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Show NORTHWEST NOTES The gold output for the Cripple j ,Creek district during Kovember was .$2,168,758. 1 People now travel from Colorado Springs to Cripple Creek for 30 cents, due to a railroad war. The Denver postoffice has sold during dur-ing the eleven months of this year postage stamps valued at $469,006.99. Charles Clark, a self-confessed incen-;diary, incen-;diary, was sentenced to twenty-five years in the pen by a juitge at Stockton, Stock-ton, Cal. An unknown man was killed in the .yards at Sheridan, Wyo., Friday night while attempting to steal a ride on a Burlington freight. The Laramie Cement company has shipped about 200 carloads of cement during the present year. Almost all of the product went west. Ernest Sherman and James Murphy, two young men convicted of larceny, who broke jail at Iiasin, Wyo., a week ago, returned and gave themselves up. John K. Barr, formerly a prominent merchant and manufacturer of Denver, has been convicted of robbing Mrs. Mary Betts of 87,000 worth of diamonds. Deer in the Casper mountains, Na-.trona Na-.trona county, Wyo,, are being rapidly xterminated. One man is said to have killed six deer this year, three of tbem does. Work on the Carnegie public library at Cheyenne is progressing rapidly., It is expected the building will be opened with a grand house-warming some time in January. At Monument, Colo., Thursday. Geo. W. Kizer died from the effects of drinking drink-ing wood alcohol. Kizer was an intemperate intem-perate 'man and had been forbidden to drink at a saloon. John A. Horback, oDe of the pioneer business men and capitalists of Omaha, died at his ranch near Burlington, in Big Horn county, after suffering three years from paresis. ' Eugene V. Debs, the labor leader, lias accepted the invitation to make the address at the opening of the West- v . ern Federation of Mirier' convention In Denver next May. . While trying to exhibit his skill with a revolver, A. L. Burdette, town mar-shall mar-shall of Fort Morgan, accidentally discharged the weapon, narrowly missing mis-sing Charles N. Schooley. The Y. M. C. A. of Colorado Springs has refused an offer to sell the silver-plated silver-plated trowel used by president Roosevelt Roose-velt last August in laying the cornerstone corner-stone of its new building. Ed Boyd, a man who was marriedin Casper, Wyo,, several months ago and who had another wife in the country, is wanted in Fremont county ori a charge of horse-stealing. Contractor Nils Callahan of the Laramie, Lar-amie, Hahn's Peak & Pacific railroad has moved his grading camps to the Little Laramie river, and the grade will be finished to the river shortly. The report that John W. Gates, the steel magnate, has purchased the rolling roll-ing mills at Laramie, is now stated to be correct. The details of the deal will be made public in a few days. Engineer William White, who was injured in the wreck on the Southern Pacific at Salem, Ore., Saturday nrght, has since succumbed to his injuries. There is no clue to the train-wreckers. J. F. Swezea, who runs a collection agency in Seattle, has been indicted on the charge of sending dunning letters let-ters in envelopes which very plainly announced the purpose of the missive they enclosed. Officials of the Burlington are' in Sheridan, Wyo., superintending the installation in-stallation of the tie-curing plant that has been moved from Edgmont, 8. D. Over 100 men will be employed in the work of curing ties. Mrs. XV. H. Bass has on exhibition in Laramie a bunch of pansies which were picked Friday last from a flower bed on the Laramie plains. The pansies are in full bloom,, fragrant and as bright as in mid-summer. John M. Morton of Pueblo was probably prob-ably fatally injured at the rolling mills of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company in Laramie, last week. Both eyes were put out and his body cut and bruised by some hot slag. Reports from the Red Deseret country coun-try are to the effect that sheep are Buffering severely with thirst. The borders of the stream have been denuded de-nuded of feed and the animals must go back into the range country or starve. |