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Show THE TERRITORIES. The fa lci reports that nearly 100 men left Cheyenne ou Monday for the Black Hills. Jack Reynolds es:aped from Den ver jail on the Gib inst., and though fired at :fnd wounded, succcidid in Setting out of reach of the guard. lour men supposed to be wood-choppers wood-choppers have been killed by the Indiana In-diana at Dauphin Rapids, ou the Missouri river. The savages are believed be-lieved to be a part of the band ol Sitting Sit-ting Bull. There arc three postmislre.-'Sea in Colorado, viz: Mrs. M. A. Hall, Hillsborough, Hills-borough, Weld county; Mrs. Jane Jennieon, Jennison, Hinsdale county; and Mrs. Mary Day, Lincoln city. Summit county. Cattle on the Platte, below Evans, are dying of "black leg." In from eighteen to twenty hours after death the animal's flesh turns black, and blood oozes through theskin in a hundred hun-dred places. - A Cheyenne paper boa-its that EI. Merrill, who is about to open a harness har-ness shop there for Messrs G. H. and F. S. Collins, is the successor in the employ of that firm of President Grant who was with them beforo the war. A gang of sharpers are selling gold nuggets at half their reputed value, on the pretense of being "hard up." Of course tho nuggets are spurious, being made of bras faucets. The dodge was conceived and played with ' success in Denver, some weeks ago. Some hunters from tho north brought the report to Cheyenne on Monday that two trappers, Latham and Duugherly, of Horse creek, while trapping ou Blue Gra.-s creek, near Fort Ftterman, woro shot recently by Indians, scalped and their oli tf it, wagons, etc., burned and destroyed. Gentile government officials in Utah who seek immortality through abuse of ths Mormons arc very shortlived. short-lived. They very seldom stick longer than twelve months, or until just as they think they have the twin relic by the throat, and the consequence is carp'-t-b mgers ubb and tlow at Salt Like hkothe murmuring aca. Idaho World. A Nevada paper asks: Has anyone in any place ever yet seen as much as a hundred ounces of Illaelt Hills gold du.-it? We drj not believe that so much has been taken out of tho whole country up to date, and we honestly think that either Colorado, No v Mexico Mex-ico or Arizona offer belter indiu c-mcnts c-mcnts for emigrants than that wind swept region." The air about Pueblo is filled with railroad talk. Tho newest project thero looks to the immediate construction construc-tion of a narrow gauge road via Canon city and Ute pass to Fairplay, Salt Lako,Sau Francisco, and Yokohama, Japan, crufsingthe Pacirica few miles north of the Sandwich Inlands The money is to be raised in Pueblo' in a few days, to complete tho lino, in order to shut out the Denver & South Park enterprise. Denver Xcics. |