, 1886-04-17
NEWS NOTES.
General lettings Gathered Around
Town
Condensed for the Benefit of the
hasty Reader.

a post Office is needed at Colorado
Junction.
The Cheyenne Il Northern surveyors
are getting pretty well out toward Silver
Crown.
From all account and experiments this
spring, it appears that all of our lakes are
full Of fish.
The next regular meeting of the city
council will occur on Tuesday night of the
coming week.
The grass out around Fallon's ranch,
on the Muddy. is in some places more
than two inches high.
The John F. Reynolds post committee
are making active preparations for the
coming Memorial Day exercises.
The first rehearsal for Trial BY Jury
will be held next Tuesday evening in the
parlors of the Presbyterian church.
Active operations in moving the old de-
pot to the south side of the railroad track
will begin early the coming week.
The railroad west of Cheyenne has not
been 80 badly blockaded in two or three
yean as it was during the late storm.
There are about 400 men in Cheyenne
who are expecting to get contracts for
grading on the Cheyenne & Northern rail
road.
The Alerts still have in view a trip to
New Orleans. but it is not liable to take
place until the latter part of June or
July.
The members of the Second Baptist
church (colored) will give an Uncle Hese-
kiah party at their church next Tuesday
evening.
A large number of miscellaneous books
have recently been received at the Terri
torial library by Judge Slaughter. the Ii.
brarian.
The gentlemen who are to serve as re-
vision clerks will probably be selected
one from Cheyenne and the other from
Laramie City.
The weather. which was pleasant but a
trife bracing yesterday, will, it is pre-.
dicted on good authority. be pleasant for
some days.
From all directions the reports come in
to the effect that the grass has a better
start now than ever before known at this
time OF year.
The COWBOYS and others who are to go
GU on the ranges are macy of them here
in Cheyenne Quitting for the sum-
mer's campaign.
Highest temperature yesterday, 81. 50;
lowest, 32.7'; mean temperature 4l.l';
mean humidity, 65.50; highest velocity of
wind 80 miles per hour.
The Warren Lire Stock company has
a number Of fine, teeH broken saddle
horses; also graded Hergords and Short
horn bulls for sale cheap.
Judge Lees Office is undergoing re-
pairs and being neatly papered. For this
reason the judges judicial mill was not in
working order yesterday.
A new army register has lately been re-
ceived at THE LEADER Office which gives
the roster and status Of the army officers
down to a very recent date.
Mike Savage, who was so badly injured
at the time McGill was shot by Mcintosh,
and whose life was despaired Of for a long
time, has recovered and is around again.
Fill up Lake M~innehaha' appears to
be the universal sentiment, and the fault
of its not being kept full heretofore does
not lie with Superintendent Nolan, of the
water system.
There are lots of men and boys in
Cheyenne looking for work, or at least
they pretend so. but without success;
and some of them resort to begging to get
something to eat.
A warranty deed FROM the Union Pa
ciic Railway company to Milton Taylor
for the south one-third of lots 7 and s,
block 35l, vas filed Tor record yesterday;
consideration SIG.
County Attorney Mann will soon apply
to Governor Warren for the offering of a
reward for the murderer or murderers of
the man whose headless body was found
about a year age on the bluffs south Of
the city.
Hon. Z. s. n. Morgan, secretary of
Wyoming Territory, is busy in sending
out to the other counties the number Of
copies of the newly printed session laws,
to which under the law, their officers are
entitled.
A private dispatch from Denver to THE
LEADER office, last evening. conveyed the
information that County Clerk Scott was
acquitted in the test case made up against
him by the public prosecutor, charging
Scott with fraud. This will probably end
the prosecution, or persecution by a politi-
cal cabal led by Lathrop, chairman of the
Republican state committee of Colorado.
ST. Jacobs oil cured DR.. Richard Ober