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Show NORTHWEST NOTES." Wllllnin McCuno, one of tho pioneers of tho I.nramlo plains, died last week at Laramio, aged 72. Uy n ravo-in of earth in tho East Gray in I no, ono of tho Amalgamated properties, nt Dutto, four men wero killed and two injured, Miss Jcnova A. Johnson, aged 21, who has been a sufferor for years from a dlscaso of the spine and brain, resulting re-sulting from a runaway accident, died at Laramio Sunday. A prematuro explosion of dynamite at tho Virginia mine, near Haker City, Ore, resulted In tho death of Jncli Ifecso nnd put out tho eyes of his partner, J. W. Wcldmnn. A hiigo block of coal has been londod nt Basin, Wyo., weighing 0,300 pounds. It was taken from tho ml no of J. I. McDonald, and is to bo plncod on exhibition ex-hibition at tho St. Louis fair. Tho cyanide mill of tho United Statos Reduction & Uoflning company, two miles north of Florence, Colo., ha3 boon destroyed by lire, entailing n loss estimated at from $75,000 to $125,000. Sam Wlgfall, a colored man who attomptcd a criminal assault upon 12-year-old Helen Kruppa at Uawllns last woek, was. taken into court and plead-1 ed guilty and was sentenced to fourteen four-teen years in tho pcnltontlnry. In nn altercation over tho pnymont of checks in n fnro gamo nt Ontario, i Ore., Walter Lucky of Prinovlllo took ' flvo shots at It. R. Duflln, tho dcalor, I who beat a hasty retreat and escnpod , uninjured. Lucky is in custody, j In a running battle with" two safo crackors in Spokane, Patrolman Logan Lo-gan shot and killed ono of tho men, tho other escnplng. Tho officer surprised sur-prised tho men whllo they woro on-' deavorlng to rob a safo In a saloon. . MIchaol Sullivan was killed nnd I'at-' rick Harrington probably fatally in-, Jurod by an explosion In tho Never ' Sweat mlno at Uutto. Tho miners hnd propared a blast early In the evening j which failed to cxplotlo and lt is , thought thoy afterward drilled Into tho "mlBsod hole," thereby causing tho ao-rldont. ao-rldont. Sam Wlgfall, colored, sentenced from Laramio to fourtoon years in tho ponltontlary for criminal assault, wns until recently confined In the Jail nt Rawlins for robbing n poddlor nt Han-nn. Han-nn. A short tlmo previous to that ho was released from tho pcntlontlary, whero ho served eighteen months for stabbing a man. j Tho first lalso of oil to bo discovered discov-ered In Colorado has boon tnppod near ! Florence. Tho oil body was encountered encount-ered at a depth of 2775 foot, and tho woll will havo tho production capacity of nny six wells In thnt field. Tho oil In the new woll has risen to within a fow hundred feet of tho surface, and COO bnrrols per day can bo easily pumped. Alfred Mortz, confidential clork for tho Donhuo Mcrcantllo company at Missoula, Mont., loft his wifo a noto saying bo was short In his accounts and meant to commit sulcldo. Two hours la or his body wns flshrd from tho MI. ila river. Mcrtz's employers employ-ers Bay ho Is not short, nnd thnt ho must havo been laboring under mon-tal mon-tal aborratlon. Jamos Martin was sentenced to hang February 23rd by Judgo Mc-Cloernan Mc-Cloernan at Butto, for tho murder of , Charles Williams, a Northorn Paclflo ' brakoman, nt Sliver Bow Junction, Mont., May 10, 1902. Charles Lennox, Mnrtln'a accomplice In tho crlmo, escaped es-caped last summer In a general Jail delivery, and has not been appro-hondod. appro-hondod. Tho urgency deficiency bill rcportod In tho hoiiBo carries nn ltom of $700 for completing tho monumont on tho elto of tho Fort Phil Koarnoy massa-cro, massa-cro, Wyoming. Tho stato of Wyo-mlng Wyo-mlng lias ceded tho slto to tho govorn-mont, govorn-mont, locatod on Massacro hill, nnd tho $700 carried In tho bill, together with $500 previously appropriated, will bo sufficient to corapleto tho monumont. monu-mont. "Bon" Northlngton, for years a prominont flguro In Rawlins, dlod on I tho 22nd of old ngo, In -a little cabin Just outsldo that city. Northlngton was nn old prospector and saloon man, and at ono tlmo ho wns worth considerable money, but died a paupor. In 1874 Northlngton was elected county attor-noy, attor-noy, despite tho fact that ho was not a lawyer. Tho matter was contested, ' but ho qunlitlod and hold the offtcd ' about a yenr. . Tho stato board of pardons of No-vara No-vara hns comnvtod to llfo Imprisonment Imprison-ment tho sentonco of Cochl Saegmul-lor, Saegmul-lor, an Indian boy aged 1C yonrs, who was sontoncod to he hangod January 24th. Soogmullor killed William Williams, Wil-liams, known ns "Wild Bill," n notorious notori-ous character. |