, 1886-06-11
NEWS NOTES.
General lettings Gathered Around
Town
Condensed for the Benefit of the
Hasty Reader.

Sells circus will be in on this evenings
eastern train.
The trustees of the Wyoming Fair As
ISOLATION hold a meeting to-day.
Quite a number of sub contracts On the
Cheyenne & Northern railroad were let
yesterday.
Extensive sub contracting negotiations
are IN progress, and will probably be closed
on Saturday next.
Prof. Aughcy has returned, and will at
once examine the new ore bodies of the
Silver Crown district.
There will be a meeting of st. Marks
guild this afternoon at Mrs. George w.
Baxter at . o'clock.
City Engineer provinces has established
a grade on the site of the capitol building,
i~nsuring an excellent drainage.
Our fire department Is in receipt of an
invitation from Longmont to attend a
tournament at that place on July the 9Th.
Lu Livingston was up before Judge
Lee yesterday for keeping a house foI i'm
moral purposes. Case postponed until to
day.
a Denver newspaper man came over
from the City of the Plains yesterday for
the purpose of interviewing Contractor
Brown.
Architect Gibbs is making good pro-
gress with the detail plans of the capitol,
and they will doubtless be ready within
the specified time
Silver Crown is daily looking up, and
this reminds us as irresistibly as every
thing else connected with Cheyenne, that
the city has no effective fire alarm sys-
TEN.
Contractor Brown has opened an office
in room No. ~, Union Mercantile build
ing, being the quarters recently occupied
by Frank Bartlett, civil engineer and sur
veyor.
David Anderson, the Nebraska cattle
mar holding cattle here, has sold three
carloads to r. NJ. Galbralth, and three
carloads to a. j. Boutwell,. The cattle
went west last night.
In Judge Fishers court yesterday the
case of the city of Cheyenne VS.. Thomas
f. Dolan came up. After considerable
progress the judge adjourned the case
until to-day on account of indisposition.
This case is the one in which the city
charges Mr.. Dolan with a failure to fulfil
contract in putting in certain water pipes
on five different occasions.
The Scotchmen of Cheyenne often prove
how strong are the ties that bind them
together on account of their common ma
tlvlty. Thus they honor the country of
their birth and maintain the noble spirit
Of common brotherhood that always pre-
walls among them. This sentiment be-
came specially manifest the other day
when the news arrived that their young
countryman, Charley Anderson, had sud
denly been taken away. They united in
caring for and to honor his remains; they
covered his coffin and grave with beauti-
full flowers, shaped into symbols of faith
and hope, and they will ever cherish his
memory in the years to come.
Hon. Thomas johnson, of Larimer
county, Colorado, passed through the city
Yesterday en- route to his home from the
West. Mr.. Johnson has just returned
from an extended trip through the terri
tory, in company with a party of Colora-
dams. They visited the Fort Fetterman
region and inspected the Crazy Woman
and the Caspar oil fields. Mr.. johnson
speaks in high terms of the promise OF
the latter fields The other members of
the party extended their trip to Hahns
peak, and are now looking through the
Pgold fields of that section. Mr.. johnson
says the Crazy Woman section has been
very dry this spring, and hat swarms OF
gr%asshoppers are spreading over the coun-