, 1884-08-03
c MAVERICKS.
Unbranded News Notes Picked Up
About the City.

Court until the second Monday Of
November.
Work on the addition to the City Hall
will be completed long before the first OF
September.
Several men left the city yesterday for
the north, having secured Jobs on the
Laramie ditch.
The Denver train was a long n last
evening bu, at the same time the passen-
gers were not numerous.
The funeral ofthe little child Of Mrs.
Jinks occurred yesterday from that lady'i
residence on Twenty-6rst street
There were no complaints made about
the weather yesterday, 50 far as people
were heard to express themselves
The ladies of the Episcopal Church win
hold a festival in Library Hall Tuesday
evening. A good time for everybody.
The season of church festivals has re-
vived again, and things will be lively in
this respect until the snow flies again.
Candidates for all Of the offices that are
to be filed at the election next Fall, are
beginning to materalize in all directions.
Cross walks are being put down on sew
eral of the principal crossings in the city,
which will greatly improve the condition
Of affairs.
An adjourned meeting of the Congre-
g%ational Church and social, will be held at
the close of the Wednesday evening
prayer meeting.
Jack Ellison, the plumber, who is often
inquired about, has gone up to the La
Boute where he is repairing the machinery
in n couple of saw mills.
More picnics are in contemplation for
to-day, and of course tho same old places
will catch the crowd-Kingman's ranch
and the Natural Fort
The funeral Of Miss Josephine Gillett,
sister of Mrs. Sharpless, will take place
from the residence Of Mr. Sharpless this
afternoon at 4 O'clock.
Several colored excursionists will leave
Cheyenne to-day for Leavenworth to at
tend the gathering of the Colored Knights
Templar there on the 9Th.
The highest temperature yesterday was
74o; lowest, 46'; mean temperature, $50;
per cent; mean humidity, 46 per cent. :
highest velocity of wind, l6 miles per
hour.
The excavation work on the site of the
new building soon to be erected on Seven
tenth street, has been completed and the
laying Of the foundation walls viii soon
begin.
If Spitznagel did not commit suicide he
certainly would have done 30 had he been
able to read in advance the arguments
that have been made to prove that he was
murdered.
G. W. Stewart is Deputy Territorial
Auditor and not Assessor" as inadver-
family stated on Friday morning in an ar
ticle on the valuation of the taxable prop
erty Of the Territory.
The Colorado Central has not as yet
sent in to the Auditors Office its annual
statement OF the valuation of its property
in this Territory. The time is near at
hand when it should be done.
That dog which perched himself on the
sidewalk across the street and howled such
dismal, doleful bowls while Visscher was
delivering his humorous lecture, ia de-
cidedly bad dog and can't appreciate a
joke worth a cent
John Eames will speak this Sunday
evening at 1880 o'clock in front Of S.
Ron's store on Sixteenth street, giving
his experience among the Mormons in
1862, when Brigham Young sent a mob
and killed ten of his people, men, women
and children.
A colored lady came to the Court House
yesterday and insisted on paying her
taxes. As the county taxes are not due
until the first Of September, her money
could not be received and she went away
evidently much disguised over the stu
alton.
Mr.. A. T.. Brown, chief clerk at the
Surveyor Generals office under the ad-
ministration Of General David, has ac
cepted a like position at the Office of En-
gineer Roy. Mr.. Brown is a very compe.
tent clerk and draughtsman, and Mr.. Roy
has been fortunate in securing his ser
vices.
The only real estate transfer instrument
fled for record in the office of the County
Clerk yesterday, was Government patent
to Hugh j. Edwards for the east half Of
the northeast quarter and the east quarter
Of the northwest quarter of section No.
25, in township No. IA, in Laramie
county.
There is an old county warrant in the
Office of the County Clerk. that was made
out in favor Of a gentleman in Cheyenne
more than five years ago. When pre-
sented only part of the bill was allowed,
and not liking this very well the person
entitled to the warrant has never called for
\ It. Ii amounts to SIS.
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