, 1885-10-27
SHORT STORIES
Gathered by Asking Everybody
What Do You Know"
Things Which are too Little to
Carry a Head.

all summer.
Cheyenne is able to say quite well,
thank you
The governor appointed three n%otaries
public yesterday.
There was a big crowd of big cattlemen
in town Yesterday,
Quail, ducks and spring chicken at
Cheyenne City market.
The o. N. o. club will meet this even
ing at the West End rink.
A fresh lot of grapes and apples lust
received at the Cheyenne City market.
Pat McCaum and John Burke, old
timers in police circles, ven to Jail yes
terday for being drunk.
The two tramps arrested for robbine
the station house at Sherman. were, at
Laramie on Saturday, convicted Of grand
larceny.
Lander has the instruments for a brass
band The rival town which will ploat
over Lander at this time is too inhuman
to talk about.
The n in which Queen Victoria's
son-in-law was treated at a public meeting
a few days ago must make the royal fam
lily feel for-Lorne.
Two men were arrested and taken be-
fore Judge Lee yesterday charged with
stealing coal from the U. P. yards. They
were sent to Jail.
Judge Fisher made his ffty-first matri-
monial couple happy yesterday. This
city is getting to be quite a Gretna Green
for Colorado runaways.
Invitations were issued last evening for
a farewell party to be given Mr.. II. r.
Ross on Wednesday evening. Mr.. Ross
will depart for Nebraska next Sunday.
Ladies desiring anything in arasene,
plush or Kensington embroidery, at East
ern prices, will do well to call on Mrs. l..
d. Davenport at Hills & Goodsel's, Sew
enteenth street.
EThe governor has issued a proclamation
relieving Illinois of the Wyoming quar-
a%ntine, except Dupage county. OF course
the general requirements OF the veterina-
ry restrictions are still adhered to-.
The Signal Service officer reports that
the highest temperature yesterday was
G4.S'; lowest, 34.6o; mean temperature,
4s.5; mean humidity, 4l.0 per cent; high
est velocity of the wind, % miles per hour.
A prairie fire south of the city burned
a strip of range about a quarter of a mile
wide and a mile long on Sunday night.
Governor Warren's force extinguished it
about the time it reached his Lone Tree
ranch.
Two claim holders in the carbonate belt
of the Silver Crown district were offered
5000 cash each for their claims yester-
day, but they declined the offer, saying
five times hat amount would not induce
them to sell. This is another good indi-
cation.
People on Hill street want the name
changed to Park avenue. 1t will be
very expensive to have all the beautiful
signs on the corners, put up by the city
council, changed to Park avenue from
Hill street. Otherwise the suggestion is
a good one.
The b. Il. L. society of the Congrega-
tional church will give a Whittier enter
tainment on Thursday evening, Oct %,
at the church parlors. The exercises will
consist Of recitations from Whittier, inter
spersed with vocal and instrumental
music. Programme will appear in this
paper Wednesday and Thursday morn.
ings.
The annual report of the Wyoming
Stock Growers association has been re-
oeiycd at this Office. 1t contains in add
ton to the stock laws of Wyoming, list
of members of the association, etc, the
stock laws of the neighboring states and
territories, making it a valuable manual
for stockmen. The book is also a very
neat one geographically and in general
get up.
There is a youth in this city, lately
from the east, who came in from a hunt
yesterday loaded with iack-rabbits, which
he undertook to make people here be
lieye were antelope. There were several
old timers in the city who were very cred
ulous about it, and the youth seemed
hurt. He thought they were antelope,
and it was a pity to disabuse his mind, he
had been so previously happy. The
young man is a rare specimen of the
genus tenderfoot
This is what the Laiamie Boomerang
has to say about our new register. Edgar
S. Wilson, OF Mississippi, has succeeded
Mr. Henry Rothert as register OF the land
office at Cheyenne, and has entered upon
the duties Of his office. Mr.. Wilson is
spoken of very highly by those who have
met him, and while the AK has fallen on
the neck Of another Republican, there is
some consolation in knowing that his
place is to be filed by a gentleman Of
whom nothing but good words have been
spoken, and who seems TO have already
won the good will Of those among whom
be has come 10 dwell for a season. 1t is
hoped that Wyoming may prove a pleas
ant abiding place for Register Wilson
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