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Show At last "old Jack Rand" is free again, after having Berved out four years of the fourteen for which he was sentenced to the penitentiary. He received his pardon last Tuesday, from the hands of the Governor, on condition "that he will leave the Territory and never return." It will be remembered that he killed a freighter named Campbell, down on the Benton road in '70. Old Jack is a character, and perhaps has a better knowledge ef the Rocky Mountain Territories than almost any other man who has lived in Montana. He claims tn have been in the mountains continuously since 1S44, following, principally, hunting and trapping for a livelihood. Ha was a Boldier in I he Mexican war, accompanied Gen. Fremont in his westward march, has never seen a railroad but once in his life, and only the telegraph lines of this Territory. Helena Independent. |