Waste Of Buffalo

■Your special correspondent, on the tramto-day fron this place to Fargo, met a gentleman just from Miles City, Montana, where he had boen for the past iour inonths buying fors. lie left Miles City the 14th inst., and csuneoverland on a buckboard to Bisiuarck, as all trains on the Northern Paeilic west of the Missouri river have heen nbandoned on account of snow. The flnn he representa has bought 18,000 buffalo bidt during the f;tll and winter, and he says 83,000 have been pnrchased by the buyers at Miles City dwing tlie past fall and winter, and the nuinber cannot possibly be bought again in one season, as they have been slaughtered by the wholesale. The gentleman referred to is one of the Iargest fur dealers in Michigan, and for the past live yoars has been pushing to the front in the fur trade, and fíives it as his opinión that of the 80,000 killed neiir Miles City this stason all but 20,000 were slaughtered fot their bidés alone. Although the law nf Montana prohibí U the killing of buflalo for their bidés only, this wholesale slaughter continúes, and to those on the extreme front i quite ir. souree of reven ue, as the hides have brought this season f rom 2.25 to $2.75 each. - Pioneer v ss, Anicteoric stone weighing 375 grammes, triangular in shape and of a erystalline appcarance, feil last munth at Wiener Ncustadt, and as it feil to the sarth, whfch it penetrated a considerible tiistuiifv. t gave forth a verybriliant light.