, 1885-09-26
SHORT STORIES
Gathered by Asking Everybody
What Do You Know"
Things Which are too Little to
Carry a Head.
Little cooler, thank you.


The bicycle club gave a german at
Library hall last night.
Judge Lee disposed of a drunk yester.
day who paid his fine.
The atmosphere wa full of smoke last
night from the prairie fires.
Judge Lacey discharged D. I. Brandt
yesterday on his habeas corpus plea.
The train from the east last night had
fourteen coaches, nine fint class and five
emigrants.
Willie and Frank Huffschmidt captured
and killed a fine badger just out of the city
limits Thursday.
A heavy prairie FIRE is burning in a
southeasterly direction from this city, about
four miles away.
Russell J.. Tracy to James Kitty; lot
number in block 40, city of Cheyenne.
Consideration, $3.50.
A good shower would be very welcome
in the neighborhood of Egbert and Hills
dale, where the prairies are still on fire.
A man has written some threats against
The LEADER, and if he is half as bad as
his handwriting, grammar and spelling
are, he is certainly dangerous. But that
is impossible.
Seats for Tie Rag Baby will be on
sale at the box office of the opera house
to-day, and from the interest which
seems to have been aroused, it is evident
that not many seats will be left by night.
The Signal Service officer reports that
the highest temperature yesterday was
SAP; lowest, 49,; mean temperature
6l.si mean humidity, 50.7 per cent; high
est velocity of the wind, "a miles perhour.
The Glee club will be ready for the
meeting for organization in a few days.
1t is the intention of the club to give
some minstrel performances during the
winter, and perhaps produce a comic
opera.
The infant class of the Congrega-
tional Sunday school had a lawn party
yesterday at Mr.. j. S. Taylor's. 1t was
a delight to pass the yard where they were
at play and witness the merriment of the
little ones.
The Wyomina Tribune at Rawlins is
now a yearling and it kicks hard enough
for a 2-year-old. Barrow has wit, energy
and gall, and they are good capital these
days and have made the Tribune an evil
dent success 80 far.
Henry Fryar, the man brought from
Denver by Sheriff Craig, charged with
stealing V. Bakers team, was examined
before Judge Fisher yesterday and held
over to answer to the. district court in
$500 bonds, which he could not give.
Somebody has invented a system of
telegraphy which transmits the handwrit-
ing of the party sending the telegram. 1t
is a good thing for the world that this
improvement has come since Horace
Greeley, and Bloss of the Cincinnati En-
QHirer died.
The reverend tragedian, Geo. c. Min,
was fined in a justice court in Denver
Thursday, for an assault upon his late
treasurer. The fine was so small hat it
leads to the belief that the Justic thought
Mr.. Min justifable as lar as the law
could allow.
The Rock Springs INDEPENDENT speak
ing of the late G. A. X. encampment and
the evidences of the fraternity brought
out, says most truthfully: There are
probably no other people so firmly united
and so thoroughly cemented by brotherly
love, as are the veterans of the late war.
Mr.. W. NJ. Ferguson, the bonanza
king of Silver Crown, was in town yes
terday and called at The LEADER Office
with the important news that the smelter
of the King David mining company has
made a successful run of six days, and
that another run of fifteen days will be
commenced next Monday. The bullion
produced carries 90 per cent copper and
500 to $500 in silver. This will be good
news to many business men of Cheyenne,
who have so generously contributed of
their means, and thus aided in the de
yelopment of this now promising mining
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