Show WESTERN NEWS ITEMS A mammoth table beet weighing sixty nine pounds baa been added to the he ban jose joee gal cal board of trade exhibit by J C birnbaum last week J harbert of phoenix nix arizona shipped to ottumwa la Is a pair of large full grown ostriches from which the gentleman who will receive them will make an effort to breed the funds of the ban francisco school department are getting so eo low that the teachers will only receive hall ball pay for the present month a 8 resolution to that effect being passed by the ward board of education at its meeting wednes day night A fatal accident occurred at elk bib river cal wednesday after afternoon david H halliday a well known lumberman wai wa working on a pile driver near the round house 1 when a 8 scantling struck him ou on the side aide ot the bead killing him instantly the cal sugar factory used 1431 1481 carloads of freight fur for supplies eup plies during the sugar campaign just juet closed the tonnage of beets worked up was waa as follone fol lowE chloo tons anaheim buena part pars olber oiher points 1900 total tons tone the little three year y earold ear old daughter of mr sipi a oil mrs george geer ear al cheyenne wyoming was almost ahalt poisoned monday by eating some brown wrapping paper which it seems contained conia ined arsenic she and some playmates were making pies ol of the paper gee byron of Mil milpitas pitas cal lost a thumb saturday in a gunning seel dent re he was out hunting quail when the gun was accidentally the hand was waa considerably lacerated but he will lose loee only his bis thumb numb mr byron is in a deputy iu in the office of the state superintendent of schools thomas wright of lemoore cemoore Le moore cal an unmarried man 28 years of age committed suicide at the ine fresno hot hoi springs sunday morning he wis suffering from melancholia and cami i log ing at that place with his bis brother lie he got up early sunday morning and blew his brains out with a rifle san francisco Cb chronicle ronicle nov 10 george W heintz chief clerk of the passenger department of use ore rio grande western railway slid and george E R forrester traveling auditor of the same fame road arrived irom from salt bait lake yesterday ani ore are guests at tile the palace they will sail today for honolulu on a pleasure trip george reeder boeder a seventeen year yea ra ald boy arrested at sauta rolla BOBB cal saturday made his escape from the county jail all tuesday he was confined in an upstairs up stairs room and when we the cook took dinner to him be took advantage of the momentary absence of t at attendant slipped down stalls staling opened the front door and disappeared JameR james bilac an old and well known resident of california Call tornia met his bis death this thin afternoon while hunting nearSon near SK n miguel maguel ca he was a young man mail named dunlap JD who led the way across the bills and was in the act of crossing a fence too ce when the weapon was suddenly discharged mr eigan ean lived but halt an hour bour the deceased was 75 years of age and to is survived by six children obil dreu four of whom are in oakland A floering flouring flou flour ring log mill with a capacity of barrels per day Is ia to be constructed at wheatland wyoming there ore are about bushels of wheat stored there and bushels more will be added the increase iu in acreage of the farmers there will be more than doubled during the coming year the large new reservoir at wheatland C overe dearly acres of ground A large natural basin Is being utilized and it will have a tunnel outlet A strong movement is on toot foot at santa rosa cal for the establishment of a beet sugar manufactory beets grown near santa banta arsa B aa have tested at the alvarado factory and show that they possess the necessary properties in an unusual degree at the coming session of the farmers Farmer sp institute beet sugar will receive much attention many farmers are anxious to engage in beet growing and it is believed a factory wilt will be built in sonoma county in the near future A dispatch from colfax washing ton bayt come a seven come a seven seve iii 29 muttered old rugene eugene jaques all aa he be was tb browies crops craps at the gaming rooms in the star atar saloon wednesday sy night the old man had down bin bia lost last ton ten cent piece and was trying to make inake a raise ho he had just thrown throw a the dice when he be sank to the floor a corpse death had come while he be was wag trying to tempt fortune lor tune jaques had been drinking freely of late which was probably the immediate cause of beatti Je atti lodi cal cali is suffering from an ail opi epidemic demlo or of robberies within the last P six alx lx weeks at least ten cases of housebreaking and attempted housebreak house break ing have been reported As a result the burglars have reaped a harvest la in watches rings and other jewelry be all wen sides a collection of gu guns 08 and miscellaneous articles of value As yet there is 18 little clew to the guilty ones onee although suspicion has been aroused do scarcely arcely a night passes now mow that mai prowlers about yards and houses are not reported raymond henke reynold burke a and ad william biri bird ano fe returned turned thursday night from the fast bast were iu the wreck down to in nebraska wednesday morning says the laramie Lar amle boomerang mr heiko sald said this afternoon that the tact no one was killed was remarkable as four oars cars were turned over on their sides down an embank went ment holes wore cut in the tops of the cars care and the people taken out in ib that way himself and mr bird were in the abe car which was wae not overturned mr burke was in the chair oar which went wen down the bank the evanston wyoming herald bayli indians indian front fort hall idaho are actively engaged in killing elk contrary to law jaw on snake grey greys s anu river in uinta county A party of evanston beanston Bv anston meo men who have j just usi returned from jacksons hole saw a 11 large number of bucks on the river trail ioto into the hole with their laden with elk the most meat having av dg bee been stripped out and left to lie on the hil hills ben the famous trapper of star sta valley Is ie authority for the statement that hat elk carcasses are now lying between grey greys s and hoback slaughtered by these theme lawless redskins red skins skiDs A special from walla walls wash ington says that tom bassett and wife were both fined 90 and costs friday by justice nixon for starving their infant child the evidence showed that bassett and his bis wile wife were desirous or of getting rid of their sigh teen months old babe and took the means of lion they neglected it to in every wayll way left it at home daytimes without food or water and no one to care for it in default of the fine both went to jall jail bassett and his wife were married three months ago and he is not ther the father of the child E E F dunn of alameda cal was taken to the county jail saturday afternoon on a charge of insanity dunn has been to in poor health which affected ble bis mind it has been aloer bained that he be himself started the fire which occurred at his bause hi use monday evening while in a fit of delirium saturday morning be was discovered by his bis wife piling kindling under hla his bed and anal trying to set it on fire he imagines himself to be satan baton and that he will die it if he does not cremate blanse f the unfortunate man was examined as to his sanity before judge frick who committed him to the stockton aey luno when the trial of james lee for the murder of his mistress mollie allen alien last fast august auguar was calls called in judge hink sons court at sacramento jal cal on saturday morning mor one of the jury meo men john scellars Sh ellars failed to respond forthe or the very good reason that he be bad been dead tor for almost an hour before court opened about 9 ovo lck that morning juror scellars Sh ellars walked into a cigar store notkar not far distant from the the courthouse to await the opening of court A lew few minutes later lie he was seized with a violent fit of couiL hing which brought on a hemorrhage iii he sank into a chair in the stores store and la in less than ten minutes expired the election result in idaho was waa votes for the mckinley electors tor for the bryan electors and she he choice of 8 steinen teun enberger berger democrat fr for governor cunn populist for congress man and 28 silver republicans 1 republican slid and 41 democratic populist fusio niall for the he state elite legislature senator dubois has but 28 29 supporters and as am it takes 86 to elect ther duld have to be 8 demo damo popa lists late come over to him to give him the he the be necessary number at present the chief contest amoni among the malo majority rity side sides vit candidates tor for U S senator is ls between Jl agett populist and ballantine democrat though there are a number of others who hope to be chosen monday the boats of the monterey cal whaling company were out and succeeded in killing a large cow whale about sixty foot feel in IM length the whale when killed sank to go abe bottom in about forty fathoms of water the spot was marked with a buoy ana thurs tours day the whale was wall brought to the he sur our lace face and towed owed to the Wasi ory bues tues day morning one of the boats harpooned a cow and calf when the lines became fouled in the confusion the wrong line was cut cat and the cow departed without explanation carrying away a harpoon and several hundred feet of line the lose ion of which amounts to about 25 the calf a large one and quite fat was secured and has bus been tut ut up it will yield about twenty bar aels deleot of oil three fatal accidents occurred in san franc moo BOO friday hazel J peters five year old daughter of john peters a merchant of st louis was killed lostia atly by a fall over the bannis of the hotel alexandria sigmund strauss St fauss an aged inmate of the pacific hebrew home was crushed to death under an electric oar car at ninth and mission street and ana adam zimmerman a farm hand died from injuries sustained by a fall irom a hay bay loft at the rich wo nd dalr dair y the little peters girl fell from the fifth etory to the basement A well supposed to have been due fully twenty five years ago was die covered on the term farm of C H davis near mount carleton Carle tou on the old indian trail arail twenty one miles north of spokane washington tuesday it was wag found by him bis boys boya while holding berding turkeys the fowl ran under some alien ballen trees for water and the boys boya reported at the house bouse that a spring existed there investigation proved that instead of a spring it was a well which toad had been filled with the earth taken out at the time it was waa dug this was dipped out with buckets and the well was found to be twelve feet deep five sod and one half feet in diameter at the top and three feet at the bottom the workmanship was good the well filled ailed with water in three days anti aels Is now running over an inch and a half perpendicular showing that it Is in fed by a strong spring at the bottom the age of the well is estimated by the growth of a tamarack and a black pine tree on its edge unquestionably brought brough tup up at least from little twigs since the well was dug they are now about fourteen inches in diameter A death under mysterious stances tai ices at stockton cal has just come to light at about 2 last jast monday morning cries and shrieks were beard by persons persona employed at the sao as house but no attention was paid to go them thaw the employee emp loyes thinking that it was some drunken drun kenman man in ID the street soon boon alter after that some passerby passer by entered ente the premises gull and found a 8 man lyton on tile lne ground near the he engine room me he proved to be thomas acdwell Mc Diwell Dwell he was taken to him hie home and two or three physicians were summoned they found that the man had bad sustained burns baras that were necessarily faraj his whole body except the face and one arm was waa coverer with scalds scald from which abe tb rash flesh was waa ready to drop his clothing was soaking wet and the be supposition was that either or scalding water bad been poured on him how the accident happened for there is no doubt that li it was waa an accident is unknown one theory la Is that be be war wao dered into the gas companas comp anys yard and jay down to steep near the mouth of a steam pipe sod and that the steam was waa turned on as 88 it frequently is in operating the works theory Is that he be tumbled into a tub of hot water near the engine 4 house bouee and letting getting out of it fell into a place filled with red hot coals coak he died in a few hours boure the matter was kept quiet until the funeral was held bold and the facts came to light omaha stockman now that bat the smoke of battle has baa somewhat cleared away it to la in order to expect some substantial results from the bloodless blood leea tray fray that haa bus monopolized the nation attention loo practically to the exclusion of all other matters for the past four months on one subject live stock dealers have been substantially unan amous and for two or three years through their various organizations they have been beao demanding a change in our laws that would enable this country to retaliate on OD other countries where the products of the american form farm have been either excluded eo ea for manifesting trivial reasons or their importation practically tied by ao an excessive and unreason unreasonable atle tax with nations as with men self defense la is a fundamental law and the nations hat exclude american products should be made to understand der stand that two can play at the same game discriminating against american cattle anil and beef bud and pork products both by excessive import duties and manifestly unjust and unnecessary sanitary regulations has bae seriously contracted the outlet for our eur surplus stock and helped reduce prices to remarkably low figures if this government wera wt ra to retaliate and impose similar restrictions oo on foreign imports it would soon bring about the adoption of a more liberal policy on the part of the offending nations greatly enlarge the abe market lor for the surplus products of the larm jarm and correspond bigly advance values tor for beet beef sod and pork in this country give us reel croci y by all means |