, 1884-06-05
The Democratic Leader.
Unbranded News Notes picked Up
About the City.

Langtry appearance.
Stevens, the bicycle crank, resumed his
journey yesterday morning.
A good many people are already begin
ming to complain of hot weather.
There has been something of a lull in
real estate business within the past few
days.
There were two car loads of emigrants
attached to the western bound passenger
train last evening,
Judge Fishers court was overrun with
civil cases yesterday, several being tried
and disposed of.
The city has accepted the dyke at Lake
Minnehaha, it having been constructed
according to contract.
Call early to-day at Rhodes & Troxells
and you will be able to secure a choice
seat for the Langtry entertainment.
The Gun Club went out for u practice
shoot yesterday afternoon and several per-
sons did some remarkably good work.
The Board of Education has not yet
decided where the new school house is to
be built but Will probably do so before
long.
The Baxter Brothers have recently re-
ceiycd four very fine Norman horses from
the East which have been taken out to
their ranch.
There are eight companies of troops
now stationed at Fort Russell, and all
temporarily under the command of Cap
tain Carpenter.
Acting-G Governor Morgan yesterday ap-
pointed j. d. Freedom a notary public,
and the certificate of his appointment was
filed for record.
The janitor's residence at the high
school building will be completed in a few
days, which will make it a little more con-
venient for that official.
There are places in the city where side
walks were ordered built more than a year
ago by the City Council and yet they have
not been constructed.
The front of Dare & Collins hardware
stores on Ferguson street is being painted
a light brown color, which will greatly i'm
prove its appearance.
An itinerant string band is now going
about the city serenading the people at
the hotels and elsewhere. They probably
pick up a few dimes in this way.
Quite a number of cowboys who have
a short furlough from the roundup came
into the city yesterday for the purpose of
purchasing necessary articles.
The highest temperature yesterday was
800; lowest, 470; mean temperature, go;
NEAR humidity, 4S per cent; highest
velocity of wind, IS miles per hour.
Dress parades at Fort Russell on Sunday
evening are becoming quite an attraction
for the city people and many ladies and
gentlemen ride out there to witness them.
The new improvements in the Inter
Ocean bar room are nearly completed and
the room will be r~eoccupied by the liquid
department in the course of a day or
two.
1t has been explained hat the boquets
of flowers taken from the G. A. r. mon
ument at the cemetery were removed by
the committee and by the authority of
the Post
There is now some talk of fixing the
salary of the City Clerk SO that he can
afford to have a deputy who shall be at
the City Hall every day during office
hours.
The case of the City of Cheyenne vs..
Margaret Henne was yesterday postponed
until the return of an important witness
and will not be called up again before the
first of next week.
There is considerable opposition mani
Tested to the proposed laying of a side
walk on certain portions of Warren ay-
enue, the parties claiming that it is not
needed at present.
The excellent well at the Court house
was yesterday rendered useless for the
time being on accoun of the caving in of
the wall and curbing, which was caused
by the recent heavy rains.
Much inconvenience and expense has
been occasioned to many on account of the
uncertainty of the sidewalk and street
grade established in the city some years
ago and the matter ought to be recti-
fled.
On Decoration Day Charlie Nessels
fixed up the grave of Jacob S. Spaum,
formerly a member of the bar in Chey-
enne, and at his own expense procured
flowers and placed them upon the deserted
mound which covers the remains.
The bicycle iend did not create quite SO
much excitement by his arrival in Chey-
enne as he probably anticipated. People
here have something else to do than to
get excited over a man on wheels even if
he is doing something wonderful.
The last of the grave remaining in the
circular street at the city cemetery were
moved yesterday by j. ID. Carey and his
men, so that hereafter parties driving into
the burial place will not have to run over
or against some unknown grave.
The Pine Bluffs house, Pine Bluffs,
Wye, has lately been fitted in first-class
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