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Show NORTIHYEST NOTES. H The total output of tbo mines of H I Wyoming for tbo year 1902 was $8,- M 310,676. H . The wool clip of tho state of Wyo- H tiling for tho past season wan ovor 33, H ' 000,000 pounds. H The Cripple Creek News estimates H tho gold production of this district, six H miles square In 1902, at $24,508,311. m Of tho twonty-ono counties of the H stato of Idaho, mining In n recognized H Industry In olghtcen and Is a leading H Industry In eight. H Ono dead, one fatally, nnd flvo sorl- H ously burned, four of whom may die, H Is tho result of an early morning Are m i In a cheap lodging house In Denver. H During tho past year 3,415 miles of H now ditches for Irrigation purposes K hare 'boon constructed in Wyoming, H and 983,978 acres of land Is now un- K der Irrigation. H Idaho's reputation as a gieat wool H growing stnto is (Irmly established, H and of lato somo flno (locks of thor- M oughbred sheep have been brought in 1 ! from tbo cast or by Importation. H Samuel Jackson Jones, aged 80, a H ploneor of California, died at Holona, H Mont, last wcok. IIo was onco hoad m of tho financial department of the B Wells Fargo express company. 1 An unknown tramp was killed and H two Injured in a frolght smash-up west H of Missoula. Twenty-four frolght cars m wero demolished. A broken wheel on B a car Is supposed to havo caused the PH wreck. H Wyoming Is practically free from PPJ debt at this time, having moro than enough money on hand to cancel out- PH standing bonds, but as tho papor does PPJ not fall duo for sovoral years, tho debt PBJ cannot bo wiped out at this time. PH The money that wilt bo received PH from tho recent sale of timber In north PH Idaho has been apportioned to tho dlf- BH fercnt funds as follows: University, H 144,655; Scientific school, (44.280; H school, $22,380; public buildings, $23,- PJPJ 176; charitable Institutions, $18,262.50; H Agricultural college, $3,900; normal PH schools, $25,293.75; penitentiary, $4,- PPJ Tho total production of precious PH metals In Colorado In 1902 is ostl- H mated at $44,871,464, a drop of $2,799.- PPJ 767 from the mint total fur 1901, duo PH principally to tbo do? 'deed value of H silver. Tho geld output Is estimated H at 1,422,764 tunces; silver, 16,002,871 PH ounces; lend, 70,897 tons; coppor, 9,- PH 830,22.1 pounds; zinc concentrates, I 108,400 tons. Judgo Llewellyn Augustus Luco, j ono of tho oldest and best known law- PH yors in Gallatin county and In Mon- PH I tana, died at his homo In Dozoman PPJ Sunday morning. Judgo Luco has B been ill for somo time, 'and for sovoral PbM days past It has been known that ho H was falling. In 1S94 Judgo Luce was PBB a member of tho Montana suproma PH court, and was also a mombor of the PH constitutional convention In 1889. PbM Judgo Luco was born In Malno In H Low Wallace, Will Countryman and PH Jess LlndBny, tho three men In jail at PPJ Red Lodge, Mont., on suspicion of PH holding up tho Brldgor bank, made a PBB bold but unsuccessful attompt to os- H I enpo last week. As Jailor Smith Ppi passed tho coffee through tho door of PpH tho cago Wallnco sprang forward and PS grabbed him with both hands. Tho H ..aw. two otncr men started to catch him H k from behind. Smith broke looso from pHgPPPPPVA Wallace tho door. Wal- PPPPPPPpV his arm Into tho open- PPPPPPpV narrowly missed losing on T. his -PPr'' Tho Bank Sllvcrton, Colorado, Is HP r closed, and its president, J. II. Robin, HRPT k Is missing. His friends say that he HF' ' i bas been acting strangely of lato, and PPpHT, , if, l.: , fear that ho has wnndercd off into rArAr' $ $ tho mountains, or has committed sul- IW I m cld0- B R In 1S93 tbo por caplta deposits In H; jft f Wyoming woro $40. Last year they H; jt i wero $G8, but during tho last quartoi H: of the year 1902 tho per capita aepos- L its wero $8S, a showing that Is not B equaled by any other stato In the M Union. B ) Firo totally destroyed the hoist and H other buildings of the Lexington mine H at Centorvlllo, Mont., with tho oxcep- H tton of tho mill. Tho (lames spread H rapidly to tho various buildings and B i burned furiously for thrco hours. Tho H loss Is estimated at $50,000, P A mud and rock slide on the Monte B Crlsto railroad near JJverett, Wash., H blpckod tho track for a distance of 200 Q foot. Tho Evorett train was caught in H the slide, and the passengers were H compelled to pass tho night and most H i of Now Year's day on board tho train. Crazed with liquor nnd opiates, B Louis II. Mott, of Missoula, Mont., H emptied the contents of a lovolvor into H' his wife. Slio died nt tho hospital flvo Bi. hours later. Mott was arrested. Mott's K; 1 Jatindry was 60ld somo weeks ago be- Eb, I ifie of h!n drunkj3 habits, |