Show dl n pslS sr c PIKE AT DE LA MAIL Restaurant Shoe Shop and General Store Wore Destroyed De La Mar Nev May 22At about lUir Just night the most dlsaairout lire in tIle history of the town occurred It was forluimtPly subdued without losa of life but the restaurant of Ed fling more familiarly known as China Ed the finest In the town tile shoo shop of Manuel George once the store of George Fetternwn hardware mcr chant were totally destroyed with all I tIle contents Owing lo tile bulldlnga being mostly lumber It was Impossible Impossi-ble lo save anything except the lire proof warehouse of Mr Fet terrnan In the rear of the store which escaped with UK cuntPiiia Mr 1 Fclterman has the largest and finest stock of bard wurc and mining I supplies In I southern Nevada and unlll it is replaced will work positive loss to the community Tho stock was worth between 11000 and 12000 Very little was waved and there was a rather small Insurance on it Ed lung was also slightly insured Had the wind boon blowing the whole town would have been swept away A large number of tile people wore attending a performance given by the colored minstrels when the llrst alarm was given and quite a stampede ensued from the hall but beyond a few Indies fainting no one was hurt Surrounding buildings were badly scorched but outside of those named the damage was confined lo Ihoso which were burnt With his characteristic charac-teristic energy Mr Fotlcrman will re sumo business again as soon as be can rebuild Ho has the sympathy of all of our citizens as also has our genial host China lid IDAHO WEATHER AND CROPS Thunderstorms and Showers A General Gen-eral Prost Reported Under date of Boise May 22nd the section director of the weather and crop service makes this summary of reports throughout the State During the past week the temperature tempera-ture averaged 1 decree below the normal nor-mal for the whole State however it was slightly above the normal in the western districts and considerably below be-low in many ot the eastern and ecu Iral counties On the morning of the ICth unusually severe thunderstorms occurred throughout the western counties coun-ties und light showers occurred In the eastern counties on the 17lh llHh and 20th There was a general frost on the 17th Frost also occurred In the eastern east-ern counties on the 18th and 10th The precipitation for the week averaged slightly below the normal During the first part of the week high winds prevailed pre-vailed CHINESE ASK INJUNCTION Bequest Court to Restrain San Francisco Fran-cisco Board of Health San Francisco May 21The only development de-velopment in the plague situation today to-day was an application made In the United States court by theChinese for a temporary injunction to restrain the San Francisco Board of Health and Dr Kinyoun the Federal quarantine quaran-tine olliccr from interfering with the commerce and comfort of the Chinese quarter by establishing a quarantine on tile pretext that the bubonic plague exists In this city The long complaint filed by the petitioners peti-tioners recites that the bubonic plague never did exist and does not now exist in this city that the petitioners are imprisoned by the Board of Health that In maintaining the quarantine against the Chinese the health board is exercising an unlawful discrimination discrimina-tion that the Federal quarantine ofllce has power to regulate only with traffic between Slates and has no Jurisdiction Ju-risdiction over tile domestic health matters mat-ters of this city Judge Morrow said lhat he did not like to Issue a restraining order in so important a mailer without giving the other side a hearing For that reason he refused to grant ex parle a restraining restrain-ing order but granted instead an order lo show cause why an Injunction should not be Issued The order to show cause is returnable at 31 a m tomorrow HILL IS AT BEST Funeral of Former Senator Takes Place in Denver Denver May 24The funeral of the late Nathaniel P Tlill formerly United States Senalor from Colorado who died on Tuesday was held this afternoon at tile family residence and was strictly private only members of the family and very Intimate friends of the deceased de-ceased being present The Senator had expressed the wish shortly before his death that there should be no pomp or ceremony or flowers at his funeral Rev David N Beach pastor of the First Congregational church of which the deceased was a member conducted the services assisted by Dean Hart of St Johns cathedral Many public offices of-fices were closed and Hags arc flouting at halfmast on public buildings The death of no citizen of Colorado ever called out so many messages of sympathy and tributes of respect as have been received by the family of ex Senator IIlll Telegrams have been received re-ceived from prominent people In all parts of the country BOB LEE ON TBIAL Train Men Unable to Identify Him as a Bandit TRIBUNE SPECiAL Cheyenne Wyo May 24A jury was secured this afternoon In the case of IKC against Bob the United States with alias Bob Curry who Is charged complicity In the robbery of the Union Pacific express train at Wilcox last its prosecution begun June and the case by examlng witnesses to tIm hold Those Included Conductor Story up the fireman and four Engineer Jones lf mail clerks who were In charge of theta of these could Not one train held up idPillfv Lee and all were positive none of the holdUPS resembled prlH prosecution will llnlsh its onc The case tomorroW is an alibi and Lee it at The defense has half of the people of Black IOPI ev In Tiawk county to swear that Lee was that town on the day of tho holdup hours following and for twentyfour favorable Impression in Lee made a court today and It was the opinion of all that he Is Innocent of the crime charged ADA COUNTY FOR HAWLEY I Result of Democratic Convention Surprises Steunenberg 1 TIUBUis13 SPECLVL i Boise Ida May 21Tile Democratic 1 county convention to elected delegates i lo both State conventions was held lure today The proceedings were harmonious but the result Is a little 1 surprising as It appears that the delegation dele-gation selected to attend tile Pocatello convention favors J II Hawley for United States Senator There aro a I number of the delegation who arc in favor of Gov Slouncnbi rg but tIle 1 majority favor Hawley The latter Is opposed lo the proposition to nominate a candidate at the Pocatello convention conven-tion so IK tho Governor But If the proposition carries and the delegation voles as a unit IMi Mawley will have I the full support of ibis county BAN INTO TROUBLE Steamship Centennial tBound for Nome Strikes Quarantine Orders Seattle Wash May 24Tile steamship steam-ship Centennial for the Northwest i ern Commercial company arrived from San Francisco at midnight last night The vessel came Into port without tile least thought or knowledge of any new < I regulations regarding quarantine and unwittingly poked her nose Into considerable consid-erable trouble The Centennial sailed from San Francisco before the new quarantine orders had been promulgated promul-gated and the first she knew of them was some time this morning when local custom officials boarded her and began to nice steps to carry out the new orders or-ders In the meantime passengers had been permitted to come ashore and scatter throughout the city There are COO or COO passengers In this city who are going lo Nome on i the vessel It Is claimed that there is not lie slightest bit of danger of any bubonic plague being aboard but the wording of tho regulation which governs gov-erns the quarantine of vessels makes It necessary to be as strict us possible Tt may be that the local quarantine inspector can pass on the vessel but then again it may be necessary for the Port Townsend officials to perform that function OIL ON TROUBLED WATERS i ii i Steamer Walla Walla Uses it to i Quiet Violent SeaPort Sea-Port Townsend Wash May 2tTIle steamship Walla Walla which arrived ar-rived this evening from San Francisco reports the severest storm for many years along the coast of Oregon and Washington While off the Columbia river tho seas were breaking over her with 80 much violence that oil was used but it did not keep the sea from sweeping the vessel The captain also reports that several vessels were sighted off Grays harbor laboring heavily FEDERATION OF k MINERS Meeting in Denver Concludes its Labors Denver Cob May 24 Delegates to the annual conventions of the Western Federation of Miners and the Western Labor union havlrfg finished their labors la-bors left the city today on an excursion to Cripple Creek The new executive board of the federation consists of J C Williams of Grass Valley Cal Chris Folet RoBsland B C Charles Hueyer Deadwood S D J B Furey Butte Monu W D Haywood Silver City Ida and William M Burns Ouray Colo POCATELLO WATER CASE Idaho Supreme Court Sustains Decision De-cision Favoring Company S TRIBUNE SPECIAL Boise Idaho Slay 21The Supreme < court today decided the case of the Pocatello Water company against Jus A Standley The decision of the lower court In favor of the company is affirmed af-firmed Standley Is a plumber who sought to enforce the right lo tap the water mains and the company enjoined him claiming the right to do the work itself SEEKERS FOR GOLD Seven Hundred Fortune Hunters Sail for Capo Nome Seattle Wash May 25Tho steamship steam-ship Ohio of the Empire line the largest passenger carrier yet leaving this port for Nome got off this afternoon after-noon having on board 706 fortune huntors She takes as general cargo 1501 tons The Roanoke with dyer COO passengers will I sail 1 tomorrow ELEVEN MEN MISSING Three Are Known to Have Been Drowned In Columbia Rivet Astoria Or May 24 1It is impossible at this time to correctly estimate tho loss of life duo to yesterdays storm though eleven men are missing according ac-cording to the rolls of the Seamens union and of these three are known to have been drowned It la possible that the remaining eight men succeeded In reaching shore from their capsized boats at points where they have been unable lo communicate with this city The loss to fishermen has been heavy in the way of nets and boats Washington Bed Cross Society Spokane Wash May 24The State Red Cross society today elected the following fol-lowing olllccrs President Mrs M R Blanker North Yaklma recording secretary sec-retary Mrs J A Schiller Spokane assistant recording secretary Mrs J G Givens Seattle corresponding ace rotary Mrs George A Graham North Yaklma treasurer Mis Louise B Stratton Spokane assistant treasurer Mrs J w Cline Seattle North Ya klma will be the next place of meeting meet-ing the first Tuesday In May 1901 Killed by Bridge Collapsing Kondrlck Ida May 21A wagon bridge across Bear creek two miles above Kendrlck collapsed this inorn lug while Ed Barker and Joseph Campbell were driving across It with a load of wood resulting in the Instant death of Campbell Improvements at Fort Russell Cheyenne Wyo May 24The old frame officers buildings at Fort Russell Rus-sell near Cheyenne will be torn down and brick and stone houses eroded In their stead Senator Warren has received re-ceived word from Washington that the appropriation committee has adopted his amendment to appropriate 70000 for tim continuing of building at Fort Russell and it IH expected that the work will be commenced at once Farmer Charges Trespass John Harlford oC North Point ap ppfircd before Justice Nielsen yester day and swore to a complaint charg nff Ira Rudy wilh trespassing on his land 1 |