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Show FRONTIER NEWS. I Cuater city is reported to be a Wyoming Wy-oming town. Robert Patrick, sod of J. N. H. Patrick, arrived home on Monday from Yale college, where he haB been in attendance for the past yoar. D. J. McCann, the government freight contractor at Sidney, aud his confidential clerk, Paul Rollins, were arrested ou Monday Inst on the chargo of conspiracy to defraud the government. govern-ment. Doer Lodge, Montana, has a hen which tho other day hatched out twelve eyeless chickens. They were fine, large chickens, perfect otherwise, other-wise, and followed the hatching hen around a week or more beforo they died ol starvation. Major H. M. Lazelle, in command of the lorco recently sent from Fort Lincoln to the new post on Tongue river, has juBt made au official report to General Sheridan regarding the discovery of an exceedingly valnable and practically inexhaustible deposit of lignite coal on the Yellowstone, about 100 mileB from its mouth. Omaha is now excited over the hopes of furnishing fresh beei for the English market. Five of the largest markets in London, in addition to four now markets, started by stock companies gotten up for the purpose, are now making a specialty of American Amer-ican beef. The choicest cuts of American beef are sold for a shilling i pound, English beef, one shilling four pence. Iq reference to the propceod extension exten-sion of the Colorado Central railroad to Cheyenne, the Leader Bays that Boulder county will prcbably tiausfer the $200,000 iu the stock of that road it now holds in aid of the extension. The bonds of the Colorado Centra! company, to be issued at the rate of $15,000 per mile, on the proposed extension, are already negotiated at 90 cents on the dollar. Iron sufficient suffi-cient for twenty miles of road is already at Cheyenne. The remainder will arrive over the Union Pacific as last as desired, Denver business men attempted to leach Gould and Dillon at Cheyenne on Sunday, but Lhey had already Btarted for the cast. The Leader says that Denver's representatives rep-resentatives of the Denver Pacific stockholders, who only a few days before had beeu perfectly independent independ-ent of either the Union or Kansas Pacific management, have suddenly changed front, and to-day they are on their knees to Jay Gould, going even so far as to offer him. their $500,000 worth of Block in the Denvsr Pacific if he will only recall his decision in regard to the extension of the Colorado Central railroad to Cheyenne. |