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Show THE TERRITORIES. Vegetables command a very high price at Santa Fe. Thirty-five persons have struggled up to the top of Pike's Peak this season. sea-son. A young man named Griffith was murdered at Virginia, Mont., on the 9th, by some Frenchman. ; Ex-Marshal Shaffeaburg, of Colo- his innocence and urges an investigation.- . i . . A "drive" of 50,000 railroad tics, for the Pueblo and Salt Lake road, is coming down the South Arkansas rivor. Judge Brazee , has gone to Lake county, Col., to open court, and the recent acts of mob law are to be investigated inves-tigated by a grand jury. The Denver Democrat says that Governor Koutt will not pay the offered reward to the men who Bhot down Hall and Leighton. A lunar rainbow, with both ends apparently resting on the Black Hills, was visible at Laramie, Wednesday night, from 9 to 10 o'clock. The people of Montana are urging upon congress the improvement of the upper Missouri river, and a report ii nd estiniHte will be presented to the next congress. A company has been organized at Silverton, Col., with a capital of $50,-000, $50,-000, to construct a wagon road from Antelope Park to the AnimaB, up the Rio Giande river. The salt trade of Grant county, New Mexico, 1b swelling to enormous proportions, pro-portions, and it is estimated that 1,000,000 pounds will be consumed this year by the mills of Silver city alone. The Helena Independent says: A prominent business man in Cheyenne, writing to a gentleman in this city, says there is a strong probability that the Wyoming legislature will grant a subsidy to tho railroad proposed from that place up into the eastern part of Montana. Long Horee, the old Crow chief in Montana, recently shuffled off the imui mt u iU ltuu iniuan dignity, ric told hi; warriors that thy would always do well lo listen to tho whites. To his son he aid: "Never shake bands with the Sioux, but rather die as I die," By an arrangement between the Union Pacific an.l Kansas Paoifh: railroads all through tickets via the Union and Denver Pacific rouds (o points south of Cheyenno, and all through tickets via the Kansas nnd Denver Pacific roads to all poinl went ul Cheyenne, are to be withdrawn. The Denver News thinks tho result ot (hid arrangement will be to cut off a largo amount of travel controlled by the northern roads centering at Omaha, forcing all through travel to California and the PaciGc const to go via Omnha. The difference in favor of the hitter route from Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Wimhincion is $-j7, and from Kansas city $4fl.50, an increaso which is really prohibitory. Such ia the ultimate result of all attempts at railroad competition. |