, 1884-06-10
LOCAL
Unbranded News Notes Picked Up
About the CITY.

the Cheyenne fruit market.
The Police Courts were pretty busy
yesterday with all sorts of legal business.
Harry Oelrichs and a party of friends
were out with the Tally Ho" last even
ing.
A bootblack stand has just been opened
on Seventeenth street, opposite He'll
mans store.
The first shipment of cattle from Pine
Bluffs for this season will take place short
ly after July l.
There is to be q temperance mass meet
leg at the Presbyterian Church next
Thursday evening.
Hay is now worth $25 per ton in Chey-
enne, and there is no difference between
loose and baled hay.
A blind man and woman were around
on the streets yesterday singing songs
and in that way picked up a good many
dimes.
h picnic has been heard from again.
The boys have got it tied up this time and
will turn it loose on the l4th of this
month.
Scarcely a day passes without from fifty
to a hundred head of blooded stock most
ly bulls, being received at the Cheyenne
st~ockyards.
There will be a meeting of the City
Council this afternoon and also in the
evening for the transaction of some un-
finished business.
The ladies of St Marks church guild
will give a strawberry festival at Library
hall, on Thursday. There will be dancing
during the evening.
Sheriff Sharpless has returned from
Chicago. He did not wait to see the bal
loting through with. He met Mr.. Potter
and other Cheyenneites there.
-Four ofJim Beams freight teams loaded
up with fence wire yesterday which is dcs-
tined to be taken out to his ranch. He
will pull out with his teams to-day.
The highest temperature yesterday was
100; lowest, 49o; mean temperature, $40;
mean humidity, II per cent; highest
velocity of wind, 20 miles per hour.
Several apple trees in the grounds at
j. B. Woods residence are in full blossom
and from present appearances there will
be quite a crop Of apples in that yard.
r. b, Anderson and also X. P. Nichols
are hauling hay to the city from their
ranches in the foothills. The roads are
not very good and they have to bring
small loads.
A cablcgram has been received from
Mrs. Carlin Hunter, announcing her safe
arrival at Glasgow, in Scotland. Mr..
Hunter in the meantime has returned
from Chicago.
Miss Sharpless has resigned, for the re-
mainder Of the term, her position in the
public school and her department will be
consolidated with that of Miss Thomas
and placed under her charge.
There are anxious inquirers on every
hand as to whether there is to be a cele-
bration in Cheyenne on the 4th of July.
The prevailing impression seems to be
that there ought to be a grand hurrah.
The ladies connected with St. Marks
Episcopal Church will give a strawberry
festival in Library Hall on Thursday
evening. Great preparations have been
made for the event and a good time may
be anticipated.
Judge Bergman will start East to-day,
and after visiting Chicago he will proceed
to Philadelphia, and on his return from
that place. will be accompanied by his
daughter Miss Ida Bergman, who is at
tending school there.
Mr.. John Hogle, late proprietor Of the
Rustic Hotel at Fort Laramie, is erecting
a hotel at Running Water, which will soon
be ready for use and occupation. He will
start out with a pretty good lot of custom
ers, for he is to board the eighty-fve men
who are now working the mines at that
place.
There have been some ten or twelve
dark horse DRINKS within the past two
or three days. A dark horse drunk is
one where a fellow gets a little too full for
practical purposes and in writing, as he
car do by law, authorizes a policeman to
appear and plead guilty for him without
having to appear in conrt.
The School Board ought at once to cause
lightning rods to be placed on the school
house across the railroad track and also
on that wing of the main building which
is still u~nprovided with this safeguard.
There are too many lives that may be in
peril during the Summer for the School
Board to hesitate about the matter of cx-
pense.
About the funniest thing that has hap
pened for some time around the Inter
Ocean was a bicycle ride yesterday by
John Chase and Bob Hutchinson. The
ride was an immense success, the only
thing which occurred to mar the Joyful
ness Of the occasion was. that in trying to
Cross the alley north of the hotel, ''Bob's'
bicycle got scared and ran away. He,
however, got of without difficulty, and
got ahead of the animal. BY leaning up
against the upper side of the pavement
he succeeded in stopping it. The bicycle
wasn't much hurt.
Every Smoker should try "Littl,
Joker"