, 1886-09-04
NEWS NOTES.
General lettings Gathered Around
Town
Condensed for the Benefit of the
Hasty Reader.

"'''f 10y ~ it'N -
There was a three-inch fall of snow at
Granger the day before yesterday.
The base ball game will be played at
the fair grounds this afternoon commenc'
ing at 3 O'Clock.
Riner & johnson have several houses
they will sell at a very low figure on
monthly payments.
The Cheyenne teachers in attendance
on the institute at Rawlins are expected
to return this morning.
Miss DolloF's kindergarten and select
school will reopen Monday, Sept. E. Next
door to the opera house.
Twenty-Five carloads of rails and nine
teen cars of cedar ties came in yesterday
for the Cheyenne 4 Northern.
Several Denver & Rio Grande coaches
we're attached to the w~esternbouud Union
Pacific passenger last evening.
The smelter at Silver Crown opened mp
day before yesterday, and made a very
satisfactory tesr run. 1t is now ready for
active work.
At a late hour last night certain smoth-
cred squawkings on a suburban street,
suggested the presence of the colored
chicken %fancier.
The Middlesex Cattle company were
branding u herd at Green River the day
before yesterday. The cattle were to be
turned loose on the range.
A gentleman just in from the north
says that the people of Chadron have
just subscribed and paid, 81, 900 for the
sinking of an a~rtesian well for city fire
purposes.
Danskin Bros, recently from Idaho,
have opened a horse market at the old
Black Hills stables They have a large
number of horses of all kinds for sale,
also a fine lot of mules.
kilograms at the Western Union office
for the following persons: Katie Me
Nouehton, Mrs. G + Nisher. F Walker,
Prof. Martin, Chas. Brown. VIM. Good
son, G.. w. Quinn r. S. Phillip.
1t is rumored hat a contract has been
let for the skinning of the city water supply.
The pelt will be preserved as a natural
curiosity, and the carcass will be removed,
in installments, by the city scavengers.
1t is a generally credited northern ru.
NOR, that when the Rapid City branch
of the Northwestern leaves that point,
that it will pass around the Deadwood
country and once more enter our territory
by the Belle Fourche valley.
Yesterdays morning train from the
West came in on time. but was delayed
until | p. m, awaiting the arrival of a
second section containing $50 passengers
from the Denver and Rio Grande road.
sent around this way on account Of the
wasbout.
The dazzling reports OF the Associated
Press dispatches about the wells and
springs of pure cold water brought into
existence by the Charleston earthquake,
call for the suggestion that our council
send south for a little quake to hit the
city pump house with.
Mr.. d. C.. Wyatt came in from Denver
last evening en- route for the scene of his
agricultural interests in the Laramier val
ley. The Colorado capitalists invest
ing in the section, of whom Mr.. Wyatt is
the leading spirit, contemplate making
their Wyoming lands as valuable as pos
sible, and to hat end will spare neither
effort nor money.
By authority. the city bitches are being
cleaned out, and the dog fonnel, rye grass
and %sprouting c~ottonwoods so literally
adjoining the sides of tine streets, are be-
ing dug up and hewn down. This is a
signal contradiction to the rumor so gen
orally credited, that the principal thor
oughiares OF the city were hereafter to
be utilized for picnic purposes.
James Langlin. a paralytic cripple, was
an object of curious pity yesterday morn
ing at the depot. Langlin is from San
Francisco and is trying to reach friends in
Philadelphia. He has been over three
weeks on the road already. He steals a
ride whenever he can on the freight trains,
and when he can not do this he walks or
rather shufhes along the ties. He in
formed the reporter that he rarely made
more than ten miles a day on foot. His
shoes were worn out and his feet were
badly swollen and torn.
That well known old timer, Charley
Clay, dispenses justice in Douglas with
the spirit of grim deter mination called
for by the occasion. A double barrel shot
gun stands behind the chair of Justice
and when any grumbling occurs, the
l%aeonic judicial query is put, What are
you going to do about it." For instance,
the other day a case of assault and battery
was up before Judge Clay. The a~ssaulter
and his friends expected a fine of $40.
Instead, came the stern sentence, 300
fine or six months in tho county jail. -
Tho sentence was carried out.