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Show THE TKKUITOKIES. Chen Chcoug, a Chin:! man, applied for naturalization papers, one day last week, in Seattle. There is a suspension of hostilities: between the Cliilcota and Sitka tribes of Indians at Sitka, who arc trying to compromise with blankets. Alaska puts fourth its cliiiuis to rival Minncotaas a resort for invalids, its winter climate averaging oO degree de-gree below zero, with remarkable ejuabilily f.ii- as it can It'll when the mercury isn't liuzen. Wool is being shipped iromuiynipia t-J Sin Francisco. About ,Ou0 pounds liavo already been sent away. Ihe price paid ranged fruin twenty-one twenty-one to twenty-livo ecu 1 3. Enough wiul is n-.-w produced un LlicSuiiii'.l u fai'Mdy a goixl-sized wvu!cii mill. farmers in the Deer Lodge Valley, MonUna, think there may ho a good of oat', but think that wheat will a short crop as, being eaten oil' by g'"shoppers, it will nut have- time to ui.tturo before the frosts. Advices from Plunnix hUtc thai there arc fears that considerable in-jury in-jury will bo done to this year's fruit crcp in Arizona, owing to the scarcity ot vater. Tho harvesting of the grain enp proceeds very' slowly, no ono as yet having threshed; whereas, at this time last year, more than half of the Kriiiu hi that section was housed. A private letter from Kootcnoy alaies that what arc eupposed to bo rich diggings havo been discovered in a bcalitv about eighty miles from l'ru)cn Creek, in the Big Bend country. A crowd has started out 1'ion Victoria to prospect. |