, 1884-06-26
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Unbranded News Notes Picked Up
About the City.

About the City.
The pavement around the Idleman
corner has all been put down.
Several freight outfits were busy load
ing up and preparing to pull out yester-
day.
A daughter arrived to gladden. the
household OF Mr.. Christopher O'Neil
yesterday.
There will be another meeting of the
City Council at the City Hall this evening
at s o'clock.
An addition is soon to be built to the
Cheyenne House which will be nearly as
large rs the original building.
There were three car loads of emil
grants attached to the first section of the
west-bound train last evening.
Work was commenced on excavating
the foundation for the new brick building
on Seventeenth street yesterday.
The Laramie City Council passed an
ordinance last evening voting $4,000 for
the purpose of laying sidewalks.
The sale of seats for Rice's Surprise
Party will begin at Rhodes & Troxell's at
half past 10 O'Clock this morning.
1t was somewhat lively at the Court
House yesterday and considerable bust
ness was done in the County Clerks Of
fee.
1t was two members of the j. T. Clark
company that were run over by the hose
cart while out practicing Tuesday even
ing.
The fremen were out practicing again
last evening. They are getting so hat
they make remarkable good time in their
runs.
The thermometer only went up to IS
degrees in the shade yesterday and yet
it was hot enough for all practical pur-
poses.
The highest temperature yesterday was
s3'; lowest, $50; mean temperature, Go;
mean humidity, 50 per cent; highest We
locity of wind, IS miles per hour.
There were some civil cases disposed of
in Judge Fishers court yesterday, but
nothing of a criminal character oc-
Cured to rutiie the serenity ofthe judicial
situation.
For the first time in nearly five years,
the calaboose of the city Of Cheyenne is
without a single inmate, or was so, at
least, up to the time of going to press
this morning.
Several business men in Cheyenne who
are deferred from shipping freight to
Running Water and other points north
for the reason that they cannot find any
body to do the hauling.
S. NJ. Copeland, of Fort Collins, Col,
is in the city purchasing cattle which are
being shipped to his ranch in the north
ern portion of the territory. The cattle
are in charge of A. L. Wiley.
There was a rumor aloat yesterday
morning that j. w. Medium had been
nominated to the position of Surveyor
General of Wyoming, but the dispatches
failed to disclose that such was the case.
There were a large number of officers
and their wives at the train last evening
to witness the departure of the officers
and soldiers of the Fourteenth Infantry
on their westward trip. Several car
riages and omnibusses from Fort Russell
were at the train also.
Tomorrow evening the commencement
exercises will take place at the Opera
House and people may expect to hear
something well worth listening to. There
is much qualification expressed because
the place Of holding the exercises has
been changed, as there will be more
room.
Bids were yesterday opened for the
putting in of the private sewer pipe on
Eighteenth street from Sey mour street
west to Evans, and the contract awarded
to I. +. Dolan & Co, for 1885, which is
to cover the expense of digging the
ditch also, Work will be commenced on
the job at once.
At the City Council meeting this even
ing there will no doubt be a lively dis
cussion over the question of fixing auc-
%tioneers' licenses at $3.50 per quarter,
which, of course, will make 5000 a year,
in the place Of $50, as it now is. Some
of the members ofthe Council are of the
opinion that this is altogether too high.
1t is quite probable that the man who
was found dead on Powder River was
the one that gave rise to the rumor re-
garding Jim Beans teamster. 1t has al
ways been thought that there was some
thing to give rise to the rumor hat a
man had been shot and killed in that por-
ton of the country,
Arrangements have been made with
Manager Rhodes, of the Opera House,
whereby tickets can be procured by call.
ing for them at any time after this morn
ing at 9 O'Clock. These tickets which
can be procured at Rhodes a. Troxell' S
are free of cost and each one calls for a
desirable seat in some favored portion Of
the building.
Great slaughter of silks on Monday and
Tuesday, June % and "a, at kellner
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