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Show FRONTIER NEWS. A oilver brick, weighing SG4 ounces, hr.3 been turned out at tho Denver mint. The valun of the improvements already made at Dead worn) city will foot up not less than $50,000. The Miners' and Mechanics' bank has been established iu Dead wood city. J. S. S. Woods is cashier. Cooper, Bailey & Co's circus drew large crowds at Denver last week, and it is highly spoken of by the press of that city. Work on tho extension of the Denver Den-ver & Rio Grande will be commenced in a few days. The road will be extended ex-tended to Fort Garland. On last Wednesday morning, a i little way ofT Cheyenne canon, a large cinnamon bear was seen sitting up poodle fashion and plucking berries with his fore-paws. The Denver Mirror Publishing company has been incorporated with j ft capital stock of $25,000. The in-! in-! 'corporators r.re L. C. Ellsworth, Stanley G. Fowler and A. B. Ingols. Dr. Haydeu and parly have arrived at Denver, from whence one division will proceed to southwestern Colorado to finish tip the work upon which Mr. Gardner was engaged when interrupted inter-rupted by the Sierra la Sal Indians last fall. A drunken printor and baker of Pueblo, Col., recently constructed a raft and embarked on the Arkansas for Wichita, Kansas. After traveling a short distaud the rait overturned, and both parties narrowly escaped drowning. The men and the liquor they had swallowed were more cargo than the raft could carry. A man named Fitzpatrick, a section sec-tion boss on the Denver & Rio Grande railroad, was shot and killed by Malachi Maucher, one of his men, at Canon city. Mencher hao circulated a story that Fitzpatrick had stolen a mule. On the return of the latter he gave Mencher a severe whipping and Mencher shot Filzatrick dead. It was expected tho murderer would be lynched. At Denver, on Tuesday evening, while Chirk Williami was engaged in the cage of the hippopotamus at Bailey's circus the In-.i't opened its huge jaws and closed them upon his left arm. Mr. Johnson, who has charge of the animals, seized a heavy and sharp-prongtd iron, used to uiu-trol uiu-trol the lions, and by a few vigorous blows drove the hippopotamus into a corner. The arm of Mr. Williams was very badly bruisetL and one ol the bones of the fore arm was broken by the jaws of the animal. Jack Langrishe's theatre a'- Dead-wood Dead-wood is proving very remunerative. It has a Beating capacity for ftbout 500 persons, a commodious stage and dressing rooms. The company is playing "The Streets of New York," and just as the charcoal-burniog suicide scene is reached, and the heroine is rescued just in the nick of time, a young woman, clad iu yellow siik trimmed in brigtit green, and see ted upon the tront settte, cleared her mouth of its cargo of tobacco Hiicc, and cried in disdainful tones that were perfectly audible all over tho bouse : "Oh, h 1 ! mat's a put up job!" There was a momentary lull, followed by a howl of Uoghter, m which even the dying actres-es were forced to join. |