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Show THE TERRITORIES. .7 The measles arc severe at Walla Walla.-' - : ;,. . Twenty-seven pairs- of elk horns were shipped on the bark Samoset from Tacoma last week. They are destined tor Europe. - About fifty sea-otter pelts have, been obtained this season on -the ocean beach north of Gray's Harbor. The hunters have received from $10 to $-50 dollars each for the pelts..,n ThcOIyrnpia Transcript justly complains com-plains of the wanton destruction of elk in the vicinity of Gray's Harbor, . Two hunters recently killed seventeen of these lordly animals, taking only their hides. Recent geograplrical surveys of the new Territories revealed the import- . ant fact that tbe known coal deposits oj tire Eocky Mountain region ex-, tend over an area of upward oi 250,-000 250,-000 square milea, in strata varying from five to thirty-five feet in thickness. thick-ness. A delegation of chiefs of Mountain Crow Indians left Bozcman, Mont, for Washington, in charge of Major F. D. Pease, on a visit to the President. Presi-dent. They are fine-looking, remarkably remark-ably intelligent,, and have always been true friends of the whites. Black-foot and Iron Bull are the most prominent chiefs in this party. |