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Show THE TERRITORIES. Golden proposes a firemen's tournament tourna-ment next Thanksgiving day. E. W. Jones has retired from the editorship of tho Idaho World, President Grant was pressed to make two of his short speeches at Denver. Ho tnid he hoped to have the privilege of taking all the people by the hand. . At the Montana fair last week, the littlfi win of llarrv Svkes. six and a half years old, received the premium of a saddle and bridle ollered tor the best riding by a boy under twelve years of age. Denver has made a contract with the gas company for three years for supplying the street lamps at the rate of $2.85 per thousand ieet of gas actually used, and $45 per year lor each lamp post. A driver on tho Btago line between Colorado Springs and ' Fairplay skipped out a few days ago with a package of 61,000, consigned by the 1st national bank of Denver to O. G. Hathaway, a Fairplay banker. The recent tin ore discovery at Tie-siding, Tie-siding, on the U. P. railroad, does not bear out tho hopes of the discoverer. The railroad geologist who has examined it does not think much ol tho discovery. Tho ore gives a trace of tin. There are 82 individuals and firms in Laramie county, Wy., who arc I assessed on $5,000 or more. The valuation val-uation of the U. P. railroad in tuc county is SSJU.SfiO; tho Denver Pacific railroad, $102,000; the Western Union telegraph, $5,026. It is reported that Jim Kannon, A Colorado scout and guide, who is the i author of some tall tales about himself, was shot and killed on Snake river, a few days ago, by a man named Baker, a squaw being at tho bottom of the trouble. John Ward, a native of Spain, for soveral years tho companion and friend of Kit Carson, and for ten years iigcnc 01 too men 10 Indians in New Mexico, died at Canon city, Col,, on the 5th, of pneumonia. Ho conversed in the Uto language very fluently . Chief Justice Diuino, of Arizona, has been making himself obnoxious by denunciations of the public school ' Bystem, as well as rendering court i decisions that do not suit the peoplo, and petitions have been sent to the attorney general for hia removal. Rev. Mr. Hammond's recent visit to Sitka, Alaska, is described by a correspondent as a signal failuro. Ho Ho is rated a religious humbug by the people. 11 waa hardly proper to oak 0 very body ho met, "Do you love Jesus?" Ho asked this of a squaw who happened to bo "three sheets in tho wind," and alio replied with staggering omphasis, "You bet! Who aro you ?" P. B. Wintcrmute, who wns recently re-cently acquitted at Yankton, Dakota of the murder of Gon. E. S. McCook' in 1873, wiw not very well received by the gueBts of tho Mechanics' hotal and a crowd of peoplo gathered in tho oflico and grew ao noiy and outspoken out-spoken in their demonstrations against Wintcnmito, that ho became frightened and hid in tho hotel laundry laun-dry all night, where he WHscuimled by threo olhcors. In tho morning ho took tho early train and got out of town, going eastward. Tho Clioyonno Under thinks that tho failure of tho government commission commis-sion to make a treaty with tho Sioux for tho cession oi tho Black Hills will not prevent, tho return of the men who have located mines thorn Neither will tho fear of tho Indians prevent very many of that dawn from going to tho Black Hilln, this full and winter, who will nut bo dialudged by tho Sioux. They will run great rinkn 111 going thoro and in remaining but they will go all tho mimo. Cluld exists I there and Iho minora know it, and proposo logo thoro and dig boiuo or it out. |