, 1884-05-18

Unbranded News Notes Picked Up
About the City.

49,
terday.
The County Commissioners will be in
session again tomorrow.
"A little warm sunlight now will cause
the grass to leap forward.
A report reaches here hat Goldacker is
again in trouble, at Fort Collins.
Now is the time to look out for poison
weed and save your cattle from getting
their death dose.
The damage to the pavement in the
alley in the rear of the Inter- Ocean has
been in part repaired.
The hotels continue to be crowded to
overlooking, and it looks as though hotel
men must be coming money.
Judge Jones has demonstrated excel
lent executive ability in his satisfactory
management of the ~postofice.
Mr. C. w. Stewart has gone down to
North Platte on legal business but is cx-
pected to return home to-day.
Real estate on the east side of the lake
and within the city limits is going to take
a boom. So say the wise ones.
Nearly all of the trains which now run
on the Union Pacific are what in railroad
pa1ance are termed mixed trains"
When the water from the bitches to
the lake is turned in there will be plenty
Of fish to be picked up on the shore.
The recent rains will improve the roads.
They were rough and dry. The rain will
nerve to beat them down and make them
smooth.
The city council meets again on Tues
day evening for the transaction of bust
ness connected with the welfare of the
municipality.
Next Friday the elephant, the giraffe,
the spotted leopard, the trick mule, the
clown and a few other animals will show
forth in Cheyenne.
Judge Fishers court was not made
lively by much business yesterday, while
not Il single drunk put in an appearance
before Judge Lee.
The highest temperature yesterday was
so; lowest 42o; mean temperature, AZ;
mean humidity, 81 per cent; highest
velocity OF wind, PC miles per hour.
The ladies of the Methodist church
will hold n strawberry festival at Kcefe's
hall on e Tuesday evening. A de
lightful evening may be anticipated.
There is considerable opposition devel-
oping against the opening of the Happy
Jack" road, and two adverse petitions
have been received by the County Clerk.
A fine Parker gun, belonging to one of
the Western Union men, was ratified off at
the lnter-O Ocean last evening. 1t was
won by Frank Ketchum Oh a throw of
~.
Commissions as %notaries public were
yesterday issued by Acting-G Governor Nor
gan to Messrs. Charles s. Spaulding of
Carbon county, and c. N. Potter, of Lar
annie county,
The picnic to Chalk Bluffs which was
to have taken place yesterday was, on ac-
count of the rain and mud, postponed
until next Saturday, when it will probably
take place without fail.
A band of three thousand cattle d.
rect from Texas and destined for Montana
will m to arrive here by rail to-
day. Some eight hundred will probably
be disembarked before night.
The sage brush reporter has had his
picture taken, 1t fatters him a good
deal but still by close inspection it will be
seen that it was not intended for n gov
ernmcnt mule, barring the ens-
In marrying a couple yesterday Billy
lee was 50 embarrassed (the boys say)
that he forgot to pronounce them hus-
band and wife and afterward did so by
postal card through the postofice.
Charles Wesley Norton and Miss julia
Barnum were married by Judge Lee yes
tcrday afternoon. The ceremony was
performed at the judges office in the
presence of a select party of spectators,
One man got left last night who was in
tending to go out on No. . and on the
night previous a gentleman thus unfnrtu-
nate was taken on board the pony engine
and caught the train after Il hard chase.
There has been SO much mud and
water Since the big rain that work has
been SUSPENDED at the Idelman excaya-