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Show FRONTIER KEWS. J The Laramie rolling mill is now in operation night and day. The distance from Fort Laramie to Custer city over the surveyed lino for the Biack Hills railroad is I'll miles. WyomiDg will hold an election for members of the territorial council and house of representatives under the new aDportionment on the 1st Tuesday of September. Half a dozen ' powerful steam pumps are now at work on Castle creek. Black Hills, and the rich gold deposits of that stream are being developed thoroughly. General Sheridan says that it was Lame Deer's band of Siour Indians wliinh rer.dntlv attackfid tha aurvev- which recently attacked the surveying survey-ing party under Lieut. Lemlyon, Spearfish creek. Tho surveyors have finished running the boundary between be-tween Dakota and Wyoming territories. terri-tories. Special Agent J. B. Furay arrived in Evanaton, Wyoming, laetThuraday, haviug in charge Leander Martin, whom he bad arrested at Lander city for robbing the' mail. Martin was clerk in the poitoffice at Lauder city. Ou the 17th of June Mr. Amoretta bad a letter registered at that office for Mr. Lathrop, at Bryan, contaioing 150. Martin thinking that a good haul, cut the end 06 the registred envelope, extracted the letter, served it in the same manner, and secured the money. He then, with mucilage, neatly stuck the ends together, making a very nice job ol it. He confesses the crime, and has put his confesiion in writing. He was hound over in the sum ef $2,000. There was left at this office yesterday yester-day by John McClary, of claim No. 15, below, on Whitewood, au axe or large hatchet of peculiar make. It was dug from bed rock, nine feet be neath the surface, and it is evident that it hag lein beneath the accumulating accumu-lating earth. The axe or hatchet is of French Btyle, about six inches in length by four acroBB tho edge, with au eye two inches in diameter; it is of mailoable iron, and coated with a cruat of ruat, black Band, mineral depoaits, through which many gold colors are plainly discernable, The conclusion is that the hatchet, attached at-tached to which is still a portion of the original handle, somewhat converted con-verted into a mineral composite, showing mica elate and gold colors, was modeled by skilled labor, and Irom the number of human bones there exhumed, it is evident that many years ago a battle ensued between be-tween natives and explorers, or perchance per-chance those ancient pioneers who penetrated the wilds of the Hills, perished in the gulcb, and since that day tho change wrought by busy nature, haB placed above them nine feet of earth rich in gold deposits. Black Hilla Times. |