, 1886-06-22
NEWS NOTES.
General lettings Gathered Around
Town
Condensed for the Benefit of the
Hasty Reader.

A car load of thing went out to the line
of the Cheyenne & Northern yesterday.
The German picnic at Duck creek was
well attended and an enjoyable day was
spent.
Several "vags' in Judge Lees court
yesterday, and a case of creating a dis
turbance.
The p~rairies around Cheyenne are full
of boys killing and scalping gophers and
prairie dogs.
Chapel, Neb., is to have a news
NJ ner- The Office material arrived in the
town yesterday.
A legion of tramps are reported be
tween here and Lusk on the Running
water stage line.
Thirty Chinese cigar makers from the
Pacific coast for Minneapolis passed
through the city yesterday.
Joseph Shirk, the Chugwater suicide,
had some s675 in cash at the time Of his
death, and three head OF horses.
Heavy and persistent rains are re-
ported in the South Platte region. The
river is very high and still swelling.
Several car loads of construction sup
plies for tho Cheyenne K Northern ar
rived yesterday and were started out to
the line.
Highest temperature yesterday, 6S0;
lowest, 460; mean temperature Sc;
mean humidity, 60; highest velocity of
wind Is miles per hour.
Mr.. f. A. Miller has heard from the
brothers of Julius Hansen, drowned re-
Gently in Blue Grass creek. They acqui-
esce in the burial arrangements.
Fred Swartze has put on record the
Swartze highland bitches Nos | and >.
with water rights from Lodge Pole creek.
the bitches cover GAO acres of land.
The coroner has returned fr"m his
round up, during the course of which he
has transacted business on the Blue Grass,
Cottonwood, at Laramie and on the Run
ningwater.
Among the turf notes of the Denver
Tribune Republican appears the follow
ing: N. N. Craig of Cheyenne City has
paid 800 for the Cation stuck farm year
ling colt, Harold Cossack, by Don Cos
sack-Butts by Harold, second dam Ma
omi by Mambrino Chief.
The Trial By Jury last night was very
well rendered. The performers have
gathered confidence in themselves and the
individual merits of each and all we're al
lowed full play. Miss RoLinson's charm
ing music added largely to the success of
the evening. A very fair house greeted
the performance.
The observance of Children day at
the First Presbyterian church was a great
success. The edifice was bright with
flowers, and was crowded with happy
childish faces. Rev. Field delivered an
instructive and interesting address, and
the little ones were both pleased and en-
tertained.
The memorial services in honor OF Past
Supreme Chancellor Davis, held last Sum
day by the Knights of Pythias, in their
hall, had all of the solemn beauty charac-
t%eristc of the ceremonies of the order.
Vice Chancellor C. n. Potter's funeral
Grafton was well delivered, and thoroughly
imbued with the spirit of the occasion.
In the district court yesterday, the
time was almost entirely taken up by the
Jury case of Schultz Volker against the
Hazard Powder company. This a suit
for damages growing out of the destruc-
ton last year of the residence of Mr..
Volker, and the injuring of Mrs. Volker
by the explosion of the powder magazine
of the company. The plaintiff bases his
suit on the fact that the magazine was
situated within the city limits. The case
will probably consume all OF tomorrow.
Mr.. Monroe Saulsberry, well known for
merly as a mail contractor over frontier
stage lines, but now engaged in mining, is
in the city. Mr.. Saulsberry, though out
of the stage harness, is here in the inter
ests of Messrs. Wadsworth & Boomer, of
California, who hold a great many West
crn mail contracts. The routes concerned
in this instance are those from Sidney,
Neb., to Fort Robinson, and from Fort
Steele to Saratoga. This latter line will
be under the charge of ex. Superintendent
Stewart, of the old Green River K Lander
line. Mr.. Saulsberry is the guest of Mr..
Luke Voorhees,.