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Show Senator Chaffee, yesterday, called up his bill for the organization of the territory of Lincoln. After brief dia- cues ion the bill was laid over and should never again be heard from. The people of the Black Hills have not so much right for a separate government gov-ernment as the people of Washington und Kane counties of Utah have to a separate territorial organization. They 1 are but a handful of citizens, for whose convenience a territory none too large at present, should not be sliced und cut to piecea. If the peo pie were wise tbey wouldn't ask for a new territory, the beneGta of which to accruo to them, would not be at all in proportion to the increased burdens. I' be true inwardness of this movement move-ment to organize the Black Hills into a territory is to gratify the ambition of a fow men who are anxious to get the offices. |