Show ft W j D + WESTERN NEWS AND PROGRESS off 4 S f + t > > > i f IDAHO f Boise Statesman Governor Steunen berg has returned from his northern trip He reports that he entered 4000 acres of white pine timber land for the state making a total of 7500p acres of this class of entries This entry clears up all the recommendations made by r the old land board The governor said i was his opinion that the timber is j i of great value He had never seen geat I 1 such a fine body of pine There Is I white and yellow pine fir cedar and tamarack but the principal value is in I the white pine This white pine in northern Idaho Is the only virgin body of such timber In the United States I The trees hold their diameter to a great height and will cut more logs than those of any other white pine section sec-tion In the country Pocatello citizens are prohibited from hunting or fishing on the reservation by the new agent and they propose to send a petition to the commissioner of petton te Indian affairs Five men have been sent to the penitentiary pen-itentiary during the present term of court at Pocatello Caldwell Record There has been very little doing in wool the past week One clip ot 25000 pounds belonging to George Holbrook of Boise was sold to Jeremiah Williams Co of Boston for 9 cents This clip Is said by all the wool buyers to b the choicest < n town up to date The owners will have to take this for what i is worth Wool continues to come In very live ly and there Is now in warehouses here fully 2000 bags Buyers still continue con-tinue to hold off and say the owners will have to moderate their views very materially before any business can be done Nearly all the clips that are complete are held at from S to 10 cents per pound Tie same conditions prevail at all other points on the Short Line wool piling up and no sales Idaho World Fifty thousand sheep have been bought in the southern part of this state to be driven In bands to Nebraska I would be a good thing for Idaho i they were all driven to Nebraska or somewhere else WYOMING A peculiar theft is reported by the Lander Transportation company of Casper The company had stored in its warehouse several barrels of whisky for shipment to Lander Some unknown un-known person or persons crawled under the warehouse and with a brace and bit bored through the floor into one of the barrels of whisky emptying it into receptacles held underneath to catch the precious fluid As yet there is no clue to the thieves cue Cheyenne Sun The case of the State vs Charles Koppler set for trial in the district court Wednesday promises prom-ises tobe rather interestlrg Koppler who was arrested in Laramie claims to be deaf and dumb while people who saw him between Cheyenne and Laramie Lara-mie on the wheel he stole say that he is quite garrulous The trial will be a novel one The annual convention of the Wyoming Wyo-ming Republican League will be held at Cheyenne on Wednesday June 30 1897 1897Word Word is received from Jacksons Hole that a mass meeting of the citizens held Saturday adopted resolutions declaring de-claring that No saloon shall ever be established or intoxicating liquors sold without the consent of the people of the voting precincts of Marysvale and that every moral support of the community com-munity is hereby invoked against the establishment of such a saloon or other place for the sale of in this plae liquor region re-gion and all persons are hereby warned to take notice of this action and govern themselves accordingly The meeting also decided to take necessary steps t keep sheepmen from trailing their herds across the Jack sons Hole country and to keep nonresidents non-residents from bringing stock cattle for the purpose of grazing and evading taxes MONTANA Jessie DHIey 3 years old fell into a canal at Billings and was drowned L G Coleman ali S E Dixon Who was arrested a Miles City for bigamy is accused of having three wives and many children Urba Dixon his wife I who arrived on the scene suddenly Saturday Sat-urday morning has for years been court stenographer at Bismarck is soon to be admitted to the bar in Dakota Da-kota and is making things ery uncomfortable un-comfortable for her muchmarried husband hus-band who suspects that he is being held or something graver than the present complaint discloses John Lardler a gambler wagered 5 that he could dive across a reservoir at Marvsvale After diving he never came to the surface and half an hour later his dead body was recovered roe oianaara claims mat Anaconaa consumes 100 crates of strawberries daily Forty vags were arraigned In the police po-lice court at Butte in one day A J Urlin one of the oldtimers of Missoula died Monday evening at 60 oclock of inflammation of the brain NEVADA Reno Journal Poor old Aurora one o the greatest early camps of western Nevada is to be left without a post office and C the Republicans tell us of the McKinley wave of prosperity Word ha been received at Carson that tie champion bicycle riders of the world will attend a meet at that place in July If the citizens will put the track In good order I At Reno the suit against the Union Mill and Mining company to recover J25000 the amount of Lawyer Coffins I fee was decided In favor o the defendant de-fendant the court holding that the 3 i 000 Did the attorney was sufficient I A distressing accident Carson Appeal distresing ac dent happened to Wallace McKinzte the son of Donald McKinzie Sunday I afternoon The boy was lassoing horses and had the rope tied around his body I When he threw the rope over the horse I the animal started o the run throwing i throw-ing the boy and dragging him When the horse was stopped the boy was unconscious I un-conscious His clothes werre torn from his body and a wound nine inches long in his head I is now thought that his back is broken and he is still unconscious un-conscious cnscous P T Farnsworth informed an Austin Reveille reporter last week that the Ail A-il Cos coal mine at Crum canyon that county va looking tip top that the vein now is over seven feet thick and that an analysis proved i t be anthracite coal o a high quality similar sim-ilar to the Pennsylvania coal The ledge Improves a depth i gained and I ere long we will hear of the company engaged In shipping fuel I COLORADO Testimony in the Otterstein divorce case at Denver showed that both parties par-ties had represented that they were wealthy whereas it was proven that both were badly fooled For this reason rea-son the judge refused an order for temporary alimony Another order for the Pasteur virus has been sent for by the settlers around Craig and will be given to the prairie dogs in that vicinity E B Damall has completed a large boat which he and Amos Bent will use this summer to further placer operations tions en Bear river sandbars The boat is one of the best on the river and is an excellent piece of workmanship I l Reports have been received at Hay r den to the effect that cattle are dying on the range from blackleg I is not definitely known to what extent the I disease has spread but several head I of cattle have already succumbed to the contagion Bear river has receded to such an extent that a boat is no longer needed in order to get to the bridge at Crate A large force of men has been busy for several days putting in temporary culverts in the washouts along the approaches ap-proaches to the bridge and teams can now cross with safety The body of Martin Collins aged 36 Iartn Colns age a wel known ranchman of Woody section sec-tion was found on tne Rio Grande track at Woody eight miles below Aspen As-pen There was a bullet hole in his i head and a revolver by his side I is believed that he committed suicide CALIFORNIA While working at D 0 Mills residence resi-dence 15 years ago William F H tIngs t-ings befriended Carrie Burch a young domestic In the house She married a wealthy Englishman in Australia and I both of them died The estate valued at73000 was bequeathed Hastings I i The supreme court has decided that I bonds issued by Sa Luis Obispo I county are illegal because they are I made payable in gold coin of the United States Instead of gold coin or lawful money of the United States as provided by law The decision will affect adversely a number of bonds issued is-sued by San Diego Workmen engaged in digging a ditch at San Jose unearthed three skeletons evidently those of Indians James Berry a negro who brutally murdered his wife at Modesto pleaded guilty to the crime and entreated the I court to sentence him to death His request was granted I The San Francisco board of supervisors super-visors has passed an ordinance prphib I iting the wearing of hatsin th atrs I ARIZONA A telegram from Tucson says that the report that Black Jack was killed east of Clifton some time ago is an error The man killed was identified Tom Ketchum TheJatest report Is that I I Black Jack Is still at his work with 18 I I men of the same calibre as himself They are said to be camped in the I neighborhood of Ruchs Well in Co I ohise county A posse under United I I States Deputy Marshal Ezekiels is in pursuit I A mining expert sent to investigate some Arizona properties for Denver capitalists recently returned and reports re-ports the finding ofamost remarkable I natural bridge formed by a tree of agatized wood spanning a canyon 46 feet in width The tree had at some remote time fallen and become imbed I dod in the slit of some great inland sea or mighty water overflow The slit became in time sandstone and the wood gradually passed through the stages of mineralization until i is now a wonderful tree of solid agate Vidette Bill Lutley of Tombstone I Wednesday passed 1200 head bf Sonora cattle which he will drive to the Oiilri cahua mountains for grazing I |