, 1885-10-03
SHORT STORIES
Gathered by Asking Everybody
What Do You Know"
Things Which are too Little TO
Carry a Head.

Overcoat weather.
A snow storm is expected.
Greeley seems to have a boom.
Welcome the sentence of Welcome.
The Carbon miners bit off too much.
Sixteen car loads of tea went west yes
day morning.
A big pelican was killed III Lake Nah
pahlutah yesterday.
Everybody is climbing up de Golden
Stairs That is the latest song craze.
Posey Ryan will load his freight wagons
to-day with a supplies for the sutler at
Fort Laramie.
The Inter Ocean hotel will close on OF
before Oct. Is. Mr.. Chase will then
leave for the East. and may visit Paris.
The Chinese washeemen in Cheyenne
deserve punishment because the Carbon
miners quit work, and are liable to get
hungry.
The Butte City Miner says that every
department of business is prosperous
there, and that hard times are unknown.
Bully for Butte
Denver is turning one of her skating
inks into a market house. Good idea
That what numerous Kinks all over the
country will come to pretty 500
The Warren emporium has a new and
attractive line of rich turcoman curtains
which are being sold very low, also new
styles and colorings in madras curtains
among the new goods and novelties just
received.
5. S. Mcclure, OF New York, is offer
ing a 500 prize for the best short story
to be sent him by the 18th of November.
Here is a chance for the literary talent OF
Cheyenne to come out and get famous
and a 500.
The Signal Service officer reports that
the highest temperature yesterday was
NJ; lowest, 1922; mean temperature;
1917; mean humidity, G9.0 per cent; high.
est velocity of the wind, Is miles perhour.
rainfall, 90.
Rip Larson, while out cunning yester-
day on one of the lakes near the city, was
thrown out Of thsboat while at some dis
lance from the shore. Being a good
swimmer he escaped without any other
accident than the loss of his SIS shot gun.
There will be two races to-day at the
%trottinG park. The first will be between
Pettibone's Lady Mack and Wightman' $
Kitty, and the second between P~ettibone's
Billy n. and Wightman's White Stock
ings. Both races will be trots, mile heats,
9 best in 8.
Laramie county has within its bounda-
ries $50 townships, each six miles square,
beside ~thirty-nine fractional townships,
each six miles long and three miles wide,
The county contains Hoop square miles,
and has 7Ss more that the state of Yer
mont, which has l0,2l4 square miles.
Editor McCullagh, of the St. Louis
Globe Democrat, says Gen. Sherman is
a garrulous old fool. Somebody else
has said ''McCullagh is II great editor. 81
Both of these assertions are untrue. Gen.
Sherman is not a fool OF any kind, and
McCullagh is only great by the accident
of being employed by a great paper.
Many men less great could do his work
much better.
The Rawlins TriJaue says: Hon. Ho-
mer Merrell, Wyoming commissioner to
the New Orleans exposition, will leave
for the south to assume the duties of the
position Immediately after the adjourn
ment of our district court Our display
there will be added largely to this season,
Mr.. Merrell having already collected nearly
a car load of exhibits, comprising grains.
grasses, mineral, fossils, etc, for that
purpose. The exposition will be reopened
Nov. 10.
The chances are that United States
Marshal Carr will be lriQhtfully frighten.
ed, as it were, when he reads this from
the Gazette, printed at Green River:
JEFF Carr, United States Marshal, was a
passenger on a w%esternbound train on
Tuesday. He Dragged of bringing several
deputies with him, which he left at Rock
Springs. and gave vent to expressions
during his short stay in Green River, that,
II heard by some persons, he perhaps
could have been TAUGHT the lesson, that pub
lie officers must be careful how they talk
or some day IA fearful r%etribution will
await them.