| Show NEWS OF F THE WEST Judge Mack Nevada Charged With Shirking His Duty 4 UBER LYNCHING CASE SUIT FOR SLANDER TO BEGIN AGAINST GENOA NEWS Marcus Daly Will Buy a Football I Team Caldwell da People I Klondike Wolves Troublesome I Wyoming Cattle Business Crimes and Casualties I Colorado I Nevada The suit of Storey county vs the V T Railway company reached its termination Saturday evening when the jury brought in a verdict in favor for the of the county The suit was of 729875 taxes on a valu recovery taes vau recover the assessor ation of 5129975 as made by sessor the taxes on this amount betas 5 29875 It was expected that Judge Mack would be in Genoa Tuesday and deliver Uber a charge to the grand jury in the lynching case He sent word instead that he had cae postponed the matter until after the holidays His action has caused much criticism and it is regarded re-garded as a shirking of official responsibility I His sibility says the Carson Appeal friends say that such is not the case as he bears a good reputation for the fearless discharge of his duty and i must he was unable to be there he have wa had good and sufficient reasons I George Brown the man accused by the News of saying that its editor would the end of get a letter with a rope on it denies ever having made such a and is arranging to remark to anyone arrangng begin legal proceedings for slander The correspondent of the San Francisco Fran-cisco Examiner at Carson has secured the names of the mob who lynched Uber and will lay his information before wi jury whenever he is fore the grand jur called on I Elko Argonaut Late westbound trains are the order of the day on the C P just at present Uncle Cols threat not to wait at Ogden for the arrival ar-rival of the Union Pacific train has proven what it was thought to be a case of bluff Montana The football men of Montana have been favored with another angel I I Young Charles Clarke gathered the old Butte team and kept it together by providing Bute work for its members Now Marcus Daly of Anaconda jealous of the name of the Butte team has commenced com-menced to gather in football players in his mining works and will have a i crack team to battle with the Butte men There is also a prospect that the new team will make a long trip in the fall months fal Billings the lifeless body of John F Fine was discovered Tuesday under the floor of his store which was burned I Sunday morning The body was lying face downward close up to the sidewall side-wall about 30 feet from a large hole which had teen burned in the floor and about 20 feet from the front foundation founda-tion The head was turned in the direction di-rection of this hole He was fully dressed dress-ed his hands were burned to a crisp and one ear was burned and his hair singed John F Fine was well known throughout Montana W T Pigott of Great Falls has been i appointed by Governor Smith to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge I Horace Buck Butte and Montana generally will help to swell the Klondike movement I in the spring to the extent of several sprinb thousand persons i least if the inquiries I in-quiries made daily at the railroad offices of-fices are any indication Both the fces Northern Pacific and Great Northern are making arrangements to meet the travel westward which is expected to begin early in the spring Wyoming The Wyoming oil syndicate at Douglas Doug-las has been incorporated under the laws of New Jersey and haspurchased 12500 acres of oil claims in the Douglas Doug-las oil basin The company will send oi out an oil well drilling rig in early spring a and thoroughly develop its property prop-erty ertThe wolves are beginning to be troublesome again out on the La Bonte country The Guthrie Bros Live Stock I countr company L B Cooper Rutherford Bros Foxton Bros A W Kenyon and formed other prominent stockmen have an association and are employing wolf ers to scatter poison and set traps for the extermination of the wolves coyotes coy-otes and bears About 25 wolves have been killed in the past few weeks in that vicinity Sheriff Morse of Fremont county arrived ar-rived in Rawlins Tuesday having in custody three prisoners Kugene Gonzales Gon-zales a Mexican who murdered an old woman on the Shoshone Indian reservation I reser-vation will be turned over to the United Unit-ed States marshal for trial in the federal fed-eral court W L Mercer and Wilam N Nash will be taken to the penitentiary peniten-tiary the former for one and the latter lat-ter for three years for forgery T J Lilllard the halfbreed Indian arrested 2 few days ago on request of Colorado authorities was given a preliminary pre-liminary hearing before United States Court Commissioner Fisher for interfering inter-fering with United States mails Lil lard was held to appear before the United States grand jury for the district dis-trict of Colorado Lilliard conducted his own case and examined ant cross examined witnesses like a thorough professional Hon William C Irvine manager of the Ogallala Land and Cattle company one of the largest stocksrowlng concerns con-cerns in the west said the report that his company had decided to move its and close its cattle out of Wyoming business out is not correct His com panys cattle business will be continued as usual First Assistant Postmaster General Heath has increased the separating cleric hire allowance in the postoffice at Buffalo from 1150 to 400 per annum to take effect Jan 1 Charles Gerbar a horseraiser and old resident of Natrona county living in Bates Dark committed suicide by shooting himself through the head with a revolver dying Tuesday evening A telegram was received by the Cheyenne Tribune from Congressman Osborne stating that plans for the proposed pro-posed public building in this city are practically completed The supervising architect has assured Mr Osborne that work will be pushed One hundred and fortyeight thousand dollars is avail able for the work Idaho Hamilton Davis an old pioneer died at his home near Caldwell Saturday evening Dec 1 His death was caused by a cancer from which he suffered about six months The Caldwell Record publishes a letter II let-ter from one of the Caldwell people who left last August for the Klondike gold fields The Caldwellltes in there are Mr Moaby T W Boone Chris Fahy and Henry Newbaumer Mr Mosby writes All that I can tell you about this country at present is that there is any amount of gold dust here and the ground has not been dug up either But I is all located I there I are any new strikes one might be able to get in on them I could go to work for 15 per day but dont like to work I for wages There is not much money in that here I costs 5 per day for board and one cant get in more than six or seven hours in the winter time We could all get a lay if we wanted it but have not taken it yet The supreme court has decided cases as follows First National Bank of Halley vs J Bews involving 10000 judgment of the lower court for Bews affirmed Canyon county vs Ada county coun-ty involving about 20000 judgment for Ada county affirmed J W Brose V vs tne Short Line Local Terminal company com-pany involving valuable rights of way Judgment in favor of Brose reversed A fire at Grangerville Tuesday night destroyed the buildings occupied by the Bank of Camas Prairie the Idaho County Free Press office the Hanson photograph gallery and the Vonberg saloon The buildings were valued at 4000 and the total loss will be 8000 Colorado According to the recent decision running run-ning a slot machine is no longer unlawful un-lawful in Denver and saloonkeepers are happy The threatened trouble between the city council and the Aspen Water company com-pany has been compromised and the water will not be shut off just yet A band of 40 alleged gypsies including includ-ing children have been camped just outside Colorado Springs for the past week Reports of their coming had preceded them and they were prompt T I ly ordered to leave by the sheriff and I city marshal Instead of moving on they pitched their tents and proceeded to beg steal and tell fortunes State Fish and Game Commissioner Swan wants to know where the committee com-mittee that has charge of the Stock Growers convention barbecue are going go-ing to get the dozen antelope it has advertised will be included on the bill of fare says the Denver Republican He says he intends to keep an eye on that feast and If there are any infractions infrac-tions of the law some one will get Into trouble Owing to the preventive measures adopted by the state sanitary board there is less scab among Colorado sheep than ever before VOn V-On Tuesday morning the thermometer registered 40 degrees below at Dillon At a meeting held in Lamar to organize or-ganize a melon growers association 35 farmers who were present pledged themselves to grow cantaloupes next season and become members of the association as-sociation and there are many more who will sign the agreement as soon as It is presented to them Prowers county being be-ing the lowest part of the state melons can be marketed from here a week or ten days earlier than from other parts of the state A terrible accident happened at the Minnesota mine near Central City on Tuesday afternoon resulting in the death of John Bowden a miner on that property When the men had returned to their various places in the mine after lunch they heard a noise as of falling earth and rocks in the 150foot level They went there and found their fellow fel-low workman lying in the bottom of the level covered with tons of dirt leaving only his head exposed Help was summoned and a doctor called but the man was found to be dead Tierney is the name of a Rio Grande switchman who was found dead near his lodgings in Pueblo on Sunday At the inquest on Tuesday Mrs Tierney as she has been known was the most important witness of the day She admitted ad-mitted that she had not been married to Tierney although they had lived together to-gether for ten years She stated that Tierney went out through the window win-dow but she persistently said no one was present when asked who were in the room at the time No arrests have been made but some are expected Fifteen hundred rabbits a portion of the kill at the Lamar hunt were distributed dis-tributed to the charitable institutions and to the poor of Pueblo on Tuesday According to the annual report of the Colorado Fuel Iron company the company mined 2494284 tons of coal in this state during the past year Much of it was sold in Colorado Some however was made into coke at the Pueblo ovens of the Colorado Fuel Iron company and some of it was shipped out of the state |
