, 1884-06-24
LOCAL MAVERICKS.
Unbranded News Notes Picked Vi
About the CITY.

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The boys had better be a little careful
with their fire crackers, so say the
notice.
Cheyenne has another new lawyer by
the name of Harper who comes from
Denver here.
Five hundred Mormons will pass
through Cheyenne about Thursday next
en- route to Salt Lake City.
There was not a single transfer instru-
ment filed for record yesterday. The
boys will have o.start another boom.
The Fourth of July committee had a
meeting on Sunday to further perfect
the arrangements for the coming celebra-
ton.
All of the brick yards are in full blast
and turning out thousands of brick, but
not faster than is required to supply the
demand.
The boys say they are bound to have
that excursion to the National Fort, but
lust when it will take place is as yet un-
certain.
Bricks laying on the Warren pavilion
is being pushed very fast and the walls
will probably be up in the course of two
weeks at the outside.
j. X. Jeffrey on behalf of the commit
tee went to Fort Russell on Sunday even
ing and secured the services of the band
for the Fourth of July.
Some fifty stand of arms will be fur
nished to the John +. Reynolds post
for use on the occasion of the coming
Fourth of July celebration.
The building recently occupied as a
bakery on the north side of Seventeenth
street will be placed on wheels to-day and
trotted out to Lake Minnehaha.
The highest temperature yesterday was
81; lowest, 470; mean temperature, 60,
mean humidity, 81 per cent; highest We
locity of wind, l6 miles per hour.
Several stockmen are talking about
commencing to ship cattle to Chicago.
The shipment of cattle from Pine Bluffs
will commence in about three weeks.
The Laramie City people are very much
worked up m the land question just at
present. They talk of buying all the
spare land belonging to the railroad com
pany,
Lieut.. Baxter of the 9th infantry, came
from Cheyenne Wednesday and will act as
quartcrmaster until Quartermaster VIII
hanson of the 2lst arrives. Sidney
PEaiaoaier.
A first class sensation has been spoiled
altogether, much to the disgust of the
sage brush reporter, who was watching
for it to develope. The whole matter has
been settled up.
At present there is no money in the
County Treasury and parties who receive
county warrants are compelled to hold
them over for SOM little time until the
taxes for 1884 are collected.
Commencement is very close at hapd
and extensive preparations are being
made by Professor Stark and his corps
of teachers to make it what it undoubted-
ly will be i complete success.
If the Denver & Rio Grunde company
had known that there are two or three
parties in Cheyenne holding passes over
their road they would not have called
out and shut up shop quite so soon.
Quite a collection of law reports from
the State of Maine were secured by Secre-
tary Morgan but as they were intended
for the Territorial Library they were of
course turned oyer to Judge Slaughter.
An elegant stone pavement has been
laid along the south front of the Congre-
g%ational church which together with the
new door stones which are now in posi-
ton adds greatly to the appearance of the
church.
Some of the people south of the rail
road track were quite anxious that the ex-
cruises on the Fourth should be held
there. 1t would have been very uuwise
on the part of the committee to have
made that selection.
Messrc. j. X. Jeffrey and A. Under
wood, the former representing the
Knights of Pythias, opened the bids for
the excavation work of two sections of the
Trinity block yesterday afternoon, There
were five bids in all received but no selec-
ton was made. The contract will prob
ably be awarded to-day.
One of the passengers going east last
evening thinking he was going to get left
as the train started up for the purpose of
switching off onto the side track gave it a
desperate chase but somebody yelled to
him that it was all right and he stopped.
If he had kept ON running he would have
got to Sidney before the train arrived at
that point.
Nebraska Plains.
Messrs. Wright & Woolsey, druggists,
at Elk Greek, Neb, write that Mr.. D. H.
Mcclure was cured of a severe bruise by
the use of st, Jacobs Oil, the great pain