, 1884-07-25
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Unbranded News Notes Picked Up
About the City.

ShbiAhuth NChH Nots' ~
About the City.
The County Commissioners did not
hold a meeting yesterday.
The western bound passenger train was
a very heavy one last evening.
The Fall roundup for district No. IL
in Colorado, will m at Julesburg
August II.
The city is extensively billed for the
performance to be given at the Opera
House tonight,
Jim Abney say that the Inter Ocean
waterway must be bridged over if he has
to do it himself
Another picnic is in contemplation for
Sunday next, and Kingman's ranch is to
be the objective point.
Passenger train No. | and the Denver
train ran side by side for some distance
when coming in last evening.
All sorts of wild rumors are now floating
about to the effect that an evening paper
is o to be started in Cheyenne.
1t is William Sturgis that is building
the $25, 900 residence on Seventeenth
street, instead of Thomas Sturgis.
Somner johnson, the city editor Of the
SIN, has gone to Saratoga for a few days
to get u little rest from his duties.
A small boy in the city mistakes a GER
tain reporter for Hon. M. Z. Post, all of
which is pretty rough on Mr.. Post.
There were two emigrant cars as usual
with the train going West last evening.
The passengers were yearly all Mormons.
The special car of the attorney for the
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad went
West on its way to the Pacific coast yes
terday.
The gas ditch has now been extended
to nearly opposite the Simmons House.
Considerable more pipe was put down
yesterday.
They now have telephone connection
between Fort Steele and Saratoga, which
makes it very convenient for the people at
the latter place.
Leap year is fast wearing away and
some of the young men are beginning to
think that the only chance they will ever
have is about gone.
The proposed teachers excursion from
Indianapolis to the Yellowstone National
Park, will pass through Cheyenne in
about three weeks.
The Penitentiary Commissioners have
made a contract for the keeping Of iuve-
nile c%onvicts at Golden, Colo. Well. that
is n very good idea
There was not n single real estate trans
fer instrument filed for record yesterday.
One notice Of a mining claim in Whalen
Canyon was received.
Hon. A. r. Converse has commenced
the erection of what will be an elegant
residence on the corner of Eighteenth
street aud Warren avenue.
The County Clerk is busy at work on
the assessment roll footing up the totals,
and expects to have the abstracts provided
by law ready by Monday next.
The highest temperature yesterday was
100; lowest, 520; mean temperature. 650;
mean humidity, PC per cent. highest
velocity of wind, "a miles per hour.
One of the Burlington Il Missouri en-
gineers was in the city yesterday and stated
that they were under orders to relocate u
portion ofthe line they have lately sur
veyed.
Still another rich discovery has been
made at Running Water, and this time
they will be prepared to test it right at
home for the smelter at that place is now
running.
Lake Minnehaha is so nearly filed with
water that the supply from the ditch will
shortly be shut off, which will give more
water to the cemetery and to the regular
water bitches in the city.
J.. r. Bresnahen has nearly four acres
of oats growing in the Crow creek bottom
south of the railroad track. Some of the
stalks which he brought up from there
yesterday were nearly FIVE feet tall.
Sheriff Sharpless is now editor and
business manager of the Northeastern
Stock Journal, Messrs. Potter, Donzel-
mann, Riner, Baird, Campbell and Stewart
represent the principal stockholders just
Mt the nreeent timp
Judge Fisher was kept unusually busy
yesterday afternoon issuing writs of at
tachmentin various cases, one or two OF
them being against railroad men and there
was also 4 new case against M Of the
proprietors of the Stock Journal.
The city is remarkably quiet and orderly
of late, and vet there are a good many
tramps and petty thieves providing around.
One of them visited the chicken house OF
a resident of Crow creek bottom night be-
fore last but was frightened away by a
dog.
The prisoners in the County Jail amuse
themselves in holding court martials over
such of their number as transgress the
jail rules" which they have established
among themselves, and when one of their