Show territorial NEWS ITEMS bow boise statesman anan governor willey of idaho says there are about thirty men at work on the west ashore of the great payette lake in making the mt idaho and salmon meadows road who are very ap apprehensive rehe nelve concerning the nez perce indians who always manage to get hold of liquor in so me way when they become ugly and dangerous it has been so for a number of years and though thus far there has been no difficulty there is liable to be so long as intoxicants can be procured by them denver news aws special casper wyoming june 9 news has just reached here of another strike of oil at the salt sait creek well some fifty miles north of casper the first well in that district reached the oil sand in september 1890 when a flowing well was struck the oil gushing at the rate of barrels per day this well was at once plugged and a new one was started on which when at a depth of 1400 feet work was discontinued for the winter but resumed again about ten days ago and now at a depth of 1700 feet the oil sand was reached and the oil is at present flowing at the rate of from to barrels per day the pennsylvania company which owns these two wells has a large tract of land in the immediate vicinity and it is their intention to put ut down several wells this season cat great excitement prevails and it is the universal opinion that the wyoming oil fields will experience a genuine boom during the summer helena journal A land slide four miles this side of elk park on the montana central sunday night caused a wreck and delayed traffic some hours freight train no 16 ran into the obstruction at 4 yesterday morning the engine was badly smashed but no one was injured the passenger train from butte which was due in helena at 11 am yesterday was delayed not reaching this city until 6 pm bishop brewer who came over on the train said it was the only time it ever took him all day to come from butte to helena since the old staging days A large force of men succeeded in clearing the track in a comparatively short time sento record unton union mrs camler Fa esler the unfortunate woman who was so brutally assaulted a few nights ago at her home at twenty first and Y streets by some unknown person or persons died last evening at the residence of mr gehrig a neighbor where she was removed the day after her injury it she knew who her assailants sai lants were the secret has died with her it is certainly a strange case to fathom why she should have been assaulted so mercilessly without cause is a mystery and if the assault was committed by some enemy or enemies known to her which many persons believe was the case she has carefully shielded them from harm mrs fass lers body was removed to the undertaking rooms of john miller denver news ex policeman james C jones shot and instantly killed T J strawn in a fit of jealousy in the alley adjoining jonew J ones residence 2652 california street yesterday afternoon at 2 clock the bullet entered strawns strains Straw ns neck near the first vertebrae verte bras the dead man was removed to the coroners coroner Is while jones gave himself up to the police and was locked up in the city jail the weapon used was a 41 caliber smith wesson revolver jones claimed the man he shot was wrecking his domestic happiness and that he had bad the proof of the fact in a letter mrs emma jones the wife of the ex ofil er to is a handsome woman thirty years of age and the mother of two interesting children the oldest being but nine years old topeka capital A man giving his name as david holt claims he was confronted by a couple of highwaymen at the north end of the santa pe fe bridge early yesterday morning and robbed of what valuables he had about him and most ot of his clothing according to his bis story as related to a reporter arter he had arrived in town on the anion union pacific train and getting off at the junction had walked down to the santa pe fe railroad bridge and lighting a newspaper so as to be able to load and light his pipe he saw two men confronting him one of whom asked him for some tobacco this he says he gave the man when the other man immediately covered him with a revolver and demanded his bis money when he be informed the robber that he had none he was ordered to strip off his bis coat which he did then he was ordered to give up his hat boots socks and vest and he says they came near taking his pants but he persuaded them not to do so before they left him he begged that they would return his two army discharges one from the ninth illinois and one from the awen ty seventh illinois infantry but they swore they would shoot him if he asked again for them and ordered him to make trucks tracks over the bridge he gays flays he did so and at the break of ef day made his bis way to the police headquarters and reported the circumstances circumstanced san chronicle Chron iole the coast ing while beating out to sea yesterday afternoon about welock collided at section I 1 of the seawall with the oregon improvement Compa company nyle steamer Wilh amette valley forty feet of the steamers steamer railing and half of its bridge was carried away one of the lifeboats was stove in and one of the davits badly bent several of the vas vessels sells plates are believed to be sprung there were no passengers as on the steamer at the time she she arrived saturday from bay and had just finished discharging her cargo of grain at section 1 of the seawall and was about to start back to her regular berth when the collision took place |