, 1886-03-30
NEWS NOTES.
General lettings Gathered Around
Town
Condensed for the Benefit of the
Hasty Reader.

Hills q Goodsell are receiving new
spring goods.
The working band will hold a meeting
during the present week.
The annual election of the Cheyenne
club will take place on Thursday evening
at the club house.
The B. +. L.. Society is to hold a bust
ness meeting at the Congregational church
next Friday evening.
The tramp question is getting a serious
one very early in the season. Another
batch was dished up yesterday.
The contractors are beginning to come
in, and some of them expect to get con-
tracts on the new railroad.
Tho Library club of the Irish Benevo-
lent Society will discuss the question of
capital punishment tomorrow evening.
b. f. Fowler writes from Sundancc
to Judge Bergman that the court house
bonds will be voted in Crook county two
to me.
The snow which we have on hand now,
and which, by the way. is fast disappear
ing, is the biggest batch we have had for
a year.
NJ. n. Grant, the new territorial auditor,
will qualify and enter upon the discharge
of the duties of his Office on Thursday of
this week.
The case of the territory OF Wyoming
VS.. Edward Lawrence, was postponed by
Judge Lee yesterday until this forenoon
at 10 O'Clock.
Call and see the new spring millinery
at Hills & Goodselrs.
The passenger train from the East was
more thar FIVE hours late last night, hav-
ing been delayed on account of the wreck
east of Denver Junction.
The Magic City Gun club received
yesterday from the East 1000 clay birds
OF various kinds which are to be used in
their private and other shoots"
Josie Austin was arraigned before
Judge Lee yesterday on the charge of
drunkenness, and after having been iu-
d~iciously interviewed, was fined sI3.
Parties wishing desk room at a very
reasonable figure will do well to call at
once on Fred. W. Ransom, leading fire
insurance agency, opposite post office.
1t has been suggested that the corner
where the Baptist church now stands
would be a good site for the prospective
government building-when we get one.
W. 7. Haines has charge of the concert
which is to be given in aid Of the charity
fund and has got the matter in that
shape by which it will certainly be a great
success.
A young mar with a great deal of bad
whisky in his stomach, or with a very
poor idea of how to behave himself, raised
quite a rumpus in the pc stofice Sunday
and was fired out.
The ~twenty-ninth day of March will
hereafter be a noted day in the household
of Capt. G. W. Baxter. 1t is the birth
day of Miss Baxter, one of the brightest
and p~rettiest young ladies Of Cheyenne,
The prisoners at the county Jail are in
excellent con 1ition. aud the jail also~a all
Of which is due to the efficient admins
tration of the affairs of that institution by
Sheriff Craig and Deputy McGonigle.
Work will be resumed at the new depot
in this city so soon as the stone masons
get through with their work on the Loup
where recent washouts have uecessitated
the construction Of new stone abutments.
A. Pollok, the well known clothier.
has caught on, and his proclamation APP
pears in this mornings paper. He is
prepared to do a rushing spring trade and
has the goods hat will command the
trade. Go and look at Polack's immense
stock.
Some Of the army pensioners in Chey-
enne are a little stirred up over the fact
which has lately cone to light at Wash
ington, that j. S. Black, the commits
sioner Of pensions. receives a pension Of
800 per month, granted him by an act
of congress on the ground that he Wa "a
mental and physical wreck"
A carload of new goods were unloaded
in front of Smith Il Harrington's large
store yesterday, and a large force of clerks
was kept busy in unpacking aud storing
away the new stock. In a few days the
firm will be improper shape to offer great
bargains to their many customers and
thus take advantage of the boom which,
report says, is to set in on the I'd day
of April next.
Rheumatic joints are made flexible by
rubbing with 81 Jacobs oil.