Show o t y v v e O + + dY1 YY YY Y YY I M WESTERN NEWS AND PROGRESS M k A III IDAHO Two of Mains circus horses were attached at-tached at Boise by a Pocatello man named Keeney who accuses the circus people of swindling him out of 20 and a feed bill The report of Superintendent Mc Ginty of the soldiers home for May hews the total expenses for the month were 76847 The total appropriation available was 93535 The saving for the month uas therefore S1G7SS For the first five months of the year the expenses ex-penses were 95277 less than the available avail-able appropriation i Boise Statesman James Stephenson of Omaha the widely knuwn stage line owner was in the city a few hours yes I tfrday having come in to see his son Mr Stephenson contemplates putting on a magnificent stage line to the Yellowstone Yel-lowstone national park from Idaho j Falls I The coming municipal contest at Boise will he between the gold Republicans Repub-licans and the combined silver forces The former will hold their convention Monday evening and the silver con I vention will be held Wednesday iTo i-To Idaho Falls boys visited the j town cemetery last Saturday and overturned over-turned nearly all the tombstones and i enbse many of which were i broken One of the boys was subsequently subse-quently adjudged insane and sent to I the state asylum MONTANA A business mens club has been organized or-ganized at Anaconda for the advancement advance-ment of the material interests of the city Two Butte attorneys Dan Yancey and Seth B Smith came to blows in a justices court at Wall < ervllle last Wednesday Wed-nesday and the court and spectators were obliged to separate the combatants combat-ants Edward C Hopper of Cincinnati has J hen selected to nil the position of presiding I pre-siding judge in the running races at Anaconda He is secretary of the Wt stern Turf congress and of the La j i i tonia Jockey club Major P P Johnston i i John-ston of Kentucky will be presiding udge in the harness races and James i B Ferguson of Kentucky will be the starter I The wool buying season in northern Montana opened at Great Falls Wednesday I Wed-nesday when a clip of 12000 pounds i was bought by a representative of Jeremiah Williams Co at 11 cents The same firm bought a 24000pound clip at Malta paying the same price WYOMING 4 George E Clark the sewing machine agent who was brought back to Cheyenne Chey-enne from Omaha on a charge of forgery was convicted and sentenced j I I to pay a fine of 100 and spend 60 da sIn j s-in jail I i Laramie Boomerang Mrs Samuel Haynes of Cheyenne created a sensation j sensa-tion in that city last evening by attempting i i at-tempting to commit suicide on the street She sent a policeman into a i saloon to look for her husband and as I he returned she drank a bottle of chloroform Prompt medical attention saved her life N J OBrien of Cheyenne who was recently appointed special agent in the land department of the United Spates I has been notified to report for duty at Denver and he will remove to that i city at once Mr OBrien has held the II I position of state land appraiser of i Wyoming for two years and will resign re-sign the office to assume the duties of his new appointment An effort is being made to have the I i Eighth United States infantry stationed I I sta-tioned at Fort Russell and the Wyoming Wyo-ming national guard unite In a summer 1 V sum-mer encampment near Laramie City j some time In August The Eighth infantry I in-fantry always goes on a practice march and encampment each summer and is quite willing to unite with the Wyoming I Wyo-ming militia The only thing uncompleted uncom-pleted for this union encampment is the raising of sufficient money to bear the expenses of the state militia on this trip no state funds being available for that purpose The citizens of Laramie have undertaken to raise 500 to cover I this expense so that they may have this grand encampment of the federal soldiers and state militia for a w ek I COLORADO i Henry Morris who lives on theM J Lawrence ranch two miles northwest Brighton met with a terrible accident acci-dent last Monday which resulted in his death Mr Morris was out in the hay field mowing in the same field being be-ing a couple of his men stacking hay The men hearing him crying out wildly ran to him and found him entangled in the lines and partly under the sickle box of the mowing machine terribly mangled by the knives He died shortly afterwards Dr Lewis F Preston who was ac cused of murdering David Prank a consumptive by a peculiar electric surgical sur-gical operation performed May 31 was examined by a justice of the peace and discharged on motion of his attorney A special committee of the Pueblo city council has recommended that the city build and operate its own electric light plant I One hundred and sixty prospectors I passed over Berthoud pass last Sunday on their way to the gold fields at Hahns Peak Mrs Lawrence Ryan wife of the well known Pueblo railroad contractor became be-came insane Wednesday night and tried Ito kill her baby but was prevented The recent less of much money by j Ryan Bros made her very despond finally causing Insanity which is considered con-sidered hopeless Major W F Townsend one of the best known men in Pueblo has been driven insane by financial reverses He left his home and wandered up Into the mountains and refuses to return There seems to be an organized gang of horse thieves at work near Long mont Seven horses have been stolen recently CALIFORNIA I Matt Simlichy the pugilist who knocked Kid Evans out for all time to come In a boxing contest at San Jose was acquitted at his trial on a charge of manslaughter on instructions from Judge Lorigan that no case had been I made out by the prosecution The speediest criminal trial on record rec-ord in Sonoma county took place last Wednesday Louis Cassens was tried for horse stealing convicted and sentenced sen-tenced to four years in prison all in less than four hours Last Tuesday there was a double drowning in the San Joaquin river at Whisky Slough Frank Robinson fell into the stream and his companion Ol lie Collars seeing that Robinson was In a bad plight jumped In to save him Robinson seized Collars and like a drowning man gripped him tightly thus leaving his wouldbe rescuer no chance to keep above water Both went under struggling for their lives and both were drowned before help could I arrive Stephen Sheflield a welltodo merchant mer-chant of Xova Scotia who has been so journing at Chula Vista ten miles south of San Diego during the past four months for his health fell out of his carriage while driving to bis physician phy-sician Tuesday afternoon and died in stantly1 Redding prosecuting fcs saloonkeepers saloon-keepers under the vagrancy iws One I has been sent up for 70 days and 20 more will follow Shasta county claims the medal for I the largest coyote yet killed It was j slain on the farm of H H Cutter on Cow creek The animal measured two j and a half feet from back to foot and I four Xeet from tip of tail to nose It is without doubt the largest on record I NEVADA Carson Appeal The authorities are I now looking for Dave Harris formerly a cook in the Cafe Royal who Is I charged with larceny of 480 from Jake Werner over a week ago It appears that Werner who lives in Carson valley val-ley intrusted 4SO with Harris to bet on the SharkeyMaher contest It was sent to Corbetts pool rooms in San Francisco and Harris did the corresponding corre-sponding with the pool rooms After the fight was declared a draw Harris wrote to San Francisco for the return of the money and after getting it disappeared dis-appeared Henry Springmeyer has been making I mak-ing money hand over fist during the last year with his chickens and the i secret has leaked out It transpires that he purchased an X ray machine i and by means of this examines the hens He can tell just how many eggs are inside the foul and if the foul is not all right for eggs he sells it or kills It for market By this means he has a i big advantage over all competitors and utilizes his hens to the best advantage |