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Show TIIE TERRITORIES. It is estimated that the wheat crop in Montana this year ia 50 per cent. , less than last, and the oat crop 33 per cent. less. Col. Steele, re-elected Delegate to Congress from Wyoming, has gone up among the Indian agencies. It is thought at Cheyenne that he will slip off to the Black Hills before he returns. Apples are selling in the Helena1; Montana, market at $7 and $S per box of 50 lbs; California grapes retail at $1 per lb; peaches, 75 cents; pears, 75 cents. Last week, Pat Smith, new of Walla Wal-la Walla, but formerly of Portland, Oregon, sold five full-blood merino bucks to Charles Jewell, State Senator-elect Senator-elect from Umatilla county, for $00 each, or $450 for the lot. The Walla Walla, Washington Territory, Ter-ritory, Union says, "that a Mr. Jas. Atchinson, of that place, has gone crazy recently, and has been sent to the asylum. Religious excitement is the cause." |