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Show FRONTIER NEWS. The Union Pacific is lined with tramps between Pine Blufia and Evanston. A few days ago a Cuiter city prospector pros-pector found in an old shaft a quart bottle of whisky, which was supposed to be from ton to twtnty years old. ; It proved as good as a nugget of gold to him, as he took it into Custer and sold it for 30. , Harry Alward, mail carrier near Tongue river, lost his way recently 1 and had a narrow escape from starvation. starva-tion. In his wanderings ho swam the Yellowstone river three times, and finally started back for Tongue river, when be was discovered by a station keeper on the opposite side of the river, but bis horse waB so exhausted exhaust-ed that he could not cross, and he remained re-mained there during the day constructing con-structing a raft on which ht crossed in the evening. General Sheridan will join General Crook at Cheyenne next week, from whence he will make along the base of the Big Horn mountains to the Little Big Horn, hunting and fishing along the road, and will visit the scene of the Custer massaora. It is expected that he will meat Gvneral Nelson A. Miles and his little army on Powder river, and that after viiiting the Custer battle-field he will do down the Missouri river andacrosB to Bismarck, returning to Chicago by way of St. Pdul, Minn. P. W. Norris, superintendent the National park at Yellowstone has issued a series of rules for the regulation regula-tion of visitors. All hunting, fiibiog or trapping except for purposes ol ic creation, or to suddIv food for visitors or actual residents is strictly prohibited; pro-hibited; no fires must be left burning; no lumber must be cut without a written permit from the supetinten-dent; supetinten-dent; visitors are prohibited from breaking the silicious or calcareous borders or deposits surrounding or in the vicinity ot tae springs or geysers for any purpose, or the remoral, oarrying away or sale of specimens found within the park. Persons will not be permitted (o reside permanently perma-nently within the limits of tho park without permission from the secretary of the interior. The superintendent com p rains that for the past two years 1 great injury has been done by (be careless use of fire, wanton slaughter of rare and valuable animals, and vandalism of matchless wonders, and he appeals in the interest of science to all to abstain, and use all influence in urging others to desist from future vandalism of all kinds in the lofty romantic "wooderland." |