, 1886-05-05
NEWS NOTES.
General lettings Gathered Around
Town
Condensed for the Benefit of the
Hasty Reader.

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with mineral specimens.
They had a heavy fall of snow at Bull
falo, Wyo., on Friday last.
The roads leading out OF Cheyenne
northward are in bad condition.
There was plenty of mud in the city
yesterday, but it dried up very fast.
The case of the Territory of Wyoming
VS.. Elmer Bailey is to be disposed of to-
day.
Don't get excited over the strike, for
there is nothing very serious about the sit
uation.
Police items were scarce yesterday not
w~ithstanding the fact that II strike was in
progress.
The John +. Reynolds memorial com
mittee are fast perfccting arrangements for
Decoration day.
Marshall Smiths new residence in the
northeastern portion of the city will soon
w itdt1 " otSuldllDn.
1t was extremely dark at one time yes.
terday, and in some business pl. ces the
lamps had to be lighted.
AT last the long pending question of
letting the contract to erect the hook and
ladder building is settled.
Be sure and see the live horse Dolly
skate on roller skates on a mooth-surfaced
floor. at Keefe hall, on Friday evening,
May Z.
Highest temperature yesterday. $50;
lowest, $40; mean temperature 40;
mean humidity, $50; highest velocity of
wind "a miles per hour; rainfall 20
inches.
Deputy sheriffs are getting to be very
numerous in Cheyenne, and there will
probably be no lack of candidates for the
principal place when the proper time
comes.
Mrs. Jennie Doe was arraigned before
Judge Fisher yesterday on the charge of
stealing a dress. As there was no evil
dence against her she was discharged and
her true name omitted.
Notwithstanding reports to the contrary,
the brakemen's strike does not extend
east OF Sidney on the Union Pacific rail
road. The brakemen on the eastern or
Kansas division have no grievances and
are satisfied with the new schedule.
Superintendent Dickinson has gone to
Laramie, the headquarters of the disaf-
fected brakemen, and it is expected that
he will succeed in compromising the exist
ing difficulties, and that the blockade on
this division will be raised to day.
There will be an adjourned meeting of the
Ladies Relief Association in the Congre-
g~ational church parlors on Thursday after
noon, May 6, at 3 o'clock. A full and
prompt attendance Of the members and
also of those intending to become such, is
earnestly requested. By order of the
president. X. G. Bruner.
Hlyper's Weekly publishes a portrait of
Cheng Tsao Ju as the new instead of the
outgoing Chinese minister. While the
leading pictorial paper OF the world can
make such a huge blunder as that without
exciting comment here in Cheyenne, the
unfortunate reporter who gets a name
wrong never hears the last of it.
At enc time Yesterday forenoon there
were at the railway station, Acting Gov
ernor Morgan, Sheriff Craig, Marshal
Sehnitger. United States Attorney Camp
bell, City Attorney Riner, Under Sheriff
MeGonigle, Railroad Detective Boswell,
Penitentiary Commissioner Murrin, Capt.
Foster, L. S. n, Constable Nolan, Police
men Goddard, Sullivan and Thomson,
ex Sheriffs Sharpless and O'Brien and
several hundred free American citizens,
including the representatives of the press;
all of them watching fifteen or twenty
brakemen who had the general direction
Of Affairs at the depot, for the time being,
aud who seemed to enjoy the fun.