, 1885-06-24
LOCAL
Unbranded News Notes Picked Up
About The City.

Cheyenne ought to have a telephone 60
Denver.
The school board will appoint teachers
tomorrow.
A Boston excursion party returned from
the west yesterday.
A large number of Chinese have been
going east for the past few days.
Court will adjourn to-day until July 20.
Parties who desire citizenship will govern
themselves accordingly.
The Wyoming Central association, for
the development OF territorial resources
will meet in this city to day.
The crowd at the depot when the trains
come in is augmenting and passengers say
this must be a very large city.
The Massachusetts, members of the
Middlesex Cattle company ven out to
their Horse creek ranch yesterday.
ii. A Colleen was appointed notary
public for johnson county, at Big Horn,
by Governor Warren yesterday.
John Doe, the confirmed old sot, paid
$40 again yesterday in Judge Fishers
court, for a plain everyday drunk.
The Denver trains over the Julesburg
branch came to Cheyenne yesterday on
account Of a washout on the cutoff.
The ladies of the Episcopal church will
give a strawberry festival at Library ball
on the evening of Tuesday the 30th inst.
The grass is not as good rs it was this
time last year. There hasn't been 30
great a rainfall. Still the grass is excel
lent.
Frederick Warde. the tragedlan, and
company, will be the next attraction at
the opera house. They come on the 9th
Of July.
Cheyenne should have Fourth oil July
celebrations of her own instead of taking
our eagle-bird off somewhere else to
scream on independence day.
The Signal Service officer reports that
the highest temperature yesterday was
70', lowest, 4T'; mean temperature, $50;
mean humidity, 70 per cent; highest We
Deity Of wind Is miles per hour.
Mr.. Lemon Lydiek of Taylor's market,
and Mr.. Ed. Warren. his cousin. have
Just rented a palatial room in the Carey
block and will be pleased to see any of
their friends on Sunday after business
hours.
Three car loads of soldiers came in on
Omaha train last evening, all recruits.
Twenty six Of them stopped off here for
9th infantry, the remainder went on
to Salt Lake for the 9th i~nfantry at Fort
Douglass,
From the top of the Commercial block
yesterday the sight of an immense herd of
toward the northwest, crawling
seeming ly like q swarm Of ants. was a
curious sight and the view was altogether
a beautiful one.
The work of equipping the 10000
cars of the Union Pacific with
Westinghouse air brakes has been begun
at the shops in Omaha. The Armstrong
shops share the work, and the whole job
will require many months.
One Naness was arraigned before Judge
Fisher yesterday on a charge of disturbing
the peace, and after he had been fined
$l3, walked off without paying, as much
as il he had a running account in that jus
tice mill and the little bill could be
charged. Judge Fisher sent an officer
after him, and he now reposes in the body
of the cooler, or did at last accounts.
Manager Boardman came in last night
and threw upon this reporter a flash from
a scarf-pin which was at first supposed to
be a Chicago hotel clerks diamond, but
investigation proved it to be an Edison in
candescentl light, gotten up for the purpose
of bearing the diamond market. These
will be worn for brilliant dress oc-
casions and they will be much in vogue
among detectives for dark lanterns. Mr..
Roberts, the manager of the electric light
will tell you all about it.
The Womans silk Culture association
of the United States, headquarters at
Philadelphia, sends TIE LEADER circu-
lars which set forth the good results that
may spring from the raising of silk co.
coons by women and children throughout
the country for which the association will
find a market. The association invites
persons interested to send to it for circu-
lars of instruction. The philanthropic de
sire of the association is to establish a new
industry for women and children and to
eventually add to the wealth Of the coun-
by making 1t a nation of silk raisers.
A great newspaper reader was out
hunting recently, and a storm coming up
he crawled into a hollow tree log for shell
ter. After the storm abated he endeav-
ored to crawl out but found that the log
had swelled so that it was impossible to
make his exit. He ~endeavored to com
press himself as much as possible but with
Indifferent success. lie thought about all
the mean things he had even done, until
finally his mind reverted to the fact that,
instead Of buying his paper like a man, he
was in the habit Of borrowing it from his
neighbOr, and upon this he felt so small
that he slipped out of the log without an
effort.
The large extra edition of THE LEADER
of last Sunday, containing Hon. NJ. +.
Posts review of the live stock business in
Wyoming. as published in the report of
the bureau of statistics of the United
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