, 1888-01-11
TOW TALK.
Cosby Little paragraphs Picked Up
Throughout the City.

The street car created a sensation.
Ice harvesting is nearly completed.
Lusk is coming to the front as a hide
and fur market.
Reporters and others will organize the
third house. in a few days.
The Lusk Herald urges the organiza-
ton of a literary society in that burg.
Twelve scholars attend school No. 4,
near Fort Laramie. A. f. Ellison is
teacher.
The impression that the capitol is the
finest building in the West prevails quite
unanimously.
The attendance of citizens was large
during the sessions of the legislative
bodies yesterday.
The Alert boys are already making ex-
tensive preparations for their masquerade
ball st. Valentines day.
More documents were filed in the county
recorders office yesterday than upon a
single day for some time.
Little Claude Draper dislocated some of
the bones of his right hand by falling on
the ice 10 the rear of his home Monday
evening.
The Catholic ladies are putting forth
every effort to make a grand success of
their fair to occur on the 23d, 9th and
25th insts.
s. X. Sharpless yerterday commenced
suit against the county commissioners for
the recovery of the $500 claimed ior the
apprehension of Harry Patterson.
Mrs. o. p. Goodwin, teacher of the
Lusk school, reports attendance good and
department and advancement of scholars
satisfactory during the term Just ended.
A member of the order last evening in
formed a LEADER reporter that this paper
erred in referring to the recently organ
lied Grand Commandery of knights
Templar as a lodge.
G. W. Spaulding, assistant enrolling
and cngrossing clerk in the council, was
formerly postmaster at Laramie and after.
wards business agent for the Boomerang
curing Nyc's administration.
john G. Dyer, Isaac Miller and u. T.
Brown arc the public spirited heavy
weights who collected the 5000 necessary
to maintain the Rawlins schools until the
tax litigation with the Union Pacific could
be a1iudicated.
Carbon county will lose 1900 clean
cash on account of the errors made in
assessing the railway company. The latter
acknowledges that the second valuation is
legal, but the equalization board cannot
advance their figures.
1t is rather remarkable that there are
but six lawyers among the thirty-six mem
bers of the legislative assembly. But five
of these are practising at present. One
in six is a very small percentage of legal
lights in a body Of this sort.
Associate Justice Blair yesterday ad-
ministered the oath of Office to Prosecut-
ing Attorney j. X. Dixon of Carbon
county, who will act as United States
attorney during the temporary absence OF
Hon. A. G. Campbell.
1t has been repeatedly suggested in the
past few days that an arc lamp or electric
street light should be placed near the cor
ner of Capitol avenue and Nineteenth
street to illumine the pathway of those
compelled to visit the state house after
nightfall.
o. &. Snyder, the missing member.
reached town last night from his home at
Cokeville on the Oregon Short Line. He
failed to make connections on the main
line. The thermometer Indicated 4S0
below zero at Green River on Sunday.
Mr.. Snyder is a man of much respectable
ity in the region from which he halls and
will give a good account of himself in the
legislature.