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Show NORTHWEST NOTES. The battle for the Stratton millions is now on at Colorado Springs. H. J. Burrill, a ball player, was Instantly In-stantly killed in a railroad wreck near Kalispell, Mont. William Myers, a brakeman at Rawlins, Raw-lins, Wyo., had his hand cut oft while cupling cars at Wamsutter. D. C. ivlendenhall, a miner, had his left hip crushed while at work at the O'Neill mine, Gilpin county, Colo. . William Webber died at the county hospital in Cheyenne of injuries received re-ceived near Archer station, east of Cheyenne. . John Singer, a stonemason of Denver, Den-ver, and his wife are dead as a result of drinking oxalic acid, thinking it was epsom salts. ! The Helena, Mont., Herald, has j passed into the control of the Record, ' and will be issued as an afternoon edition edi-tion of that paper. The Elks' lodge of Rawlins had two Christmas trees and gave to every child in the city between the ages of 4 and 14 years a nice present. Joseph Guglielmo, a Portland saloonkeeper, saloon-keeper, was stabbed to death by an Italian whom the saloon man wa attempting at-tempting to eject from his place of business. Because his wife objected to his mother living with them, Otto Erd-mann, Erd-mann, an engineer at the Portland City waterworks, committed suicide by shooting himself. E. E. Johnson, who recently had both feet frozen while walking from Montezuma to Breckenridge, has been declared insane and ordered com- mitted to the asylum. Fred Stidd, the 20-year-old hoy who shot Ed Cameron, the deputy sheriff, at Thermopolis, was captured on the Red desert in Carbon county and placed in jail at Lander, Wyo. Francis Hayes, a taxidermist of New Castle, Colo., was arrested last week, charged with shipping a deer head out of season. The head was discovered discov-ered at Colorado Springs. Hayes was released on bond of $ 10O. Shooting deer from a baggage car was the novel experience of a few of the employes of the Northern Pacific railroad near Missoula, Mont., a few days ago, a large buck being shot and killed by the trainmen. A brother of Alexander tlordah, the young man who is supposed to have committed suicide at Archer station, east of Cheyenne, on November 5, believes be-lieves his brother was murdered, and is investigating the affair. The Pueblo Council refused to pass a resolution discharging J. C. Hunter of Denver, consulting engineer for the construction of Pueblo's proposed storm and sanitary sewer system. Hunter has been drawing $200 a month for seven months. Two miners, George Bridge and Fred Goldstine, were killed in the Ojo mountains, Cal., a day or so ago uy delayed blast. The men thought the fuse was not burning, and after waiting wait-ing for an hour, approached the spot as the blast exploded. The discovery of natural gas thirteen thir-teen miles west of Douglas is regarded as the most important event that has occurred in the industrial development nf central Wyoming. The gas was struck in an oil well and it shot gravel and sand far above the derrick. Charles Summerers, formerly of Independence, In-dependence, Colo., is suing for divorce from his wife, Anna Summerers, now residing at that place, on the grounds of cruelty and desertion. He alleges his wife threw him out of the house and would not let him return. The Great Northern main line track from Everett, Wash., east from the Cascade tunnel, has been abandoned since Wednesday, owing to' the bridge at Madison being carried away by a snow slide and the tremendous snow slides between Madison and the tunnel. tun-nel. . ' Word has just reached Denver 01 the death of Professor P. H. Vandiest at San Luis, in the extreme southern part of Colorado on Christmas day. He dropped dead at the s feet of his son, although apparently in the best of health. Professor Vandiest was one of the ' best known geologists in the world. Michael McGinnis, an aged placer miner, who has long been an inmate of the county hospital at Deer Lodge, Mont., went crazy one day last week, escaped, secured a rifle and for a while held the town in terror. Finally he started for the hills, and it is feared t9 will do himself or some one else an Injury. 1 |