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Western News Notes. It is stated that Greeley has 1,500 car loads of potatoes still unmarketed. Park county, Colorado, claims to have the smallest delinquent tax list in the state. The new coal bank opened at Clear mont, Wyoming, is said to produce a fine quality of lignite. Martin McAloon, a prominent stone cutter of Denver was run over and killed by the cars while at Pueblo last week. The J. B. Wheeler Banking Company of Colorado City, which suspended last July, has paid all its depositors. Loveland, Colorado, parties are building a toll road to Estes Park and propose to extend it thenee to Middle and North Parks. Marshall Pass and the Cumbres Pass on the southern branches of the Rio Grande road have had unusually light snow falls this season. Montana's total production of gold and silver since 1880, as shown by official reports, amounted to $161,149,360 in silver and $40,392,152 in gold. Carbon, Wyoming, people desire to purchase the townsite from the Union Pacific Railroad Company, which now owns the land the town stands on. The Saguache reservoir contract was let to W. E. Dodge of Leadville for $27,259 and now active preparations are being made for pushing the work. Lamar suffered from a fire on the 23rd. The European hotel and other buildings were destroyed. The loss amounted to $7,500 with insurance of $4,650. Lincoln county, New Mexico, cattle and horse men have called a meeting at Lineoln to organize for protection against sheep herders' invasion from Texas. Johnson county, Wyoming, oil lands are being rapidly entered by Omaha parties. Last week ninetyseven entries were recorded, conveying 15,000 acres of oil land in that county. Johnson county will some day be an immense oil field. C. R. Johnson, a ranehman residing in the northern part of Fremont county, Wyoming, has discovered a vein of coal four feet thick and forty feet wide near the town of Otto. It is a first-class domestic article. The mine will be opened at once. The jury in the United States Court at Cheyenne acquitted William Masi, ex-postinaster at Cheyenne, of the charge of having embezzled $1,335 of postoffice funds which were deposited in the Cheyenne National bank at the