, 1885-08-15
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unbI anded news Notes Picked Up
About The City.

Judge Lee sent a pair Of DRINKS to Jail
yesterday.
The streets are lively these evenings
with promenadcrs.
Fort Russell should have u hose team
in the tournament.
Hollis book store is to be- moved into
the room adjoining it on the east.
The encampment committee have taken
room II in the Idelman block and are
fitting it up for business.
Attention is called to the encampment
committees advertisement for bids for
privileges published in another column.
The new stone side walk eight feet wide
on Nineteenth street and six feet wide on
Ferguson, is being laid at the court house.
Work on the convent has been stopped
for want Of material. The brick will be
ready soon and work will re-commence on
Monday.
People complained worse of heat yester-
day than IN any other day of the season
and yet the thermometer was only $40
degrees.
The Signal Service officer reports that
the highest temperature yesterday was
s42'i lowest, 4s 81 mean temperature,
Co. 80; mean humidity, Al per cent; high
est velocity of wind Is miles per hour.
The hose teams of this city are putting
in good practice for the coming encamp-
ment. They propose to keep the big
prizes here if possible. Crowds were
watching the Alerts on Hill street last
evening.
A colored man in the rear of the Inter
Ocean hotel yesterday where some chlor-
ide Of lime had been thrown snuffed an
offensive efiuvia and as he did so he re-
marked; Laws bless me, but don't dat
Electricity smell loud -
A consumptive named W. +. Davis, of
Pittsburg, died on the east bound train
due here yesterday. at Rawlins, Thursday
night. The body was left at Rawllns.
Deceased had been out to the Pacific
coast trying to recuperate his health.
The Union Pacific shopmen have shown
praiseworthy discretion i'll determining to
remain at work under the order reducing
their working time during the week
about 20 per cent They recognize the
fact that the company, although entirely
solvent, is not making any money at
present and that retrenchment is neces-
ary.-Denrer M1os.
Judge Fisher had before him yesterday
Sam Rally, Dick Kelly, George Hogan.
Walter Ellis, Sam Butler. Bristow Smith.
and VIM. Fleming, charged with gamb
ling at craps" Hogan and Ellis were
acquitted, Rally and Fleming plead guilty
and were fined SIS, which included the
costs, the Others plead not guilty, and the
fines and costs in each of these cases was
$40. All paid. They are colored men.
The passenger train from the west yes
terday CANT in in two sections, the first
being fruit and the last passenger cars. 1t
was detained five hours by n little acct
dent which happened to a cattle train
going west Thursday night. In a cut
near Rawlins the train struck a steer and
several cars were derailed. though no one
was hurt. The time which was consumed
in replacing the cattle cars on the track
detained the east bound passenger.
The medal which is embossed on the
back Of Gen Grants Personal Memoirs
is a fac smile of the gold medal awarded
the general by congress in the joint reso-
luton of 1863 and Of which John Antro-
bus, the eminent artist, now in this city,
wasi the designer. Mr.. Antrobus was
given a bronze fac-simile of the medal by
order of congress and has it now in his
possession at his rooms in the Cowhick 4
Whitcomb block.
George R. Atkinson, the celebrated
Rockford tailor, is now located at room 3,
Inter Ocean hotel, where he can be inter
viewed by his many customers and all
others who may need a first class suit of
clothes. Mr.. Atkinson has supplied the
male portion of our community with good
clothes ever since 1871, and he is now
again on one of his annual trips through
the west, carrying with him samples of
the latest imported and domestic goods Of
all the various grades and patterns for
gentlemen wear. The reputation of his
house tor giving perfect fits is second to
zone in the land; and the fact hat who
ever once patronizes this firm becomes its
customer for life, proves this beyond per-
adventure. Mr.. Atkinson will remain
here for a few days only; those who want
to see him on business. therefore, should
not delay.
elds for VI. Marks store.