The Cheyenne Daily Leader

THE APRIL FOOL

Annual Appearance in Cheyenne-- A Grand Success, With Lots of Laughter for Everybody.

The April fool was abroad in the city on Sunday last to a numerous extent. In fact every person in Cheyenne was the victim of some sort of sell, between the rising and the setting of the sun.

Geo. R. Thomas confidenced THE LEADER into publishing the report that Theodore Thomas, with his famous orchestra, would give a grand sacred concert here in the evening, and large numbers of people besieged the P. O. news depot in a vain effort to buy tickets, and afterwards went to the theatre and waited for the doors to open until convinced that they were April fools.

We propose to get even with Thomas, and will have ample opportunity to do so, but there is one man whom we would like to see, and that is the fellow who brought "Joe Robbins" to this office and introduced him to us.

The story of a rich silver mine at Buford caused a general stampede of intending Black Hillers to the westward.

They went out on foot, in wagons and by rail, and when they returned were too tired and felt too cheap to bulldoze anybody for starting such a story.

There is silver out in that vicinity, but no very rich mines have yet been discovered there.

Probably the most unfortunate piece of foolishness was the bull-dozing of the churches. The ministers brought in their notices for the day's services in regular form, and expected that they would appear in the paper all right, but the intelligent compositor who was given the task of setting them up had an idea or two of his own, and the clergy of the city were horrified to see the manner in which they were disposed of for the day's duties.

The advertisement of Mr. G. M. Jones for teamsters was numerously answered, and after receiving the applications of fifteen or twenty teamsters, Jones "tumbled," and began setting up the cigars.

Hungry gentlemen called at Col. Murrin's and asked for bear meat, but didn't get any, although a very fine lunch was set out, and all had "something to eat."

Moritz Meyer was fairly overrun with applicants for a clerkship, who called at the store before he was out of bed, and disturbed his slumbers.

Frank Beaucaire, whose "windfall" was announced, received a perfect ovation from his friends throughout the entire day. Frank says it was really astonishing to observe what a large number of marriageable young ladies there were who needed five or ten cents worth of cloves or other breath renovators, or "a little borax to clear my throat for choir singing," and called at Hurlbut's to get the same, casually tendering congratulations and showering loving glances upon him the while.

Several well-known business men offered congratulations, and took occasion to urge Frank to invest a large portion of his immense fortune in building a narrow gauge railroad from here to the Black Hills. A lady asked him to make some purchases in Paris for her, and a physician wrote and presented him with several letters of introduction to gentlemen in New York, Paris and Marseilles. Bruner shook hands with Frank, and remarked that he didn't seem to feel a bit proud over his big luck.

"No," said Frank, "I don't feel any prouder than I did yesterday."

"I knew you had too much sense to feel stuck up," replied Bruner.