, 1884-05-25
The Democratic Leader.
SUNDAY, MAY 25, 1884.
c MAVERICKS.
Unbranded News Notes Picked Up
About the City.
Cole was too cold.


The brick work on the Warren block on
Seventeenth street, is nearly completed.
The weather was delightful yesterday
and many people took advantage of it and
went riding.
Work has commenced on the erection
of the janitor's residence at the school
house grounds.
A regular meeting of the Knights Of
Labor will be held at . O'Clock this after
noon in Odd Fellows hall.
There will be no trotting here after all,
those persons who VEN to Denver to Sc
cure entries having failed to do so.
Rev. L. S. Chapman, of this. city, has
been invited to deliver the annual lecture
before the four literary societies Of Yves,
tern college, Iowa.
Mr. Le France vent to Omaha yester-
day, to meet Mr.. A. II. Swan, and will
return with him to this city on or before
the middle of the week.
rThe foundation and walls of the gas
works cistem are nearly all in place, and
when completed it will be n larger one
than the gas light cistern at Omaha.
Water has been let into Lake Mime
haha for the first time in about three
years and it will not be very long before it
will be filed to its original dimensions.
T,1n p,,n e. .,ta,..4;a. onl L..
turbance of the peace was fined s25 and
John Kelley for intoxication $40 by Judge
Lee yesterday. They were unable to pay
up.
Several of the graves in the old Gene
terry are so nearly obliterated that unless
they can be remembered by reference to
some land mark, they can not be found
now.
The delightful weather will soon make
it desirable to give the babies an airing.
Craig, Davis & Co, have some very beau
tiful carriages, admirably adapted for this
purpose.
The regular meeting night ofthe Broth
erhood of Carpenters and Joincrs has been
changed from Saturday to Friday night
at 1880 o'clock. The meetings will be held
in Judge Fishers office.
Major Talbot has set out four additional
acres of trees this spring. They consist
of cottonwoods, Lombardy poplar and
several other kinds. The Major has also
put in twelve acres of vegetables.
The sales of land in the office of j. G..
Pratt, during the past week week have
not been very heavy, but several large
sales are being negotiated and will proba-
bly, be contaminated in a very few days.
Anybody wishing to donate flowers for
Decoration Day, may notify the committee
consisting of Messrs, d. f. Whipple,
James p. Julian and n. j. O'Brion, who
will see that the gifts are properly taken
care of.
a bridge is being built by the city across
the big water ditch on Twentieth street,
near the upper end of Lake Minnehaha,
under the supervision of Street Commits
sioner O'Brien, and it will be completed
in a day or two.
The G, A. R., firing detachment are
now practicing frequently, mostly in the
evening, on the plain northeast of the
city, and should you hear firing in that
direction do not be alarmed for this fact
will account for it.
The union services to be held at the
Congregational church this evening, which
are TO be attended by the Grand Army in
Il body, will undoubtedly be of very in
teresting character, and will without doubt
be very numerously attended.
f, w. Schwartze, T. Dyer and A. G..
McGregor, were out yesterday between
Cheyenne and Camp Carlin, hunting up
the corners of piece of land lately pur-
chased by Mr.. Schwartze. Mac said
they We're surveying another railroad.
Since the water has been turned into
Lake Minnehaha, the fish in that body of
water, in endeavoring to get up as far as
they could in the stream of fresh water
nov pouring into the lake, get into shall
low water and can be picked up by the
bushel every morning.
A committee of Reynolds Post, G. A.
r., will be ON duty at the cemeteries at
6 o'clock, this evening, for the purpose of
marking graves of persons who were sol
diers in the late war, Relatives and
friends of soldiers buried in either of the
cemeteries are requested to meet the com
mittee at that time.
Would it not be well for us many people
as possibly can, to go up TO the cemetery
this evening and be present when the Sc
lection of the graves of the ex-soldiers are
made. Some graves may be missed, and
some people might be able to furnish val
liable assistance to the committee in the
matter of making selections.
Come to think of it, now that the busy
season is coming on, wouldn't it be the
best plan to round up prospective railroads
and have them branded, and then turn
them loose until next fall when there will
be a little more time to build them, with
chin music Then again, by so doing,
u maverick or two might be caught which
are not now numbered in the outfit.
DR. Chapman has received the Sunday
school library books he has so long and
~assiduously worked to get. They are a
fine selection and represent a rare array OF
intellectual food. 1t will be a couple of