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Show FRONTIER NEWS. In the United Sutes court at Den- ' ver, hist Sam relay, Judge Hallett ' sentenced M. A. Shaffenburg, recently convicted of siguing false vouchers aa marshal of Colorado, to two years at bard labor in the penitentiary nt Leavenworth. The Leader eayd it has the personal assurance from General Superinten dent Clark, of the Union Pacific railroad, rail-road, that Cheyenne will be the initial ini-tial point of the proposed Black Hills railroad if the people of Cheyenne and Laramie county hold out proper inducements. Cheyenne can certainly cer-tainly afford to grade fifty or even a hundred miles of road bed, and this inducement will be sufficient. The Bozcman (M. T,) Times is authority for the statement that of the $120,1101) appropriated for the Crows by cougusi last year, but $7,000 has been placed in the hands of the government agency at Boze-man. Boze-man. Medicine Bear's son, when in Bis niarck a few days since, says he was in the hostile camp commanded by Sitting Bull, with his father; that the Indians wore not so destitute of am munition as was generally supposed, but would avoid fighting as much as possible during the rest of the winter. ' |