, 1884-12-07
c MAVERICKS.
Unbranded News Notes Picked Up
About the CITY.


Winter is evidently coming On apace.
Yesterday was the coolest day Of the sea-
son.
The Whalen Dramatic Company will
pass through Cheyenne to-day, bound
Fast.
During the present week Mr.. A. X.
johnson will begin the delivery of the
new city directory.
The seats for Macbeth tomorrow even
ing are nearly all sold. The audience
will be a monster one.
Go to the Skating Rink and sec the
new beginners fall. No end to the fun
every afternoon and evening.
Seats for the Leavitt entertainment of
Tuesday evening will be on sale at Rhodes
& Troxell's Monday morning.
just at the present time one could not
heave a brick into Wyoming without
hitting a candidate for some Federal
office.
The merchants state that the holiday
trade has not commenced yet and that the
business boom, usually incident to the
holidays, will probably not begin until
next week.
ID. 5. Wood returned yesterday from
Antelope, where he has been putting up
lightning rods for the Bay State Live
Stock Company and others.
The roller skating craze has penetrated
the sequestered shades of Laramie and
that staid village will soon have a roller
rink. DIR. Hayford on roller skates would
be Il sight for the Gods !
A really first. class vaudeville entertain
ment is always enjoyed. The Leavitt
company is the largest one Of its school
now in the country, and a fine entertain
meht is promised for Tuesday evening.
Tickets have been printed for the Broth
erhood of Engineers ball, and are now for
sale at Rhodes & Troxelrs and Gray &
Pearse's drug store. Everything indicates
that the Brotherhood will have an unus-
ually successful ball.
The Union Pacific tool car and the
wrecking car left last night for Colorad,
Junction where n number of freight car.
were dcrailed. Particulars regarding the
number of cars and the extent ofthe dam
age were not obtainable.
W. +. Emberg appeared on the stree 8
yesterday respondent in new clothes ana
jewelry, His diamond ring will be here
from Chicago in a few days. He was pro-
noted yesterday from messenger of the
Western Union to desk clerk.
The Signal Service Office reports that
the highest temperature yesterday was
$3.50; lowest, 1852; mean temperature,
%, 81; mean humidity, 70 per cent; highest
velocity of wind, 20 miles per hour.
Snowfall not enough to measure.
John Francis brought in a number Of
wolf pelts yesterday which he sold to the
hide department Of the County Clerks
Office. He also declared his intention to
become a citizen OF the Republic whose
people are celebrated for eating pie and
wearing tight pants.
About $3.50 o'clock last evening a team
Of colts attached to hack No, 3 ran away
from the hack stand at the depot. The
driver was not on the hack at the time
and the horses had everything their own
way. They cavorted around the streets
some time and upset the hack, but
strangely enough oven the glass of the
vehicle wns unbrokcn. No damage.
Mr.. John A. Evans, II civil engineer
and surveyor Of some fifteen years cxpert
fence, has decided to locate in Cheyenne.
Mr.. Evans has performed some very diff.
cult engineering work in the West and
South, and comes here highly recommend
ed for ability and efficiency in his profes.
sion. During the past two years Mr..
Evans has been engaged on the Oregon
Short Line and during the proceeding
three years was on the engineering corps
of the Denver & South Park railroad. He
has also had anumber of years experience
in the work Of his profession incident to
locating and planning irrigation canals and
bitches in Southern California and Texas,
and no doubt will find in Cheyenne the en-
couragement in his profession his exper-
fence and abilities warrant.