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Show THE TERRITORIES. Boss Tweed was caught in Cheyenne on April fool day. The Xcarfcrdid it. The product of the gold and silver mines wet of Rocky Moan tains will this year be a little short of one hundred hun-dred million dollars. The rich desposits of "tellurium" recently discovered at Monitor, Colorado, Color-ado, lurnd oat to be noL tellurium at, all, but iron pyrites. I More bears have been seen in Idaho during the past winter than ever before, be-fore, and as tho heavy suows have driven them into the valleys in search of food, they are a great annoyance to farmets and and stock-raisers, whose lings and young calves they slaughter iu large numbers. Mike Woods, a trapper in Dakotah, not far from the Black Hills, recently killed two deer, one of which he bung up ou the outside of his shanty, and then turned in for a night's repose. He had not been long in bed when he was startled by an uuusal noise, and got up to aee what the occasion was, when he found four or live wolv.s devouring the deer. He endeavored to drive them away, whereupon Lhry attacked at-tacked him, and used him up so badly that he is confined to his bed, and is , in a very critical condition. Thoolitor of the Saguache Chro-nirlr, Chro-nirlr, a paper puhliahed in the midst of thu Mexican population of Colorado, Color-ado, fpeak ing of tho publication of tho constitution in Spanish, gave the following hopeful description of tho people's political condition: A to tho Spanish apraking ponulation, they don't want to understand it. They wi-n't uiiderrtlaud the comtitution I rintrd in Spanihh or any other lan uage. II' they did inil rulaml it, and it should prove the brut document of the kind ever submitted to an inldl-ligunt inldl-ligunt people, that laet would not influence- a dozen votes. An their loaders go, no will tho common herd, and the Hiibject of right or morit will not enter into tho c;iso. Jan. A. Unnkin, a deputy sheriff at Kawlim, started logo fnxu that place to l-'ort Slrele on hornuback. After traveling souie miles ho camo to a pond of water. IhstnounLing, and leading his horse to Lho edge of the pond tod 'ink, he slipped upon tho ico tint! fell, llio animal also slipping and falling on him. By this accident lho bono ol hii leg was broken square ofl'a luiloabove Ihe ankle. The horse upon recovering his feat ran away a (purler of a mile. Jtatikin knew that he was in a lonely place, oil the line of travel, and fifteen miles from any habitation, and that ho must catch tht- homo and ride to where lie could obtain a-nintaiiee, or elso probably perinli by the side of tho pony. He crawled, or dragged himself oa bands and kneep, to where the horae stood, but ju.-it as he was ahiut to seize the bridle rein, the boast ehied and ran back to the pond. Though mi tiering the most excruciating pain, and nearly exhmihted from having crawled ho far, be started back lo the pond, on bauds ai:d knees. Having IlO power leit in the broken limb, it was dr.ii;gid along over tho frozen ground, and p'oka and tilings. He finally reached the pond, when the horse, through tome uuual porversenets of of naUro, again gaiioped oil", but, as pul luck would have it, tho bridle rein ca'.i-iit in a sage, bush, and held tho 'Yriller'' until JUukin crawled up to him. He, by great difficulty, managed to mount, and rode until he met a man with a wagon, who hauled him lo Kawiius. Denver Xetcs. |