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Show HE WANTED TO SHUFFLE Russian Laborer Tries Gas Reutc Because . Russia Lost Battles. DENVER, Nov. 2.. After reading of the inverses of the Russian forces in the waf 'fvith Japan and the threatening attitude at-titude of England because of the North Bea incident, Tony Lascoras, a Russian, isttempted suicide by inhaling illuminating illumi-nating gas. He is now at the county . hospital in a critical condition. Lascoras is a laborer, 23 years of age. He Came to 'town, after having been employed on the Moffat road grade for some weeks. During this time he had not seen a newspaper and did not know of the developments in the Japanese-Russian Japanese-Russian situation. He went to a saloon at 3300 Larimer street, and after reading all the papers he could find and imbibing imbib-ing many drinks, he expressed great regret that Russia had not been victorious victori-ous in her- engagements with the ene-my. ene-my. He asked the barkeeper where he could secure a room and was referred to a lodging-house over the saloon. He hired a room at this place and retired. gome time later attaches of the house pmelled the odor of gas and traced it to - the room of Lascoras. The door was ' Jiroken open and the-man was found to be almost unconscious as, a result of inhaling in-haling the fumes. |