, 1888-06-22

Little paragraphs Picked UP
Throughout the City.

Tickets for the Cheyenne-Laramie ball
game are now on sale.
Tom Whalen is in the city Jail charged
with the larceny OF a revolver.
Serenaders, both vocal and instrumental,
arc abroad nearly every night now.
Tho Alert team made a very fast practice
run on Capitol avenue last evening.
There was a Jail break at Greeley Tues
day night. Two prisoners escaped.
Considerable Burlington advertising
matter is being distributed about the city.
1t is said that the Cheyenne & North
ern. surveyors are camped west of Douglas.
The Rentz-S antley Burlesque COM
pany is doing a big business in Denver
this week.
The maximum temperature yesterday
was 63o, minimum 430. Maximum wind
60 miles.
There was a gospel meeting at the
Baptist church last evening. The attend
ance was fair.
Joe Quincy has quit claimed a right of
way for the Horse Creek road to Laramie
county for $105.
A letter received here yesterday says
that the Wyoming Central railway has
reached Fort CASPER.
John Newman, the alleged cattle thief
is in Jail again, his bond having been ad-
Judged insufficient.
1t is said that a new weekly paper is
about to launch upon the stormy sea Of
journalism in this city.
A large delegation of friends and pleas.
ure seekers will accompany the Alert hose
team to Boulder July A..
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union holds a meeting at the Baptist
church at 2 O'Clock this afternoon.
There are very few Colorado straw
berries in the market this season. The
crop in that state was almost a total failure.
Signs in the park warn frequenters Of
the resort that they will be prosecuted for
plucking flowers or molesting the vegeta-
ton.
An earnest effort is being made to secure
the pardon of Brinninger, a Wyoming
convect serving a term in Joliet for
forgery,
The wind plays havoc with the circus
bills. Gaudily attired riders are torn from
fiery sleeds and the strong man bisected
by a single dust laden gust of ozone.
There was no drilling or ~maneouvering
at Fort Russell yesterday on account OF
the high wind which prevailed. These
displays will always be abandoned when
the weather is unfavorable.
Mike Gilroy, a daft tramp, had nothing
to say for himself when arraigned before
Judge Lee yesterday. He remained passive
when fined $50 and costs and marched to
the Jail with a pensive air of resignation.
Humming Bird, q farce comedy to be
presented at the opera house Saturday
evening by the inimitable Salisbury
Troubadours, is replete with new and
lively music, fresh humor and comical
scenes.
Geo. W. Jones, well known in this city,
has favored many of his Cheyenne friends
with pamphlets descriptive of the re-
sources and industries OF Utah. Mr..
Jones is now an attache of a Salt Lake
realty syndicate.
The place ofex-Deputy Sheriff Smalley,
who resigned Tuesday, has not yet been
filed. W. f. Hosford is assisting Oscar
Sharpless in the absence of the sheriff and
Capt. Smith is again watchman.
Geo. Fl. Mortified is now night man.
ager at the Western Union telegraph of,
fee here, vice Geo. Rogan resigned. Mr..
Mortified but a few weeks since relln.
pushed the general managership to devote
his entire time to ranching.
Strawberry short cake at the Saddle
Rock.