The disease known as farcy has made its…

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his control. He stood the matter until yesterday, when, watching his opportunity, he disarmed the guard in the office and ran a successful bluff at the mine and works. In a word, he drove off the new manager and his armed force and is again in possession of the property. The disease known as farcy has made its appearance hereabouts, and has occasioned considerable loss already. Lyons & Campbell have lost one valuable animal, and others are afflicted, among them their fine Percheron stallion, at the White House. The different cor- rals and stables in the city have not escaped, although no losses have been reported up to date. Eleven bear skins were brought into the county clerk’s office this week and the heads cut off and turned over to the county clerk, for which the owner receives $5 each from the territory. Tom Parker, an inebriated occupant of the city bastile, attempted to fire the building Tuesday. A hole was burned through the floor, and when rescued Tom was badly scared. ( 103 ) An Old Landmark Among the very many localities familiar to the early settler in these parts, may be men- tioned old Fort Cummings, 18 miles northeast of Doming, which once was a place of consid- erable importance, and around which clings many painful memories. This old post has but recently been trans- ferred from the war to the interior department, and will be sold.