, 1885-06-10

Aopht The CITY.
Howdy?
Glad to see you.
This is the "Rowdy West
Wish you could stay longer.
Isn't the Magic City a daisy?
If you don't see what yon want ask
for it.
Wyoming welcomes the men who work
for Iowa.
This is just a sample of our weather.
Hawkeyes.
Mr. McElvany sold yesterday to Mr..
Page 10 head of COW ponies.
Mr. Stafle's freight outfit is loaded for
Pratt 4 Ferris ranch.
Mr.. Mccoy bought yesterday of Nh.
McElvany ten head OF saddle horses.
Roundup No. / viii work the range
near Goodwin's ranch on Horse Greek,
June 18th.
The usual prayer meeting at the First
Congregational church this "wednesday
evening at s O'Clock. lesson, Heb. 9th
chapter.
A streak of lightning ran on the electric
light wires into Judge Lees office Mon
day night, blackening the ceiling and
causing gas-pipes to leak.
Dobyns 4 Co. sold recently to Butler
Bros. & Ferris 100 head Of rwo-year-old
Wyoming heifers, and to Whipple & Hay
sixty four head of Kentucky grade bulls.
Russell Thorpe has gone TO Rawhide
Buttes to look after matters in connection
with his stage line from the terminus of
the Sioux City and st. Paul ruilroad to
the town of Buffalo.
The Signal Service office reports that
the highest temperature yesterday was
&C., lowest. 41'; mean temperature, $50;
mean humidity, SO per cent; highest We
ocity of wind % miles per hour, rainfall
"A.
The habeas corpus case in behalf of De
Walt, tho defaulting president of the
Leadville bank, now confined in the Lara
mic City p%enitentiary, will be heard by
Judge Blair, in Laramie City, next Fri
day.
Major Lord, depot quartermaster at
Cheyenne depot, has received orders to
hold a pack train in readiness for imme-
diate service in Southern Colorado. where
the Utes are reported to be on the war
path
Roundup No. 2 worked the range yes
terday near the Crayton ranch on Lower
Horse creek. This roundup will move
up the creek soon, to the telegraph road
and finish its work on Fox creek about
the 10th inst.
The cattle in quarantine at the railroad
yards will be moved in a few days to the
quarantine yards of the Cattle Growers
association, east of the city, at the june
ton of the Union Pacific and Denver
Pacific tracks. These yards are very com
modious and complete.
Cashier Wild, of the First National
bank, received a telegram from Mr..
Hicks last evening, stating that he would
start for Michigan with Mr.. Converse's
remains on Thursday afternoon. The
funeral will take place at Three Rivers,
afternoon at five O'clock.
Al Bowie, manager of the Swan Land
and Cattle company, returned from Rock
Creek yesterday, where he has been look
ing over the range in that locality. Mr..
Bowie reports cattle in good condition, an
unusual amoun of calves, and shipments
of beeves likely to commence early.
John H. Barrow, president of the New
Hampshire Cattle company, left this city
yesterday in company with Mr.. VanTas-
to 90 to Running Water and receive
the cattle Mr.. VanTassel had gathered.
Mr.. Barrow will remain on Running
Water this summer and receive and brand
the cattle as they are turned over.
The St. Paul Pioneer Press has this
item: "A Cheyenne company prospecting
nea- Buffalo. at the foot of the Big Horn
mountains, recently received an offer of
$3.50, 900 for its property contingent upon
a twenty-five barrel well. Work
was vigorously pushed, aud at a depth of
feet a flow of fifty barrels a day
was secured. The Black Hills company
is confident that its property is equally as
good, and that oil will be struck at less
than $50 feet in depth
The Pioneers have had prepared a
beautiful fowcr-piece in the shape of the
badge of their association star and
crescent-which will be sent to Three
Rivers, Michigan, this morning as a testi-
monial to the memory of A. r. Converse.
1t bears a card with the words, From
his old friends, the Pioneers of Wyom-
The Durant Hose company will
also seni a flower piece and the attaches
of the First National bank will send an-
other. Besides these, private parties will
send pieces.
District Court.