, 1885-07-31
LOCAL
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About The City.

night.
The trees in Cheyenne look healthy and
strong.
The city park promises to be glorious in
a few years.
The regular daily shower of yesterday
didn't get here until last night, and then
1t came splendidly for a few minutes.
Manager Boardman's benefit tonight
bids fair to be a big success. A large
number of seats had been sold last even
ing.
Large quantities of California fruit in
quick transit with passenger trains pass
through this city every morning en- route
East.
hev. Rafter says he expects that Canon
farrar, one of the biggest guns of the
English church, will preach here in Sep
TENDER.
An alarm of fire will show that there is
a big population in Cheyenne. That one
about dark last evening blackened the
streets with people.
The Denver papers are now in a three.
cornered fight about spelling and gram
mar and things, and the result ia a rain of
wisdom and one thing or another.
Rev. Myron W. Reed, OF the First Con-
g%regational church of Denver, is to preach
the Monteiore memorial sermon at the
Jewish Temple Emanuel in that city to-
day.
The death of Gen. Grant gave a great
many Republican ofice-holders Il little
longer lease of office. The administration
has had its time largely occupied with
preparations for the funeral.
The Signal Service officer reports that
the highest temperature yesterday was
so, lowest, SCI; mean temperature. coz;
mean humidity, - per cent; highest We
locity of wind II miles per hour.
There was an alarm of fire last night,
which came from the residence of Ira A.
Lowe, on Eighteenth street, neal the lake
There was no damage and the fire com
phnies were turned back before they got
there.
DeWalt will arrive this afternoon from
Denver on his way back to his old quar-
tcrs at the Laramie pe~nitentiary. United
States Marshal Smith will bring him with
two other conviets from Colorado for the
mentioned.
A gentleman who lives at Los Angeles,
Cal, and who passed through this city on
his way home, says that in his semi-tropi-
cal country he never felt such heat as that
in st. Louis this season. When he left
there Monday evening the mercury stood
at 96o at s in the evening.
The Mexican editors will be in Denver
to morrow. Having been in the East
during the heated term they probably
ihink the zones have been turned upside
down for their special benefit. They say
that the heat OF New York is worse than
that of Mexico.
Yesterday morning at the depot Mr..
Thos. Sturgis horse became frightened at
A locomotive and began plunging in the
harness. He finally fell on the shafts and
broke them and bent the forward axle of
vehicle There was a lady in the
but she was lifted out unhurt.
Articles of incorporation of the South
Congregational church of Cheyenne, were
with Territorial Secretary Morgan
yesterday. John Underwood, DIR. w. A.
Wyman, Martin Connor and Russell L.
Tracy are the incorporators and the bust
ness of the company will be saving souls
and spreading the truths of religion.
One of the employees at the Fisher no.
tel having heard Rev, DIR. Rafter called
doctor, supposing him to be a medical
man instead off physician in the cure of
souls, as Tom Hood puts the holy call
ing, approached him yesterday inquiring.
Say, doctor, is lime water good for a
bone-felon?" The doctor referred him to
the saw-bones craft.
A party of influential capitalists will
leave Montana for Washington to
promote a scheme to divide Dakota on the
Missouri river, and Montana north and
south at the cast end of the Bozeman tun-
mel. This would make Dakota an agri-
cultural state and leave a cattlemen' 5 state
west Of it. The cattlemen want a state
whose Legislation will protect them Da-
kota would by this division be about 200
by 400 miles and the cattle state some 400
miles square.
Yesterday morning Sheriff Craig re.
ceived information that a man at Arthur
was acting strangely; lying down on the
railroad and pitching about as if demented.
The sheriff had the man brought in on the
first train, and upon his arrival here Dep
uty Sheriff McGonigIe put him in an cx-
press wagon and took him to Jail, but
there it became evident that the man was
sick 80 he vas taken to Eames' where the
county poor are cared for, and placed un-
der treatment. The man wouldn't, or
couldn't give his name, but said he is a
boiler maker. He seems to be delinous
from illness and exposure.
The Methodist Picnic.
Yesterday morning the teachers and
pupils Of the Methodist Sunday school, in
carriages, buggies and other vehicles, went
to Kineman's ranch SIX miles south of