, 1885-10-24
SHORT STORIES
Gathered by Asking Everybody
What Do You Know"
Things Which are too Little TO
Carry a Head.

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The wind sat back on its hind legs last
night and howled.
Mantinee for children from half past >
until 8 to day, at the west rink.
The teachers of this school district will
hold an institute next Saturday at the
central school building.
Two more of the elegant buildings at
Fort Russell were turned over to the gov
eminent by the contractors yesterday.
Sterling Birmingham got a slight
wound in the neck yesterday from the
accidental discharge of a pistol which he
was handling.
Jack Sanders was before Judge Fisher
yesterday charged with shooting inside
the city limits. The evidence not being
sufficient the man was discharged.
A big excursion train will arrive here
Sunday night from the East via Denver.
1t is composed of six Pullman palace cars,
one first class day coach, one smoking car
and a baggage car.
Judge Lee attended a pioneers funeral
yesterday and held no court. Thus the
cases of the women in charge accused of
being inmates of a house of ll-iame were
continued until to-day.
The Signal Service officer reports that
the highest temperature yesterday was
6G. =; lowest, 80. 70; mean temperature,
800; mean humidity, 40.3 per cent; high.
est velocity of the wind, 20 miles per hour.
Messrs. Jones and Williams, OF Carbon
county, raised about flty-fve acres of
wheat, oats and barley this year and
will cultivate over l20 acres next season.
This yield was immense. Their ranch is
on Calf creek, about fifteen miles from
Saratoga.
The Laramie Boomerang had an article
Thursday reporting the murder of Officer
VIM, of this city, which is another evil
dence that one should go away from home
to hear the new Officer VIM doesn't
believe he has been killed, but then some
men are very stubborn that way.
DR.. Rocker was painfully hurt on one
leg yesterday by the kick of a horse. The
doctor was sitting upon an express wagon
near the central school when the horse at
tached becoming frightened, ran away
with the vehicle and the doctor being
thrown to the ground, got mixed up in
some way with the horses heels.
Yesterday a deed was filed for record
in the county clerks Office from Joseph
Grafus as the guardian Of Jacob G.. and
G. Rush Petrekin. minors of Clinton
county, Pa, to John A. Martin, of this
county conveying lots ! and 3 in block
59i, lots . and 9 IN l64, } in 3SI, and .
and o IN l65. Consideration 5000.
In 4 private letter from Hon. C. A.
Guernsey he says that one Of his hired
men at his ranch in the northern part of
the county, found a few days ago two
white-tailed deer fighting, and their horns
so locked together hat they could not get
away from him or resist him. when he
deliberately walked up and made venison
out oil boil OF them.
A Saratoga, Wyo., correspondent says
Hames Bros. have just finished threshing
their oats-l, $50 bushels. How is that
for Wyoming2 These men have a Irvine
binder, a thresher and all the latest i'm
proved agricultural implements. Their
ditch, just completed, is six miles long,
and was a laborious piece of work. 1t is
twelve to fourteen feet wide and water is
now running through it.
Yesterday. the osd Of October was the
anniversary of Fred Landau's birthday.
and he said his cr;ords colobra,oJ tho day
IN royal style. lie received cOngratula-