, 1885-12-08
SHORT STORIES
Gathered by Asking Everybody
What Do You Know"
Things Which are too Little TO
Carry a Head.

Inc Tram IrOm the East was one nOur
late last evening.
The probate court will have some off.
cial business to transact to-day.
Go to Keefe's hall this evening and wit
ness the five mile race on rollers.
The streets Of the city we're carpeted
with mud to some extent yesterday.
Reserved seats for the Nevada concert
are now on sale at the opera house box
office.
The members of the Baptist church
contemplate giving an entertainment on
| Christmas eve.
Thomas Mayer has been taken from the
jail to the county hospital on account of
his insane condition.
Keefe's hall will be enlivened this even
ing by a five mile race on skates. Select
music by the city band.
The kitchen that is being built to &C
commodate the county Jail is nearly com
pleted and will soon be ready for use.
John A Riner has returned from At.
Gibson, Kas., but his family will not be
here until the latter part of this week.
The ladies OF the Methodist church are
to give a sociable at the residence of c. C.
Peabody, on Sixteenth street. this even
ing.
Irdoo R;abar kaJ oo.a.l.-.lt. ii
business IN hand yesterday, but police
court items we're scarce at his judicial fac.
tory.
The ladies' of the Congregations church
are making extensive preparations for the
fair which they propose to hold next
week.
Gibson CLARK, a prominent lawyer of
Northern Colorado, has applied for admis-
sion to the bar here and will locate in
Cheyenne.
John Doe was up again before Judge
Lee yesterday on the same old charge.
that of being drunk. John is now in the
calaboose.
A ranchman from the vicinity of the
foothills brought in another large lot of
coyote pelts and obtained the bounty
thereon yesterday.
The Signal Service officer reports that
the highest temperature yesterday was
47.s'; lowest, 24.5'; mean temperature,
1886; mean humidity, III per cent. high
est velocity of wind, "a miles per hour.
There is to be a sociable given by the
B. Z. l.. Society at the Congregational
church parlors this evening. Mr.. Whit
taker will render a selection on the piano
and the jubilee quartette will also be in
attendance.
Holt has had a terrible time with smoke
at his place, but yesterday AN investiga-
ton committee, of which Tommy WATSON
was chairman, ascertained that the chin
ney was full of rubbish and proceeded to
remedy the evil.
There appears to be a great deal Of
bAOubic eiohiuB Out VI tut OF
sewers in various pats of the city. and it
is probable that the discovery will be made
eventually that they are not large enough
for a government mule to pass through.
The assistants at the county clerks
Office were very busy yesterday. The
only instrument filed for record. however,
was a warranty deed from George Nc
Swain to Robert n. Bradley for lot I, in
block ll3, in Cheyenne. The price paid
was $3.50.
The editor of The LEADER is indebted
to Hon. Homer Merrill, Wyoming's eff
cient representative at the North, Central
and South American exposition, for a sea
son ticket to that great exhibition of
American products; but season tickets
and annual passes are of but little use to
newspaper men, unless they are season
tickets for meals at hotels and restaurants
at home.
The presidents message will be deliv-
cred to congress this morning, and imme-
diately thereafter will be sent over the
wires. Mr.. Cleveland's first address to
congress contains IS, 200 words, which is
more than double the number of words
embodied in many recent messages sent
out from the white house to the Legislative
branch of the government. George
Washington Jones tells us that his force
of operators will handle the message in
full and transmit the same to Denver,
and, of course, G.. w. never tells a fiji
The LEADER will try to give the nth
and points of the message in o morrow
issue.
John @. Rouse. druggist. Urbana. Ia.