, 1886-06-17
NEWS NOTES.
General lettings Gathered Around
Town
Condensed for the Benefit of the
Hasty Reader.



A torrent of rain fell on the Sabille
Tuesday afternoon.
The premium lists of the Wyoming
Fair association are Being published.
On July | there will appear in Chey-
enne the great circus of the Sells Broth
ers.
The recent heavy hail storm extended
to the regions of the Chugwater and the
Sabillc, visiting the sections north of the
road.
Court has adjourned until Monday, the
continuance of the Mclncosh and Hager-
man cases clearing the docket until that
time.
The Dale creek picnic of the Good
Templars bids fair to be a great success.
A great many tickets have been sold, and
still they are in demand.
Highest temperature yesterday, 10;
lowest, 44'; mean temperature Go,
mean humidity, -; highest velocity of
wind % miles per hour.
In the district court yesterday the time
was mostly occupied in placing the wit
nesses in the continued Mcintosh and
Hagerman cases under recognizances.
Trained athletes, wonderful acrobats,
marvellous riders, witty clowns and rare
beasts and birds are all factors in the com
plete whole of the circus of Sells Broth
ers.
None can afford to miss the great Sells
Brothers circus. This entertainment is
known from one end of the Union to the
other and everywhere enjoyment and APP
plause accompany it.
Henry Smith, a Southern Texas cattle
man passed through the city yesterday
morning en- route for Ogden, where he
will purchase a number Of brood mares
for his Texas ranch. The animals will be
shipped through.
The Heath case. which has been in pro-
gress in Judge Fishers court for the past
few days, terminated Yesterday, the de
PENDANT paying a fine of 81 and costs,
amounting in all to $33. Fourteen wit
nesses were examined.
The capitol commissioners do not ex-
pect that more than the foundation to the
capitol building will be completed this
fall. The time Of the meeting of the next
Legislature will doubtless find the legisla-
tive quarters completed.
A gentleman informed the reporter
yesterday that he had searched Cheyenne
in vain for an unemployed man. All had
work. The depot and the railroad have
drawn our surplus labor population into
their grasp, and all are earning money.
No unemployed men on the streets speaks
volumes for Cheyenne.
Mr.. John Snodgrass, range manager
for the Bay State Cattle company, left
the city for the Nebraska ranges of the
company yesterday. Within the last week
the company has started 5000 head of
cattle in two herds to the northwest. They
will probably cross the Missouri river, but
they may stop in the Big Horn country.
As some inquiry has been made as to
who Mr.. John Leet is, The LEADER will
answer it. Mr.. John Leet is, to begin
with, one of the best known newspaper
correspondents in the West. At present
he is a resident of the new town of Fet-
terman or Douglas, where, IN addition to
his newspaper writings he is engaged in
the real estate business.
A fine plate glass, brass framed lamp
was yesterday placed by the city on the
summit of the water fountain on Sixteenth
street between Central and Hill. The
lamp cost $44 at the New York factory,
and is a handsome and useful improve
ment, though its efficiency is somewhat
impaired by the concealing branches of
the vigorous young cottonwood tree which
stands in such close proximity. The
lamp will be fed by electric light.