, 1886-05-26
NEWS NOTES.
General lettings Gathered Around
Town
Condensed for the Benefit of the
Hasty Reader.

shipment to day.
Yesterdays eastern bound passenger
made up four hours between here and
Ogden.
Jay Pettibone and John Chase are said
to be carrying everything before them in
in the Denver races.
The stone cutting for the new depot
will be done by contract. Bids will be
advertised in a few days.
The executive members of the Wyo.
ming Fair association are busily perfect.
ing arrangements to begin improving theii
grounds.
The colored man who recently at
tempted to burglarize a room in tho Della
ware block is in the city jail. He will APP
pear before Judge Lee to-day.
Tom Earnest, the well known Fort Col
Inns stockman, will shortly start, accom-
panied by quite a party, on a visit of in
spection to the Lander region.
Two hundred and twenty five yearlings
from Robert Mcintosh, Manchester. Ia.
passed through the city to-day. They
were consigned to A. +. Darling, Laramie
City.
II. Idelman irrigating ditch moth of
Fetterman forty miles has been completed.
Henry Thompson, the contractor, is in
the city and will do some extensive ditch
ing for the CY outfit.
Hwang Sih Chuen, Chinese consul at
New York City passed through the city
last evening EN- route for San Francisco.
The consul will spend a day or two at
Rock Springs among his fellow Chinese.
The lady who was to appear before
Judge Lee yesterday on charges seriously
affecting her character, showed up
promptly. 1t being proved that she had
no character to speak of, the charges did
not hold and the case was dismissed.
The main has been tapped and a SER
vice pipe put in from the sidewalk. to the
site of the new hook and ladder building.
This will give the workmen the necessary
water supply and will be allowed by the
city to remain as a permanent location.
Tickets for the mmcncemen exer-
cises Friday evening can be obtained free
OF cost at Rhodes & Troxel's any time
from to-day until Friday evening. In the
afternoon on Friday the lower floor will
be reserved for the school children.
The commanding officer of Fort Russell
would like to call the attention Of the
people living along the post iIrigatinp
ditch to section >, chapter Is, Laws Of
Wyoming, and section II. chapter 81.
laws of 1886. He trusts that a wink tc
a blind horse, etc will be sufficient.
The Buffalo Echo of the 2lst instant
has the following item of interest to oui
readers at Fort Fetterman and vicinity.
H. A. Bennett, ofC. p. Organ 4 Co ,
accompanied by George Hively. will drive
to Chadron to oversee the loading of a
fine stock of hardware, which is to be
placed in the company's store at Fetter
man.
Mrs. S anIey's remains arrived from
Butte CITY yesterday morning. They
were received at the depot by friends and
relatives and the funeral services took
place at the First Congregational church
at II a. m, with Rev. c. NJ. Sanders
officiating. The services were very i'm
p~ressive and we're listened to by a large
gathering Of friends.
William Barrow was up before Judge
Lee yesterday for stealing a watch from
Valentine Portz. Mr.. Portz kept hi.
door open during the night, and says that
Barrow must have entered and taken the
property. The watch was found in Bar
rows possession, which fact he explains
by saying that he found it in an adjacent
alley. He was sent to the county jail and
will have a hearing to day.