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Show i yORTHWKST notes!" Th number of eattl In Wyoming lncresed 40,000 nd sheep 500,000 during dur-ing 1901. Rev K. E. f II fen of the Presbyterian church, Kawllna, Wyo., haa been appointed ap-pointed chaplain of the t P"""-tlary. P"""-tlary. A party of hunter ner Cypsam. Col.s,kllld a llonea. that meaaured Ighl feet two Inch. long and w.lghed HO pound. Wyoming leased M.000 acres of tat lands last year for f.'S.ooo, bringing tbe toUl received from le.sed lnd. for thyr opto til5."0. , Th Union Pacific has discharged It guard, which hav. been employed on express nd msll tr.ins between Chey nne and Ogden for over a yer. v '-s John E. Cuntilnghsm, a well-known business man of I. Animas. Colo.. killed himself with a revolver. I.rlef . .' over th. death of his wife is th. esuse. f Th. board of aldermen of Denver j have adopted n ordinance compelling electric light, telegraph nd telephone compnnica lo put their wire under-ground. under-ground. Wvomlnga output of coal Inereuserl 60l).(KS) ton. Inst ycr nd for tb first time In Ihe history of the ile tb. mine produced In .sees, of 4,000,-000 4,000,-000 ton. The eoldlrrs of company F. Eighteenth Eigh-teenth Infantry. Fort Kussell. who were polaoned recently by eating meal cooked in an old brass kettle, hav all recovered. s fleorge Johnson ran amnck atOskley, . Wyo., a few night go and before he could de plcd under arrest had lab-bed lab-bed John Philips. John Anoand Abraham Abra-ham I,vlnskl. Th wounded men will recovor, Montana malntnlne her proud position posi-tion In tbe mining world. Shllxth In gold, second In allver and Ural In copper, her combined product placing her second only to Colorado, whose lead la very alight. i, Roy Orldley.a fonneen-year-old liny, haa been arrested In Denver on the serious charge of attempting to polaon hla mother Mr. Fnnle Orldloy, and hlaaevrnteen-year-old sister. Slella.by pouring morphine in the coffee. Ileporta of the gold, allver and ld product of th at ale of Colorado for tills vesr show It lo b t45,onu,ou. nearly H.ikki.ooo lrsa than last yea-. ( The.proiluctlon of ore w consider- i' ably gn-ier, but It wa not ao rich. J n-'essle Comb., si.koft l'lerce Comlw, a v J slfwkinsiiof l.akeJ.ew, Nevsda, allot " I himself through tile heed on tha morn- I'l Ing of th 301b, and died Instantly. If He waa with a younger brother on hi It fiiihcr'a ranch. He hd frequently H declared that he Intruded taking hi I Ufa. I Fifty nr more Plnkerton officer are at work on the mur.lor myst ry of If Murtin lilensiin, the mine aupcrlntrnd- ent who waa beaten and then shot and I whose body waa thrown down the I Knluinnzoo ahnft ill Cripple Creek. The reward haa been Increased to liiiKin. It la not generally known, but It la nevurtbclesa a fact, that the augar becta that took the premium at the World'a fair, for containing the greatest great-est per cenlnge of sugar, were grown on th ranch of David Foula, which I Hunted on South Spring creek, near Saratoga, Wyo. More thun 600 Incorporation filing were mde In Wyoming last year, rrp-resentldg rrp-resentldg a cnpltnl of more than $.100,-oiki.oiki. $.100,-oiki.oiki. Of these, over lino were mining min-ing companlea, over alxly oil companies com-panies and over fifty livestock companlea. The Jury st Sheridan in the case of the Stale agalnat lieorge A. Roberts, charged with cattle ateallng, returned a verdict of guilty. Koberle la a ranchman ranch-man rcaldlng three inllea eaat of Sheridan. He ha a wife and three mall children. In the federal court, at Cheyenne. Wyo.. A. A. Bpnugh. the Mnnvllle cattleman cat-tleman who waa recently convicted of v Illegally fencing government land aud J ordered lo remove the fciice, wa given j an additional thirty day lu which to - j accomplish lliat task. , , V Charlca Gilbert, the freighter who la ' '7 alleged to have cut the head off of one 1 of hla boraea, the rlba out of another j and hacked several others with an ax ,1 while In I-osl Cabin, Wyo., aeveral nionlli. ago, haa again been erreated 1 aud will bo ptosecuted. J, : The llomcscekcrs' Irrigation Settle- -f incut company, "which ia building a cunnl to reclaim flo.000 acres of land lying on the benches of the Platte below be-low Saratoga, will encournne the ' growing of augur beola on tbe land by I th erection of a su-ar factory. Tho material weeun oi Wyoming Increased more thsn t:o,0J0.ii0 last year, and Industrial ncllvlty Is grester "thun al any period of tlie alale a his. tory. A Urge increase In population was secured and the state's resources .t are rapidly being developed. f Ilomrr Eaton nd Chri Snider, two j miner working In the Union-Company i mine near Cornucopia, Oregon, were Instantly killed by tbe accidental dls- I charge of a blast on the 31st. It I thought Ibey truck a blst which had previously failed to xplod. f V nTf |