Ebenezer Cook, vice president of the Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company, one of the earliest settlers of Hie State, and Jong identified with railroad and financial interests, died suddenly this morning, with a con gestive chill. Chicago, Sept. 8— 12:30 a. m.— The mostr.wful conflagration ever known to have occurred in this city, broke cut about anhour and a half ago, and having already swept over six entire blocks, is still raging with almost unabated fury. The fife started in a large planing mill, situated between Clinton and Canal and Van Buren and Jackson streets, ahoqt the.Wnter of the block formed by these streets. Tha wind v.iaa blowing fresh. The flames spread with incredible rapid ity, and in a few minutes the entire structure Wt.s a muss of fire. The iir.Aiedii.ie vicinity is built up of amf.il ’teiifmaht iioilses and twe sto.y .'rallies, occupied" by groceries- and saloons. Tlie in mates of many of the houses were startled from their slumbers, mid liud barely time to rash from their houses in scanty attire, leaving their household g»ods to destruction. In several in (.-tinvcs iT-.,*!*'-» .were wrapped in hiaiiKetsanti'quilts tohreak the force or their fall, and throw n from second story windows lotiie tiie alarm sounded for this fire, another of considerable magnitude wr.s hurtling on Wells street, near Adams," itnfl several engines were necessarily kept.at work upon it. Tne rest of tlie engines in the city were soon on the ground, but before they arrived tlie fire had spread over so large an area, and was s rapidly spreading that all the force seemed of little avail. Ijclween Cniijtj street and (lie rivi r there were several lumber yards, which are entirely destroyed. .Atahishour the lire has jiiiide a clean sweep from Van liuren north, two blocks, to Adams, and west to Clinton, two hJecJc- from (ho fiver. Tlie wharves between Vnn Rurea.and-JUnjkaon are burning.' A lurgeeeonl yard, eontainlhg one tlicur. sand tons of soft coal, and situate between tlie tracks of the Chicago A Alton and Pittsburg Fort Wayne Railroad tracks nnd the river, is on fire nnd burning furiously. The scenes in the vicinity of tlie conflag ration are indescribable. Half the population of the city seems to be gathered fhere. The tugs in tlie river are engaged towing to places of safety the vessels in the neighborhood, while locomotives are hastily pulling out the great number of cars standing on the track in tlie path of the flames. At this writing it is impossible to give nil estimate of the losses, but they are already very large. The fire appears to be scarcely checked. Later—l:3o a. m.— The fire is ap parently raging as furiously ns ever, nnu seems to be spreading south and west.. Tlie Wind is now directly from the south, blowing hard. At 2 o’clock its progress appeared to be stayed. The firemen, by tlie most extraordinary and daring exertions, succeeded in keeping it within the bounds it then occupied. Within this area, however, which covered not less than twenty acres of ground, the flames still raged upon the piles of lumber and coal, which filled a considerable portion of the space, nnd at 'l o’clock this morning the glare was visible all over the city. By. daylight a part of the wearied fire men were relieved. Everything combustible within the fated district lias been swept away. This morn ing, though clouds of smoke still rose from portious of tlie ruins, arid here and there piles of coal still glowed with intense heat. It was evident that tlie great con flagration was over, and the subsid ence of tlie fire makes it possible to give a morei correct statement of the losses, which are very much less in amount than it was supposed during the progress of the flames, while the amount of personal suffering caused by so inany poor families losing their all was not: at all exaggerated. The highest estimate of the total losse is now half a million dollars rhe low est, half of that sum. The larger sum is no doubt the nearest to the actual .loss. The aggregate insurance, so, fur as ascertained, is $122,640. Vin cent Nelson Co.'s large grain ele vator was saved, or tlie loss would have been double what it is. The saddest result of the fire was ttje burning to death of Mrs. Marga ret Hadley,’ who, being suddenly sur rounded by tlie flames, was unable to escape. Heir remains, burned to a cinder, were found to-day, near the place where she was Inst seen in hen house. |lt is impossible to learn to-night exact amount of the insuracce and the names of all the companies that are victims. The entire amount of insurance is prohujijy less tiniii sJjso,ooa, about two-tl'.!rds of the amount in Chicago offices. The out side companies which suffer are the Hibernia, CJeyelnml; liu.hilo City, Westarn and Buffalo Fire and Ma rine, Alps of Erie, Andes of Cincin nati, Pacific and Union of. San Fran cisco Knickerbocker, Republic, ami Fireman’s, iff New York, nnd Ly coming, of Philadelphia. Chicago, OetobcryS— lo r. m.—A fire is now raging in the West Divis ion, which appears To be us large as the great fire of last-night. An alarm was given at 9:45 p. an, from the cor ner of Halstead street and Canal and Port avenue, a distanae of about two mil™ and a half from the court house. It will be lute before particulars can be obtained. Cirh-AGo, October !)—12:45 A. M. —'To-riight is tlie- 'most awful in the annals of the history of the city. Tlie lire, which commenced at 10 p. m. r has alieady swept over a space at least tb«*- times us Jilrgu ns that’of lust nighU, and Is still rushing on in its pa tij. of destruction with great- er fury than has marked any previous stage of its progress, the engineß tip pea ring to be nlmost powerless. Fin MarshfU Williams has just tel egraphed to Milwaukee for ail tin steamers they can spaie. Tho con flagration has already devastated at least twenty blocks, mostly composed of tlie smaller class of dwelling houses, inhabited mainly by poor people. Not less than three hundred buildings have been entirely de stroyed, and more than that number of families rendered homeless. The wind is blowing almost a gale from the south, nnd showers of sparks nnd burning brands are sweeping over the city, threatening destruction ou every hand". Since this report commenced two additional alarms have been struck, and the tower of the court house caught firo from a flying brand, but was extinguished by the watchman in the tower. No description can give an adequate idea of the terrible scene. Tlie fire started in a row of low wooden buildings on Dekoven street, between Jefferson and Clinton, and, as wns the case lastnight, spread with terfible rapidity. Before a single en gine could get on the ground, half of tlie block was in flames, and burning furiously. Tlie entire fire department were soon on the ground and at work. For a time it seemed pronable that they would succeed in confining the flames to the area of four or five blocks. The wind, however, which wns blowing freshly when the fire stnrted, increased to a gale, nnd sud denly the flames seemed to spread in every direction, becoming entirely beyond the control of the firo depart ment. 4:05 a. m.— The flre.is still raging,, and with increased fury. It has spread almost with tho velocity of the wind, and has now reached West Monroe street, a distance of more than a mile from where it started, and it dimes In a breadth of nearly half a mile, Teaching from Ihe river to Jefferson street. The district al ready burned over involves an im mense number of lumber- yards, the freight depots of the Chicago and St. Louis, and tlie Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago roads. The property al ready destroyed counts up ipany mil lions of dollars, and the half is not yet told. The task of arresting it seems four fold greater than it did an hour ago, and none dare venture the opinion as to when or where it will stop. Brands from tlie fire were blown across to tlie cast side of the river, and set a wooden building on fire di rectly adjoining the Chicago gr.s houSe. The flames spread in every direction, the adjoining buildings be ing all of tlie tinder-box kind. The prospect is that the gHs house will be destroyed, and the city wrapped in darkness. A terrible panic is prevail ing throughout the whole city. [At this point tlie tcli "nipii wires were burned.) Salt Lake, Sepr. 7.--At 4} p. m., George (J. Cuiihon, editor and apos tle, and Henry Lawrence,. of tho lirui of Kiililuili li»ck, Kddv etreet, CheviMiiw. Wyoiniuu. Will practice In all iht» courta of tho Territory. eeptß-ly ■T. fS. M.IIAWHIXS, M. I>. PItOKKSSbJt OP MKDI<'!N'E.-H,„'dilt nl t tint lon alven to the diHOBHue of women and children. Otlicc. Kolliuit liour-c Block, Sixteenih Street. Cheyenne. nuu2o-tf NEW YORK Life Insurance Company, [ESTABLISHED IWS.J Sum injured, during: the year 18GU. Assets over $17,000,000.00. J. n. NICHOLS, General A«jcnt>,. ndc)2tf Cheyenne, Wyoming. FIHST NATIONAL BAKK Of* Cheyoune. At riIOUI/I I) CAPITAL, *.’>oo,ooo AV-TUi STOCK xl<>o.ooo PAID t/P CAPITAL *70,000- 1)1 redo rs. A. T?. CONVERSE, D. B. t'Ui.TIS, SILAS RKEDv*. J KIWIS JOSLIN. Ufa.URGE F. I'Klt'K. Transacts a general Banklntr burlm liny* and nell Exchange, Coin ami Goia Duet. (L.vern* merit YourherH. Land Warrant**, otr. Collection* made on nil point*, with prompt returns, luter e*t paid on Time Depoidta. A. ft. CONVERSE, Prerlcl.'nt. M A.t* ftii.e. W. T. J. .1. KELLY. iVcniouiit. Glokgi; T. WALLAf.K. Sec’y and 'I rcas. Peter Smith's fjEVOLUTION STI’IIE Wholeanlft an«l Kpoil Dealer In Clothing! Hats, Ca/ps, BOOTS, SHOES AND BLANKETS, Tinnka and A’ulisviw, Auda general amtortineut of GENTS’ FURNISHING tOCDS Corner Eddy and Sixteenth Opposite First National Bank,. ►opt l.Vcltf s