, 1886-12-14
WINTER NOTES.
Common Occurrences in and About
the City.
Matters of Minor Importance
Hastily Gathered.


day.
The wind is fast clearing away the last
snow.
Several of the citizens of Douglas are
in the city.
The district court held a short but busy
session yesterday.
A number of our citizens are in the
western towns of the territory.
A few civil cases of minor Importance
were heard before Judge Lee yesterday.
Applicants for bounty upon animals
are quite scarce at the court house nova .
days.
There will be another performance at
the ITALIA theatre ON the evening of
Dec. 81.
The ladies of the Second Baptist
church will give an entertainment to
morrow evening.
The stage leaving for Lusk, Fort Lara
mic and other points north yesterday,
was well filled with passengers.
The camp fire to be gwen by the j. f..
Reynolds post in the first part of next
month will be one of the finest ever given
by this post.
The water in the lakes was pretty we'll
frozen Saturday night, but during Sun
day and yesterday the ice almost entirely
disappeared again.
All Democrats who desire to vote at
the next city election should bay their
poll taxes no,r. The law provides that
poll tax must be paid twenty days before
election.
Ben Smalley has returned from Silver
Crown, where he has been hunting up
the remnants of one of his wagons. He
found the neck yoke and a piece of the
dash board.
A burglar last Sunday night entered
the house of VIM. Stapleton, editor of
the Denver Necs and stole a $3.50 watch
and a few dollars in money. Denver
editors carry costly watches.
The ladies of the Second Baptist
church will give an entertainment on
Wednesday evening at the church, for
the benefit of the pastor. Essays and
old plantation songs.
VIM. Stevenson, who killed Frank
White or Francis La Blanc, near Granite
Canyon last tall, plead guilty yesterday to
the Indictment of manslaughter, and was
sentenced to two years at hard labor at
Joliet.
Chief Justice w. l.. Maginnis received
the new yesterday of a new arrival in his
household at GAINESVILLE, o. 1t is a fine
girl, and will come with its father and
mother to this city in the early part of
next year.
Lem Ellis has lost his dog, a pup span
iel bitch about four months old, and
nearly all brown in color. The finder
will receive a liberal reward either in
cash, confectionery or bread, by returning
the same to its owner.
MIR. A. r. johnson, of the Tribune,
has receiv ed the sad intelligence of his
mother having been bitten by a snake,
causing a wound which may prove fatal.
lie is awaiting further information as to
her condition, and il ~unfavorable, will go
to her in his home in Missouri.
There is Il great deal Of talk just now
in the city about the chances for the
making of a fortune in South America.
One would be led to believe that immense
fortunes await all, by the reports which
are being circulated, Many persons are
heard to express their intention of going
there in the spring.
A prominent attorney OF Cheyenne
who came over from Laramie City the
other day on a freight train, upon being
asked by a LEADER reporter why he did
not take the passenger train, replied.
well, you see. the regular passenger
train don't stop at Laramie, and so ii
isn't very often that we get a chance tC
travel on it, unless some of the inhabi.
tants of the village happen to be sending
some butter and eggs, or other farm
products down to Cheyenne, when, in
such instances, we manage to jump OF
the train when it stops