Show NEWS OF THE WEST at helena mont tuesday benton D hatcher recent cashier of the northwestern national bank at great fall 0 mont pleaded guilty to the charge ot of misappropriating of the banks funds and judge Kno knocks viles of 0 the fed eal etal court sentenced him to five years in the state penitentiary ory judge stewart of idaho liae has held the law of 1893 1895 providing for funding of county indebtedness to be unconstitutional the decision is based on the famous decision of the supreme court in the fee bill cake u the bill not having passed the legislature in conformity with the provisions of the constitution as construed by the court in the tle dec eion referred to C B 31 cole a negro barber ot of los angeles oal cal attempted to kill bis his mistress ress maltie mattie pickett sunday night and t then shot himself in the head bead dying instantly the bullet be fired at the woman struck on the side ride of her skull and plowed a furrow row iowa down her u cheek it Ehatt chattered ered the jawbone and then dropped to the ground gound and flattened out she will recover jealousy was the cause one ot the moat disastrous dica fires ever recorded ja a the tho cily city of oal cal occurred there sunday morning when about worth of property prop propel eity ty was destroyed meat market A jewelry store the tile cigar factory of charlea wichard wic Wi charn oam the tailoring establishment of 31 jacobs the shoe store of 11 haneen hansen and a vacant store acom qt 0 P lanan were burned antoni anton pecci a san francisco peddler placed a revolver in his pocket sunday night and started out to kill the gah girl of his choice had bad refused to marry him and be had made up his mind to place her beyond the reach of any other suitor the young lady whose blood the jealous peddler wanted t shed is anna anita gilmetti she Is 1 employed in the standard shirt factory on hayes street and lives with her at the corner of hoyes street and van ness avenue af an the result of his thirst for blood pecci was arrested by police officer joy and charged at the city prison with car carrying Ying a concealed weapon ebenezer newton parkhurst an old man of 75 years wandered into oakland cal sunday afternoon with the isten intention as he says ease now of doing something startling before he ended bis his monotonous no career weakened ened by lack of food for ten days and discoursed disco urged with the outlook for the remaining yeats of bis his life parkhurst made up bis his mind that the time bad had come to depart this life but be wanted that departure to be marked with some stirring event he ile cast about four means of sebie ing notoriety and finally bit hit upon the scheme to set fire to the long wharf then he stood quietly by to see it go up in smoke the police of san francisco are hunting bunting for two daring burglars who have been operating in the western addition during tle past few weeks they have entered a a number of houses and stolen property valued rt at several thousand dollars the latest bure iary attributed to them hem I 1 was committed about a ago at a the residence of harry 2626 street and his wife were absent at the time having gone to a fr friends Lends bouse house in the next block they returned thornly bartly bort ly before 9 in thy evening and were surprised to find flod the front door mi unlocked locked A subsequent examination showed that that the house had been entered and jewelry to the value of several hundred dollars taken in bome unaccountable manner the engi engineer reer at tho eureka and excelsior mines at bourne slipped and fell into the mammoth fly wheel which ie Is twenty y feet in diameter and runs at the frightful speed of revolutions per minute says the baker city ore democrat none ot of the employed emp loyes of the mine witnessed the fall of the engineer and for an hour and a quarter the helpless man was whirled around on this fearful ride at the rate of nearly miles an aa hour when his awful post pool tien tion was die discovered covered and the ponds ponderous rots machinery at last brought V to a standstill the helpless belp lees engineer bad had actually traveled miles he was taken out seem seemingly angly more dead than that alive but when be he was brought to consciousness most wonderful to relate it was found that hie his injuries were simply a lot hotot of painful bruises none of which are in any bense serious richard harris a boy living on on king street san francisco was rescued from death in I 1 the be bay sunday af afternoon ter by thomas howard a eteve dere dare employed by the pacific mail steamship kompany who plunged into the water and kept the boy afloat antil until help came to them both the harris boy was wag playing on a raft in the basin west of the pacific mall mail dock when lie fell into the water he ile conid could not swim and the boya boys who with him paddled the cr craft aft on they were playing to the shore and ran tor for home as a fast as their lage legs could carry t them hem the tide title was carrying carry ine the lad cu out t into the bay balm with bis his clothing holding him up lip when Ilo howarde wards attention was attracted by the cries ot 01 the tile drowning boya corn pa pani nione when the stevedore reached the waters edge all be he could see wea a the hat bat of 0 the boy drifting on the waves lie ile realized at once ones that there was some one in need of help and plunged into the water lie ile reached the spot where tle aliat liat ua was floating and near it and it few inches below the surface was the drowning boy lying almost motionless grasping the lad ind howard held him to the borlace surface until some m men en cacno came to bis his assistance ia in a boat the boy was able to walk home lome after the salt water had been squeezed out gf him by rolling him over a bar barrel riki the saloonkeepers ere of oakland cal are equally divided on the question of another adjustment of 0 the liquor license problem it ie is the aim of many to increase the already high license so that the number of saloons will be materially reduced and the revenue much increased others violently oppose the measure the movement to iacre increase ic crease e the license to a year has been agitated for or week weeks and is being urged by the politicians who believe the city needs the he revenue A lively debt will be introduced into the council when the matter comes up at thy dext mee meeting t the officers have been inform informed td of a 91 peculiar highway robbery which happened near sheridan cal saturday last the robber solaced a stuffed flour eack in the roid road and when W P adarno a prominent rancher got out of his wagon to investigate the highwayman came out from behind a loz loir and called Il hands up aad and ordered adams to shell out after adams pockets were lightened by 40 he lie wa wits ordered to get in his wagon and move on cu tha the robbi r is is described as a young man clean shaven five feet eight inches tall wearing dark daik clothes lie ile carried a rifle and pia pistol stol and rode a bay horse saturday forenoon at Stick ton cal judge Judg jones eJones formally sentenced george williams the convicted traio train wrecker to spend the term of bis his natural life in the folsom etite prison toe jury fixed the penalty at life imprisonment and it only remained for the court t to 0 formally pass judgment williams still imagines that be wil get out after a couple sip ol 01 years so sa that he can begin life all ove gain with the new century he afeei ts that it if he has to remain bt st folsom more than iwo two years he will find a way out of his own and says if be cannot think of a better plan be he will let the guards turn the guns on him joshua steves a farmer living six miles from stockton cal on the sonora road was almost killed friday by a bull he lie went into a field for a horse and was attacked without warning the bull knocked steves down and tossed bin into the air with hie his horn borns steves sieves who is 70 beira old struck tha th ground eo bard hard that a blood vessel in the brain braina was ruptured and the whole of his left aide side paralyzed the bull still stood beside him when he fell but did not attack him again steves son drove the animal away A year ago he was gored by the same bull his chances lor for recovery are very elim slim three deathe occurred in butte ye yesterday all violent ones william gos an employed of the original mine was wail killed by a saw M I 1 ft murray a saloon keeper was found dead bus eue landed by the arms from wires stretched near his bedroom window the supposition being that while under the influence of liquor he walked out of the window and wae thus caught with there suits salts stated dennis cronin fell feet down the sh a ft 0 f the he diamond mine and was instantly killed the rhe trial of Th theodore endore E F cantwell on the e charge of murdering bis his mistress mis mollie phelan on the esth of last may came to an end in judge smithe smitha court at 1 angeles cal saturday evening after thee houra boors deliberation the jury returned a indict finding cantwell guilty of manslaughter mane laughter cantwell Can lwell who bad had somewhat of a deputat on locally a as a prizefighter prize fighter bad had been living ali will mollie phelan and the woman soon merged into an amateur boxer under bis ilia instructions on the night of the death of the woman bitter differences arose between the couple murderer J J ebanks who was saved from hanging some week ago by acting warden eagar of san quentin prison was taken saturday Satu reay to san sari diego cal in pursuance of an order issued by f the he superior or court of S sin in diego county where sentence of death will again be pronounced against him there is now pending an appeal in ebanks case before the supreme court of the united states which will be pro probable babli decided at the same time as the barrant and oiher other cases in ordering hie his return to san diego and resen it is the opinion of the united states court and that grounds for a second appeal will be laid by this action the tile rush of travel to th abe e alaskan gold fields with the spring will be concentrated in ban san francisco it the energy and foresight of 0 local business buBi nees men there count for to anything tho ho present fort forecast cast ol 01 tho prospective stam to olha tho yukon and its it tributaries fixes flies the number of northbound VOYO voyage ne ers era at little less trian pers persons oust and many estimates in excess 0 of f that figure eare are ventured ly by in men en who have macea ma je a close study ol 01 the braf n alc to provide for and equip with the proper outfits this host ot of rs will be the aim of the mer chans and business men now organizing zinn under tha auspices of the merchants Merc bante tin the of people who gathered at the san francieco branci ii ranc leco eco cliff ilonen su dodsy to 10 witness feats of aquatic skill goi got rather more than they bad had any reason to hope hoe for and for a time huni hundreds reds of anxious spectators expected lo 10 eee see a young blimmel dashed upon the rocks and ki klied it R B cornea undertook to from the olympic pier around the seal beal rocks after a delay of about an hour beyond the time announced cornel cornell loox 1 the tile plunge he ile swarn around the seaward bide kide strongly but on or taming turning an making tho attempt to cover that pait part of he the course coaree lying between the rocks and the cliff housa be he was unable to make any headway against the tide the spectators on shore saw him carried steadily away from bis his goal at length realizing that he be was certain to fail in hie his attempt cornell waved hia his arms wildly in the air to kummen help Anum berof of persons person ran to the nearest along the shore but aoud cou d do nothing about swimmers from the baths bathe assembled upon the level space above the mass of timbers and iron that was intended for a wave motor and shouted to cornell meanwhile the swimmer succeeded in getting safely en cn a rock about matda from ebore shore and called tor for a boat it was some time before tho lifesaving life saving crew put out and tok him from bis uncomfortable perch |