, 1885-07-09
LOCAL MAyERIcks.


About Tho City.
Too warm for comfort.
Boom the September encsmpment.
Travel westward on the Union Pacific
is very heavy.
cheyenne has n less number of dogs
than any city of its size in America.
There was enough rain yesterday to
make up for the " days which missed
his week.
May Goldschmidt sold his residence on
Seventeenth street yesterday to a party
from New York.
The ladies' Of the Opera company are
to be treated to a drive about the city to-
day by leading people.
VIM. Clark has completed the contract
OF putting up seyenty-fve miles of wire
fence for G.. w. Rafter.
Rev. Thistle's lecture on the Curse of
Canaan was good. He will deliver it in
Denver, Colorado Springs and elsewhere.
Daniel Z. Bandmann, the famous actor.
has been here several days looking after
some cattle interests which lac has in this
section.
The Signal Service officer u o that
the highest temperature yesterday was
S7', lowest, $40; mean temperature, 690;
mean humidity, Al per cent; highest We
locity Of wind "a miles per hour, rain
fall, IL.
Fred Fisher, manager Of the Middlesex
Cattle company, returned from Ogallala
where he has been looking over the cattle
for sale at that place. Mr.. Fisher says
the cattle are not at Ogallala as reported,
but at Denver Junction.
NJ. P. Keefe has contracted to make a
brick addition of fifty-one feet to the rear
of L. B~resnahan's property on Ferguson
street. formerly known as the Carr block.
Gas, water and all the modern conven-
will be put in and the place will
shortly be occupied by a dry goods estab-
lishment.
According to Messrs. Hoyt and Whip
pie o advanced ideas on offensive parti-
sanship, no Democrats who dared TO op-
pose them at the last election need apply
to the county commissioners. They will
be expected to pay their taxes like their
more favored Republican friends, but no
other favors will be vouchsafed to them.
The stockholders Of Tue LEADER,
among whom are some of the largest tax.
in this county, and Democrats
generally. will be pleased to learn that
the taxes which they pay into the county
treasury will be discussed for the sole
benefit of those who voted for Messrs.
Hoyt and WhippIe at the last general
election.
A horse car line from the depot to Fort
d. A. Russell out Ferguson street would
be a paying investment. Why doesn't
some capitalist or company start such a
movement on foot. An accommodation
of that kind would largely increase travel
between the military posts aud the city
and beside being a good business stroke,
it would be a real blessing to the people.
Yesterday forenoon Sheriff Craig lit
tie o-year-old daughter wandered away
from home and for a time the family we're
in much onxfafv a q 20 H. -bo-ooI~,.. 90
the stray one. Deputy Sheriff McGoni-
gle found her in the afternoon at Mr.. T.
W. Peters near the lake, on Seventeenth
street. She had started out in search of
her father, who has been absent at the
East for several days and the little one
was tired of waiting for his return. Mrs.
Peters found her crying on the street and
took the wanderer in.
The Laramie Boomerang says: Capt.
talists are still looking u in this direc-
ton, in fact SO frequently do their repre-
sentatives visit Laramie to look at the
surrounding country, that at the present
rate no n can complain offs want of a
genuine real estate boom. Among the
latest to come is Mr.. Charles b. Ballard,
ofWhite River Junction, Vt, and is the
representative of prominent capitalists in
the Green Mountain state. He is OK
aiming the layout, and wants to secure a
very large tract of land upon which they
propose to keep large herds Of cattle and