, 1884-06-07
The Democratic Leader.
JUNE I, 1884.
&
Unbranded News Notes Picked Up
About the City.

The police courts were entirely destitute
of incidents and items.
1t was a dull day all around yesterday,
counting out the political excitement.
The delegates to the late Sunday school
convention nearly all returned to their
homes on yesterday.
Racing again to-day at the Driving
Park and a very interesting programme
will be carried out.
The G. A. r. held a regular meeting al
the headquarters of the post in the Ma
sonic Hail last evening.
There was considerable betting done
yesterday on the result of the balloting at
the convention in Chicago.
The foundation walls of the Idelman
block are nearly completed and brick lay
ing will ommenc in two or three days.
The next great convention will be held
in Chicago July 8. Elden and the Dem
ocrats will have something to say about
that.
Constable B. f. Smalley went out into
the country on important official business
yesterday and will probably return this
evening.
Children's day will be observed at the
Congregational Church tomorrow. There
will be the baptism of children in the
morning.
The alley between the Union Mercantile
block and the establishment of Pierce g.
Murray is being leveled down and is to be
paved with stone.
The ditch in front of Pierce & Murray
place of business is to have a pavement,
which will be quite an improvement to
that portion of the street.
There are s77 pupils who attend regu-
larry the sessions of the Sunday schools in
this city. This is a greater number than
attend the day schools of Cheyenne.
Curly Coleman came in yesterday
from a trip to Fetterman and says hat he
is as good as two dead men, n~otwithstand-
ing the recent rumor hat he was dead.
The highest temperature yesterday was
1872; lowest, 4So; mean temperature, 500;
mean humidity, As per cent; highest
velocity Of wind, Ia miles per hour.
An immense steam boiler was placed in
position in the excavation for the Idel-
man block yesterday. 1t is probably the
largest one that has been brought to the
city.
The Inter Ocean bar room has been re-
opened and is now most elegantly and
neatly fitted up at considerable expense to
its wide awake proprietor, Mr.. John
Chase.
Everywhere you go in Cheyenne at the
present time you will see people engaged
In making Improvements. Thousands of
dollars are being expended in identifying
the city.
Some of the best posted ranchmen pre-
diet the largest crop of hay and the best
feed for cattle that has ever been had in
this part of the country since it was first
settled up.
Mr.. William ii. IL. Reid has taken n
position with County Clerk j. X. jeffrey
In his office as a copyist. E. H. Moylle
goes to the Railroad House as one of the
clerks at that popular hotel.
All the members Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church choir and Sunday
school are requested to meet at the church
this evening at s O'Clock to rehearse for
children's day services.
The only transfer instrument filed n
record in the Office of the County Clerk
yesterday was a quit claim deed from the
Union Pacific to b. Hellman for lots No.
6 and I, in block No. 34S, in Cheyenne
and the consideration paid was 800.
Just for his own curiosity merely a
LEADER reporter went around Yesterday
to see how many men he could find who
were personally acquainted with Blaine.
He found 367, besides ia who used to go
to school with him.
Some of the small boys who could not
quite comprehend the situation Yesterday
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