, 1884-06-19
c MAVERICKS.
Unbranded News Notes Picked Up
About the City.

ye5tefday.
Travel on the Union Pacific is ~increas-
ing very fast of late.
There was no meeting of the County
Commissioners yesterday.
The ladies of the Presbyterian church
will meet at l o'clock p. m. to-day.
The ladies' of the Methodist Church are
to give a supper on the evening of the 4th
of July.
c. Z. Stprgis, real estate and employ
ment Office. No. l, over Rhodes &
Troxelrs.
The railroad men are anxiously looking
for the pay car to arrive. 1t will probably
reach this city to morrow.
The streets of the city were very lively
last evening and nearly everybody seemed
to be out for a walk.
twenty-five men left the city yesterday
in a body, going north to work on the
Brady irrigating ditch.
There were three well filed emigrant
cars attached to the passenger train going
West last evening.
Rev. ]. i. Fields, a colored Baptist
minister of Denver, will shortly deliver a
lecture in Cheyenne.
All of the railroad land for ten miles
south of Cheyenne has been disposed of
by the Union Pacific Company.
Ii is proposed to fire three salutes on
the 4th of July, one in the morning, one
at neon and the other at sunset.
The sale of reserved seats for the Rhca
entertainment will commence at Rhodes
x Trcxeh's this morning at 9 o'clock.
Somebody will have to start a boom
in real estate, there was not a single trans
fer instrument placed on file yesterday.
MThe case of the Territory of Wyoming
vs.. James Norton will come up for hear
ing before Judge Lee at . p. IN. to-day.
A term of the District Court within
the Second Judicial District will convene
at Buffalo, johnson County, on Monday
next.
Crook County, according to all accounts,
is not only fast settling up but the people
are getting anxious to have the county
organized.
AAThe balance due from the county to
the King Iron Bridge Company for the
construction of the Nineteenth street
bridge has been paid in full.
Work was commenced yesterday in ex-
cavating the ditch through which the
main pipe of the Cheyenne Gas Works
is to be laid on Eighteenth street.
A grand supper, to be given by the
ladies of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
is one of the promised attractions of the
Glorious Fourth.
GThe highest temperature yesterday was
so; lowest, AS; mean temperature, CO.,:
mean humidity, 80 per cent; highest We
locity of wind, 20 miles per hour.
o. P. Goodwin has entered 800 acres
Of land on Horse creek, and will shortly
proceed to improve the same, and among
other things contemplated is the erection
Of a fine residence.
Many of the emigrants who are passing
through Cheyenne this Summer are drop
ping out on the way and most of them
will pitch their tents in Wyoming and
give up the idea of going to Oregon.
1t was quite liberal in the City Council
to vote 5000 to the Fire Department on
the coming Fourth, and their action in so
doing is highly appreciated by the fire
men.
There is a great deal of discussion in re-
gard to the question of roads and nearly
all of the prominent ranchmen in the
county are turning their attention to the
matter. There are several petitions be.
fore the Board of County Commissioners.
Sun Dance, according to reports just
received, is rapidly settling up and the
prospects now are that quite n town will
soor spring up at that place. Deputy As
SCISSOR Draper is diligently at work max
hhB thc hSoeSsultnt Vi uhAuDle properly Ill
that portion Of the county.
A case which had been commenced
against a party for throwing some house
hold furniture into the street, and which
was expected to be quite hotly contested,
was withdraw by the party instituting the
prosecution yesterday.
The old adobe on Seventeenth street is
rapidly going L pieces and will soon dis
appear entirely. The sand and gravel Of
which the walls are composed are to be
distributed in places where something is
needed to fill up holes and cutters on the
streets.
The people in the northern portion of
the. county and west of Fort Laramie alsc,
are waiting, watching and wondering
when a rilroad is to be built through that
portion of the country. They think their
fortunes would be made providing they
could have communication by rail with
the outside world.
The Cheyenne Telegraph company has
sold out its stock of blank stationery, etc.,
10 Wr Fred Goodrich, for the sum of 81,