, 1885-09-16
SHORT STORIES
Gathered by Asking Everybody
What Do You Know"
Things Which are too Little to
Carry a Head.

Warm again.
Does your flannel scratch?
A relapse of dullness has set in.
Judge Lee jailed one drunk yesterday.
A party of Sons of America will shortly
come up from Denver to institute the
camp here.
The chamber Of in Denver,
a superb building, is completed and open
for business.
Judge Fisher tried three DRINKS yester-
day. One paid his fine and the other two
went to Jail.
Bridget Gallagher is in the cooler again.
Too much money for tangleioot and not
enough to appease justice.
Forty-tw horses, 1 and 5-year-olds,
were yesterday shipped from this city to
Iowa, by Capt. Hereford, of Smiths
Fork, Colo.
The Republicans had the inside track
at the council last night. The entire Re
publican delegation was present and only
two Democrats.
Cheyenne has a public electric light sys-
tenn. but it is mostly system. Light on
the subject is wanted, and this could prob
ably be obtained in the use of good car.
bon.
Workmen are opening the bank ut the
corner OF Seventeenth and Ferguson now.
When they get through their opening
will be closed and then the bank will be
opened again.
William Farrell, who lives on Diamond
creek, eighteen miles from Cheyenne,
lost last week by death a valuable horse
and another one on Sunday. 1t Is thought
the animals we're poisoned.
Billy De We're has sent The LEADER
a copy of his book called wit. Humor,
Pathos and Parodies. 1t is printed by
the Excelsior publishing house, New
York, for twenty-five cents.
A water cooler and filter combined is a
cheap thing, and one of them in every
family would save lots of Doctors bills, if
the Grow creek impurities we're caught in
them instead of the human system.
The Hereford stock shipped yesterday
to the Fort Collins fair by the Wyoming
Hereford Association, consisted of a 2.
YEAR, old and a l-year-old bull, two COWS
with calves and two y%earling heifers.
The Signal Service officer reports that
the highest temperature yesterday was
500; lowest, 42.0'; mean temperature;
500; mean humidity, 1913 per cent; high
est velocity of the wind, 10 miles per hour.
This evening at the Methodist church,
Mrs. Henry will especially address the
young ladies and young gentlemen of this
city. None need fear but that her ad-
dress will be interesting, instructive and
e%loquentlY presented. Our young people
should hear Mrs. Henry and welcome her
with a full house.
Fifteen years ago Milton Mobiles was
the manager and leading man at the
academy of music, Chicago, Frank L.
Akin held the same position at his own
Chicago theatre and Jno. W. Blaisdell
the same position at Hooley's. Now they
are all in the same company and will be
here next Monday night. Strong team.
The many customers of A. G. Snyder
K Cos. market will be pleased to learn,
that Mr.. Sam. Brown, the popular sales
man, who has been confined to his room
for SOM time by rheumatism, has re-
turned to duty, and will again assist Mr..
Helphenstine, the junior partner OF the
firm, in attending to the wants of the
many people who obtain their daily sup
plies at the Cheyenne market.
l.. n. Jacobs. who has suffered impris-
onment for eight months and a fine of
$50, for an alleged assault, and who is
thought by many to be a victim of cir
cumstances, is on the streets again and is
trying to show by straight conduct that
he want to be a good citizen. Never
theless, he is being prosecuted by some
persons in the way of taunts and other
a%nnoyances of hat character and should
be protected by the law.