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Show THE TERRITORIES. Tiie newly elected legislator of N'ew Mexico are scheming to get the terniori-d capital away from danta Ft. The railroad from Cheyenue west is lined with tramp-, some going to L'lah and California, and some to Colorado. The federal government has determined deter-mined to erect a military telegraph intra Santa Fe to Arizona, and will thus furnish us another line across the continent. A peach, pear, and apple, the first weighing " ounces, tiie second 11 ounces, and the third 1GJ ounces, were plucked from trees in the bishop's bish-op's garden in riauta Fc, last week. A Laramie journalist presented the president with a box ot cigars. The next thing we know that editor will ' be wanting a consulship in some foreign for-eign country, for his health. Denver iVe irr. It is rumored that ex-Secretary Rnrip. whose fortune amounts to $10.- 0U0,UW, will furnish $000,000 of the suih to be raised for the extension of iheD. nver i Rio (Jrande railway to Trinidnd. Ourty, the Ute Indian chief of Colorado, was closeted with President Grant hall an hour on Saturday night at Denver in an interview in reference refer-ence to the boundaries of the Ute reservation. So many outrages have been committed com-mitted lately on tho road between Foils Laramie and ietterman tnai (ieneral Crook has ordered a company of cavalry to do constant patrol duty on that route. A Denver grocer put up a presidential presiden-tial lunch lost week which included tho following "straight goods:" Liquors, cigars, ireah fruits, canned goods, condiments, teas and coffees, paU dc Joii yrcis, fresh peas and mushrooms, prunes, mirabellcst and peches an jii3, whatever that is. The sporting event of the past week ut Laramie was a tight between a badger and a bull-dog. Pools were sola", tho Danger Doing too lavuriw, nnd tho fight, which lusted thirty minutes, wad witnessed by an excited crowd of two hundred persons. The I , badger tinally drove the dog yelping from tho ring. |