Show l WESTERN NEWS AND PROGRESS I G I S ARIZONA V Phoenix has succeeded In placing some 50000 of her bonds A searching party has left Mesa inquest in-quest of Gordon Hunsaker who left his home a month ago on a trip across I the desert and nothing has been hear i from him since I is feared that he was lost and perished from third The territorial board of education held a meeting at Phoenix Friday for the purpose of opening and filing bids for supplyfng the schools with tet books Nothing definite vas decided upon but several representatives of book firms were on hand with samples of text books The postoffice at Chaltender is ordered I discontinued Mail will be sent to Williams I H J Cleveland lately nnnointrd In dian agent aT Sacaton has left Washington Wash-ington for his post The board of suoevfsors at Phoenix Phoe-nix are preparing to pfoeasd under a law of the late legislature authorizing them to lease the school lanrt 1 is possible that notice will be issued notce wI so that the leases may be effeclel as early as the middle of August The law passed by the late legislature was the result of an act of congress passed a year ago last spring providing for the leasing of the school and university univer-sity lands and authorising the territorial terri-torial legislature to prescribe he manner man-ner in which they should bf liis sl COLORADO The Colorado peach crop Is larger this year than ever before and he first shipments have been made to the Chicago Chi-cago market The only doubt of Its success Is said to be In the jacking of the product properly for S3 long a journey Heretofore peaches from the I fields of Montrose Delta and Mesa counties I Is said have not been picked to go farther thap D3nver The Festival of Mountain nd Plain this year will be the most brilliant display dis-play ever made In Denver The subscriptions sub-scriptions made up to the present tine while not as large as was hoped it rare r-are still large enough to waTair the assertion The Chinese peopl are at I work upon the decorations for their floats and the suits to be worn in thIr parade and a commit 2 will leave for San Francisco in a fiv days to make the selection of the special features fea-tures proposed They say that the display dis-play will be the most Chinique ever seen In this country The arbitrators named to determine the value of the Telluride tuwPiFRe I companys plant A F Billingsly and i L W Galloway fo the town and G W Goebel and A T 1 Hath ixviy for the sewerage comoijy with l 1 Clark nf Afrm trr A m tlT 5fffrh ienihrr rf I n n nn nnn the board of arbitration met Thursday Thurs-day afternoon ind iliad that a ust appraisal of all of the TlluriJe Sewer pionety ir Telluride age companys ptne y Teluride places the value at 37J5 ior umt time past the town has Leei contemplating contem-plating purchasing the sewer system but the owners and t > wa intborltlts could not agree on its value and aboard a-board of arbitrators was sriPCted for that purpose An engineer works at Denver last week shipped one of its patent mine timbering machines to Old Mexico The machine with an operator cuts the tenors on both ends of the timber it will cut timbereither round or sqtare of any diameter up to 16 inches and any length to 1 faet betwen the shoulders I can be operated by rae man and a boy I is a Colorado Invention In-vention and is attracting wide atcn tion among the large inm ojijritorc The Colorado Sorln s joe festal occurs this month Walter S Clark Is Asoens new I I postmaster The Grand Junction StarTimes has suspended as a daily and will be published pub-lished as a weekly hereafter CALIFORNIA CAIORN Charles and Walter Taylor of Berkeley Berke-ley have struck i rich in Klondyke The two young men left Berkeley a year ago and secured work 5n the Treadwell mine Last February they struck out for Klondyke and apparently appar-ently fortune has smiled upon them They aires write they will return million Complaints are made to Secret Service Ser-vice Agent Harris that a large amount of counterfeit silver is in circulation I is in the shape principally of l > u gus dollars though there are some I halves From the complaints i Is ld ieved that the counterfeiters took advantage ad-vantage of the crowds of strangers attracted tracte to San Francisco by the Chris tan Endeavor convention Complaints come from Sacramento San Jose Oakland and every other city which the Endeavorers visited in numbers I is suspected that the mint wher it was made Is located in San Fnincisco I A circular issued by the postoifl department partment calling attention of iiouse holders to the convenience and advantages I advan-tages of having a letter box at ilu sr doors for the safe delivery of mail hau been > taken advantage of by a San Francisco firm engsel in manufac turing these devices to mak > rople believe that such ooxes are compul ory I first circulates tliugh 3 di trict a notice to the eif3t that such boxes are required by the pcstofilce department and the mat diy sends agents around to try ani ret the householder to buy the bor i manu factures Thirty of San Luis Oblsuot most I prominent young jojiey ladles apt ap-t i peared upon the sIae u the Iavillon theatre Thursday in 1 genuine blipK face minstrel show ii fornance was given under the auspices nf tle Catholic Ladies Md osity a very strong social and charitable organization organiza-tion of that city There was a large audience and the nerform were received re-ceived with much enthusiasm Thomas F Dillard agei 75 a pioneer resident of Hanford was found dead in bed Thursday inoiing at the hcme of his daughter near Lemoore Den tz Is supposed to have resulted frum heart disease IDAHO All the lumber merchants of Bear Lake county have agreed upon a scale o prices which will govern hereafter I was necessary for such a step a a means of selfprotection The town of Paris has been Incor Dorated The fourth annual teachers Institute and summer school for Bear Lake county wall commence today Monday Aug 2 at the schoolhouse Fish Haven and will continue three weeks At Salmcn Tuesday some fellow sold an Indian whisky and both were arrested ar-rested The IndIa was handcuffed but sot away and swam the river When caught a few hours after he I still had the shackels on was sobered up and scared for fear the sheriff would hang him I Thomas and Fred Gooding will ship 17 carloads of sheep from the Ketchum stockyards next Tuesday for the eastern east-ern markets The Boise Democrat says that Will Austin the mining expert on being asked if he were going to Alaska said No I could take what It would cost < go there and do much better with It In Idaho The south end passenger crews on the Short Line now He over 24 hours in Pocatello heretofore instead of in Salt Lake a V T has been the hottest summer that Pocatello has experienced In the past five year V V V V The outlook for successful negotiations negotia-tions with the Shoshones and Bannocks of the Fort Hall reservation for the purchase of a part of their lands i becoming be-coming more favorable every day Two fullgrown mountain lions with three cubs are reported in the neighborhood neigh-borhood of the new creamery in Gentile ale Every now and then someone runs onto them In the brush and sometimes some-times even out in the hay fields but no one has a yet gotten a shot at either of the brutes WYOMING James P Reedy whose resignation as clerk In the Wyoming state surveyor generals office Is in to take effect on the date that bis chief goes out is to locate a an attorney at Evanston O D Marx and John Fanning will leave Evanston this week forth for-th Klondyke gold fed They go brail > b-rail to Seattle thence by steamer 1000 miles to Juneau or Dyea Alaska thence overland to the mines C W Turman o Evanston has been V granted a pension of 10 per month through the work and influence of Senator Sen-ator Clark The veteran will also receive re-ceive 1300 a back pay In the final adjudication ad-judication of his claim L A cal by uovernor Kicnaras is issuea for bids to rebuild the state hospital at Rock Springs The increased demand for Rock Springs coal has made It necessary too to-o rate No2 mine and accordingly the company advertised for men and set them to work Jast week says the Independent Inde-pendent Every man and boy who can handle a pick and is Inclined to do so is now ale to secure employment at remunerative re-munerative wages John Freeman sheep Inspector has returned to Rock Springs from 0 trip over the southern part of the county He reports all sheep free from scab as they have recently been dipped in a I satisfactory manner stsfatr maner I I H M King of Rock Springs attended I the Jubilee at Salt Lake City and had such a enjoyable time that he lost all regard for property and traded valises va-lises with a young lady when he arrived ar-rived home He says that the unutter ableness of the attractions at Saltair are responsible for this little episode MONTANA Mrs Anna OFarrell wife of John Mr > nna OFael OFarrell and sister of Marcus and Patrick Daly of Anaconda died at her home in Anaconda Friday last The German societies of Butte will and German festival give a grand picnic Germa e rival at Greg Springs on Sunday Auir 8 Haying i now occupying the full Montana farmer time cif the average Montana Each farm affords employment to from two to twelve men The weather Is favorable fa-vorable and the yield odIn od-In the figures of copper production for 1896 which have been given out from Washington the total for Mon to be 5000000 pounds tana appears 500000 pouds 208000000 pounds given as short of the a Montanas total This i due it is said t the omission from the detailed list of the Butte Reduction works owned bv W A Clark and the Colorado Smelting and Mining company These works produced in 1896 about 5000000 I pounds of copper n u copprn I William J Bryan will oe in neiena about Aug 12 I is estimated that from 7000 to 10 000 people will be at Bozeman to see and hear Bryan board has offered The Bozeman college board ha fered the professorship of botany and te biology to Herbert V Neil Ph D of Harvard modern languages to A H Carrier of Ohio domestic science and art to Mrs Lilla HasMns of South Dakota The handsome silver service donated to the gunboat Helena by the people o I the city of Helena which was made to order from silver from the Montana mines was formally presented t the gunboat last Saturday in the presence of a distinguished company of members of congress and government officials conges United States Senator Thomas H Carter Car-ter made the presentation speech NEVADA Flannlgan Anderson of Reno are preparing to make a shipment of 7000 lambs to eastern markets Alvaro Evans has gone to Bly Ore a place near Lake View from which point he will drive 3000 head of cattle to Reno for shipment The Piute Indians about Reno held a meeting Thursday and after considerable consid-erable discussion decided that they would not go to California again to pick hops They are of the opinion that the risk of being killed while riding rid-ing on the platforms of the cars is too great for the amount of pay they receive re-ceive in the hop fields which is about SO cents per 100 pounds The breaking of a drawhead caused the ditching of three cars of a freight train five miles east of Palisade Friday Two tramps who were stealing a ride were killed The westbound passenger train was delayed eight hours in con seauence of the wreck W B Duvall and Mr Loder are in vestlgatBng the proposition of building a big smelter at Elite in the near future fu-ture The success of the enterprise depends de-pends upon the existence of the necessary neces-sary fluxing ores near Elks in sufficient quantities to make a smelter profitable The prospect of ore being shipped this week from Olinghouse to the Reno reduction re-duction works adds great interest to the possibilities of that camp William Craven a section foreman at Lovelocks was kiled near what is known as Granite Point the other day He was running a track velocipede over the road and collided with a train His velocipede was smashed into kindling kind-ling wood and his body ground into a shapeless mass before the train could be stopped V |