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Show NORTHWEST NOTES Colorado horticulturists raised 73.3 varieties of fruit last year. Utah millers predict that wheat will be worth a dollar a bushel in Utah before be-fore spring. The Consolidated Oil and Development Develop-ment company of Douglas, Wyo., will boob begin sinking a well in Dry Creek, near Fetterman. Duffy Cochran of Leadville, com- , mitted suicide in Telluride, Colo., last week, after first attempting the mur der of Grace Wright. Mrs. Marcus Daly, widow of Marcus Daly, the copper king, has been elected a member of the board of lady managers mana-gers of the World's fair. George Dunlas, who is accused of having set fire to the house he occupied at Victor, Colo., a few days ago, will be tried on the charge of arson. Judge S. M. Breath, a Colorado pioneer, pio-neer, is dead in Boulder, having passed in October his 84th year. He came to Colorado in 18M. and KPtt.lpil in Tlnnl. der. The total election expense in El Paso county, Colo., will be close to $12,000 or an average of $1 a vote for the 11,996 votes, the total cast by the two parties. The smallpox epidemic starting at Lovell, Wyo., has spread to Slack, and j a number of people in that community are down with the disease. All casei have been quarantined. George Pierce, a miner about 35 years of age, was found wandering in a dazed condition on the streets of Victor, Colo., with his eyes gouged out. He refused to give the name of his assailant. The 125 survivors of the original Union colony, with their children and grandchildren, assembled at Masonic, hall Tuesday of last week to commemorate commem-orate the settlement of Greely, Colo., thirty-one years ago. The Loveland, Colo., sugar factory last week sent to farmers checks to the amount of $140,000 as payment for the beets delivered at the factory during October, which represents less than one-half of the entire crop. The Denver Times gives currency to the report that former Senator Edward O. Wolcott has been tendered the portfolio port-folio of postmaster-general by Presi. dent Roosevelt, vice Charles Emory Smith, who is to resigu. ' The Multnomah county court, Oregon, Ore-gon, has oifered a reward oi iino iac the arrest and conviction of the miir- clerer of James B. Morrow, the young man who was found dead on the sidewalk side-walk near his home in Portland. A swan was shot on a small lake near Wheatland, Wyo., recently which measured nine feet from tip to tip of wings, and four and one-half feet from the tip otbill to the tip of the tail-This tail-This is the first bird of the species ever seen in that vicinty. A good quality of natural gas has been encountered at a" depth of 1,040 feet in the oil Well being bored in the city limits of Ontario, Oregon. The well is full of water and in order for the gas to rise to the surface it must overcome 330 pounds of water pressure per square inch. It is said that the Smuggler-Union mine at Telluride will be closed for about thirty days,nduring which time the workings, which were damaged to the extent of more than $50,000 in the recent disaster, will be repaired, and will then be reopened with a force of between 700 and 1,000 men. While on a visit to Chicago last week, Mrs. Becker of Denver went to the stockyards to see the daily killing. Now she is in a hosnital nerves are so shattered that the physicians physi-cians in the case have been utterly unable un-able to provide the least remedy. What the result will be, no one can tell. Last week Commissioner Clark of the Tacoma board of public works awarded a contract for light and power for the city to the highest bidder. Friday the council, after an exciting session, in which sensational speeches were made, appointed a committee to investigate the conduct of the mayor.commissioner and city electrician. C. Mossland, a ranchman of Pied- mont, Wyo., has purchased the big snowshed of the Union Pacific on Piedmont bill and will dismantle it and build a huge corral for his cattle This shed, which is over a mile in length, is the last of a number that were built by the Union Pacific thirty years ago. The others were burned and abandoned. An old gray-haired man stepped in front of a Union Pacific train at Rock Spnngs last week and was instantly killed, the body being badly mangled It is believed that the man, who has not been identified, deliberately sni-cided. |