, 1884-06-25
& MAVERICKS.
Unbranded News Notes Picked Up
About the City.

The '"Tilden Block will be completed
and opened to the public in about two
weeks.
There was a great demand for' cool
drinks Yesterday and most everybody felt
like keeping shady.
The choir of the Congregational Church
are preparing for a service of song for
next Sabbath evening.
Quite a number of trees have recently
been set out around the Catholic Church
and they are doing finely.
There will be quite a delegation of peo-
pie from the neighboring town of Sidney
here on the Fourth of July.
The city keeps Que man employed in
taking care of the trees in the City Park
and choring around the pump house.
The prisoners at the County Jail are
very musical and put in most of their
time in singing gospel hymns and patriotic
songs.
Wilson Woods, the freighter, has his
teams all loaded and will pull out to-day
for a long trip with freight to Running
Water.
The old building on Seventeenth street,
which was to have been moved away yes
terday did not even get ON wheels prepar-
atory to the trip.
a soda water mandatory is about to
be started by Mr.. Ed. Hoffman,, near the
site of Kapp's old brewery, down in the
Grow Greek bottom.
MIR. Charles McGarvey has the contract
Of doing that share of the excavation
work for the Trinity Block which is to be-
long to c. p. Justin.
The pavement alongside of he Idel-
man building, now in process of erection,
has been laid for the greater part of the
distance on Ferguson street.
The highest temperature yesterday was
S9'; lowest, 49o; mean temperature, $50;
mean humidity, 80 per cent; highest We
locity of wind, IA miles per hour,
a Promise meeting at the Congrega-
tional Church this Wednesday, evening
at S O'Clock. You will be welcomed. Go
and read a promise that will cheer some
heart.
Mushrooms are gathered in immense
quantities down in the Crow Greek bot
tom and some of the families in that 10.
cality are living high" in part on this
luxury.
The passenger train which went West
last evening was an unusually long one,
and the two engines which drew it west
ward had all they could do to pull it "over
the hill.
There will be no celebration at Greeley
on the Fourth, and a gentleman who came
up from that place yesterday says that
many of the people there will come up
here to enjoy themselves.
Mr.. Charlie Beck is acting as agent for
Visscher's Great West in this city and is
booming the paper vigorously. He has
been sending the paper very readable
weekly letters from Cheyenne.
The platform in front of the Railroad
House is getting to be quite a favorite re-
sort for many young people when the
trains from three different directions all
come at about the same time in the even
ing.
A quantity of Strawberries which were
received in Cheyenne from Greeley yester-
day were universally pronounced to be the
largest ever brought to Cheyenne. Some
of them measured three inches in circum-
ference.
The colored Baptists are very active
and diligent in making ready to build
their new church, Deacon Jones taking
the lead in the matter of holding festivals,
etc. At present their headquarters are at
Keefe's Hall.
MIR, j. w. Bruner, n of the Deputy
County Assessors has returned from his
trip out through the Box Elder country
and is now engaged upon the clerical work
that pertains to the making up of the as
sessmcnt rolls.
Candidates for positions as aids to the
Marshal OF the Day on the occasion of
the approaching celebration have begun
10 materialize very fast. There are about
forty at present and there are several pre-
cincts yet to be heard from.
The Greeley folks were offered 5000
for their a~rtesian well as soon as they
struck the magnetic water. They refused
to take it and the parties making the offer
purchased a piece of ground not far away
and propose to sink a well of their own.
\ horse which was attached to a buggy
and being driven by Mrs. G, A. Draper,
yesterday, became frightened at an ambu-
lance which came along at a pretty rapid
rate and turned quickly around, nearly
upsetting the buggy containing the ! ,dy
and a small child. The vehicle was not
overturned and the horse was caught but
the inmates were badly frightened.
There is an Indian buried near Kelley's
place on the Chug. His name, when
alive, was the same as that heard in every
preached from the pulpit, and he
was lO4 years old when he died. He
would never live in a house but had q