, 1885-07-04
LOCAL MAVERICKS.


excites comment
The Knights of Labor ball last night
was a big success.
The morning opens up promisingly for
independence Day.
Posey Ryan's freight left town yester-
day for Fort Laramie.
There are six cars in the excursion train
for Greeley this morning.
A great many people visited yesterday
the scene of Thursdays explosion.
Yesterday was the warmest of the sea-
son. Thermometer $50 in the shade.
Appraisers were sent yesterday to view
the land on which the driving park is To-
Gated.
Judge Lee had a lone drunk before him
yesterday, for consideration $40. Gala
boose.
There will be a pigeon shoot at Mai.
Talbot's race track, this afternoon at .
O'Clock.
A great many of the boys will be too
tired this morning to enjoy the Fourth
largely.
The contested land case of Mullen VS.
Nagle is still pending before Register
Rothert and Receiver Hurlbut.
Mrs. Volker, the lady who was injured
by the magazine explosion, is doing well
and will be about in a few days. Her
boy is also rapidly recovering.
The employees of THE LEADER will
celebrate to-day, and work tomorrow,
Sunday. Therefore our readers will not
read Sundays LEADER until Monday
morning.
The Signal Service officer reports that
the highest temperature yesterday was
S3', lowest, 5l0; mean temperature, CO.;
mean humidity, GA per cent; highest We
locity of wind IL miles per hour.
There have been numerous complaints
Of the awful smell which emanates from
Thomas hide house at the corner of Bent
and Nineteenth streets, and the city mar
shall has ordered the nuisance abated.
Some old people were in an emigrant
wagon which passed through this city yes
terday going from Northern Kansas to
Oregon. A line on the wagon sheet said,
we are going west to grow uD with the
country"
johnson of the Sun will run with the
Alerts at Greeley. This will cause the
team 70 take a long time in passing a
given point, especially if the given point
is a cool place in the shade with a bucket
0 flemonade in reach.
Chas. w. Wilson says Sheldon Walker,
a well known darkey rough, beat him
nearly to death on the morning of the
2nd, and took his money away from him
on the pretense that Wilson had touched"
him. Judge Lee will attend to Walkers
case.
Ed. Schwalbe, F. L. White, C. God
bold, c. Thompson, S. Birmingham,
Rodell, johnson, Shilling, Whetman,
Jones and Straub compose the Alert team
which is to run at Greeley to day. Last
night they made a dry run in twenty-five
seconds.
By the retirement of Col. Clitz, Lieut..
Col. Douglas becomes colonel of the l4th
infantry. Mai. De Russey, now at Fort
Omaha, becomes lieutenant-colone of the
l4th infantry at Portland, Ore. Capt.
Kent, major of the 18th infantry,
from Dakota to Fort Omaha,
st. Marks church, fifth Sunday after
Trinity. There will be an early celebra-
ton Of the holy communion at 1870. Lit
any sermon and second celebration at II.
Evensong and sermon at s. Special an
thems at both services. A cordial invita-
ton extended to all. Seats free.
At the semi-annual meeting oil the
stockholders of the Stock Growers Ma.
tional bank, june 80, a semi-annual divi-
dend of 5 per cent was declared, and
$1,000 carried to the surplus fund. this
increases the surplus fund of that prosper
Gus banking institution to $47, 900.
The coroner jury in the headless body
case will probably be adjourned Monday,
Ii is surmised that a reward for the un-
ravelling Of the mystery will probably be
offered by the proper authorities. There
is a sergeant here from Fort Laramie
who is here for the purpose of seeing if
he can idetify any portion of the effects
picked up in the vicinity Of the murder.
Many compliments and congratulations
we're rendered to Messrs. Blake and Wald-
heimer yesterday for their success in the
De Walt habeas corpus case. Mr.. Blake,
Of Laramie, and Mr.. Waldheimer, of
Denver, we're the attorneys for De Walt,
and presented their case to the court with
gr,.. ability and thoroughness. United
States Attorney Hobson. of Denver, rcp-
resented the government with fidelity and
profound skill and address; but the law
was evidently with the other side,
Every day people from a distance visit
the handsome establishment of the Idel-
man Brothers and are filed with admira-
ton. Aside from the attnctiveness Of
the store it is filled with a stock which is
not excelled in any eastern city and equal
led by but very few. The finest and
purest wines and liquors, and the best i'm
ported and domestic cigars are kept in
immense quantities and everything else
in that line. They will receive in a few
days a consignment Of 10000 cigars by
the steamer City Of Washington, which
are now in the custom house at Denver,