The remarkable feature of this adventure…

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and emaciated with hunger, and Roman supposing he was to be sent back to Fort Riley, begged Captain Brannigan to shoot him. Roman was taken to the agency, kindly cared for, and when his case had been represented to the new agent he was restored to his family and friends. The remarkable feature of this adventure consists in these naked and bare foot Indians having in forty days traversed on foot two thirds of the state of Kansas, a large portion of Colo- rado, and two thirds of New Mexico, without having been seen, so far as known, by a single white man; and this, while every exertion was being made by the military and state officials to discover their whereabouts and arrest them. I have no hesitation in saying that no four white men in the United States could accomplish the same feat under the same circumstances. Albert J. Fountain The new contracts for furnishing beef and wood to the territorial prison allow the follow- ing rates : Six and one-half cents per pound for meat and $2.74 per cord for wood. — Yuma Sentinel. It is an old story says the Denver Record, of the two cowboys from Arizona who were taking their first meal at the Windsor. One who had a few of the advantages of life, helped himself to the celery, Vv^hen the other clutched him by the arm and whispered: “My God! Bill, don’t give us away by eating the bouquet.”