, 1885-08-12
LOCAL MAVERICKS.
Unbranded News Notes Picked Up
About The CITY.
The nights are getting ohillr.


Stomach troubles are prevalent in this
city.
Hail and rain yesterday and rain and
hail the day before,
The little ones are counting the remain
ing vacation days.
John Murphy was sentenced yesterday
by Judge Lee as Il vagrant.
A number of pleasing entertainments
are to be given in the near future.
Judge Lee sent three DRINKS to the
lookup yesterday, among them the lawyer
tramp.
The DeriTs auction will probably be
the next entertainment at the opera
house.
A great many people live in furnished
rooms in this city because the rent Of small
houses is too high.
La Uocol1taire Waiter Drill. " at the
opera house and library hall on Thursday
evening, Aug. %. See future announ-
cements,
George, the barkeeper at Idelman's was
stunned yesterday by a seedy looking chap
who went aud offered to shake him for
a glass of ice water.
Crazy Ellen left a note for the COVER
nor yesterday saying she had found the
head of the man who was found murdered
in June. Her story is probably an insane
fancy.
Six thousand head Of Oregon stock cat
tie in fine condition for sale, of mixed
ages, delivered at Cheyenne by rail. APP
ply at once at Office of Union Cattle COM
pany.
A deed was filed for record in the coun-
ty clerk Office yesterday as follows: VIM.
A. Ford to Maurice Duineen for lots |
and ? in block 50, city of Cheyenne. Con-
sideration $500.
There is a bright, honest looking boy
from Texas hunting about the city for
work. He is anxious to earn his living
and some one who needs a boy would
doubtless do q good thing TO employ
him.
Yesterday the contract between the
school committee and +. II. Iiurd was
signed for the building Of n fence, com
pletion Of the levers and o.her improve
ments 10 be made at the central school
house.
Jack Crawford, tho poet scout. was
in New York at Gen. Grant funeral and
published there that day a handsome
pamphlet with the programme of the
exercises and Il poem entitled The
Hero's Departed.
The Signal Service officer reports that
the highest temperature yesterday was
1922; lowest, 1872; mean temperature,
59.s'; mean humidity, 100 per cent; high
est velocity of wind ~ miles per hour;
rain and hail, %.
{. W. Wilson was arrested and Jailed
yesterday, charged with stealing a revol-
yer from the Simmons house. lie was
caught with the weapon in his possession
and declares that he was sent by the real
thief to get it from a place where it had
been hidden.
a party of hunters camping south ofthe
city, on Crow creek, lost three head ofhorses
Monday night and the Barthof brothers
camped near the hunting party lost nine
head of horses the same evening. So
far no trace of the horses has been DIS
covered by the three men in search,
and it is feared the horses have been
stolen.
There are men in business in this city who
depend largely on transient trade for their
profits, who refuse to subscribe to a fund
for the encampment and tournament, yet
they look for Grand Army trade, and the
the services of the tiremen in case OF con-
fagration. The process of remembering
them has already begun, and it isn't
straining the memory of the old boys"
either,
Ed 10y, of Dixon, ILL.,, Il I7-year.o old
tramp. who was stealing a ride on one of
the fast tea trains, fell under the wheels
Sunday morning, when the train was
near Washakie station, and had his left
arm cut off above the elbow and his left
leg severed below the knee. He was
taken to Laramie Monday morning and
to St. Joseph's hospital He is suffering
severely from the shock and his recovery
IS doubtful. He has no relatives so far
as known.
The city council yesterday afternoon
approved the bond Of City Treasurer
Glover, and that official thereupon quail
fed as by law required, He afterwards
called upon Mr.. Bergman, the ex-treas-
urer, for the books, papers, etc. of the
treasurer's office; but as anticipated Mr..
Bergman refused to surrender his Office.
1t will be a cold day when the members
Of the old court house ring surrender any
thing; and nothing but a mountain
falling upon them would convince them
that the time has come to give up the
official perquisites they have enjoyed for
SO many years.
George r. Atkinson, the celebrated
Rockford tailor, is now located at room ?,
Inter Ocean hotel, where he can be inter
viewed by his many customers and all
Others who may need a first class suit Of
clothes. Mr. Atkinson has supplied the
male portion of our community with good
clothes ever since 1871, and he is now
again on one of his annual trips through
the west, carrying with him samples of
the latest imported and domestic goods of