, 1886-05-15
NEWS NOTES:
General lettings Gathered Around
Town
Condensed for the Benefit of the
Hasty Reader.
Cold winds still prevail.

Cold winds still prevail.
One drunk in Judge Fishers court yes
terday. He goes on the city park gang.
Pat Reagan. the world renowned, was
run in yesterday evening Tor drunkenness.
The stone work on the new hook and
ladder building will be finished in one
week.
Mr.. f. L. Culver has purchased Cap.
Fosters interest in the Wyoming COM
mission house.
Another large shipment of blooded
stock for the Post Percheron Association
is reported en- route.
Edward Crouch is still confined in the
city Jail in default of payment Of the fine
recently assessed by Judge Lee.
Though the month is not half out, the
presumption filings Of the land office now
amount to a usual full month receipts.
On the docket OF the approaching dis
tr.ct court are thirty one chanccry cases,
twenty four criminal cases AID about
eighty FIVE civil cases.
Forty two head Of Shorthorn bulls were
unloaded at the s~tockyards yesterday.
They are consigned to Valentine Baker,
and are to be sold here.
Prof. Aughey will examine the oil fields
of the Big Horn basin during the early
summer He is in receipt OF many letters
Of inquiry in regard to these fields.
Mr.. L. S. Newman, manage of the
Niobrara Cattle company, went to Rock
Greek last night to look after his heavy
cattle shipments recently unloaded there.
The Cope, Merrill and Bailey coinbina-
ton left last evening for the Pacific coast.
These talented artists and refined ladies'
leave the happiest impression in Chcy
enne.
There will be held, on the 24th of this
month, a meeting of the trustees of the
Cheyenne & Northern Railroad company,
for the purpose OF e~lecting officers for the
ensuing year.
Messrs. Sparks & Tinnin are in the city
from their Nevada stock ranches. These
gentlemen now have so, 900 head of cattle
on their ranges, and will brand, this sea-
son, upwards OF 1000 head of calves.
Rev. George E. Stokes, lately of Cleve-
lind, O., is filling the pulpit OF the First
Baptist church. Mr.. Stokes is a fine
speaker and an earnest man. He will
probably become the church's permanent
pastor.
DR.. William NJ. Garrard has been con-
irmed as receiver of the land office here.
This will give the greatest satisfaction 10
the people of Cheyenne, with whom the
doctor is deservedly a social and business
f~avorite.
Mr.. George W. Baxter has finished his
fine improvements on his Grow creek
ranch. Here Mr.. Baxter has 500 COWS
and calves and 800 head Of steers. These
animals will probably be taken to his Big
Horn ranch this summer.
Messrs. Ogden and Bancroft, two
prominent Denver contractors, arrived in
Cheyenne yesterday to bid on the first
thirty miles of grading on the Cheyenne
& Northern railroad. The gentlemen
vent on, over the line of the road yester-
day to examine the ground.
The capitol commission will hold an ex-
ecutive session Immediately on the return
Of Mr.. c. n. Potter from Rawlins, which
will probably be to day. The work Of the
commission has been delayed by the non
appearance of certain expected plans and
specifications from an Eastern architect.
Mr.. Peter Oleson has just returned
from the vicinity of Fort Fetterman,
where he has been fortunate enough to
strike a rich coal bed. The vein is seven
feet in thickness, and Mr.. Oleson has
dritted some forty feet. Yesterday he
bonded his black bonanza to Mcssrs.
Baker Il johnson Tor a sun sufficient for
development purposes, and will soon begin
extensive operations.