, 1886-09-11
NEWS NOTES.
General lettings Gathered Around
Town
Condensed for the Benefit of the
Hasty Reader.

ituotJ nOduCI.
Everyone invited to attend kellner' S
millinery opening to day and Monday.
Over Is, 200 head of cattle have been
inspected at Fort Laramie this season.
The aquarium at the fair grounds will
be located neal the exhibition building.
Grand opening of the millinery depart
inert at S. Kellner's 10 day and Mon
day.
1t seems as though the Union Pacific
time table has met with an accident. 1t is
badly broken up.
The work of preparation for build
ing was being vigorously prosecuted yes
terday on the site Of the capitol building.
The ten acres enclosed by the half mile
track at the fair grounds, will, after this
season, be planted in alfalfa by the Fair
Associate on.
The post holes for the erection of the
fence on the fair grounds, enclosing the
hslf mile track, are all dug and some of
the posts set.
Twenty carloads OF cattle arrived yes
terday for the Swan Land & Cattle com
pany. They were unloaded here and
started on the trail to Horse creek
A lot of chickens escaped from a coop
in the rear Of a countr, mans wagon on
Seventeenth street Yesterday. As the
owner had to recoup himself as well as
his property, the consequent chase was
vigorous and exciting.
The fire laddies are talking nf having a
jslliication OF some kind when they take
possession of the new Hook and Ladder
building. Is given by the fire boys, we
suppose the coming Notification will be
called a house warming.
Passengers from the South report heavy
and continuous rains in New Mexico and
Arizona, and serious and frequent wasl :
out on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe railroads. Traffic, both passenger and
freight, is being much delayed.
The thirteen mile ditch Of the Swan
Land x Cattle company. issuing from
Chugwater, below the road crossing, will
be finished by the last of the month. The
ditch will cover some 5000 acres and
does away with several smaller bitches.
Roadmaster McGregor, OF the Union
Pacific, has just finished the spur from
the Camp Carlin track to the fair grounds.
The spur, 400 feet in length, will commu
Dicate with a shute for the unloading of
stock. This shute will ut once be
erected.
Five hours of the delay in the arrival
OF the western passenger yesterday, was
due to No. l being dltched at Wasatch.
A similar accident on the Central Pacific
caused additional delay. Washouts in
both cases. The train did not reach here
until 4 p. m.
The attention of the proper authorities
is respectfully called to the nuisance. like
mud hole existing in front of the oper.
house, on Seventeenth street, and caused
by the overflow attendant upon the filling
of the city sprinkler from the stand pipe
at that poiut.
The other day one of those travelling
agents whose stock in trade consists of a
bundle of circulars, a dickey and other
peoples time, became ~entangled in a
windmill on the outskirts of the city
The windmill afterwards called at THE
LEADER Office,
As in the natural order of things, the
children will all go to the circus. The
LEADER respectfully suggests that the
teachers Of the public schools make ar
rangements to give the youngsters also a
holiday excursion to the fair grounds dur
ing fair week.
A considerable number of brick are be
ing delivered in the yard Of the new union
depot for building purposes, from our local
yards. The brick and stone seem to take
very well to each other. The brick are
backed up to the walls, and the walls are
backed up by the brick.