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Show THE TERRITORIES. The wife of Dr. George W. Corey died in Cheyenne recently. Over on Snake river, in Idaho, thousands of cattle froze to death this winter. ! The Preshyterians of Cheyenne have just ordered a $3,000 organ for their new church. ! ' Owing to a rotten ladder in ft mine at Central, CM., Alfred Johnson fell 100 feet and was killed. The Sioux Indians have increased the price for the Black Hills. They want a cool million now. The Lonymont Press has faith that the proposed new road to Cheyenne will be built this summer. The great trotting burse, "Occident, "Occi-dent, passed through Ogden from California a few days ago. j Red - Cloud is reported as saying I that 500 men are already encampuU in or near the new gold fields. The Union Pacific railroad offers to transport the Boston party of Black Hills immigrants for half f;ire trom Omaha to Chevenne. It is said that the Denver and Rio Grand uarrow gauge railroikl will be' extended southward towards .New Mexico next summer. Tho Black Hiils emigrants who have gone to Bismarck, find their progress south westward interfered with by detachments ot troops. At Bozeman, Montana, a prospector pros-pector and pioneer named Way, is drumming up a party of one hundred and will show them the way to fortune. for-tune. The Cheyenne leader says that Thomas H. Mf llony, an old Idaho, Montana and Utah miner, who was with C.iptain Bob Bailey's expedition in thy Big Horn country in 1S66, has arrived there from Salt Lake city. He has personal knowledge of tho existence of gold in that country, and proposes to visit the same as Boon as government will permit visits to be made. ' A recently made benedict writes as follows concerning his young wife's habits: "II there was a bedroom a mile long and her wardrobe could be packed in a band-box, still you'd find portions of that wardrobe scattered along the whole mile of dressing room. She's a nice thing to look at when put together, but this wonderful creature is evolved from a chaos interminable of pins, ribbon's, rags, powder, thread, brushes, combs and laces. If there were seven tbousaud drawers in your room, and you asked but for one to be kept sacred and inviolate for your own private use, that particular one would be lull ot hair-pins, ribbons and Boiled cufi'd. Some provision, home protection in this matter should be made by the legislature tins present session, if it gives such mailers any consideration." |