, 1885-08-28
3 MAVERICKS.
unbIa nded News Notes Picked IN
About The CITY.

Chilly with cold.
Number the houses.
Put the names of the streets ON the
corners,
Laramie is going to have Il concert OF
war songs.
Mr.. Gordon will do the plumbing for
the convent.
The delays to trains from the cast are
caused by washouts in Iowa.
The Phil Sheridan Hose company will
have a team in the tournament.
Miss Jessie Barkwell will give II good
bye party this evening before returning to
school.
Mr.. Belcher's infant daughter was
buried from the Methodist church yester-
day morning.
Judge Lee had two DRINKS and two
vags before him yesterday. The quar-
tette went to the crate.
The BoonlerGn0's bear and lion stories
curdle the blood-because a newspaper
man can write such huge yarns.
There will be a meeting at the court
house Saturday evening of those inter-
ested in forming a camp Of the Sons of
America.
Jubilee concert this evening ut the
South Congregational church. Come if
you wish to enjoy the old plantation
melodies.
Excayating for the foundation of the
electric light works on Sixteenth street
and Warren avenue makes things look
active in that locality.
A german was given Mt the residence of
f. W. Whitcomb last evening in honor
OF Miss Lizzie, the daughter of the
house, who is going away to school.
The Boomerang tells a mountain lion
story which Is as difficult to swallow as it
is for n camel to go through a keyhole.
Squeeze it a little next time. Brother
Kent.
The Signal Service officer reports that
the highest temperature yesterday was
T2l0; lowest, 47.90; mean temperature,
Sc. Il; mean humidity. 500 per cent; high
est velocity of wind 2S miles per hour;
rainfall, .0S.
Yesterday in Judge Lees court a man
was brought forward charged with drunk
enness. He plead not guilty, and the
Judge ordered him sent back to jail. The
judges little girl, who was present, said.
What do you do with them pap when
they are not guilty; lock them UP and
keep them until they are guilty.
Mr.. Ferguson, the Silver Crown min
ing operator, who arrived in town last
evening, reports that the smelter will not
start up this week, owing to the n%on-arri-
val of the coke ordered from Denver.
He expects to be able to Commence
operations early next week, and a trial
run of at least fifteen days will then be
made. Due notice Of the progress of the
work will be given.
George Washington Jones, of Snider
4 Jones, stock growers, exhibited at THE
LEADER Office yesterday u sheaf of oats
and a bundle of blue grass and timothy
that beat the world. The oats are four
feet high and the blue grass twenty
inches, and they are of the first crop
raised oil the virgin soil of Snider &
Jones ranch on Chugwater. Wyoming
will soon be in the front rank of the ag-
ricultural communities in these United
States.
J.. L. Holiday and William X. VIII
liams, of Laramie, have made the pur-
chase of the lands near Dale creek, which
they have been holding in contemplation
for some time, and the contracts were
made out Wednesday. The Wyoming
Central folks state, in this connection,
that they have "a proposition under con
sideration for the entire portion of their
railroad lands south of the railroad. some
10000 acres in all, and that other settlers
are advised to close up their bargains be-
fore Sept. /, as they will likely close in
with the offer by that date.
When you want to direct some n to
a house in this city, you must tell a
story something like this: "The first
little white house on the left-hand side of
the street, with green window blinds and
brown painted porch and a marble dog on
the left-hand side of the walk, the third
house this side of John Smiths place,
which is a two story brick with a tin roof,
four blocks east of the Y on that street,
which rum east and west four blocks
above the railroad. Number the houses
and put the names of the streets on the
corners and all this will be avoided.