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Show I THE FRONTIER. ( VfVOltlNG. The mail sacks carried by Dillon, . who was killed by Indiaus on the Sidney route some weeks ago, were brought to Cheyenue 00 Monday. The red devils ripped them open with their kniveB, took out the mail, opened tho letters and then scattered letters and papers to the four winds. The Cheyenne i.eader ia very wickedly endeavoring to undermine bidnoy, Nebraska, as a Black Hills outfitting point. According to this paper it is a very small place with only two or three small retail business houses. Its 500 inhabitants belong to the niOBt dangerous class of border ' outlaws, and all murderers, burglars 1 garroters and counterfeiters turn up ' finally at Sidney. It is unsafe for a passenger to attem pt to stop at Sidney on account of highwaymen. There : are 100 cases or small pox in the town. Besides there is no road between be-tween Sidney and the Hills, and the route is controlled by Indian?, mur-ders mur-ders and horse thieves. The names of the Sioux chiefs 1 killed near the post at Tomrue river , by the Crows, while comini: iu under 1 k n . ce-are M ,ollows: Sitting Bull, of the Ogalallas, who received ho - present of the Winchester rifle from President Urant; Bull EaRle " who recently made a treaty wkl General Milles, and agreed to retire Uentibed by a Sioux .quaw at the ai who CrP,' 11,6 ' M tioneu A! whom she did not see. Ono of the AfteT tm g,?' 'h,e Wi"M rifle. i Alter killing the duels the Crows co' " alarmed and ran off, excepti twelve, who were caught anT'S J |