, 1885-04-28
LOCAL MAVERICKS.
Unbranded News Notes Picked Up
About the CITY.

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The city band at Keefe's skating rink
this evening,
John Thomas is having a fine stable
erected at the east end of Seventeenth
street.
The storm yesterday was very beneficial.
The snow melted as fast as it fell. and will
greatly benefit the range.
A bucking broncho furnished consider
able amusement for the people on Six
teenth street Sunday evening.
About twenty Odd Fellows of this city
left for Denver Sunday morning to at
tend the celebration at that place, which
occurred Sunday.
The remains of Mrs Eliza Stone were
inferred Sunday, the ceremony taking
place at the Catholic church. A large
number OF friends attended the service.
The goods that were stolen from Adam
son ranch lave been found distributed
along the road ranches on the road. The
parties who stole the goods have not yet
been captured.
b. +. Woods shot the national emblem,
Sunday, IN the shape OF a large eagle.
which measures six feet from tip to tip.
The bird is alive and was on exhibition at
different places in the city yesterday.
The Signal Service Office reports that
the highest temperature yesterday was
4S', lowest, So'i mean temperature, 1885,
mean humidity, % per cent highest We
oeity OF wind 20 miles per hour Melted
snow TALL .oi.
While boat riding on lake Minnehaha,
Sunday afternoon, a couple of men fell
out OF the boat, put succeeded In reaching
shore all safe. They were laboring under
the delu@on that they were sober, until
the boat turned over.
A Wisconsin farmer recommends as a
sure cure for potato bugs to plant one or
two fax seeds in each hill of potatoes.
He says the bugs will shun it every time.
and Tor ten years he has been successful
IN growing potatoes
The loss Of cattle in Southwestern
Florida during the past winter is reported
greater than in any other previous year
one stock raiser estimating his loss at
1000 head. Pneumonia, a Georgia
paper says. seems to have been the dis
ease that created such havoc.
a,u..rrI. lrs-rf.l l...l ...f..f .-.n
being heard i'll the land office yesterday.
The contest was between Frank Halstead
and Maj. Talbot. The land in eontro-
versy is located about five miles from the
city and is considered very fine property.
The case will be further heard to- day.
Two men working on the section about
two miles east G the CITY. we're nuite So
verely injured last evening. bv falling off
the hand car. Some obstruction was on
the track, and when the car struck it,
they were thrown from their position.
The names of the men could not be ascer-
tanned.
Frank Rockford. representing the firm
of McCoRville & Co, of New York. while
on a trip to Fort Laramie. was thrown
from a horse aeains; a wire fence, and
was seriously injured lust above the left
knee. He arrived in the city Yesterday.
had the wound dressed by a surgeon, and
is in a fair way to recover in a few days.
VIII Swan recently presented John
Chase, proprietor of the Inter Ocean
hotel. with a brace of the finest duelllng
pistols ever seen in the West. The Gift
was gratefully appreciated by Mr.. Chase.
but he took occasion to say that he never
expected to use them for the purpose for
which thew were manufactured They
were ON exhibition al the hotel Sunday.
and we're examined and admired bv all
that were fortunate enough IN see them
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Fort CoI;ns Gov ,bo;r r.noL on c.
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Fort Collins and Cheyenne, they were
caught in the snow storm and completely
showed in, for a period OF three days.
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