Show MURDER IIT NEVADA Happy Jack Killed By lied Rodgers Rod-gers on Cherry Creek White Pine News The residents of Ely were shocked last Monday by the report that a murder had been committed com-mitted at Cherry Creek At first no details could be learned but from later reports we have gleaned the following Last Saturday evening Sept 25 John Griffin better known as Happy lf nrn f wo I 1 Jack returned about 7 oclock in the i evening to the cabin which he had I been occupying in common with James Rodgers familiarly known as Red Rodgers He found the front door locked so went around to the back door and pushed it open when he was struck by Rodgers fist and felled to the I ground Rodgers seeing that Jack did not get up again went down town and I j procured assistance tie was accompanied accom-panied back to the cabin by Frank Pierce who spoke to Jack and helped him to his feet He was able to walk I a little way but after staggering 1 around to the front cf the cabin fell i unconscious By this time others had i arrived on the scene and the prostrate form was carried into the cabin and given such relief as the knowledge of those present dictated but he never regained consciousness dying at 245 a m Sunday Rodgers gave himself up without resistance and had a hearIng hear-ing before Judge Cannon on Monday and Tuesday when he was bound over without bonds to appear before the I grand jury I IDAHO I The enterprising Paris Post has entered en-tered upon a third volume of prosperity prosper-ity under the able management of J H Wallis A stage line from Nez Perce to West lake is to be started to give the reservation reser-vation settlers quicker mail facilities Grangeville Free Press The fruit crop on Camas prairie this year Is the largest and best ever produced since the first settlement of the country The corn crop too matured in fine condition condi-tion Miss Vollmer of Lewiston elected queen of the Idaho InterMountain fair Is six feet tall a blonde a native daughter and 20 years old The name of the town of Vollmer in Latah county has been changed by vote of the citizens to Troy The residents of that place are nearly all foreigners They cannot articulate the sound of V MONTANA The headquarters of the Inspectors of the United States postal service are tube tu-be removed from Helena to Spokane amd a complete reorganization of the districts Is to be effected The tailings bank at the Anaconda workfe caved in on > three men Saturday night and Tom Kelly was smothered to death Healer Vena arrested last week for fraud at Butte jumped his bonds and made his escape There is now a grand larceny case against him From a SCOacre ranch close to Bozeman Boze-man 16000 bushels of barley wheat and oats were harvested worth about 57000 The Butte Consolidated Street Railway I Rail-way company has been granted a new franch1seWYOMING WYOMING Chief Packer F P Delaney one of the best known and most respected frontiersmen in the west died at the Fort Russell hospital l Saturday Mr Delaney was taken ill Thanksgiving day 1896 and since tihat time has suffered suf-fered greatly and traveled to various resorts in search of health and has been unable to leave his bed for some months past Bawling Journal Cattle are being moved rapidly from the ranges to the eastern markets The most of them are in fine condition owing to the good condition of tOts ranges and the cool nights are hardening their fat Mr Frank Blake shipped 326 head Sunday Mr Kirk Calvert of Baggs shipped two carloads Wednesday and Mr Al Goodman Good-man of Baggs shipped a bunch Wednesday Wed-nesday Mr B F Grant of Saratoga left for the west some time ago to receive re-ceive a shipment of cattle which he contracted for last spring for his home range and his return is now daily expected ex-pected D W Drake of Fort Collins reached here Wednesday to receive 9000 head of lambs which he purchased from H Rasmussen exGovernor Osborne and P L Smith He will ship to Fort Collins Col-lins for feeders on Oct 6 NEVADA Last Saturday was the twentyfifth anniversary of the first mail train from Reno to Virginia City over the Virginia Vir-ginia Truck railroad H M Yer rtILg ton has been superintendent of the road during the entire time The line is 52 miles long and 20 years ago it was operating 26 regular trains daily Dayton Times Last week while I sluicing in Gold conyon > a short distance dis-tance above the Devils Gate A M Croman discovered a nice little bar of bullion The bar Is gold and contains con-tains close to 12 ounces and as the gold is quite fine is probably worth in i the neighborhood of 5LOO Of course nobody no-body knows how the bar got into the creeek but old timers in Silver City remember of several holdups made near the Devils Gate in early days and it is probable that the little bar found by Sir Cramer was taken from its own rand r-and then lost or that he threw it away when demanded to hand it over hoping hop-ing to find it again but failing to do so it lay hidden in the creek until recently re-cently unearthed The Reese River Reveille says Cattle Cat-tle are selling over there at the following follow-ing prices Yearling heifers 10 yearling year-ling steers 513 twoyearold steers 2350 dry cows 515 cows and calves 1S making an average price of 1350 John W Mackey visited the Com stock last Saturday The copper smelting plant has started I up at Yerington and is a complete success suc-cess turning out eight tons of copper dailyCarson Carson Appeal An Indian killed a deer that dressed 180 pounds yesterday The deer was killed near the incline A mysterious woman In black who opens locked doors invades private houses and does other queer things has created a sensation at Carson James Ryan an old Comstocker died at Virginia last Saturday COLORADO Professor Guy V Thompson former ly a member of the Yale faculty and a prominent educator died at Boulder last Saturday of consumption One of the Denver Rio Grande freight agents visited Crestone last week and said that he was authorised tosay that as soon as the camp would ship 20 cars of ore per day the D R G would build a branch across from Moftat I The increase of the fruit growing industry in-dustry in Colorado has reduced the importation of canned fruit during the last five years from 7000000 to 2000 000 annually Bears are reported quite numerous in Archuleta county There is an abundance abund-ance of acorns on which bears are now feeding M O Brown of Pagosa Springs has kirICd three bears this fall The potato crop will be short in the I San Luis valley E F Relnert one of tha proprietors of the Mining Record at Denver was assaulted by Theodore Stengr who I beat him over the head with a cane The Record had criticized i Stengers I methods Denver Nests The youngest traveler on Rio Grande train No 4 which entered en-tered Denver at 1030 last night was I an hour old It was a girl baby born to Mrs Clara Vender a member of i the SI Perkins Comedy company mid l way between Pueblo and Denver When j l the train arrived the mother was taken i to the Columbia hotel t A telegram was I I sent by Oharles Reese announcing the coming of the mother and an express I wagon containing a cot was at the Union depot to meet her Dr Carlin attended the mother and child at the hotel Both were doing very nicely when he left at 11 oclock Mrs Ven I der boarded the train at Canyon City |