, 1886-06-10
NEWS NOTES.
General lettings Gathered Around
Town
Condensed for the Benefit of the
Hasty Reader.

Petit jury excused until Saturday at II
a. m.
A large number of teams are expected
by Contractor Brown from the line of the
Northwestern.
Mr.. John Mcfarland purchased yester
day from Mr.. John Dobyns, 200 3-year.
old steers, which he will turn loose on the
Sable.
David Anderson, a prominent stock
dealer of Columbus, o., is in Cheyenne
en- route for Rawlins with several cars Of
stock cattle.
Mining Engineer Il. f. Fine, just in
from the Silver Crown district, reports
the surveying of the Southern Belle and
Crown Point mines.
The wreaths and crosses of flowers
offered at the funeral of Charles b. An
derson yesterday, were photographed at
Kirkland prior to being laid on the
grave.
Highest temperature yesterday, $50,
lowest, 40; mean temperature Co;
mean humidity, 81; highest velocity of
wind is miles per hour.
Mr.. e. W. Whiicomb, who has lately
returned from an extended visit to the
Belle Fourche cattle ranges, says the
weather and grass are both dry. The
calf crop is good, and cattle looking mod
erately well.
A recently escaped Missouri youth de-
sirous of letting his folks know hat he
had ridden a broncho, mounted an aver
age cowpony yesterday and imagined that
he was being ''bucked' all over to yn.
He furnished the little item to his home
at an expense of $40 assessed by Judge
Lee.
Susan +. Grace, wife of William H.
Grace, died yesterday at 4:3O p. lat her
residence 1914, Themes street, of con-
sumption. Mrs. Grace has been a pa
tient sufferer for fourteen months. Flu
neral Friday, the llth, from the NJ. L.
church at go p. m. Leavenworth pa
pers please copy.
The land Office commenced yesterday to
receive pre- emption filings, and desert
and timber entries, the commissioners
suspensory order having been revoked.
In view of the threatened repeal Of the
land laws authorizing these entries, it is
probable there may be quite a rush of
business for a time.
Mr.. j. II. Apperson, the civil engineer
for the Swan Land and Cattle company,
has Just returned from the Chugwater
and Sable, where he has been making
extensive ditch surveys in the interests of
the company. Mr.. Apperson says hat
the late heavy rains have been general in
the Sabille and Chug regions. and that
grass is in splendid growing condition.
Contractor Brown has s~ub-contracted
twenty miles of the new railroad. Messrs.
Roy 4 Mctiarvey have the first five miles.
They will begin work as soon as their
teams arrive from the north, thirty-fve in
number. They will probably break
ground Saturday. The contractor own
outfit of thirty five teams began work
yesterday three miles this.side of Phillips
ranch on Crow creek, six miles out.
A mischievous OgalalIa journalist per-
petrated a villainous hoax on his resident
city night before last. He was at a rail.
road point east of the town and telegraph
ed to the Ogalalla band to be at the depot
when the train arrived at 10 p. m. as
President Cleveland was on board. In
the midst of a pouring rain the band was
IN hand, and tuned up as m%elodiously as
possible under the circumstance for a
quarter of an hour.betore they found they
had been sold"
United States Marshal Dubois and
Sheritfs Bassett and Jones passed through
Cheyenne yesterday on their return from
Detroit, Mich, whittier they have been
with the Mormons recently convicted in
the Idaho courts. The officers say that
the prisoners thoroughly weakened before
they reached Detroit, and that when they
entered the house of correction they, one
and all, protested their willingness to
hereafter obey the laws of the government
under which they live. Graham, the
loud monthed apostle of Mink creek, to
whose leadership can be attributed the
obstinate fpllv of his less dangerous fni.
lowers, especially was ~profuse in his prom
iscs of the future.