, 1885-09-19
SHORT STORIES
Gathered by Asking Everybody
What Do You Know"
Things Which are too Little to
Carry a Head.

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Let's have a glee club.
Peace is the prettiest.
The Clarks will beat Laramie.
There is a big scandal cooking.
The Presbyterian organ will be SPLEEN
did.
Rowing on the lake should be cult
waited.
This is the anniversary of the death of
President Garfield in 1881.
Mrs. Governor Warren gave a progress
sive euchre party last night.
Judge Lee sent Bill Kelley to jail yes
terday for creating a disturbance.
The special train to the Fort Collins
fair yesterday had thirty-fve passengers.
John Ellison, who got his collar bone
broken some days ago by being thrown
from a buggy, is getting cut again.
A handsome rowboat has been launched
on Snake river, at Shoshone falls, named
the ?. p. Shelby. in honor of the genial
p. p. of the q. p.
An examination Of the public school
teachers will be held this morning at Miss
Merwin's room in the central school house
by Superintendent Wyman.
There is more talk Of Il street railway
from the depot to Camp Russell. Such
a thing would not only be a great conven
icnce, but a paying investment.
A citizen has in his employ Il green
boy whom he sent down town yesterday to
to get a pair of half-hose and the youth
returned with a pair Of short shoe strings.
The Sun people are trying to raise by
subscription a sum sufficient to buy up its
illustrated edition which the Union
Pacific management declined to purchase.
The Signal Service officer reports that
the highest temperature yesterday was
81 %; lowest, 400; mean temperature;
GA; mean humidity, 40 per cent; high
est velocity of the wind, lG miles per hour.
The new pipe organ for the Prcsbyte
rian church arrived yesterday from Moline,
Ill. The organ was constructed by special
order, and will be in place during the
coming week. A gentleman from the
mandatory arrived last evening to super
intend the setting up of the organ.
In spite Of the r%uinous policy adopted
by the Union Pacific in regard to Chey-
enne, the people OF the Magic city have
prospered, and after having suffered under
the Union Pacific yoke for seventeen
years, Cheyenne has a standing second to
no city in the union, as to commercial
prosperity and the financial condition of
her merchants and citizens generally.
The Union Pacific company has r~eceiv-
ed another cargo of tea that will make
about one hundred car loads, and it will
be transported across the continent with
in the next few days. Heretofore these
tea shipments have been divided be-
tween the transcontinental lines, but
the Union Pacifc's recent fast time has
succeeded in capturing all business of that
kind.
Prof AuGhey returned yesterday from
the SILVER Crown district, and he says
that the prospect there continues to i'm
prove. The Adams prospect, known as
the Lennox, he says is no longer a pros
pect, but is a mine. The mineral has in
creased from a six-inch vein at the surface
to wo and a half feet on an incline, and
the ore is a high grade carbonate Of lead
carrying silver. The mine is four miles
north of Granite Canon station on the
Union Pacific road, and Mr.. Adams has
done every lick of the work on it himself
About twenty other carbonate claims have
been located during the past month in
this district. Silver Brown will make a
boom yet.
The telephone in the county clerk
oHice has been a source of chronic annoy
ance TO the gentlemen who serve their
country in that place. Joe Fisher says
that during court he wa frequently rung
up to hear m inquiry as to whether Mr..
So-and-so was on the jury, or if lawyer
Blank was in the court house, and
"How's that thing agoing." Every Off
cial connected with the court house was
called through that Office and the thing was
slowly but surely sapping the life of the
clerical force. Yesterday the box was
taken out and nailed up in the hall and
each official has a distinct ring for him
self, as for instance, one ring calls the
clerk, two the sheriff, three the treasurer,
four somebody else and five the judge,
and peace once moro reigns in the halls OF
the blind goddess.