, 1884-07-19
&
Unbranded News Noes Picked Up
About the CITY.

The gas works will be in running order
in about six weeks. So says Judge Nil
Ter.
Wool does not bring a very good price
this season. at least in the Cheyenne
market.
That portion of the city south of the
railroad track is building up very fast this
season.
Rides to see the evening dress parades
at Fort Russell are getting to be very
popular.
Two young wild cats, caught near
Horse Creek, attract attention at Taylor's
curiosity store.
There has been quite an amount of new
hay brought into the city and it is of a
very excellent quality.
1t was Frank Weston who was married
to Miss Fallon day before yesterday in
stead Of Frank Merton.
The Scandinaviaus propose to establish
their church here in good shape and are
laborink hard to that end.
=Surveyor General Medium yesterday
took possession and is now in full charge
at the Territorial Land Office.
Judge Fisher hal lots of civil business
on hand to attend to yesterday, but was
not overrun with police cases.
There ought to be an unusual amount
pT ufTapftpn t,at1 q, tho ,la,,r,r g H.
public streets, alleys and cutters in Chey-
enne.
Doe Davis and Frank Wilson de-
parted yesterday for Manitou Springs, in
Colorado, where they will spend several
weeks.
The city brigade is now dwindled down
to one man only. Deitrick, however, has
the brigade out every day at work on the
streets.
There are a very large number Of
strangers in the city and the hotels are
pretty well crowded the greater part of
the time.
Jake Esselborn will go to Minneapolis
to attend the Grand Encampment. He
will probably be the only one who will go
from Cheyenne.
The question is often asked of late,
Where is Fish creek ?" and the answer
is that it is over beyond Virginia Dale, to
the southwest Of Cheyenne.
There are nearly forty men at work
daily On the Warren pavilion and the
walls Of that soOn to be magnificent build
ing arc rapidly rising.
Tie pavement has been put down in
front Of the Union Mercantile block, on
Ferguson street. and it is a great and
much needed improvement.
Mr.. Wilscck, at the County Hospital,
is raising quite n crop of potatoes which
are now big enough to use and on soil
that has never been MANFRED.
Instead of nine teams for the northern
hitch contract Mr.. Stubs yesterday en-
gagged thirty and will also take along a
correspondingly larger force of men.
The highest temperature yesterday wa
$40; lowest, COZ; mean temperature, 60;
mean humidity, Sc per cent; highest
velocity of wind, % miles per hour.
Mr. Thomas Hall came in yesterday
from Green mountain, where he has been
to take his cattle to the range, and re-
ports that stock is looking fine in that
region.
The cattle Shipping season has opened
in earnest and from this time until Octo-
Der it will be lively all along the line from
the eastern to the western end of the
territory.
The people Of Buffalo want to have a
Territorial Teachers Institute held ut
that place for the johnson county teach
ers and have written to Judge Slaughter
to that effect.
The County Board of Equalization ex-
pect to reach the end Of the list by noon
to-day. They were rushing matters along
pretty fast all day yesterday and also a
part Of the night,
There has been at least two miles of
sidewalk laid and pavement put down in
Cheyenne during the present season. and
as much more will be put in before the
first day Of next November.
One of the attractions on Sixteenth
and Hill streets yesterday afternoon was
a drunken man riding around in Il one
hor,e wagon. The horse, however, had
sense enough to steer clear Of obstruc-
iipns.
Judge Bard, of Little Bear, was in
town yesterday and 10 sterling out broke
his wagon tongue, which he had to set re
paired. He is milking forty-eight cow
this season aud says that they average a
pound Of butter pey day to the head.
They have got into a dispute ''pp
west" The young county Of Fremont
want her patHrnai sire. Sweetwater, TO
hand over a portion Of the school money,
but Swectwater just tells young Mr.. FFc-
mont to go right straight TO New Jersey
and wont give up a single sent. Il is
probable that a lawsuit will grow out Of
the dispute that has arisen.
Ellis keeps the boss soda water.