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Show THE TERRITORIES The faro Irom Helena to Sioux citv Grasshoppers have done much damage in parts of Southern Colorado. Colo-rado. The new mining camp of Sunshine now ''oastsof 300 dwelling hcuse3 and five hotels. The Helena Independent reports very favorable business indications in that vicinity. A large number ot persons have left Corinne this spring for Montaua in private conveyances. William Cleburne has been promoted pro-moted to the position of chief engineer of the Union Pacific railroad. Montana holds its sixth annual fair at Helena, beginning on the 27th of September and continuing six days. It is H bad year for democratic papers at Denver. Tlie Transcript has. just gone under, but the Democrat has I got down to a 7 x 9 bed rock. Chief Justice Fisher, ot Wyoming, was taken suddenly ill, last Saturday afternoon while on the bench at Cheyenne; Chey-enne; he was threatened with paralysis paraly-sis and obliged to adjourn court. The Denver Kcics estimates that half a million head of cattle will this summer graze upon tbe various ranges !oug the Kansas Pacific and tho Ucinson, Topeka aud Santa Fe railroads. rail-roads. The Colorado De.nocra! says that Ihe old stagers of tlie republican parly fcre afraid that it part' lines are craw n in tlie election of delegates to the constitutional convention they may ledelcated in strait vo'.e by demo- : au.it. , j A PugIiIo paper says: Ever since 1 the scheme of building tho Pueblo j it Salt Luke road, to connect with the ,J.. T. & S. F. was inaugurated, it las been vigorously fought by the K. T. company. When fa ir means failed, I bribery, corruption and law suits were resorted to, and the amount f money al'creri in bribes by that company snowed of how much value a monop-oy monop-oy of the trade of Southern Colorado aud New Mexico was to them. But s.nco the consolidation of the U. F. aid the K. P., the prize is much greater. The defeat of Uiis independent n.ilroad connection would leave Southern Colorado at the mercy of this great monopoly. |
