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Show NORTHWEST NOTES The new steel and wagon company's plant, now under construction in Pueblo, Colo., will employ 300 men. Two children were poisoned a few days ago" at Cora, Wyo., by eating canned can-ned goods and are in a critical condition. condi-tion. A three-foot vein of coal has been Btruck about fifteen miles south of La Junta, Colo. The vein was struck at a depth of sixty feet. Government authorities are taking steps to put a stop to the sale of intoxicating in-toxicating liquors to the Indians at Fort Washakie, Wyo. James Hughes, a lessee at the Strong mine dump, Victor, Colo., fell from an ore chute last week and received injuries injur-ies which may prove fatal. William Manasse, former mayor of Laramie, Wyo., and member of the City Council and one of the pioneer citizens aad business men of that city, is dead. W. B. Killingsworth, one of the best known advertising men in Colorado, was found dead in his bed one day last week. Heart failure was the cause of his death. County Assessor Carey has nearly completed the returns for Pueblo county, Colorado, for 1901, and gives an estimate of 813,500,000 as the total valuation. A new industry for Glenwood Springs, the development of the large gypsum beds a few miles south of town in the vicinity of Cattle creek, is well under way. T. J. Brady, night foreman of the Union Pacific yards at Laramie, lost his right hand Monday by getting it caught between the drawheads while making a coupling. Work has been commenced upon the Nicol-Table mountain ditch, which will reclaim about 2000 acres of land located on the bench of the Wind river, south of Lander, Wyo. A flow of oil has been struck in a at-I?2beiv.ColQ,v depth of 200 feet. The presence of oil at such shallow depth is regarded as an indication indi-cation that a gushing oil field is about - TO be developed there. A snake thirty inches long and more than an inch in diameter was discov-ered discov-ered in a grocery store in Florence, Colo., entwined in a bunch of bananas. It required fully ten minutes to chlo. roform the reptile. The Roosevelt club of Arapahoe county, Colo., which will aid in the movement for the renomination of President Roosevelt in 1904, has been organized. Similar clubs will be organized or-ganized in all the counties. The school contest case between Guernsey and Sunrise, rival towns in Wyoming, was settled by a special election, Sunrise winning. The Colorado Colo-rado Fuel and Iron company took an important part in the fight. Smallpox has broken out among the ci Arapahoe Indians on the Wind river reservation in Wyoming, Wyo-ming, but measures are being taken to prevent the disease spreading. Last year smallpox was very destructive among the redskins. At the Midland coal mine at Sunshine, Sun-shine, Colo., last week, while workmen were tearing out the pillars to some of the rooms, a great mass of coal fell from overhead and caught Paul Rossini, Ros-sini, a miner. His companion, extricated extri-cated him, but he died in a few minutes. min-utes. M. J. McCahey, a teamster who has been hauling timbers from west of Cripple Creek for the past year, was thrown from his wagon and his right leg fractured, Wednesday. His companions, com-panions, ignorant of how to stop the flow of blood, allowed him to bleed to death. In the District court, Basin City, Wyo., last week, Mrs. Mary Mallot, after living with her husband for thirty-six years, asked for a divorce. The decree was granted, whereupon she married John Dorsey, aged 65 years. During the trial of the divorce case Mallot shot Dorsey, but tbe wound was not serious. Henry Stratum of Park City attempted at-tempted to commit suicide last week but failed. The man placed a revolver to his head and was about to pull the trigger when his wife grasped the weapon. In the struggle the gun was discharged the bullet passing through the woman's hand. He is in jail and assigns no reason for the act |