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Show THE TERIUTORIUM. The first 'garden at Tacoma has been fenced in. Tho northwestern Territories have 73 Indian reservations. It costs only $G?-1 to run the Mon tana penitentiary a mouth. Idahoans protest against the abandonment aban-donment of the military post at Fort Boise. The loss of stock in Idaho has been greater this winter than ever before. But very few herds are Baid to be in anything like good condition. The Owyhee Avalanche states that the mining prospects fn Idaho were never better, and predicts a splendid turn out of the precious metals the coming season. A hall-bred named La Fountain, and ono named Gervais, have each been held in bonds of $500 to answer a charge of selling liquor to Indians at Walla Walla. A letter from Dayton, V. T., says: "The second winter that has sot in is destroying a great deal of stock of all descriptions, which is a groat hardship hard-ship upon our farmers and stock-growers." stock-growers." The Boise City Statesman of the 3d inst., says: "Since our last issue old Winter has taken his departure for the land of perpetual ice, and been succeeded by Spring, the venal goddess god-dess of whom poets are wont to rave, and sometimes characterize aa 'ethereal 'ether-eal mildness.' Wedou't go much on 'ethereal mildness,' but we know her to be a 'sweet, gushing maiden,' and all we have to eay is, 'let her gush.' " The Walla Walla Statesman of the 7th inst. says: " We understand that Col. Conoyer, in charge of the Umatilla Uma-tilla reservation, has received orders to gather up all the renegade Indiana in this section of the country and turn them over to the military. In the early part of the week Conoyer was in town for the purpose of conferring con-ferring with Col. Green in relation to these renegades, hut the latter not having received instructions from the War Department, nothing definite was accomplished, |