, 1884-05-23
The Democratic Leader.
FRIDAY, MAY %, 1884.
LOCAL
Unbranded News Notes Picked Up
About the City.

Inc muu Iau Il Close call yesterday.
Are you going to the circus to-day ? is
the great question.
A plate glass front is being put in at
Dare & Collins hardware store, on Fergu-
son street.
d. Fisk went to Fort Collins yesterday
afternoon on business connected with his
tree contract with the city.
Quite a number of people came in from
the country on yesterday ostensibly to do
a little trading but really to see the circus.
The country mp around Sand creek and
vicinity is fast being settled up and every
thing is prosperous in that part of Crook
county.
The brick work is nearly finished on the
repairs or rather rebuilding of the F. L.
Warren Mercantile block, next to the
Inter Ocean hotel.
Considerable building will be done at
Sun Dance during this season, and from
present appearances quite a town will
shortly spring up at that place.
The highest temperature yesterday was
go; lowest, 4o'i mean temperature, 44o;
mean humidity, 81 per cent; highest
velocity OF wind, 26 miles per hour.
Ascension services were held at the
Catholic church yesterday morning and
evening which were quite numerously
attended by the members of that church.
Nichols and Post, the two parties who
brought the body of Metcalf to Cheyenne,
started on their return trip yesterday in
company with Coroner Chafin and his
jury.
Mrs. Metcalf returned to Denver yes
terday afternoon taking with her the
remains of her late husband. She was
very much depressed by her sad mis-
fortune,
Doctors Corey and Marston are ab,ert
at Hillsdale in attendance upon a patient
who is in a very critical condition and
whose chances of recovery are very
doubtful.
Il. w. Mills old dog Keno" was run
over and killed day before yesterday and
is now NJ more in this life. The dog
was eleven years old and a general f~avorite
with all.
There is much complaint up the
country by the people there that they
get but little benefit of the sums that are
expended by the county in the building
and repair of roads.
The seven hundred trees that have
been and are to be set out in the City
park, together with those originally
planted there, will make a very nice place
of the park in two or three years.
A dwelling house which has stood for
years Just east of the present residence of
W. X. Wightman, was yesterday placed
on wheels and moved across the railroad
track to a new site at the foot of Eddy
street.
w. w. Jeffrey, County Assessor, re-
turned yesterday from his northern trip
and will leave the unaccomplished work
in that portion Of his field of operations
to be attended to by his deputy, W. f..
Draper, of Sun Dance.
The washout up west has again been
repaired and the trains are now arriving
MS usual, but not on time all of them.
No. 4 from the west came in yesterday
afternoon by sections. 1t should have
reached here in the morning.
Assessor Jeffrey estimates that the
total valuation of assessable property in
Crook county will reach the sun of
$4,000, 900 this year. This is a pretty
good showing considering that less than
three years ago the assessment amounted
to only $500, 0O0.
About forty Cinnamon passed through
Cheyenne yesterday afternoon en- route
t. Omaha and Council Bluffs. They
were direct from San Francisco and are
new arrivals in this country. They were
a fine looking set, and but one of the
number could speak English.
a force ofone hundred and fifty men
49,
came up from Colorado yesterday destined
for employment on the Sabille ditch.
Some of them went north, after their
arrival yesterday, but the most of them
remained over until to-day and will not
probably proceed to their destination.
The only real estate transfer instru-
ment filed for record in the office of the
County Clerk yesterday was II warranty
deed from Agnes r. Grabach and Philip
Grabach to c. w. Riner for lot No. I, in
block No, 39S, in the city of Cheyenne.
The consideration paid was 81 more or
less.
School district No. &, which is for the
most part within the limits of Crook
county, is to have nine schools within the
district AS soon as proper houses are
erected for that purpose. This will give
a chance for quite n number of our Chey-
enne young ladies 10 obtain employment
MS teachers.
There was quite an excitement around
the railroad grounds yesterday afternoon,
caused by two men who wanted to fight
or at least they thought they did. They
agreed on fifteenth street to go over the
track and have n set-to, and started over
followed by quite an excited crowd.
They went over pretty near to the Mon
tana house where they compromised their
difficulty, after which the crowd dispersed.