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Show THE TEKKITOKIE5. It costs the government S110.S33 per year to carry the mail from Kit Carson to Santa Fc. Dennis O'Connor, a private of company com-pany M, eighth cavalry, at Fort Union, N. M., attempted to commit suicide a few days ago by cutting his throat. There has been a grand "potlatch" among the lower Sound Indians near Seattle. It is estimated that over 1,500 Indians were present. A band of horses numbering two hundred will be driven from Idaho to Missouri next Spring. A Washington Territory lad, fourteen four-teen years old, killed a bear's cub the other day while the old bear stood by and looked on. The grain and potato crops in some parts of Montana have been almost total to-tal failures this year. The grasshopper grasshop-per did it for the grain, and Jack Frost for the farinaceous tuber. Abraham Whilson, a young man. was stooping at a hotel m Missoula. Montana, not long since. In thu night he got up in his sleep, walked out of the house into Hellgate river and was drowned. |