, 1884-07-31
LOCAL
Unbranded News Notes Picked uI
About the City.

Cooler weather yesterday.
Lots of new hay is being brought into
the city.
There are still 4 great many people of
fering to bet on the election.
The excavation work for the new school
house will be completed to-day.
The police courts were not overcrowded
with work of any kind yesterday.
Preparations are in progress for the
erection of the new addition to the Inter
Ocean Hotel.
Cheyenne is not quite ripe for evan
gelical work, and won't be until the
weather gets cooler.
The ladies connected with st. Marks
Guild will give a sociable at Library Hall
next Tuesday evening.
The entertainment to be held in the
Opera House Monday evening will be ex-
ceedingly lively in its character.
Another big slice of earth caved into
the Trinity block excavation night before
last, and more will probably follow.
Surveyor Roy's freight teams, which
returned to the city on Tuesday, loaded
mp and started out again yesterday.
The Miss McCrum who went to Egbert
with the other young ladies was Miss
Helen McCrum, the school teacher.
Cheyenne has a soda water, cider, and
ginger ale mandatory in full blast, and
it is said to be doing a good business.
The Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
has been reopened for business, and trains
are now running over the road as usual.
There was another out door meeting on
the Post Office corner last evening, held
under the auspices of Messrs. Revell and
Herald.
4 Board of Trade would be II very good
thing to have in Cheyenne, and it would
be well for our business men to talk the
matter over a little.
Travel from the south over the Chey-
enne Division of the Union Pacific has
fallen off a little since the Denver & Rio
Grande has been %reopened,
There is now such au immense supply
of home made brick on hand that one or
two of our brick yards will probably shut
down in the course of a week.
Major General Schofeld was in Salt
Lake City two Or three days ago, and will
go up through Montana and Idaho, and
from thence to the Pacific coast.
viii Visscher is to lecture in Library
Hall tomorrow evening, and it may
reasonably be expected to see the hall
crowded with interested listeners.
The highest temperature yesterday was
100; lowest, 460; mean temperature, 500;
mean humidity, 81 per cent; highest
velocity of wind, l6 miles per hour.
The old wooden building which has
stood so long just north of the Inter
Ocean, on Hill street, was yesterday
placed on wheels and will be taken beyond
the fire limits to-day.
Chief Justice Lacey was yesterday en-
gagged in examining the transcript and pa
pers in the Cook murder case, which is to
come up for argument in the Supreme
Court on the 9Th of August.
II. \. Roy yesterday sent out II party
Of six surveyors to the western portion of
the Territory, who are to map out the
ground for u final survey for the construc-
ton of some irrigating bitches.
The building material for the Idelman
Block, which failed to arrive when ex-
pected and which caused a delay in the
work, has now arrived, and operations
have been resumed on the building.
O. T.. Stewart, who is charged with
stealing cattle from the Little Venture
Cattle Company, was yesterday admitted
to bail in the sum of 81, 900 to answer to
the charge at the first term of the District
Court.
An addition to the Cheyenne pump
house is being built by the city. When
completed that institution will be all that
can possibly be required for that depart
ment of our water system. III. p. Button
is the engineer at that place.
Real estate business was dull again yes.
terday, the only transfer instrument filed
for record being a warranty decd from j.
II. Nichols to Pauline L.. Hillman for lots
Nos. !, ., . and 4, in block 365, in this
city, The consideration paid was $500.