, 1886-06-16
NEWS NOTES.
General lettings Gathered Around
Town
Condensed for the Benefit of thu
Hasty Reader.

Grading is being actively pushed on the
railroad.
The church thermometer at the First
Congregational church this Wednesday
evening.
Have you seen the Alaska Indian baby
rattle at the establishment of j. S. Col
Inns & Co.'S?
The case in Judge Fishers court
wherein r. N. Heath is charged with
maintaining a nuisance will be decided to-
day at 10 a. IN.
Highest temperature yesterday, 100,
lowest, Al o; mean temperature 650;
mean humidity, 81; highest velocity OF
wind 20 miles per hour.
Right of Way Agent McMurray will
begin work at once on the next thiriy-ive
miles of the Cheyenne Il Northern. This
will make fftv-seven miles of right of way
locations.
Joseph Sbirk reported as committing
suicide in the camp OF Engineer Alexan-
der, on the Chugwater, was a married
man. The lady is at present residing in
Kearney, Nebraska.
Mr.. Thos. Sturgis, who has recently re-
turned from the east, and who has supe-
rior information facilities, informs the re-
porter that the Cheyenne & Northern will
ha built and huilt IN tipna
Mr.. John Dobyns has sold 1000 head
of Texas yearlings to Mr.. Ed. Swan, of
Salt Lake City. The animals are now on
the trail, and will be delivered at Rock
Greek the latter part of next month.
The cases against Fred Hagerman have
been continued until next term of court.
Certain witnesses are absent. These are
Samuel Day, James Willoughby, George
Hamblin and Frank Sanders. The court
fixed Hagerman's bail at 81, 700.
State Senator Tedmon, of Colorado,
WAS in the city Yesterday, and will be here
again to-day. Mr.. Tedmon has in con
junction with several other Colorado gen
tlemen, a bunch of grade Hereford and
Shorthorn bulls for the Cheyenne market.
The Mcintosh cases have been contin-
ucd until next term of court on account of
the absence of certain witnesses for tie de-
Tense. These are G. f. McElroy. now in
Cleveland, Ohio, and NJ. C. Harrington,
now in North Platte City, Nebraska. The
prisoners were remandcd without bail.
Mr.. George Hammond, well known in
the refrigerating business, is in the city,
the guest Of n. r. Davis. Mr.. Ham
moud was the first and is now the largest
operator in the refrigerating of fresh
meats in America. He has establishments
at Detroit, Omaha, and Calumet, largely
supplies the eastern home market, and
ships vast quantities of refrigerated meats
to Europe.
Mr.. Levi Ashenfelter and Miss Annie
G.. Anderson were married yesterday af-
ternoon at the residence of Mr.. l.. S.
Culver, on Ferguson street. Both bride
and groom are residents of Cheyenne.
Mr.. Ashenfelter is one of Wyoming old
timers, and camped on plain and noun
tain, bred stock and fought Indians in the
very earliest days. Health and happiness
to Mr.. and Mrs. Ashenfelter. The happy
couple accompanied by Mrs. ii. b. Kelly,
left on yesterday evenings train for San
Francisco, where they will spend a month
or two.
A copy Of the New Mssissppian, a
Jackson, Miss weekly journal, lately
edited by Register Edgar S. Wilson, Of
Cheyenne, is received, and its perusal fur
nishes the reader with an accurate idea of
the esteem in which Mr.. Wilson is held
by the people of his former home. On
the editorial page we find this comment
Elsewhere we give the eloquent annual
Grafton delivered by Hon. Edgar S. Viii
son before the Mississippi Press Associa-
ton at its annual meeting in West Point
on May 10. Mr.. Wilson was formerly
editor and proprietor Of the Neo Missis-
Sippian, which, founded by him rs an out
spoken Democratic Journal, has never fall
tered or wavered in the course which his
guiding hand marked as its compass. The
speech %evinces an independence and pro
fundity of thought that stamps him as
one OF the advanced and progressive
thinkers of the day. 1t was freely and
loudly applauded, and has been more ex-