Show = BENEI T KONDKE Concession to Syndicate V V Will Help Miners ROSS SPEAKS ON MATTER Treadgold Combination Will Enable V prospectors to Obtain Water to 4 Work Their Claims for a Reasonable V Reason-able Sum tho Dominion Government Govern-ment Making That Stipulation in tho Concession He Holds That the V I Deal Will Accomplish Much for V Dawson and tho Yukon Country Vancouver B C Feb V 2OCo Hops of the Klondike arrived here yesterday from the North by tho steamer Amur Inv In-v an Interview concerning tho Trcadgold I concession about which so much excltc = i meat has been raised Gov Roe said V I havo not seen tho amended order Jncouncll concerning tho concessions tp r 4 tho Treadgold syndicate bUll did ceo tho prjglnal older and unless some very material alt ratlona have been mado in i the document nothing but benefit to the Klondike can result frornthQ V agreement which has bcon reached bdtwecn V the Government and the syndicate VOwing l V-Owing to tho fact that there arc many claims on tho creeks In the region re-gion which cannot bo succcaslully worked at present on account of the poor water supply tho owner cun but rwalt ho tIm VV when some powerful llnanci corporation or syndicate provides a generous water supply V That Is what tho Treadrcold syndicate has contracted with thtt Government to do and in return for Its cash ouUiv tho Government will allow It to work the Inaccessible V In-accessible bench claims the titles to which havo lapsed or which the owners do not care to work V Ownern of clalmo have tho privilege Of working their properties with the aid oC the Trcadgold water for which they must pay a reasonable sum to iho syndicate syndi-cate the amount being set bv tho Oovwn nient so that no Iraposlt on Urn nrt of tho syndicate will take place That Is the question as I understand J and such being the case the conccs Blon cannot hut ho a source or great benefit ben-efit to tho whole region V Gov Ross present trip is for tho purpose V thorUIc3 pur-pose of conferring with tho Ottawa au WOODABD TRIAL AT CASPEB Defense Holds That Bicker Was Shot by His Own Men TRIBUNE SPECIAL V Casper Wyo Feb 20The Woodard trial continues to draw a largo number of spectators and tho courthouso Is Jammed full from tho convening to tho adjournment of court A great many ladles la-dles are present and the high school was dlamlfiseu yesterday afternoon In order to give th pupils an opportunity to listen lis-ten to the evidence woodanl continues to tako 0 deep Interest In all the proceedings proceed-ings and his eyes uro conaLiiiUy directed toward the witnesses on tho ntand or toward tho V V Jury Mrs AVoodard wIfe of tho defendant was requested to leave tho courtroom this morning b causo she was to bo used a n witness for the doTehac She Immediately Imme-diately left tho room In l company with TVoodards elstor Mrs flicker widow of tho murdered Sheriff also voluntarily left the room She Is I to 0 n witness for the State Thp forenoon was consumed In tho examination ex-amination of two witnesses James Mime deputy sheriff who stood on tho outside of tho house when the Sheriff waa shot and Levi C Boil who arrived at the ranch next morning after the murder and who was the first man to arrive where the body lay The evidence of these witnesses does not change materially mate-rially from tho accounts hcrotoioro pub lished pub Tho State will not finish examination of Its witnesses before Friday noon thero V being twontyoltrhl witnesses subpoenaed for the State Tho defense has but three witnesses Tho case will probably go to tho Jury not before Friday evening The attorneys for Woodard have carefully care-fully guarded what their defense will he but It Is understood that they will claim Sheriff flicker was shot by some mnn I who was at or near thy oodard houhe V It IB aald that It will be claimed that V flicker came down to tho barn from tho house and when close to tho barn ho Jlrcd ono shot Into the barn It has always been supposed that Woodard fired this shot and killed Mr RIcker but this being fired by tho Sheriff himself did no damage After firing tho shot the Sherln camo onto on-to tho barn As ho was about to enter tho door ho was struok In the face and knocked down JIo WItS unconscious for about ton minutes from the effects of the blow his revolver and belt of cartridges car-tridges wero taken from him whllo hoWlS ho-WlS In this stato When rip regained consciousness and got up to go toward tho houso a shot was fired from tho house and he again fell to the grouhd It has been proven Thy tho Siatetf witnesses wit-nesses thut tho Sheriff called to his deputies dep-uties that ho was In the barn and It will bo claimed that when ho called ho was Buffering only from tho effects of tho blow on tho head Tho States witnesses nave sworn that YVestfall shot from tho houso toward some object near tho barn door and It will bo claimed that this ob ject was Sheriff flicker and It was Vest fall who killed him Instead of Woodard Tcntlmonv this afternoon In the Wood nrd case showed that the prisoner had Bickers gun when ho arrIved In Mon tiina ana traded It to a young man named Owens It was proven that ho Btolo a horao eight miles eatt of town and rode It to tho Woodnrd ranch Tile evidence thus far produced la very ptrong against Wojglard Eighteen witnesses wit-nesses for the State have thus far been examined und there are ten moro to goon go-on the stand Two of the States most Important witnesses Own and Boric hefmor will bo on the stand tomorrow V morning Those are the two t men who captured Woodurd and received the 1005 reward nnd to whom he told the whole story of tho killing and escape PAST EXPRESS FOB FISH First Train Vancouver for Boston Bos-ton Leaves Former City V Vancouver B C Feb 2QTho Halibut express comprising nlna care of fresh halibut one car of puget Sound salmon and one car of SQii r ISh valley hojs left imro yesterday for Boston Tlls la the first through fljjh train V to run from the Pacific to tho Atlantic It will make the same time nn thn passenger exprcrtf nnd tho fish will be landed In Boston Monday morning V DEED OF ASSIGNMENT V Proudflt S Coof Colorado Springg r File Papeis Colorado Springs ColoFeb 2OJoh W Proudnt Co flied a jibed of assignment assign-ment with the Cfefk of El Paso county today assigning all his lutcrcotn t both legal lnnd equitable to Charles E Noble of Uils city Tho liabilities l arc not given nut Involve a number of Eastern and 4 Now York clients rho Jlrm was ono of the leading brokerage concerns doing business in Cripple Creek mlnos nnd was ono of tho pioneers of tho Colorado Springs mining itock exchange V WANT JAPS EXCLUDED Colorado frislaturo Asks Congress to Shut Out Asiatic labor Denver Colo Feb 20The Senate to day adopted the Joli t resolutions which V had been previously adopted by the Houno declaring that tile Interests of Colorado worklngmen arc scflnunly Jeop ardized by the employment V of Japanese ut the coal mines In Hucrftino County V and that It Is the sense of the Thirteenth General Assemblythat the Congress of the United States shall take stensto ox cludo from this country all of this class of Asiatic laborers |