, 1888-08-19
TOW TALK.
Cosby Little Paragraphs Picked UP
Throughout the City.

Special dress goods sale. Kehner.
The police courts were quiet again, as
usual, yesterday.
No real estate transfers were filed for
record yesterday.
There will be a regular meeting of the
city council next Tuesday evening.
The Presbyterians will give a fine en-
tertainment at Keefe hall Thursday even
ing next.
The members of the territorial board
confidently expect to conclude their labors
in that capacity tomorrow.
There is a crank, a sick man and quite
a number of toughs in the county jail
about a dozen or fifteen all told.
Our fremen feel quite well satisfied
over the result of the tournament and fire.
mems convention at Fort Collins.
A grand free lunch was given at West
Meyers place on Eddy street last evening
at which there was a large attendance.
The new Episcopal church will be
opened to-day and services held therein.
These will not be dedicatory services,
however.
The south side juvenile club which
went to Fort Collins to play the young
sters OF that place have returned, having
had good success.
Matters were rather dull at the capitol
yesterday afternoon. The board of equal
~ization were not in session and there was
nothing of importance around Secretary
Shannon's office.
There will be a special meeting of the
Cheyenne Guards tomorrow evening, the
object Of which is to- discuss the matter of
getting a suitable uniform so that they
can be mustered in.
The fire alarm system was tested yester-
day forenoon and found to work to the
complete and entire satisfaction of the
municipal authorities, Chief Fredendall
and the balance Of the community.
There is to be a base ball game at the
fair ground this afternoon between the
Greeley nine and the Red Stockings of
this city. The members of the Greeley
club will arrive IN the city this morning.
One wheel of a freight car loaded with
fruit, and bound eastward, broke down at
Otto station yesterday. The car was side
tracked and a new set of wheels sent up
from this city, which caused some delay
IN the transportation of that particular lot
of fruit.
There we're several hundred people at
the depot for an hour or so yesterday
afternoon waiting to see the train which
the robbers tried to get away with, and
they also wanted to get a look at Brake
man TillmaD, the wounded man who was
being taken to Denver.
Considerable inquiry has been made
about that baled hay that was being
brought into the city and laid down for
$11.50 per ton. 1t was a portion of a lot
put up by 7. w. Rutledge out on Horse
creek, or at least somwhere to the north or
northeast Of Cheyenne.
Tillman, the brakeman and hero of the
attempted train robbery at Dana tank, is
a member of the Alert Hose company
which ought to be proud of him, for to
his prompt action may be attributed the
failure on the part of the robbers to CON
summate their purpose.
HTho local ad interim of THE LEADER,
who will be on the retired list this morn
ing, was informed last evening by a repre-
sentative of the Sun hat he would be
''dished up" in that paper this morning,
or words to hat effect. There are lots of
people in the world who will strike after
the other fellow has lost his chance to
strike back.
One of the chief features of the band