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Show WESTERN' SEWS NOTES. Items Gathered fron Various , Sources. 1I0STAMA. Helena, MonL, OcL 3. Max Kopskc, alias Uie "Blamarck JCId," was arraigned before Uie United Stafea commissioner today charged with robbing the United States mails. United States Marshal Fu. ray arrested him as Uie accomplice of Ij. F. Frreiand, now in Jail awalUng Uie action of the grand Jury. While Freeland was night operator ou Uie Great Northern at a station near Asslnabolne, the com plaint alleges that ho and Uie "Bismarck "Bis-marck Kid" abstracted numerous letters containing sums of money from the mall bag left lu Free land's charge. Kajoko waived examination examina-tion and was bound over to the United States grand jury In the sum of $1000. Helena, MonL, OcL 3. News Is Just received of a serious wreak ou tho Northern Pacific ensitjmnd passenger No. 2. Kngineer Frank Mace and Fireman ChesJett are badly injured. It Is reported, that tho tosscligcra fared badly, jl relief re-lief train left here at 12UM for the scene. The wreck on the Northern Pacific, reported here at midnight, was caused by au cjk.ii switch, the result of carelessness. No. i: cast-bound, cast-bound, due at Helena at 10:45, ran in on a side track at Butler, twelve miles west of here, colliding with a hoglnek engine. Kngineer Mate, on the powenger, was killed outright, out-right, and Fireman "ChUIrtt badly injured. U is feared that his In-juneswlll In-juneswlll prove fatal. The mail car was demolished, but Its occu-jniiU occu-jniiU escajied with slight hrul-es. file passengers were shaken up, but none hurt Physicians from lit lena arrived on the scei e shortly after the wreck. COLOKAIiO. Tlie rainstorm of Tuesday evening extended both east and west or Grand Junction, but did nuxt damage dam-age to the railroad wesL Between Itubynnd Crevasse stations, on the line of tlie Rio Grande Western west ofFruiLi, there were two extensive ex-tensive washouts w lthhi a mile and a half of each other; one forty feet long and twenty feet deep, and au- Uier fifty f et long and twenty fist deep. Train No. 3 on the Western which left Grind Junction attkJS Tuesday evening barey escaped es-caped the Washout, which occurred afew minutes ater the train had pas-ed. biueu that no train has either arriesl at or departed from this I Uco A telegram received from -Nil t Like Wednesday evening says no trains can ass the break until some time Thursday. This Information In-formation is from an oltieial of the Western, and, whilu It is indefinite-, gives a pretty good I Jcu of tho extensive ex-tensive nature of Uiu breaks. Hast f Grand Junction beyond Whitewater White-water tlie re was a small break, isit It id not occa-ion any serious delay to travel. No. Son the D. & R.G , due to arrive at Grand Juntttonat u.Ij Wtslms-lay evenliig.and which ccnsHted of live cars all well fillet wiUi westbound tassengcrs. wra-aliout wra-aliout half au hour lite. The pas sengers were obliged to lay over here all night. The delay en thu Western is causing much dlcornfert to Invekrr. Tlie Kruila mnUieuuc In Wednesday evening by private conveyance. Gruntl Junction Star. IDAHO. Sliver Cliy, Idaho, OcL 2. David Johnson shot James Ray, a slieep-uutn, slieep-uutn, near here, tiring two shots. Ray died today. Johnson was arrested. ar-rested. The district court Is now in session. The case will be Investigated Investi-gated immediately by Uie grand Jurj. Kxprricnre has taught the iwople of Wood River to expect a scarcity, if not a msttIefamiue,ofMl during the winter months. But this yisii Uie rlo.l -f scarcity has alnsvl begun, aud a least one grodp of niiiK, to wit: Tlie IUd l.le Innt, lias to remain Idle fur the talk of e-oal. Cukmel Byrati ordered a ear load of It three, weeks ago; but hr Itux not bee-u able to l!et anv. Aud the worst of It Is that he dues not know when ho can get 1L ri'vxl Rtrcr Timet. Bote City, Idaho, Ortol-er 3. The remains of John IL Freucli, latneiltorof the Bats'Axi(y.?iui,wiil be Interred In this city on Monday next at 1 p. m. He had a son and brother in Omaha as well as brother-in-L-iw, Mr. Dickinson, of Uie Union Pacific railroad. They will lie present to attend the funeraL At Uie Republican central committee rooms, Uicy say their majority ujwn Uie state is estimated at iOSS. The republicans claim members of Uie enate and House, aud couceslu Ihe democrats but 10. This, Ada County, Coun-ty, elects Gray, scnitor, by 7 major Ilj, Hmlth, repre-entatlve, by a small majority. The democrats elect one senator and two representatives. repre-sentatives. Tne Joint representative representa-tive wlUi KIniorc Is conceded to the republican-, I.thel being elected over Biggerstall. The rt publicans apimr to have made a clean sweep in the north, Nez Perces giving them a majority fur the first time lit its history J".lniore elects a democratic senator. On the representative repre-sentative It is closo aud uncertain. Full returns fromOwyhee give It to the rejsiblicans. Tlie rt publicans claim two representative!! In Washington Wash-ington county and concede the senator sen-ator to the democrats. Ada County electa all of its cou nty ofllcum rroni the democratic UcktL Uera'd. MJHUSKA. A little H-year-old girl and a big black dog slopped otr the night wlUi a family on Twetity-Uilrd StreeL Tho llttlo one sajs that her name is Minnie Sprigler aud that her faUier and mother are boUi dead. Four years ago tbe family emigrated ti lUtl Willow County and secured a piece of land. Two j ears later her father died and last spring her msUier followed him. Minnie was left alone. They were .very oor and when Uie debts had been settled she found Uiat she was loth liomele-s aud n-uiless. n-uiless. ForeeeralmonthashellVed wiUi a neighbor's family, but they were so cruel to her that the decided logo to iieroU homo In Iowa, where she has relaUvcs living. She wrote to them but never got an answer, or one was never delivered to her. Tlie only thing on earth she had to remind her of her former home was a big black dog. Taking him along, she left about four weeks ago. Bo far she has traveled oil the way on foot with the eXcepUonof occasional rldm she got with farmers. Phe says the people were always kind to her and gave her food and shelter wherever asked. Some of the kind LaJies Interested themselves In her behalf and a pur-e was raised and she was taken to Omaha audaUcket procured. This evening she will bo sent to Des Slolnes, la., near where her relatives reside. She refused to leave "01 J ButT," her faithful dog, behind her, and he, too, will be given a free railroad ride. Thu little girl is very bright and has a u inning countenance As sho told the singular sin-gular tale of her travel and how she was left au orjJian, her eves would fill and no one could doubt the veracity vera-city of her statements. Omaha Wurld-IIcratd. |