, 1885-10-31
SHORT STORIES
Gathered by Asking Everybody
What Do You Know"
Things Which are too Little to
Carry a Head.

Halloween.
District court Nov. 9.
The worst wind of the season.
a blizzard blew in last night.
Are you going to the mat. this aft?
Cheyenne has quite a building boom.
The Ministries made an attractive
parade,
The city can well afford to be liberal
with the firemen.
The striking miners at Carbon have
offered to return to work.
The front of Holt's book store comes in
for some of the improvement.
Flags were displayed at half mast yes
terday in respect TO the memory of Gen.
Mcclellan.
Luke Usher is building a neat residence
on the corner of Themes and Twenty
fourth streets
Laramie has a loafer who writes anony
nous and insulting letters to young ladies'.
Bounce him.
II. b. Kelly has bought the Landau
property on Seventeenth street. Mr..
Landa is going to Guatemala.
Another day without a case before
either of the police justices. This city
is getting to be altogether too good.
Yesterday, Jno. \. Martin decided to
j. A. Whitehead the south half of lot
No. / in block s5l, in this city. Consid-
Grafton, 81.
Hugo Stein, who was buried yesterday
at the expense of bar keepers in this city.
is said to have come from a noble house
of Germany.
One of the cowboys from Posts ranch
was brought in yesterday and taken to the
hospital. He had been kicked in the
stomach by a broncho and is seriously
hurt.
Some of the Knights Templar return
ing from the Davis reception Thursday
night ran into a barbed wire fence in the
darkness on the return and injured the
fence.
1t is stated upon good authority that a
change in the management of the Buffalo
Echo will shortly take place, Editor Nor
row having concluded to join his family in
Southern Pennsylvania.
The Signal Service officer reports that
the highest temperature yesterday was
60.30; lowest, 33.50; mean temperature.
1913; mean humidity, 54.4 per cent; high
est velocity of wind 30 miles per hour.
More light is needed at the depot.
When the trains get in from Denver and
Omaha it is dark, and there is much
trouble in Distinguishing friends who ar
rive and who have people in waiting fol
them. Beside there is danger in the hub.
bub AID hurry incident upon the arrival
Of trains, the handling of baggage and
jam of passengers.
The Union Pacific Railroad company
has issued an order extending the hours
of daily work for shopmen from eight to
nine hours a day. A notice to that effect
was posted in the shops at this city on
Monday morning. This was done for the
simple reason that the eight.hour system
failed to give satisfaction either to the
managers of the road or to the workmen
in the shops. No change is made in the
pay and as the men are paid by the houl
they have no reason to complain, because
their opportunities for earning more wage.
are that much greater.
The Rawlins Tribune has interviewed .
gentleman who has returned to Rawlins
from the north part of this county who
thinks the Sioux City and Pacific railroad
will reach the coal lands of Shawnee
creek before Christmas. He says: The
remaining sixty miles from the end of the
track to the Wyoming line is now in course
Of construction, the contract having been
let and several hundred men and teams
being engaged thereon. The Shawnee
coal fields are the first encountered by the
road west of the Missouri river, and every
effort possible will be made to reach then
this winter.