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Show WESTERNJBWS1; T& Feci Springs Con Miners' Strike. IIOmtlULE faEATli IX SfiATlfcE. Fiendish Assault on a Little fjlrl. Crimes or a trusty," Etc. WYOMIC." A Rock Springs dispatch stales that there is little change lu the situation there, though evidences of weakening on tho part or the' miners min-ers cannot be entirely concealed. uiey ueciaru that they will remain forever idle m a painted thin on a minted ocean rather than accert the screen system. Many or tlie older men advise a trial or the proposed pro-posed change. Theseacceptingood faith the company's claim tli.it wages will not be reduced and tiiat coal must be screened to meet competition. com-petition. The men to tlie numKr of to 800 gather in their halland discuss questions of the hour. Tlie proceedings are translated into Chinese, Chi-nese, Finnish and Austrian for the beuefit of those people. This Is the first strike of Chinese, but they seem to be true as Jteel. A desperate fight took place at Wamsutta Station on the Union Pacific Sunday betneen l'atsy Target, Tar-get, Conductor Lockwoud and two tramps who were stealing a ride. Tlie trainmen attempted to put the tramps oft the train. They resisted and in thescuflle threw Target from the roof of a freight car. He fell under tho wheels and, was horribly mangled, dying soon after reaching Itock Springs. Tho tramps 'were captured aud are in jail. orduon. In some sections of the State a small black licctle is destroying clover fields by eating the roots of the plants-. A lev days ago three hoodlums of Jefferson entered a Chinese house aud held the Mougoliansoutsidethe liuiidinc while they roblwd it of S-liS), aud with coal oil started a blaze that destroyed the building. The harvest of cereals in Oregon Ore-gon and Washington will bo the heaviest ever known. Thtrewlllbe magnificent crops of apple", pears and peaches. A few days ago J. W. Brannau, au employe of tho Front Street Cable Company at Seattle, met a terrible death, lluhadjust oiled the great sheave wheel around which the cable passes, ant being in a hurry neglected to replace the planks covering the wheel. He went awaj, but returned in a few moments for an oil can. and failing to notice the open place at the sheave stepped in. The amis of the wheel caught his legs, and in an instant in-stant ho was drawn between the heavy tlmlicrs forming the framework frame-work and his life crushed out. Tlie machinery was stopped Immediately and Branuan's body was found rolled up like a tail and crushed Into a pulp. He was married and 33 years old. COLOH-MX Leadvllle, Colo..July 10. James Miller, a gray-hcaded man of sixty years, has been arttsted, charged with a most ficmll.-h crime iin theperm o'f little Gertie Burr, 12 years of age. Miller Is a bartender and lives alone in a house aJjuinlug Mrs. Burr. Tnelay evenlngGertle ami a little friend nn,med Welsh, while parsing Miller's house were called to his door. The old man seized Gertie aud threw her upon a couch. The child struggled to get free, whereupon Miller tied her with a roi? and acconipll-hed hi pur-IKj-e. The girls were kept in a house until 5 o'clock the next morning, when they were litwrated and the Ilurr girl was threatened ulth death if she revealed to any one what liad happened. She Immediately Immedi-ately went home and told ter mother, who notified the officers. Miller was not captured Hnlil today, when he was placed under 81000 bail and loJged in jail. Canyon City. Colo., July 10. Tlie practice ever since the penitentiary peniten-tiary was started of permitting "trusties" to work outide the walls, unguarded by armed gutrls, has at last resulted lu a heinous outrage. Thomas Stimin, a colored convict, who was sent up for larceny from Arapahoe county fir two ycar, and whose time expires in December, lipped awav from the garden force ou tlie Helm ranch, tw miles east tiftown. at 10 o'clock this morning. He walked deliberately to ward town, aud when halfway tliere, he went to the house of Vouug Talmon, brutally aiulted hU wife, stole a suitor clothes and went to the river, where Mr. Pope's roil was fielilng, and who had a licet hore hitched near by. He stolu the horse, came up to to wn.and whenlast seen was crossing cross-ing Lincoln Parkintliedirectlon or the mountains. Mounted guards with bloodhounds started lu hot pursuit and they are only twenty minutes behind him, and without doubt the brulu will be overtaken and his body left as food for the blizzards before nightfall. Tlie citizens citi-zens will insist tliat mo more trusties I allowed to work on farms or gardens without a proper force of armed guards, If it takes a vigilance committeb to enforce their determination. determ-ination. Convict Stimsou's crime prove to havo been deliberately planned, he having choked his victim until she was jiowerle"s to move. WarJcn Lamping says ho has no room for the fiend at the pen. It is sure that he will not be troubled with him. La Junta Colo., July S. This place is all wrought up with exute-ment exute-ment over the attempt of a number of unknown firebugs to bum the town. Numerous efforts have been made to set tire to various residences inthe city, which have, as a rule, proved a flat failure. Whatolject the jiarties expect to gain is not known, nor can itbceveii surmised on the rt of the citizens of this place. Ijast Friday night thecoun-ty thecoun-ty bridge acr-s the river was discovered dis-covered In Hinirs, nnd had it not been for tlie prompt action or a Tew citizens It would have been utterly destroyed. Sunday morning about 4 o'clock the bakery connected with tlie European Hotel was- burned. The fire comianlea diil good work and a hanl fight prevented the flames from envelop! tig the hotel building aud destroying it- An effort has been made to discover the princial, without success. 1 1 will tie a sultry day for him ir he is caught. 1MIAN TKKBITOltV. El Reno, I. T.. July 8. A double murder occuired at Fred, a small town near heru last- Saturday, the news or which lias just reached here. John Graham, duringa quarrel quar-rel with a hand on his farm, was shot and killed by the latter. Jas. Graham, tlie murdered man's son, who had witnessed the quarrel, snatched the revolver from the murderer's band and sliotand killed his father' slayer. Kansas City, July S. A special from Oklahoma city says: A terrible terri-ble tragedy, which occurred In tiie Chickasaw nation the first part of this month, has Jut been reported. Frank George and Sim Graves, in partnership with Henry Boutoujna large cotton crop, became engaged In nu altercation over the divl-on or the crop. They were all .armed witli Winchesters. During the quarrel Bouton shot and instantly killed Frank Graves. George aud Sim Graves then disarmed Bouton, and with their Winchesters shot and killed him. United States marshals, have gone to the Chickasaw Chicka-saw nation to arret fthe Graves boys. |