, 1885-07-03
LOCAL MAVERICKS.
Unbranded News Notes Picked Tn
About The CITY.

Amateur theatricals are on the tapis n
Fort Russell.
The Knights Of Labor will do the granc
at the ball in Library hall tonight.
Fix yourself to go to Greeley with the
Irish Benevolent society on the Fourth.
There will be a glorious time at the
Knights of Labor ball at Library hall to.
night.
A number of the wee people on Twenty.
frst street attended a birthday party last
evening.
City Clerk Richards is our entry for the
fat mans race at Lake Minnehaha to.
morrow.
The supreme court will be in session
this morning to render the decision in the
DeWalt habeas corpus case.
Halfrate tickets will be sold on all the
Union Pacific trains to-day and tomorrow
for the 4th, good until the night of the
9th.
A Mexican charged with stealing a sad
die from another Mexican is in jail await
ing trial before Judge Fisher next Mon.
day.
There will be a delightful time at the
Knights of Labor ball in Library hall
tonight.
M
The reports about the explosion yester-
day were numerous, and some times ri
diculous. One report killed an entire
company of soldiers, but the boys have
successfully denied it since.
A man wen cunning for a.friend yes
terday and undertook to shoot into a Fer.
guson street saloon. Some one knocked
the gun up and the shot lodged above
the door. The shooter escaped.
About seventeen prisoners got out of
the city crate yesterday by making a hole
through the brick wall into the Durant
hose house. The most of them were
tramps. One was an army deserter.
The Signal Service officer reports that
the highest temperature yesterday was
T9', lowest, 520; mean temperature, 63.5 50;
mean humidity, 10 per cent; highest We
locity of wind 90 miles per hour; rain
fall, "a.
The contract for building the chutes at
the quarantine yards in this city, was
awarded yesterday to Brenning Il Green.
They will m e work next Monday,
and expect to complete the contract In
two weeks.
An emigrant wagon with team of two
yoke of oxen passed through the city yes.
terday. The wagon had a woman and a
shoal of towheaded youngsters in it, and
the cover Of the vehicle bore the legend,
80 Montana or bust
Brenning 4 Green, contractors and
builders, were the lowest bidders on the
additional buildings required at the quar-
antine grounds of the Wyoming Stock
growers association, and the contract has
been awarded 20 them.
Charles Hecht has sold his residence on
the corner of Ferguson and Twenty-Se Sec
ond streets to T. A.. Kent; consideration
s25,0 600. Mr.. Hecht and family will
leave tomorrow evening, o go to his
ranch on Laramie plains, where they will
remain during the summer.
There will be excellent music and a hap
pY crowd at the Knights of Labor ball in
Library hall tonight Go and see.
Mr.. Slack had ordered a new pane OF
French plate glass for the window in the
Odd Fellows block yesterday before he
found out that it was not his McDaniels
block which had suffered. Discovering
his mistake, Mr.. Stacks glass man lost a
job.
When Joe Fisher was up on Chugwater
a week or two ago assessing, he Tell in a
pond and came near drowning the asses
sors' books. He dried himself and papers
at Snyder & Jones ranch and begged the
boys not to let the newspapers get hold OF
his mishap.
A pair of tramps visited the Silver
Crown mining district Wednesday night,
and after having been fed, proceeded to
stealing things. The boys hung them up
with Dave Gilchrist's buggy lines for a
while and then let them down and told
them to git" They got
The second annual ball of Assembly
24s7, knights of Labor, occurs at Library
hall tonight.
Fortunes are often made in a day here
in Wyoming. On last Wednesday one of
our leading stockmen bought a herd OF
1900 cattle for about 500 700. Yester-
day he was offered an advance of $4,000
on his bargain, but refused it, saying he
would not sell the herd for less than
$4,000, as in less than two years the eat
tie would net him s135, 900.
There will be hose races, o%rations
dancing and all sorts of holiday doings at
Greeley on the 4th, and a big crowd is
going from Cheyenne with the Irish Be
nevolent society's excursion. The fare
for the round trip will be two dollars.
Children half price, and everybody who
wants to get on the train had better Sc
cure tickets to-day, as there will be a rush
Saturday morning sure. The prospects
are hat the excursion will be one of the
most delightful tbot ever left this city.
Mrs. o. +. Cowhick was down at her
husbands place OF business Wednesday
evening, where some conversation arose
about the robbery at Mr.. l.. II. Smiths,
and the talk decided her to return to her
own home earlier than usual, a lady friend