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Show FRONTIER NEWS. At Montana city, on Splittail gulch, two men are reported to be taking out f 50 each per day. There are about 1,000 men now employed on the minea in the vicinity of Iron, Potato, Bear and Sand creeks. The Grst military dmsion of Dead-wood Dead-wood haa fifty volunteers, the second has sevenly-five and the third two hundred. The ditch from Beaver creek to Potato gulch is over three miles in length and has just been completed at a cost of $5,000. Tho Father De Sraet mine has a tunnel ninety-eight feet in length running through a solid body ol ore. The width of the vein is unknown. A bilk calling himself G. E, Robinson, Robin-son, and claiming to be agent for a Boston publishing house, haa been awindliug tha people of Green river. The Arizona Enterprise has a description de-scription of a two-headed girl baby recently brim near Prescott, which at the last accounts was alive and quite healthy in appearance. All the Montana papers contain accounts of the organization and arm-ing arm-ing of military couipunics for protec' tion against the raid of the hostile Indians to that territory. Over 1,000 miners and prospectors are now in the mining districts to the north of Prescott. Three years ago yeu could almost count the entire population on your fingers. Snerifl Bullock will organize under ordera from the governor of Dakola five (o) companies of cavalry as follows: fol-lows: Dead wood, 2; Troy city, 1; SpearfUu, 1; Crook city, 1. Willie A. Kuykendall, eight years old, Bon of Judge Kuykendall of Cheyenne, Chey-enne, was thrown from a horse on Tuesday morning last, and bis foot catching iu the stirrups, was dragged to death over the rough streets of the city. Parties for the Big Horn are beginning begin-ning to move out from Spearfish again, Lieut, Lemly arrived there on tho 2Gtn with oil of his men. The Indiana are Btitl depredating in that vicinity, and more murders are anticipated. antici-pated. At the announcement of the reward for captured Indians, several companies com-panies were Becretly organized at Deadwood and moved quietly away as if in Bearch of some rich quartz digginga. One man was so anxious to earn the i2o0 prizy that he stole a rifle from the store of Leimer fc Co. We have pointed out, time and again, the fact that, in the course of time, our business connections must be with the east, for the reason that we can trade wilh New York on a cheaper basis than we can wilh San Francisco, aid (or the reason that something must be done to break down the freight monopoly of the Southern Pacific railroad or, otherwise, other-wise, the people of northern Arizona must be in the thrallsof that corporation corpora-tion forever. Prescott Enterprise. |