, 1885-07-21
Q MAVERICKS.
Unbranded News Notes picked IN
About The City.

Council meeting to night
Rain nearly all of yesterday.
Halsey Rhoads has taken charge of tho
Rocky Mountain Herald again.
James Morrison was fined sI3 by Judge
Lee yesterday for abusing his wife.
Judge Fisher scut two DRINKS to
the lock up yesterday in default of a
fine.
o. H. Rothacker is publishing in book
form his brilliant story "A Man With a
Mine
The Snow Cattle company sent to Raw
Inns Sunday nineteen car loads of cows
and calves, about 700 head in all.
The fire department will deliberate this
evening. 1t is to be hoped that the boys
will arrange for a tournament during the
eneampment.
Judge j. M. Carey bought yesterday Of
Dan McElvane twenty-five head of Texas
COW ponies, which will be taken to-day to
his ranch on Horse creek.
A horse attached to a wagon loaded
with vegetables, took fright yesterday and
ran away, breaking the wagon and scat
tering its contents through the streets.
The encampment committee should
offer good prizes for competitive drills.
They would bring some splendid military
companies and would afford the highest
kind OF entertainment.
Yesterday mornings train from the
west came in in two sections. The first
was composed of four cars of fruit and
two cars of emiRrants, and the second
section was the regular passenger train.
The two enterprising young men, Nor
ton and Baker, who stole a valise from a
Greeley man last Saturday, were before
Judge Fisher yesterday, and he gave
them n fine of $50 each and thirty'd days in
jail.
The Signal Service officer reports that
the highest temperature yesterday was
73', lowest, 570; mean temperature, Gle;
mean humidity, 70 per cent; highest We
locity Of wind % miles per hour; rain
fall. 10.
The south dial of Warren S town clock
is off its base, SO to speak, or rather
the hands are. The hour hand doesn't
tally with that degree of decorum which
should mark the conduct of u well regu-
lated clock.
Judge Lee had two tramps before
him yesterday, one OF whom plead guilty
and was fined $l3. The other tried to lie
out of it, and the judge fined him 81
more than the other. Judge Lee rates
plain, unvarnished truth as high as the
law will allow.
On Sunday while Pitt Covert and
Frank Gillespie were bicycling on the
boulevard, their wheels became mixed in
some name and Covert took a header"
which has laid him up with both wrists
sprained. He is a very athletic young
man, otherwise he would have been more
seriously hurt,
The Burns club of Laramie CITY has
invited the Seotchmen of Cheyenne to
meet their fellow countrymen at Dale
creek next Saturday. A fine time may
be anticipated, including Scotch games,
etc. The fare for the round trip will be
81. David Miller, the jeweler, will give
further particulars on application.
Denver Opinion came out last Satur-
day in its original size, eight pages Of six
columns each, with Edmund A. Bailey as
editor and proprietor and Arthur f..
Francis as associate editor. If they keep
it up to the present standard, which
doubtless they will, there can be no doubt
of its eminent success in the future.
A cowboy got on a spree yesterday and
was running his horse through the streets.
On his way up Hill street, with the
police after him, he lost his hat, and
further on the saddle turned under the
horse. He kept his seat by holding on
to the horses nane and tail, and when
last seen he was nearing the city limits.
1t is estimated that 10000 head of
Wyoming cattle will be fed this fall and
winter. Those who will chiefly engage in
feeding are the Union Cattle company,
Anglo American company, Converse Cat
tie company, Guthrie Brothers and r. S.
Van Tassell. This is an increase of more
than 100 per cent, in this business over
that of last season.