, 1886-02-04
NEWS NOTES.
General lettings Gathered Around
Town
Condensed for the Benefit of the
Hasty Reader.

The sleighs have all disappeared from
our streets.
Pat McCann was calaboosed by Judge
Lee for a big drunk yesterday.
a party from the foothills brought in
several coyote pelts yesterday.
The revival meetings are still in pro
gress at the Methodist church.
Cowhlck & Whiteomb are to start a
branch store at Fort Fetterman.
The city band in attendance at Keele
hall on Friday evening, Feb. 5.
The passenger train fom the east was
more than an hour late last evening.
Religious services were held in several
OF the churches in the city last evening.
Ny Son-h-L dto from New York, to-
night
Two or three parties were at the court
house getting their pension papers fixed
up yesterday.
The "boys in blue" from Fort Russell
are to give another concert at the opera
house this evening
The bill permitting the city treasurer to
appoint a deputy has been signed by the
governor and is now a law.
The BARRIERS are watching the progress
of their bill in the legislature very n
iously, as they want it passed.
Speaker j. S. Kerr, of the house of
representatives, is to join the John f.
Reynolds post to morrow evening.
The carrying of six-shooters is alto
gether too prevalent, and something
should be done to put a stop to it
Eight persons have declared their in
tention to become American citizens be-
fore the clerk of court since January.
The divorce mania has had quite a
rage in Cheyenne for the past year, as the
records Of the court show that nearly
thirty have been brought.
An attempt at a runaway occurred on
lower Ferguson street yesterday morning,
but the horses were checked before they
got fairly nnder Roadway.
One Of the visitors in the house of rep.
resentatives yesterday went to sleep, and
his snoring attracted so much notice that
the s~ergeant-at arms was called into requi-
sition.
A rare jewel-The Black Diamond.
1t is probable that some of our we'll
known stockmeu will secure the beef con
tracts for the Indian agencies of Pine
Ridge and in northern Wyoming for the
present year.
John Dobyns went down to Crow creek,
Colorado, yesterday, to look after POO
head of bulls which have been wintered
by Mr.. Urber for st~ockgrowers in Lex
ington, Ky.
The Alerts, Durants and the Pioneer
Hooks held meetings last evening at the
headquarters Of each company. The
business transacted was mainly of a RON
tine character.
The Wyoming Meat company have
finished putting up 1000 tons of ice to
be used this season by the company in
shipping beef in refrigerator cars TO the
eastern markets.
Tue LEADERS court report yesterday
morning read twenty seven minutes, -
instead of 'twenty.soven days" as the
length of time court had been in session
during the term.
Mrs. Elizabeth McKeever walked all
the way in from her ranch, a distance of
nearly six miles, through the snow and
mud, one day this week, and returned at
night the same way.
A peaeeable man at the Opera house
to night
The small boys-and, it is feared, some
of the big ones-have been turning the
walls at the postofhee into a picture gal
lery. Some of the pictures are not first
class and don't look very well.
j. II. Hedges, of Bear creek, Wyo. ,
has been feeding sheep this winter near
Schuyler, Neb. Mr. Hedges will COM
mence shipping his mutton to Chicago
this week, and will ship one car each day
until the 4 ZOO head are marketed.
1t is reported that Harry Garbanati, a
former resident of Cheyenne, is about to
secure a patent for forty acres of land in
the northeastern part of the city, under
the presumption laws. The land has been
claimed by the Union Pacific Railroad
company, which has divided it into town
lots and given warranted deeds for the
same to the present occupants.
a. MARTIN A co.
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