, 1885-12-12
SHORT STORIES
Gathered by Asking Everybody
What Do You Know"
Things Which are too Little to
Carry a Head.

1880
Sheriff Craig's family will soon begin
to thin out.
T. NJ. Fisher is on the sick list, being
afflicted with neuralgia
Lake Minnehaha and also the upper
lakes are now entirely frozen over.
Some necessary repairs are being made
in the upper story of the court house.
Business was very dull around the
court house and the city hall yesterday.
By the way. where is the street sprink-
ler2 1t has been some days since it ran
out.
The train from the east was seven
hours late last night owing to a collision
down the road.
The Grant Memoir book agent was
around almost everywhere yesterday de-
livering the book.
The attendance at our public schools
has increased to the number of la since
the term opened.
There will be no lack of entertainment,
church festivals, etc, from this time until
the holidays are over.
John Cochrane qualified as United
States commissioner before the clerk of
the district court yesterday.
The Brown-Benso tragedy was the all
absorbing theme of discussion among
those who heard of it last evening.
One John Doe drunk materialized in
Judge Fishers court yesterday. The cal
aboose gained another inmate.
Visscher's book OF poems entitled
Black Nanny" is out, and is being
distributed to subscribers about the city.
The city is laying in another supply of
coal, and in slowing it away the prisoners
in the calaboose are given a little exer-
else.
The old frame building which stood for
many years on the corner Just west of the
residence of Il. Nagle has been moved
away.
An addition has lately been built in the
rear of Stanley Bros. store, in the Carey
block, giving them now a room of 1872
feet long.
DIR. Hassenplug, of Denver, whose prac-
tice is limited to diseases of the eye and
ear, can be consulted at the Inter Ocean
hotel on Saturday, Dec. II.
There is a prospect that John Wallace,
the soldier charged with robbery, in whose
case there have been two disagreements of
the jury, will soon be released on bail
Bristow Smith was arranged before
Judge Lee yesterday on the charge of
creating a disturbance and breach of the
peace. A judicial investigation resulted
in his being discharged.
The opera house will be quite comfor-
table to night. Fires have been burning
there for thirty-four hours and the tenn
Derature is quite different from that the
night that Nevada appeared here.
The Signal Service officer reports that
the highest temperature yesterday was
ll.4'; lowest, ll.s'; mean temperature,
81 mean humidity, 1877 per cent. high
est velocity OF wind 20 miles per hour.
Snowfall two inches.
Sheriff Craig gave the prisoners who
are to 20 to Joliet in a few days a thorough
oyerhauling yesterday, and has to the
decimal part of an inch their exact height,
color of eyes and hair, and other points
for identification.
II. Mcfarland, manager for the Great
Wyoming Mining company, left the city
yesterday for Chicago. Mr.. Mcfarland
takes with him a silver brick weighing 5O4
ounces, the mineral being taken from
fourteen tons of ore. The ore runs 81 per
cent silver. Work at the crusher on Run
ming Water will again in the
spring.
Considerable comment is made on the
fact that Secretary Lamar, in his report
to the president, has not a word to say in
regard to Wyoming territory. This is ac-
counted Tor by the failure Of Governor
Warren report to reach the interior de-
partment in time to receive the attention
of Secretary Lamar. The governor re-
port, we understand, is a very thorough
document, and Il will probably be made