, 1885-10-01
SHORT STORIES
Gathered by Asking Everybody
What Do You Know"
Things Which are too Little to
Carry a Head.

in Ny Partner.
The Union Pacific to the Chinese. "Ah
there, stay there.
There will be a sociable at the Congre-
g%ational church this, Thursday, evening.
John e. Kendell has been nominated by
the Weld county, Colorado, Democrats for
sheriff.
The johnson county agricultural fair
was a big success. 1t was the first one
ever held in Wyoming.
Denver is excited about base ball. The
ST. Joe Reds are there threatening to
wipe the earth with Denver's crack club.
a private letter from Kentucky says
that old soldiers at Mt. Sterling have sent
one oftheir number west to locate lands
for them.
Mary Anderson wound in the breast,
while playing Juliet in London, was
very slight, but it was a soul-searcher for
an "ad.
A Denver Diogenes has found an hon
est man and makes due notice of the
anne. Put him in Il museum, if he is a
curiosity down there.
They arc blowing up Hell-gate with
dynamite. The pity of this is that there
may be trouble hereafter in keeping the
dynamiters where they belong.
There is a newspaper in Nebraska
called the Cat and another called the
BooJaok, and the chances are that the
Boo5aek will be continually making filings
at the Cat
Cheyenne is the most independent city
on earth. II hasn a glee club, amateur
dramatic company, brass band. military
company or base ball club, but when It
comes to dudes, oh my
There are 10000 old soldiers and their
families in attendance upon the Grand
Army reunion at Topeka. Kas. Com
mander-i in Chief Gen. Burdett. of Wash.
ington, is among the visitors.
The new glee club, just being formed,
will meet next Friday night for organiza.
ton at Ed. Kaufman's room. No. Q, in
the Idelman block. The members are re-
quested to be there at s O'Clock.
Judge Lee wants to wait until Satur-
day before he puts up his stove, so that
he can have all day Sunday to make
amends in fasting and prayer, and with
out adiourning court on a week day.
Mrs. Goodsell, of the firm of Hill q
Goodsell, will go east Saturday to pur-
chase their tall and winter stock of MILL
merry and fancy goods. Any lady wishing
to send special orders will do well to in
trust them to her.
The Signal Service officer reports that
the highest temperature yesterday was
6l.7'i lowest, 42.s0; mean temperature;
52.7 mean humidity, 59.3 per cent; high.
est velocity of the wind, IL miles rerhour;
rainfall inappreciable.
Judge Fisher had before him yesterday
two men charged with vagrancy. who
were acquitted; Scotty, for drunkenness,
went to jail two women, one white. the
other black, were fined SIS each for being
inmates of bawdy houses; both paid.
Workmen were engaged yesterday in
filling up the old public cistern at the
crossing of Seventeenth and Eddy streets.
One of the men looked very sad when he
said that fifty wagon loads of dirt had
been thrown in the hole and there was no
sign of it to be seen by looking in. That
is a good deal like putting money into a
new newspaper.
In Judge Lees court yesterday Joe
johnson was sent to Jail for drunkenness.
The examining trial of the horse thieves
johnson and Wood, was adjourned until
. O'Clock to-day. Bridget Gallagher, who
had been arrested charged with abusive
language, was on hand, but no one APP
pearing against her, aud she being sober,
the Judge let her off.
A pair of tin-horn gamblers were ar
rested here yesterday by Officer Nowlan.
charged with having stolen some chips
from a wheel of fortune outfit, which they
were in the act of getting cashed, as if
they had won them. Judge Lee fined
them 800 each and gave them u chance to
vamoose in twenty-four hours. They
took advantage of the chance, thinking it
was better than several chances at a wheel
of fortune game.
1t is to be hoped that the next meeting
Of the council will do something toward
having tho houses numbered, So that in
the future it won't be necessary for a citi-
zen in telling where he lives or in giving
his address, to say that the place is four
doors west of the Union Pacific ice house,
north side, opposite the gasometer and in
the SAINT block as the electric light house,
on the same side of the street rs the Inter
Ocean hotel and d~iagonally opposite John
Smiths.
Seldom Walker, a colored mau who has
been in jail for some time. charged with
having robbed c. W. Wilson of 80, was
yesterday released from jail on a writ of
habcas corpus. The complaining witness
who was lately in jail himself, when re-
leased, stole a horse, it is reported, and
skipped, and in his absence iothing
could be proven against Walker The
parformanee If Wilson in fha borso. brs,