, 1898-08-01
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Remember the republican primaries,
tonight.
Two heated rooms over The Repub.
lican ONCE for rent.
Call and see our screen doors. Clark
Pelton & Employees company.
The republican primaries tonight
should be well attended. Ladies are
especially invited to turn out and par
tieipate in the meetings.
The Rawlins Journal, so long edited
by Andy McMicken, is oon to pass
under the editorial management of Mr..
Will Reid. 1t will still be democratic
though Mr.. Reid is personally a popu-
list.
Republican primaries will be held
tonight in the six precincts of the city.
The Republican has published the
boundaries of the different precincts
several times and people should be
fairly familiar with them by this time.
1t is hoped there will be a good attend
ance at all the meetings.
A detail of twenty-seven men of the
Torrey cavalry left Cheyenne Saturday
night on the Union Pacific fer Jackson
vile, Fla, with $50 horses to complete
the supplement of mounts for the regi-
ment. Lieutenant Oracle of the Neva-
da troop Of the regiment went to Pu-
eblo, where he will muster in a cowboy
band for Colonel Torrey.
Mrs. j. A. Hoagland, who was on her
way from Salt Lake City to Denver,
was compelled to stop over in Laramie
Saturday night owing to the sickness
of her young child, who accompanied
her. Mr.. HOagland was summoned
from Denver yesterday; but the little
one was so far recovered today that
parents and child started for home on
the noon train.
The Union Pacific Coal company's
mines at Hanna are indefinitely shut
down. A notice was posted in the COM
pany's store Friday evening notifying
l the men to remove all of their tools
from the mines by 6 o'clock Saturday
, night, and that upon the presentation
of their house keys at the company's
office they will receive their wages III
full.
Ex-Sheriff Ira L. Fredendall left
cheyenne Saturday afternoon for Tam
pa, Fla, where he will enter upon his
duties in the quartermaster's depart
: ment. 1t is not known exactly what
Mr.. Fredendall's appointment is or what
Y his salary will be, but 1t is a desirable
office that pays a fine salary. 1t is I'M
derstood Mr.. Fredendall has given up
all ideas Of returning to Alaska. His
: friends extend congratulations on his
i. good fortune in getting an appoint
ment.-Sun-Leader.
Frank Elliott of Rock Springs has
reached San Francisco from the Klon-
dixie in a most pitiable condition. His
!. legs have been frozen so that he has to
walk on his knees. The tendons in his
i. right foot had loosened from the bones
L NV u III " Sul llCln oA "lUll Ills
knife. Besides this he was afflicted
with scurvey. He came down from the
IKlondfke by the Yukon river, the pas
sengers taking up a collection to get
: him to San Francisco. He hopes that
one leg will be saved, but the other
= will have to be amputated.
A severe hailstorm occurred Satur-
day afternoon in the vicinity of D. c.
Bacon's ranch on the Big Laramie.
t Hailstones as large as hens eggs fell
and did some damage to vegetation.
Leaves and small branches Of trees
were torn of, gardens d~emoralized and
several teams working In hay fields
ran away. One OF Mr. Bacon's fine
horses took refuge in a tool house in
which were stored a number Of moving
/ machine sickles and severed one of
the tendons in a leg. 1t is possible the
animal will not recover from the in
jury.
Last Wednesday James Mccartney,
who lives on the ranch OF ]. W. Col
Inns. near Sand creek, captured a young
black bear, and already the animal ia
quite tame. 1t is a very intelligent
brute, as the following Circumstance
will show: Yesterday morning his
keeper brought him some milk, when
1t was found that bruin had the pan
in which his meals are served turned
upside down and was sitting Upon 1t.
His bearship no sooner saw the break
fast coming, however, than he hastily
arose and reverted the pan to its proper
position, in order that the meal might
be properly served.
OSTRICHES FOR FRONTIER DAY.
The Cheyenne correspondent of the
Denver News says: Among other at
fractions which are expected on From
tier day are two trained ostriches be-