, 1886-06-04
NEWS NOTES.
General lettings Gathered Around
Town
Condensed for the Benefit of the
Hasty Reader.
Judge Fisher is still indisposed.

The B. +. l.. Society hold their regular
meeting at 1880 this evening.
In the District court yesterday the bal
of j. J. Mcclure was fixed at $3.50.
Ascension services at the Episcopa'
church yesterday were well attended.
A stand pipe is being put in at the
Seventeenth street entrance to the opera
house.
1t is said that men are ~crowding into
the Siive. Crown district, and that there
is work for all.
The next meeting of the Wyoming Sun
day School Association will probably be
held at Rawlins.
The rain continued the greater part of
yesterday, and our city cutters are min
iature lakes, and very muddy and dirty
ones at that.
The detailed drawings Of the church of
st. Mark are daily expected from New
York. As soon as they arrive the con-
bihNe VIII w duNtItiseu.
Two carloads of thoroughbred short
horn Iowa heifers passed through tie city
Yesterday morning from Henry county,
Mo-, consigned to Caspar Fuchs, Laramie
City.
Special Deputy Sheriff Smith has had
a notable trip after a grand jury witness.
lie found him near the Nebraska line,
nearly 100 miles from Cheyenne, and
those miles doubled by the mud and rain.
A gentleman just in from the Sweet
water country reports the present rains as
general throughout that section, and
reaching for to the north and west. He
reports also a general feeling of e~asiness
and satisfaction among stock and ranch
men.
A party of returning California excur-
slonlsts was on yesterday morning train.
The party consisted of nine ladies' and
one gentleman. The ladies were very
merry. The reporter could not muster
sufficient gall to question the unfortunate
gentleman.
The work on the concentration at the
Copper King mine, Silver Crown, is being
pushed forward as rapidly as the wet
weather permits. Contractor Petersen
has erected a dwelling house on the
ground and moved his family out day be-
fore yesterday.
Acting Governor Morgan to-day made
the following appointments: Marshall
Johnson, to be notary public in and for
Laramie county; James |. Patten, to be
notary public in and for Fremont county,
and w. II. Moss, water commissioner for
district No. :, Piedmont, Uinta county.
The good people of CHEYENNE have not
yet been informed, either officially or in
directly, that j. j. Brown 4 Co. have a
construction contract on the Cheyenne 4
Northern, and yet, as will be seen by ref
erence to another column of THE LEADER,
hat firm is advertising in a Denver paper
for laborers.
The city will let no contract for the re-
pairing Of the hume connecting the city
conduit with Fort Russell, but will have
the work done under its own immediate
supervision. A quantity of second hand
but good material is at the disposal of the
council, and this will be used in max
ing the necessary repairs.
The remains of Joseph Muhlfelder,
who died on the cars between here and
Laramie City, were embalmed and placed
in a handsome metallic coffin by the Ma
sonic lodge of this city and shipped to
New York city yesterday morning. The
bereaved wife, with her three fatherless
ones, accompanied the remains.
In the case of the Territory of Wyo-
ming VS.. the City of Cheyenne and the
Union Pacific Railway company, before
the District court yesterday, the subject
matter is the closing of certain ways and
alleys in blocks l4l and l42, said blocks
being the selected site OF the new capitol
building. An order was made on May
II by which r. S. Van Tassell, J. W.
Hammond and Marshall T.. Johnscn
were appointed as appraisers to fix the
COMPENSATION due the city and railroad
company in the matter. Mr.. Van Tas
sell was absent at the time appointed for
the meeting of the appraisers, and as he
is still absent Judge Lacey yesterday APP
pointed Charles +. Miller in his stead.
The first meeting Of the appraisers will
take place on Jcnc 7, at 10 a. m in the
Office of the county clerk.