, 1885-08-16
LOCAL MAyERIcKs
UnbTandod News Notes Picked Up
About The City.

The floor of the hook and ladder house
is about played out.
The next show at the opera house will
be The Sifuer King, early in September.
Mr.. W. A. Whitcomb drills the grand
chorus for the concert next Saturday
evening.
The city authorities here ship strange
and unauthorized and unacclimated tramps
to other localities.
Isaac Hill has loaded his freight teams
for the sutler at Fort Laramie, and will
leave the city tomorrow.
Sam Schwartz and Dennis Brophy were
before Judge Fisher yesterday charged
with breaking the peace. Each was fined
slS.
There was a party Of English hunters
on the West bound train yesterday
loaded fo- bar" They are going to
Montana.
Died-ln this city, Aug. 10. infant son
Of John ID. Treinaine. Funeral from res.
idencc at 3 p. m. to-day. Friends of the
family invited to attend.
The members of the grand chorus are
requested TO meet at the Baptist church
on Monday afternoon at 4:3O O'Clock
sharp.
THE shooting afiray reported to have
occurred at the Five Mile ranch did not
happen at hat place, but at the Valley
ranch, in the vicinity of the Five Mile
ranch.
Laramie City is going to have a club
house. Conductor Heath says that the
ground has been purchased and there was
to have been a meeting last night to ar
range for the building.
The Signal Service officer reports that
the highest temperature yesterday was
s6.6o; lowest, 47.90; mean temperature,
6S. A.; mean humidity, 10. 3 per cent; high
est velocity of wind l6 miles per hour.
There were some Chinese families on
the emigrant train which came up from
Denver yesterday, and among them two
babies. The babies looked like their
grandfathers through the other end Of a
telescope.
A LEADER reporter saw yesterday in
operation the electric clock made by Zeh-
ner, Jackson & Buechner, which meas
ures time by the quarter second and which
is to be used for timing the hose races at
the coming tournament 1t works like a
charm.
Lots of people who comoin out Of the
East look as if the flesh had been melted
from them and they are in a fair way to
be situated like Sidney Smiths friend
would have been who wanted to sit down
in nothing but his bones and let the wind
whistle through his RIBS.
V Fred Bond has finished a map of the
county for Surveyor Roy. which has been
hung up in the county clerks Office. The
map is Il piece of work Of which Mr..
Bond may well feel proud, and it is a
credit to the city that it contains a man
who has such accomplishments as a
draughtsman.
The smelter recently erected upon the
King David mine has been running success
fully and enough ore has been crushed to
permit Of a run in the course ola couple of
weeks, the operators now only waiting for
the arrival Of huxinC iron. Twenty five
men are employed constantly on the mine
and tunnelling in all directions is being
pushed with all possible speed.
a man came in yesterday to inform
The LEADER that he had not run away
with Mrs. LiShtfoot. As The LEADER
has had nothing to say concerning the
elopement, it is not particularly interested
in the matter, and yet it is pleased to be
able to state that in addition to the gen
tleman who called. there are several others
in Cheyenne who didn't run away with
Mrs. l..
The last of the jenkins cases before
Justice Lee was disposed of yesterday,
and it is to be hoped hat serenity will
prevail now indefinitely In the case sug-
gested, Mrs. jenkins had complained of
Col. Emery that he had used offensive
and abusive language toward her. Col
Emery, on his oath, stated that he had
done no such thing, and Judge Lee
wisely and promptly dismissed the mat
ter.
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The young ladies' Of the Waiter Drill
have gained a high degree of perfection in
their marchings, evolutions and manual,
and Miss Swan comes out strong as their
captain They were drilling on The stage
Of the opera house Yesterday afternoon
and gave evidence that their performance
at the Chocoldtatre will be unique and
unusually interesting. The entire opera
house and Library hall will be used for the
entertainment.
1t is very kind of an item to come right
up to The LEADERS door, after business
hours. Last evening about dark Oscar
Sharpless was driving IN a sGlky on Sew
enteenth street, and at the intersection of
Hill his horse became alarmed at the sud
denness with which the Alert hose team
were going down Hill, and he turned and
fell down on the shafts in front Of THE
LEADER office. Sharpless was thrown
out, but was unhurt and extricated the
horse. There was NJ damage beyond a
broken shaft.
The LEADER this morning contains the
advertisement of Day & Sanders, the new
hardware firm, who have established
themselves in the fine storc adjoining the
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