, 1885-11-07
SHORT STORIES
Gathered by Asking Everybody
What Do You Know"
Things Which are too Little TO
Carry a Head.

Blowing a blizzard.
Coal dealers are happy.
Congratulate Mrs. Walkup.
The platform club has adjourned.
Swinging on the front gate is played
out.
The train from the east came in after
midnight.
Shoveling snow would be good work for
the city prisoners.
Cheyenne was the coolest place report
ed by telegraph yesterday.
Skating will commence for the season
at Keefc's hall on Monday evening
Nov. 9.
Norman b. Dresser, of the Rock
Springs Independent, in his last paper
drops into poetry and apostrophizes Wyo-
ming.
The snow will be acceptable to stock
men, as the springs and water holes were
freezing up, making it difficult for cattle
to get water.
A man named Moore was painfully in
iured yesterday at the new electric light
works by a heavy piece of timber which
rolled over him.
Two poor old DRINKS were taken in out
of the cold and put in the warmer ycster-
day. Judge Fisher sent one OF them up
and Judge Lee the other.
The trains stuck in the snow east of
this city yesterday, and the snow pillow
which was sent out stuck also. The only
train in last night was from Denver.
Wm. Lucas who was found guilty in
Judge Lees cour yesterday of stealing a
small sun of money from Clark & Chat
terton's grocery, was fined $50 and went
to jail.
Seldom Walker was fined 800 for
vagrancy yesterday and went to jail. He
will be seldom walker now except within
the circumscribed circumference of the
county crate.
The Signal Service officer reports that
the highest temperature yesterday was
27.9'; lowest, 23.6'; mean temperature,
25.S mean humidity, 1911 per cent; high
est velocity of wind 40 miles per hour;
snowfall. 80.
The commander-in-c chief Of the Grand
Army of the Republic has issued an order
in which he directs hat the lapel buttons
worn by so many Grand Army men in
place of the regulation badge, must not
be worn any longer, as they are spurious
and unauthorized by the national encamp-
mcnt.
George r. Caldwell, editor of the Coup.
ier under Mr.. Rhodes management, is
located at Lander, Wyo., and is the regu-
lar correspondent OF several eastern and
western newspapers, the CHEYENNE
LEADER and Denver TriJrne-R Republican
included. He is a fluent writer, and sends
his papers frequent interesting and valu-
able letters. Fort Collins Courier.
Attention is called to the Warren Mer-
camille company advertisement printed
elsewhere IN these columns of the Perfec-
ton metal moulding and rubber cushion
weather strip, which keeps out the cold,
excludes the dust, stops the rafting OF
windows and keeps out sno~ and rain,
thus saving in fuel, furniture and carpets
more money in a season than would out
fit ten houses with the weather straps, not
to speak Of the comfort they bring.
In the matters Of daily occurrences, the
doings at the Justices courts, the trans
iers Of real estate recorded in the county
clerk office, and indeed all of the hap
penings of every day in the public Office:
routine matters as it were-a wild eyed
reporter Of a cross eyed little hand bill in
this city accuses The LEADER reporters
Of stealing from it, just as if it had q
copy right to the fact that John Doe got
drunk and was fined $40, or that Richard
Roe arrived from Tie Siding. Yet this
silly yokel doesn't hesitate to take para.
graphs from weekly newspapers out west
and print them under the head of special.
dispatches. If this wild-eyed reporter
will show where THE LEADER ever copied
an idea or a sentiment from him, we will
send him a large Jug full of the best thing
he has ever discovered in his journal
i%stie' exnerience