, 1885-09-09
SHORT STORIES
Gathered by Asking Everybody
What Do You Know"
Things Which are too Little to
Carry a Head.

Shake, Comrades
Hurrah for Camp Jeffrey
Cheyenne has on her store clothes.
The reunion will be formally opened to-
day.
The weather clerk has a warm side for
the veterans,
Set aside Friday evening for go Min
utes in the War" for the church.
Only Womdn's Heart is not broken
as may have been supposed, but will be
here Thursday morning.
Sixty Minutes in the War;. in this
instance, is four years service boiled
down and sweetened.
wills Woods loaded his freight cams
yesterday with supplies for the Goose
Egg ranch, near Fort Caspar.
By special request Keefe's skating rink
will be open every afternoon and evening
during the G. A. X. encampment
1t is thought that all of the dead bodies
have not been found yet that lie under the
ruins Of Chinatown, at Rock Springs.
Jeffrey & Hart branded $50 head of
cattle yesterday at the stock yards, and
will ship the same to Bitter creek today.
Secretary Morgan has decorated his
residence in n way that shows that he
appreciates the ''old boys" Others have
done SO too.
One of the reasons for giving good
prizes for competitive drills was to bring
competitors here who would stop long
enough to see the city.
Yesterday the following deed was filed
for record in the county clerks office:
Union Pacific railroad to L. Evans, lots
l and ., in block 53s. Consideration,
s25.
The passenger train from the west yes
terday was very heavy and was divided
into two sections for the ascent and descent
of the hill between Laramie and this
city.
The docket for the district count, which
will convene on the 9Th of November,
promises to be very light. There are now
only ten prisoners in the county jail and
most of these are held for minor o%fenses.
The Signal Service officer reports that
the highest temperature yesterday was
65.s'; lowest, 1929; mean temperature;
SOP; mean humidity, $40 per cent; high
est velocity of wind 30 miles per hour.
Officers Deitrick and Sullivan arrested
yesterday a soldier named Frank Fowles,
who was charged with being a deserter
from L Co.. 9th infantry. He was drunk
and was placed in jail to await the rcqui-
sition of his officers at Fort Russell.
On the occasion of VIII L. visscher's
humorous lecture, go Minutes in
the War, at the Presbyterian church
Friday evening. for the church,
Mn. Visseher will sing, in German, the
beautiful song by Abt, "Wenn die
Schwalben Heimwaerts Ziehn '-"When
the Swallows Homeward Fly"
The prizes for the bicycle races are on
exhibition in a window at Cowhick &
Whitcombs and they are either very beau
tiful or very useful. They are as fellows:
Bicycle rife, Cheyenne Hardware com
pany; silver nut cracker and picks, Craig,
Davis q Co. gold medal, Zehner, jack
son x Buechncr; silver water service, +.
L. Warren Mercantile company; bicycle
suit, Cowhick & Whitcomb; opera glass.
Rhodes & Troxell; full nickel Expert Col
umbia bicycle; bicycle telescope, P. Ber-
gerseni bicycle shoes, j. F. jenkins;
meerscham pipe, Idelman Bros. 100
cigars, C.. c. Peabody. There will also
be a large, handsomely framed photograph
Of himself presented to the winner of the
Consolation one mile dash. This by c..
d. Kirkham.