, 1884-05-30
LOCAL MAVERICKS.
Unbranded News Notes Picked Up
About the City.

hal-
The procession to-day will be nearly
half a mile long.
The City Council was again in session
last night as a board of equalization.
There was quite a number of lady
equestriennes out on the streets last even
ing.
Wires were stretched along the streets
in the cemetery yesterday and also around
many of the burial lots.
Some of the live folks in Cheyenne
will probably be pretty near ready TO be
decorated before night comes.
The Happy Jack" and Pole Creek
road viewers have not met yet but they
probably will on Tuesday next.
The foundation for the new Warren
block is being laid and from present APP
~pearances it will be a very substantial
one
There was a Strawberry festival given
! by the Colored Baptists at Keefe's hall
last night which was quite literally patron,
lied.
Deitrick's brigade has of late been
working at the City park but the rain has
interfered materially with their opera
tons.
Keep your dogs at home when you 60
to the cemetery to-day, for they have
been making sad havoc among the graves
there.
There are one hundred and ninety-siS
persons between the ages of six and TWEEN.
ty-one who reside south of the railroad
track in this city.
Work has commenced on the founda-
ton for the new ldelman block on Six
teenth street, and quite n start has been
made in the work.
The highest temperature yesterday was
&C.; lowest, 440; mean temperature, $50
mean humidity, 630; highest velocity OF
wind, Is miles per hour.
Quite a crowd went down to the train
yesterday to see Blaine & Victory" 1t
would be no surprising thing if this firm
dissolves after it reaches Chicago.
A train of prairie s%chooners passed
through the city on yesterday en- route for
the Northern portion of the territory.
They came from Southern Kansas.
w. W. Jeffrey, County Assessor, will
start out in two or three days in the di,
rection of Virginia Dale, and work up the
country to the southwest of Cheyenne.
Mr.. William Dolan, who is in the city
negotiating for the purchase of a large
tract of land from the railroad company
which will include the ranch which he has
so long occupied.
There appears to be no prospect what
ever of resuming work at the Laramie
City rolling mills, and many of the late
employees of that institution are leaving
for other places.
Charles T. Tinker and Alfred Tinker,
who have been in the ranch business to,
gether, have dissolved partnership. Char,
ley Hinker will hereafter conduct the
whole business himself.
A mule fell down on top of n sand pile
in the Idelman excavation yesterday. II
was with much difficulty hat twas gotten
upon his feet again on account of being
wedged in between the sand and the
wall.
A solitary tramp who looked as though
he had seen very hard times, was brought
up before Judge Lee Yesterday, but was
turned loose rs it appeared that he was
not a professional at all but merely out
of luck.
The imitation monument that is to be
placed in the lot lately purchased by the
q. A. r. post, was taken to the cemetery
last evening to be put in position. 1t is
thirteen feet high and is painted in imi.
tation of marble.
Cray Jane was turned loose from
the calaboose two or three days ago fol-
the purpose of going to Fort Laramie,
where n situation was offered her as cook,
but before she got ready to start she went
on the ''warpath' again in great style.
Officer Nolan was obliged to take her in
charge, and she is once more an inmate
of the calaboosc.
The flood night before last was caused.
first, of course, by the immense fall Of
rain, and secondly because the dams and
e~mbankment of the Talbot ditch gave
way, which let the water into the city in
stead of turning it into the creek. Grow
creek did not rise nearly rs high as it did
on the occasion of the first great over
flow.
A letter has been received by Sheriff
S~harpless from the sister of William Ma.
loney, who was lately lynched on the Sa.
bile. The letter was directed to Maloney.
On the envelope, however, was written,
IF he cant open this letter will the
Sheriff please do So" Mr.. Hosford
opened the letter. A copy of TIT
LEADER was sent TO her.