, 1886-02-25
NEWS NOTES.
General lettings Gathered Around
Town
Condensed for the Benefit of the
Hasty Reader.

Divine services were held in several of
churches in the city last evening.
A reception to Lieut. and Mrs. Tyson
is to be given at Fort Russell this even
ing.
Tomorrow night is the night for the
regular monthly meeting Of the school
board.
1t is now reported that trains will be set
TO running on the Colorado Central about
May /, 1886.
Ferguson street expects to loom up i'm
mensely in the improvement line the
coming season.
The Agricultural and Live Stock asso-
citation committee OF twenty-one will hold
another meeting very soon.
A new stage line from Hat creek to
Custer City is in contemplation and will
probably be put on in the spring.
A good many of our citizens took a
look at the plans for the new depot, which
are at Superintendent Deuel's office.
The regular monthly session of the
Cheyenne teachers institute is to be held
at the Central school on Saturday e
There are now less than twenty days
more OF the Legislature, and yet there is
still a large amount of work to be done.
Encouraging reports frem Silver Crown
were received yesterday from parties who
came in from the embryo mining camp.
Peter Bergerson and other Cheyenne
marksmen have organized a shooting club
which will probably be heard from before
long.
G. A Emery departed for Kansas yes
terday, taking along with him two last
trotting horses belonging t o Col. A. s.
Emery.
The members of the Pioneer Hook and
Ladder company were exceedingly happy
yesterday over the prospects of their new
building.
The members of the Juvenile Cornet
band are improving rapidly in their train
ing, and will soon be quite proficient in
the musical line.
There was a slight fall of snow yester-
day, and two or three times it appeared
quite blizzardy, but on the whole it was
a fair day, but a little cool.
Snow fell in Buffalo. WYo., recently to
the depth of ten inches in one day, but it
did not last very long, as it turned out
warm after the storm was over.
Some of the small boys have got into a
very bad and dangerous habit in the
northeastern portion of the city, where
they occasionally build fires on vacant lots.
A warranty deed FROM Haus johnson
to L. Sweickert for lots 5 and G, in block
III il the city Of Cheyenne, was filed for
record yesterday, the consideration being
5000.
John Story, Of Hat creek, departed for
Chicago for the purpose of purchasing
goods, etc, and remarked, as he went
aboard the train, that it was the first time
he had been out on the road since 1870.
The people in the extreme northern
portion Of the Third ward complain that
their water facilities are very inadequate,
and that in case of a fire they, or their
property, would be left to the mercy of
the flames.
The members Of the Old Pioneers or
ganization failed to turn out in a body to
the funeral, there being no call for a meet
ing, which was due to the fact those who
we're authorized to issue a call we're moi
notified in time.
A party against whom a summons in a
civil case was issued happened into one
Of the justices Offices yesterday and
CHANGING to see it accepted service in
writing, something which rarely happens
in judicial matters.