, 1886-02-20
NEWS NOTES.
General lettings Gathered Around
Town
" ~ aNI9ANA aMW
Condensed for the Benefit of the
hasty Reader.

Miss Sylvester will give her best trick
skating at keefe hall this evening.
The ticket c~anyassers were out again
yesterday and met with good success.
The thermometer registered 74o above
zero in the sun Tor a portion of the time
yesterday.
Cleaning windows was the order of the
day in the business portion of the city
yesterday.
Mrs. Scott Saxton, the elocutionist, will
have a reception this evening at the
Baptist church.
The ruins oi the old electric light house
are being hauled away to be utilized in
other parts Of the city.
Cheyenne was exceedingly lively yester-
day and our merchants aud other business
men did a thriving trade.
1t was 30 warm yesterday that in many
instances dogs were painting and were APP
parently intentionally warm. Ole.
A horse running loose cut up some
queer capers on Ferguson street early last
evening but was finally pulled in"
ii. A. Roy will go to the foot hills on
some official business to-day in which his
services as county surveyor are needed.
\ Their are several parties in the city from
Silver Grown and they are, Of course en-
thusiastic over the prospects Of the camp.
1t was 10 warm and summer like yester-
day that the doors Of many residences
and business houses stood open nearly all
day.
The prospects Of reduced railroad
tariff rates, both passenger and freight.
created considerable comment in the city
yesterday.
John ID. Doe was fined $40 including
costs. BY Judge Lee yesterday, which was
promptly paid. John had been on a
big drunk.
The church boom is still progressing
f%avoiably, and the C~ongrcgationals cs-
pecially, are much elated over the pros.
poets for the future.
Sheriff Craig had several callers yester-
day who wanted TO step into the jail and
see a prisoner" Some of them did not
get that opportunity.
The ball given by the members of the
Juvenile Cornet band. at Library hall,
last evening, was a successful affair, and
quite largely attended.
Birdie Doe paid a fine OF $40, includ-
ing costs, to Judge Lee yesterday on nc
count of a square drunk. Herdic says
she wont Doe so any more.
Burglars appear to abound again, but
they will scarcely be able to accomplish
very much in their line Of business as
the officers are un the alert.
There are getting to be a great many
dogs in Cheyenne and it would be a good
plan for some OF them to go West and
howl up with the country"
J.. NJ. Culver had a slight mishap at
Craig, Davis 4 Co. 5. He sat down in a
folding rocking chair, and the floor flew
up and hit him over the left eye.
A mining deed from T. c. Hussy to
II. Ghfckes for the Gen. Grant lode,
IN the Silver Crown mining district, was
filed Tor record in the Office of the county
clerk yesterday.
The contractors, in view of the probable
building boom. were on the rustic yester-
day, and figuring On contracts will be
what they will dream absut until the
campaign opens.
Taking advantage of the balmy and
summer like weather yesterday, large
numbers of our society people and such
as could spare the time were out for a
drive along the boulevard and elsewhere.
The Signal Service officer reports that
the highest temperature yesterday was
5l.l'; lowest, 27.7'; mean temperature,
37.2o; mean humidity, Clio per cent
highest velocity Of wind, "a miles per
hour.
A gentleman who arrived in town last
evening from the East, reports that the
di cctors of the Union Pacific railway
will meet in New York City to-day to take
action regarding the construction of a
railway northward from Cheyenne.