, 1886-06-25
NEWS NOTES.
General lettings Gathered Around
Town
Condensed for the Benefit of the
Hasty Reader.

Sells circus July |.
The great dryness on the cattle ranges
still continues.
The track repairs in front of the Pacific
botel are nearly completed.
The smirched plumage of a soiled dove
cost her 800 before Judge Lee yesterday.
The city council tonight will finally
consider the matter OF surplus bank CAPT
tai.
Five hundred gopher scalps were
brought into the county clerks office yes
terday.
Mr.. Charles McGarvey is rapidly COM
plotting his three miles of grading on the
Cheyenne x Northern.
Now that round up No. 3 is over, act
i've preparations for the calf round up are
in progress. The calf crop is reported
very large.
The horse which lately struck, in an Ill
advised moment, the jaw of Nh. r. s.
Van Tassel, is said to be slowly recovering
from the effect of the shock.
The Wyoming Fair association are still
in doubt as to the location of the fair
%g-ounds. Late proposals made the asso-
citation by Major Talbot have been favor
ably received.
Highest temperature yesterday, S0';
lnUact Ifo. rpnap fappnaraturo $50.
mean humidity, CO; highest velocity of
wind % miles per hour; total precipita-
ton, .02 inches.
Gentlemen favoring The LEADER with
local notices written upon the back of a
wash bill, are hereby notified that ''one
shirt and eight collars make mighty in
teresting reading for the boys.
II. A. Roy yesterday finished all of his
grading contract lying outside the limits
of the military reservation. He has laid
his outfit up to await the president sig
nature to the right of way bill through
the reservation,
George Emery, the well known horse
man, has leased the stables on Hill street,
opposite the Inter Ocean hotel, and has
put in a complete livery outfit, consisting
of new buggies, carriages, the best o froa1
horses, saddlers, etc.
The Idelman Brothers have established
a wholesale branch of their Cheyenne
house at Douglas, and yesterday shipped
two car loads Of stock to that point. Mr..
w. +. Miller, one of their popular Chey-
emit employees, takes charge of the new
house.
The Goshen Hole Irrigation company
are rapidly pushing their Platte river
ditch to completion. This ditch begins
eighteen miles below Fort Laramie, is
fifteen miles in length, and will cover
some 1000 acres OF fine lands. On these
lands the company proposes to create an
immense alfalfa field.
j. w. Hammond will receive some
time during the next three weeks, 1000
head of steers from the West. The ami
mails will be unloaded here, and driven to
Mr.. Hammond's ~Runningwater range.
That gentleman has recently purchased
forty-fve head of horses from the herd of
Mr.. John r. Blocker to make the drive.
w. j. Stewart, Wyoming agent for
Messrs. Wadsworth K Boomer, of Cali.
f%ornia, general mail contractors, returned
to Cheyenne yesterday from the West.
Mr.. Stewart has let the mail contract
from Fort Steele to Saratoga, and also
the contract from Saratoga to Collins
ranch. He starts this morning to let the
contract from Buffalo Gap to Custer.
Yesterday as the 80 pounds avoirdupois
0 fRegister Wilson was massively taking in
the sidewalk of one of our principal streets
it was accosted by an excited individual
from the outlying suburbs, with the in.
quiry, Say, how is this? | have to pay
s25 for huckstering in Cheyenne, while
some people only pay $l5." My mis-
taken friend, repli, d the register, City
Clerk Richards weighs 100 pounds more
than | do and he rolled on serenely in
different to the expression of bug-eyed,
open mouthed ~incredulity which settled
upon the countenance of the %ruralist as
he gazed upon The receding mass.
Fifty car loads of steers belonging to
the Continental Cattle company arrived
at the Cheyenne yards yesterday. With
what recently came in, this makes an ag-
%gregation of sixty nine cars. The Cont.
mental Cattle company have large ranges
both in New Mexico and on the Little
Missouri. The company is now engaged
in moving its steers from the southern to
the northern ranges. As fast as the ami
mails arrive here they are unloaded and
held on the adjacent ranges. As soon as
enough arrive to form a good sized herd
they will be placed On the trail. In this
way the company will move some 1000
head.
Moxie at Rhodes & Troxells s.