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Show THE TERRITORIES. L. B. Jewell has been eleoted maytr of Prcscott, Arizona, unnncs unas, lormer y m mano, ; died in Lima, Peru, on the 7th of No- ve ruber. Efforts arc being made to s'art a mail line from Port 'J'owDsend, U;a San 1 J uan and Orcs, te Semiabmoo. Judge Baker, who uscq to edit the Colorado Herald, is now in England, vi.-itiog the Cornish tin mines. There is a report current of a fight between the Indians of the Zuni district, dis-trict, New Mexico, and the Navajoes. Thirty Navajoes and fifteen Indians of the Zuni district were killed. The ambition of some towns on Pu-get Pu-get Sound is only cquelled by their modesty. The Express wants to know if preparations cannot be made to save Stcilacoom from such calamities as bo-, bo-, fcl the siter cities', Boston and i Chie-igo. A letter in the Olympia Courier, I from the Indian ageut at fort ColvUle, ' concerning tho earthquake, says: '"Most of the Indians that I have heard from are very much frightened and in some instances fatal results have followed. One woman of the lower Spokanes loft her mind and wandered oil to the mountains and wai found dead a day or two afterward. e;eral others arc quite ill lrom its effects." Tho weather in the Puget Sound ' country has been of such a oharactor of late as to commend it to the Eucoial - favorable notice cf tho newspapers over 5 tiicre. Tho Tribune says: "Bugs and I moths and flies are returning to life. J while swarms of mosquitoes aod goats may daily be seen Hear pools ofstand- ing water. Frogs are bcoomiug nightly j mote Dumcroui and noisy, trees are : ngain budding; all nature, io short, is I yawning in token of awaking from its j winter slumber," |