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Show THE TERRITORIES. The principal Idaho city merchants have published a card agreeing to do no business on Sundays after tho 5th of December next. Seven gambling house are in full blast in Chuyenne, Bays the Leader, and two more aro coming. Will there be money enough to go around? The Cheyenno Leader gays that the Rock Springs miners have struck for higher wages, and that they threaten to become riotous in their proceedings, proceed-ings, and to take possession of the Wyoming coal company's stores and other property at the mines. Denver's fire department consists , of 22 officers and 1G5 mon, with three hoao and two hook and ladder companies. com-panies. During ihc past aix months the department was called out thirty-five thirty-five times, twenty-six limes on account ac-count of fires aad nine times on account ac-count of false alarms. Losses, $21 -185; insurance, $13,575. ' There was a notahlo wedding at Albuquerque, New Mexico, last week ot Mibs Lola Chares, daughter of Col-1 onel J. Franciaco Chaves, of Los Lunas, to Don Mariano Armijo, a member of the wealthy family of Ar-mijos. Ar-mijos. There wero fully 500 guests, and the nuptials wore soloniuizud' with all the honors. Tho hand of tho 8th cavalry was tranported from Santa F6 for tho occnuion. Gov. Thnyer, in his message to the Wyoming legislature, saya tbore is a balance in the treasury of $8,77(5.30, with no territorial debt. Tho viilue of assessable property in tho territory is shown to bo, in 1875, $8,081, 000 an increase of $1,500,000 since last year. The amount of taxea levied thia year, for territorial purposes, is $20,052.24. The governor says Urn taxes are getting too heavy, and recommends re-commends greater economy. A simpler and less exponsivo form of government is urged, also the pasaago of a law empowering tho executive lo suspend or remove corrupt or inefficient ineffi-cient officials. A repeal of . -the immigration im-migration board is reconyti ended, ns 1 this law haa been only' Vuscml in providing pro-viding soft places for worthless political polit-ical mondicantx, at tho public ox- , penso. Huggeationa aro made in I regard to measures for tho protection of stock owners against thieves, and in order to induce the investment of outside capital in manufactories, a law ia proposed that will permit the people of tho dillcront localities to ofJect a rebate ol taxation upon such capital, until the experiment of tho manufacturing interest ehall havo boon fairly tried and made a profitable profit-able ono. Tho subject of female nuf-' nuf-' fiage ia next touched upon, and iu experiment for noarly aix years in Wyoming is pronounced to have de monstrated the wisdom of the first legislative nssombly in adopting it. Its uiidinturbcd contiuuaneo ia recommended. re-commended. Tho question of biennial bien-nial elections in the territory, at which all tho elective offices shall bu filled, ia recommended to tho conaid-oration conaid-oration of tho legislators. |