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Show BLACK HILLS BANDITS. The banditti on the road between Choyenne and Dead wood have become so numerous, and they bo seldom meet with punishment for their misdeeds, mis-deeds, that the question naturally ariiies whether that section of country is in the United States? If it shall be decided in tho affirmative, then government gov-ernment should adopt meanures lor the protection of its citizens there and their property. If some action he not taken before long, tbe triages will have to be withdrawn, as no private company can teed and maintain main-tain Buch a lormidable band of rob hers as the one that now iutests tbe black Hills road. A writer in the Omaha Herald suggest as the best and quickest remedy loi tho evil the distribution of a cavalry regiment at short intervals along the route with orders to patrol the lino and adjacent country. Be says tho "question of coat cannot be urged as an objection, when we consider the fact that the whole thing can be done for less than it takes to uppurt tue road agents for a single month." The road agents are a raoro terrible enemy to the Black tdills country than tbe Indians themselves, them-selves, hence the troops could be scarcely more profitably employed than in suppressing tbem. |