, 1884-05-11
The Democratic Leader.
SUNDAY, MAY II, 1884.
LOCAL MAVERICKS.
Unbranded News Notes Picked up
About the City.

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"In some near graveyard give me room
l am a poorlOrn candidate,
Who in the rush has lost his boom"
Merchant Traveller.
Croquet will soon be in order.
Light trains from all points yesterday.
Most of the tamps seem to have
tramped.
At which church will you take your nap
to-day?
See notice of shepherd dog lost, in
another column.
The County Commissioners will not
meet again until May 10.
Ripe Strawberries have made their ap-
pearancc in the Cheyenne market.
Hay is still a staple article in the
Cheyenne market and will be for some
time.
The streets were lively in appearance
last evening and the weather was exceed
ingly delightful.
The second thunder shower of the
season occurred yesterday. The first was
the night before the ~equinoctial storm.
The large two-story brick building
being built by L. B. Spoor on Seven
teenth street is approaching completion.
The City Council will meet again on
Tuesday evening next at which time CON
siderable important business will be at
tended to.
Do not fail to attend the young peoples
meeting at the Congregational lecture
room at the church this evening at
$50 o'clock.
Let the mail route business be agitated
until the route to Buffalo is changed so
that the mail to that point will be sent
from Cheyenne.
Mr.. G. w. Rincr, member of the City
Council, will go East tomorrow and the
chances are that when he returns he will
not come alone.
The highest temperature yesterday was
T40; lowest, Az; mean temperature, jG';
mean humidity, 50 per cent; highest
velocity of wind, "a miles per hour.
There was a grand opening of the
Gold Room, ~ on Ferguson street, last
evening, Mt which time there was a large
attendance and a good time generally was
had.
On account of the rain which came in
just the wrong time the pigeon shoot,
which was to have taken place yesterday
afternoon, was postponed until Saturday
next.
Joseph Cook paid our climate the well
deserved compliment of coming away
from Colorado for a few hours rest before
lecturing at the Presbyterian church
Monday evening.
\ saloon is shortly to be opened at
Brush creek between the Chug and
Hunter ranch on the direct road to Fort
Laramie. The name of the proprietor is
not yet announced.
Several of the secret and other %organi-
cations in Cheyenne have s%igniied in
formally their intention of accepting the
invitation of the G., A. r. to participate
in the Memorial services, May 80.
A commission was issued to Mr.. John
A. Rincr as Il notary public yesterday by
Acting Governor Morgan, and the COM
mission was fled in the Office of the
County CLERK as the law provides
There is trouble brewing at Lake
Mahpalutah. The proprietor of the place
now occupied by Mrs. Harvocker was in
town yesterday and instituted legal pro
eeedings to get possession of his prop erty,
When Joseph Cook entered the Pres
b~yterian church last evening the electric
light arrested his attention at once and he
exclaimed For the first time | see a
church lighted with electricity. This
must be a wideawake enterprising city. "
The county board of Brand Commits
s%ioners, consisting of A.. Gilchrist and
c. B. Goodell, were in session at the
County Clerks office for the greater por,
ton of yesterday afternoon. a number
of brands that had been applied for were
registered.
Now that the Union Pacific have com
menced selling off their land the question
of artesian wells becomes u very import
ant one. Large tracts of land that may
be purchased and not lying upon or along
any stream must be watered in some way
in order to be of much value.
1t is just as was predicted in regard to
the fellow who was arrested for stealing
the iewelry from Il girl living with Blanche
Porter, there are always two sides to a
story. There was another side to this
story it seems for when the proper time
arrived no one would consent to appear
against the alleged +hiefand he was there.
fore discharged yesterday.
The Methodist Episcopal church choir
has secured the services permanently OF
Mis-. King as organist, and DIR. Buchanan
as cOrnetist, As an organist and choir
leader Mrs, King is unsurpassed, and the
doctor is second to none with the
cornet. The society is indeed fortunate
in securing the services of two musicians
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