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Show WESTERN HEWS ITEMS. An Indian Killed in Self-defense. Self-defense. .MUniiEKEP BV A TKAJU. Dragged iWth Oae loot In thc StFrrnp. ivASHitieios. Seattle, Aug. 2. Ifenry Shakespeare, Shake-speare, an iron-molder by trade aud n sou of the Postmaster at Victoria, U. C, while Intoxicated today fell off the Commercial wharf and tras drowned. Tort Townsond, Aug. 3. Charles Carlran, 0 lto!Ian Finn, tnme from Pert Ludlow todav and surrendered hlmseir to Rheriir Delaucy. lie says be killed an, Indian yesterday iaselrdcfense. The I ndUn.was oa Carlton's place picking berries, and, when ordered otT, attacked Carlson with an ax, when the latter shot him deadi SiahrmB Fall4, At-g. 1 VblJ9 n freight train was lying at Trent, a few miles from this city, a tramp tried to steal a tide. He was prevented pre-vented by brakeman J. Ii. Doane, b'jtsoou thereafter got aboard. This time be was thrown off by tue con. duclor. He then went around the car anil stepping up to Daaue stabbed him fatally with long knife. TlleassatslUocspcd. Portland. Aug. 3. Charles Clay-sou, Clay-sou, aged 3, was drowned this aftei-tK'onnhl'c aftei-tK'onnhl'c bathing iti the Willamette Willa-mette ftivc-r. Ho was in couitiaiiy with two other young men who were good swimmers, and had vculurcj some u'lanee into mo stressm. Ciayeoa, being Unable to liu, kejvt clore to the shore but gut ihto deep water over his head aud was drorvned ls?for his coril-pnntons coril-pnntons ccuM reach him. His body was not iccu ert-d. Portland, Aug. 3. Parker A. Topping, Top-ping, who have furnished all the iruu aud brats castings for the Northern Pacific Itatlroad Corc-liauy Corc-liauy fur the pa't twenty s ear,liae leased Uie foundry at Uie car tho, s lately purchxsed by Uie Union Pacific Paci-fic trom the Terminal Company and secured a contract for furnishing furnish-ing 11 castings tor the Union Pacific Paci-fic Company for tlie tears. They will begin work tomorrow, and w ill have the largest'and most complete foundry in the Noitiixit. Mr. fo's-piug fo's-piug uUl have charge of the work aud will reside lie-re.. The Lulni Pacific lias now aliout 3- men employed em-ployed in Its car p1iojs, and will shortly commence thc construction of box aud flat ears ou a large scale here. viU)ttusi. Luit Sunday afternoon Suit. Chiles 01 the Indian school, started with his wife and child, in a f-i rim; waon for tlie Mesa lakes accom- ianied by tlie Iuuian Uiys hh foot. Ata pointatxMit 13 miles cast ou Itapid creek, while driving down a ttec-p side hill, the brake oil the wagon gave way overturning Uie vehicle aud hurling Ihe occupants to the ground. Mrs. Chiles was severely bruises! and shocked fn-m tlie loa-o of the fall, though no bones' were broken. Mr. Chiles and his child escaped uninjured, and lie succeeded in holding the hor-cs, preventing further fur-ther damage. With the aid cf the Indian boys Mrs. Chiles was agun lifted Into the wagon an 1 tlie entire party started leck to lirand Junction Junc-tion to get medical aid. It was then 'J o'clock iu the esening and the we-ary return trip was not concluded uutil a late hour, or rather an early hour Monday morning when the fervlcvs (if Dr. Bull were secured to attend Mr. Chiles. She will w-nbly w-nbly In confined to the house fur two weeks as the result of the accident. acci-dent. 'Jraiid Junction blar. w VUUIM-. Thomas Boucher had a narrow escape es-cape from death Saturday evening. He had mounted Ills hoiss to go to hts ranch to get a wagon lo attend the picnic ou Saturday. Daw u at the bridge on Second Street he dismounted dis-mounted lo fix one of the tUrrujsj. The saddle was a snisli one with otcn stirrups and tcitlioutahuru, and he was not accustomed to it. While atteniting to mount again his horse jumped and he lust his balai.ee. One feot w as f est in the ttlrrup and he w.m dragged about two blocks w Ith the horse running at grtat ri-eed nn I kicking ut lum viciouly. Tne siddle ragie loos aud freed him from the lerilocis )osllio:i. He was taken to his ho neon ne-on Flr-t Street. Tliive ribs were broken on his right side and his head and face w 1 re quite badly cut nudscrakhed. HislniiirKsare Ihe result of kiLks from the horse and contact wiUi the ground. The fractured frac-tured ribe. cause lum the nll!'t, trouble. ISuomirany. 1 The RawI!ns.ouraai tax t that the timber on Llfc Moui.talu andlhvad-jiee-nt ikii has been on fire fur tlie I past to or three weeks, and in that I time much valuable tiniU-r has been destioyed. A atcli live miles, lang ! by tnieu wide is burned entirely clear of timber aud the fire is not yet extinguished. Hie heavy rains of last week checked its progress I tomew hat, but yero not t-uuicieiit to quench the flames. We understand under-stand that a tuition of B. T. livan's taw mill was iu Uie track of tbe coiiflagrat'an and was destroy csl. it Is pral-able that more property and uuiie-r win ue consuraeti uerore the fire dies out. tO.NTANA. Mutte. Mont, Aug. o. Sheriff Houston, who, with a lotte, left Missoula ou ThuiMlay lat for the Flathead country to arrest the Indian In-dian murderer, I'ascale, Antics and Williams, returned to Mistoila tonight with the redskins in custody. Aspc-ial says of Uie adventure-: Houston arrived at Dentrsville at the head of the reservation, ou Saturday, and in conjunction with Deputy United Stales Marshal Grant he organized a posse of tlxly men. and on that night the little band took up its line of march dou 11 to the Flathfsd lake. After an nil night ride, just as tlie dav broke, they spied Chief Kuos Catup cf Kootenai Inditns, and quickly surrounded sur-rounded it. Undemauiliugtheinur-derers Undemauiliugtheinur-derers Enus srniul inclined at fin-t to be viciuua.buthesouusaw thatUiis time tile frontiersmen arere commanded com-manded by a man wiio had come for a purpov, the chief himself was at on -e made a prisoner, whereu,ion Unos weakened and ordered his men ; -"t, -v-, iuieit was done. Irons were placed nn the murderer murder-er and the white men withdrew. The capture of tho other two men was entrusted to Deputies Grant and Isamsdel. Houston, with a squad, took Pascale to Rave-ill. whila the two deputie-s and their men made a detour.and luckily ranacross Autles and Williams and placed them 111 Irons without Interference ou the (art ot their tribe. Tlie party soou joined Houston at Kavclli, capturing captur-ing Mar bal, the chief or the fend dlJreiHes, and he Is new under n Strang guard as a liostjge for Uie delivery of Pierre-, Paul and Lalaz, two oilier murderers wauteil. The prisoners maintained a dogged Indifference, but yet were keenly alive to all that was going on. lhey are about the toughest lookiugtpecim'-nsof human "form that ever passed behind the bais of the county jail. Houston starts again for the FlaUiead country fori the two other redskins. j SEDP.ASKA. j Pawnee City, Xcb., Aug. J. Jo-, sioFrey,a pretty young girl of I Dubois, In the southwestern part of , the county, had a criminal opera-, tion performed Saturday, from the effects of which she died in a short I time. There Is intense excitement in tho little village as the gltl was very popular. A coroner's mry has been in seesslon fo- two days iiuthas been unab-e to locate theguilty 1 ar- ' Ues. There are loud threats of violence vio-lence in case they are deovert ". Hasting, Xeb., Aug. i. Tue re;-, ularly organised land of lurse thieves operating through central "ebn;ka test nL;ht at a late hour attempted to run off the drove of hon-sand finely bred mules owned by Franx Taylor, whoso farm is several miles north ot HasUngs. Tho noise made by the destruction of the fences and tho whlnylng of tho animals aroused Taylor and several ranchmen, who attacked the party of raiders with shotguns and revolvers, saving the stock, but unfortunately, un-fortunately, owing to the, deno darkness, thpy were unable to bring down any of tho thieves. This is part of the eld Doc Mlddleton gang and desperate efforts will I made by Uieaulhoritlt-sand the farmers to stop lie IhlsvJInB lOre it h too late. caixir.AM. Beaver, August 5. Then! is a conductor ou the De.-ver De.-ver trumwny line Tho will hand in iiis resieuatioii today by request. When the Aerj publSbvl retorts regarding the actions of some of the conductors " the tramway line, Mr. Jtoduer Curtis came out lu a letter aaj lug that all his conductors ners gvnilenron. A cowl uiauy of them are gentlemen, but ritj ll as ex-Jovernor Kvans, the president of the comiauy, can testify after a little iwrsonal exjwriencc wIUi one of his ottu emploea yesterday. Tha eovernor wantSAl to get oJ a car on Ashtati'd Avicae, ns did several ladies. Ho hailed Uie tar and was told i-i a grufr voice to hurry up. Several ladles goton to the car as others were geUing of', and the gentlemanly conductor said lie had a d-d good notion to make 1 them all get off until he wanted them to get on. The governor eyed the fellow, who was uncouaalousof the fact thst the president of tlie road wis one of his paengers. After Af-ter a Iltllo tttofe swearing the fellow fel-low ratig the gougot the car to go ahead, and when lie came around tn tbti nresvldetit nf file road, all I tearing a ticit t, thrutt it t-ack at him like Up wanted to run It do an I iiis throat Tito presiueut took it a'l In, aud aoreral ptvcngtr4 on tlw car wlio kneiv Governor Evans were oonvuiseel with laughter when Ilieytaw the trouble this gentlemanly gentle-manly conductor was getting into. He will probably receive a little Wue envelope today, after which he ill be no linger employed by the tramway coniluy. KverKrcn. Col., Aug. 4. Mr. Joe Mclntyre, of Lecve, s lying in camp above here very much tfc-J up. It Is very doubtful whethcror not he u 111 be able to get out of the ho te fur some weeks. Mr. Mclntyre Mcln-tyre started out a liunllu 1-'t Wednesday morning about 5 o'clock aud lutd not returned uji to Thurt-day Thurt-day evening, when a jarty was or-g-inUed to iiutit for him. After searching all night mil 'art of the next day they came aenws his nr parcutly lifeless body tnsrc-tlier witli the iwdy of c hlg she Issar aud a siiiall cub. After a great deal of ililflcn'ty he was removed to tlie nearest house, which wits two and rt half miles, aud there he was caret! fo'sml was unconscious up to last eeeuing till about S o'clock. After coming to ire told the following story: 'i had 11 t goue morethau a mile fioni the camp urtil I caught sight of the bear auu e-ub, and getting behind be-hind a large roc't I waited for them to come along. When they got within fifty feet of the rack I tool; steady aim at the cub and suceeded in killing it. The mother rushed at me and I let her have a couple rf ounces of lead, but only Injured her, which teemed to make her thc more infuriated, mid catching the limb of a big tree by the rock I drew nijiclf up iu the tne, and very unfortunately let my rifle slip, causing it to ffall on a rook and go off, inflicting a very serious wiund iu my .fmL as you can s.-c. The mother now started up the tree, and only having h sis shooter end a knife tn protect inyr -If w Ith I could do but little. Well, to make a Ion strfy short, I ! f,l I fnmi I li I p,-,. n,il whiw-mmIihI t jibbing my knife into her tdy, and after that I do a rememher anything any-thing for 1 long time, aiict when I came to I taw her lying by mo dcai. I then tried to git back to camp Mit I was g weak I could not move ami what I suffered for the next few hours was soinetliing terrible. ter-rible. Vou talk almiil thirst and hunger! Oh, I woull have given anything for a drop of watT aula crust of bread. I ctietn I w c-nt to deep then, fori remember nothing after that." Mr. Mclntyre is still lu a very critical condition and Is terribly j bruised ami bitten all over the body. j r.lMlVKMA. Insurance ratesarcrulihtli at Po-iioiunaiid Po-iioiunaiid fins are to lufrwpietit that prupeity-owneni refute to nin-surethrsyear. nin-surethrsyear. William Donahue, jaiiiter, fi II from the top of a brick building al Ixw Augelis, Tlmixiay morning I anil btoke toth lg. terribly crushed j Isotli wrists, and hurt three tova u tiny bad to be amputated. ! lAkeport. Aug. 3. Marshal Spoke of Kel.-ey viile had hi, tkull fractured frac-tured by a kick from a horse yesterday yester-day exc-uiug. He w driving a header wagon and had stopped over j to loomi a line wlien his wagon ran into a rut. throwing him off down by the horses' feet, which frightened frighten-ed the animals ami they kicked, witli llieaeose result. lie was un-coiwious un-coiwious for about leu hour. Tlie Jihjticiaits) say the chances are against hie recovery. Tlie Stockton JfjiJ (Democratic) I Itiently published unfavorable c-oniineuU ou the cauuiriacy of I,. j 1 . hinppie for the Itepubllcan nomination for "governor. It. I. Bagley, a member of the Stockton City Couucil, is accused of having said that the iubliliers of the Mall offered to suppress the article if Siiippee uouM y them JV, and ou his refusal imiulslied it. The j Mai 1 ublislierK deny this aud have j Kied IVegley for S50CW daiiuges for slander. j Tlie Dowuieville A'ojsxncr tsid on August 3rd: About seven miles, ' lip the Xortll For sbovo Downie-j Downie-j ville, no we are informed, are the remain" re-main" of one of l' e dcepsnontliites of best wintef. ; si fee-t long, To ftt 1 wide and l-l feet deep, and as hard j as Ice. Under this bank of snow ilaws the north fork cf the Vulu, I and alongside of the river's sliures ! is a m u:i j c-f gcund several feet in I widUi, wheifc oik- can walk under the kuow. Height ot arch, 12 to ill 1 feet; w mill, 40 to HO feet; depth or I "now over centre of atch, 4 to S I feet. j r-i)cratueuto, Aug. -1 Governor Waenua:i Uiis afternoon seut the following dttpatch: 'To Hon. Jobii M. Noble, Secre tary or the Interior Sir: News, apers retort that surveys su-pended j by Commi-eloner of the General land Utllce Sparks on Dee-ember J-U, 1SSU. including lands iu the eattern portion of Tufcire County, in tills Sate, are alwut to he dc-I dc-I eiared ojieu to location. These tur- veys include tracts of land covered j Willi t.quoia gigsntea the big trees ' of O.Iilornia. Tliere is now, i be-, be-, lieve, 1 ending In Congress a bill j setting aside a porUouof these sus- iieiivh.it surveys ro- a mllonal jrS. In view or these facts I would most respectfully ask that tuch township ' ns ore meutionc-1 in the bill now I before Congress be not declared I ojieu for locattou until Congress decides de-cides whether such lands thall be ' set aside for jark iiurposesj or not. ' riie ruthlets destruction of these j magnificent foru-ts. the largest and grandest In the world, would be an outrage which I must ask vour I asi.stancc to prevc nt. j It- W. Watchman, I Governor of California. "87 MEXICO. Santa Fe. IV. M., Aug. I. Five ! hundred ieclioti hands emplaned by ' the Santa Fo road Letwce-11 las I Vegas and Albuquerquu quit wors , this afteriioon and went on strike , for au iucreato of 15 cents a day. They now receive! $1.10 u day. It Is claimed that they were ordered ; to strike by the Las Vegas order cf the Knights of Labor, which has, pramiftd to prelect tiieai and see tLat no new men are transjrted lo taj tieir phces. Tcjaiht not a t.i t-wnlker is on duty between litis es an J Athnqiirrqe. 1 |