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Show WESTERN NEWS XOTE. Items or Interest Called Frtra Vsrioos Exchanges. MONTANA. The pioneers of Montana are anU-clpaUng anU-clpaUng a pleasant time next .week when their annual meeting win be held. All who came to Montana during the early period of Its srUle-ment srUle-ment Is urged to attend and a large gathering Is expected. At the anatomical museum, on Main Street, above Quartz, there are quite a number of articles worthy Uie attention of students'of nature. Among them Is a calf, born In Leadvllle seven weeks ago.. It has eight legs, three bodies, three ears, a double nose and two mouths. It only lived two days and is sorely a curiosity. Ilulte Shninr; Journal. The number of divorcesults commenced com-menced during Uie present month Is something remarkable. Already nine complaints have been filed since August 1st. In each case. eSi cept one, Uie woman is Uie complainant, com-plainant, and In that case Uie woman wo-man has commenced counter action. The story of abuse and IH-lrealuienl applies in each case. The number exceeds all the suits tilled last mouth. Helena JwrnaU A group of mining men were discussing dis-cussing the past yesterday afternoon In front of the lo-mopolitan when one of Uicm told about a dispute two men bad over a mining claim. "They washed out a pan of dirt that made a fine showing, and a dispute at once arose o er the right to tlie claim. They went to law and Uie man that won the suit paid out $OM in court costs and attorney attor-ney fees, but when he went to work bis claim, be learned to his sorrow and bitter dlsapr ilntmcut that all the gold was contained In that one pan. Helena Journal. Butte, ML, August IS. Xearly three thousand rople gathered at the race track this afternoon o witness wit-ness a wrestling match, Greco-Roman Greco-Roman style, for $500 and SO jcr cent of the gain receipts, between the Jap. Matsada Seraklchl, aud Pelre Schumacher, of Anaconda. The match was for blood, fabn-macber fabn-macber wlunlng the first fall In ' minutes. At the close of the scceiid round tho Jap secured the stran-gler's stran-gler's bold on Schumacher and threw him with such violence that he was unable to respond to the mil of time. Tlin Jan wa(-lv.n I Iim match, winning al least $r.J00. Qulnn, the California wonder, has challenged the winner, and time and stake will be fixed later. IDAHO. Idaho City, Idaho, Aug. IS. Mrs. Prickett, widow of H. E. Prickett, who was for many years chief justice of Idaho, died at the Warm Springs two miles below here, at 9.15 o'clock Uils morning. Word was received hero last Thursday that W. F. Sommercamp, Sr , had fallen d wn the shaft of his mtdo near I)e Lamar and before help could arrive drowned In the water at the foot of the shaft. His son was with him at the time of the fall and immediately ran to tho De I.amar mine for assistance, which arrived too late. Mr. Sommercanip wasa pioneer of the Owjhcemlulng country, having len i lentlflud with Silver City since the place was started. He was known i-very-where In Southern Idaho. and his death will be deplored by Uie entire country. Catdxell TYiiutie. U'lOMSG. A kiln of ISJ.OOQ brick is being built at the rate of 10,00 J a day at the Xewcastle, Wyoming, mines for ue In constructing coke ovens. W. O. Owen lias taken a baromet ric measurment of Laramie IVik aud found It to l 9 9) feet. ThU is sild to be the first exact nit-csur-meut of Uie mountain tvirmade. A larty of miners who have been pro-pecting on Sheep mountain, near the Colorado aud Wyoming line, have discovered an immense lead of gold bearing ore, with some silver aud lead. Thi vein Is S feet thick and is shafted for a depth of twenty feet. Sundance I'epulican. Mr. Frank Footebas the Loss bear skin. It Is hi,; enough to cover the floor of a good sized room. His bearship that furnished Uie skin was of the grizzly variety and must hive weighed at least 1 000 pouuds whn he strode In ur-aline inajoty, tlie forests of Jackson's bole. KvanUon Onelain. Cheyenne, Aug. IS. The body of a mau was found on Tuesday near the Hopkins mine at Kick Springs. The body was badly decomposed. A leUer found in one of the locketi showed tliat the deceased was Christian Hansen, a well-to-do miner who dlsapeared Irom Ills homo mar Cation five Weeks ago. A knife was found near the body and it is believed tint the man was murdered. Cheyenne, Wyo., Ailg. IS. Ed ward Happy, a green cow puncher, was lost in a snowstorm on the Sweetwater Itiver range last Feb ruary. Against Uie advice of x-prriencedmenheuiidertook x-prriencedmenheuiidertook a trip of ten miles and couUu't make it. The remains of bor-c and rider were discovered by a hunter yesterday, yester-day, twenty miles from any road. Happi's lody was In a fair state of preservation and will be shlplied to bis cid home In Ohio. llLlroilMA. Keenan A Sons last circular from Uie Chicago market sais: Home few Colorado and Wyomicc natives. thin In flesh, sold as low as$i75. Should not come to market as long as there is an ear of corn lnXebraska to feed them on. Xo one makes any money by shipping anything but fat cattle to this market. jre SUkL Jvurnnl, Several very rich specimens of gold quartz have been received at Uie museum of the State Mining Bureau from the counties or Butte, Plumas and Tehama. They were taken from thu Pala Alto, Rainbow, American Eagle, TuIIocli and Lowe and Feather lllver mine. Those from the last named are of especial beauty and value aud w ere given b Alexander Cameron. Two Interesting Inter-esting specimens of nlluviil platinum platin-um have alo been received from James A. Xoyes and II. W. Miller. CArorfcte. Slary Mi rrft is a i-!ng woman living ou l!rJantStteet,ban Francisco. Fran-cisco. She h.i IIvm .l.ll.l !. youngest of whom Is eight months old. hhe was arrested by officers Holbrook and R'ls yesterday afternoon, after-noon, and charged with cruelty to ihlldren. Tlie officers retort that they round the woman's bouse in a re?rful state; Uie children had hardly any clothes, and the younzest one was iierfvclly naked. Tne room was squalid and dirty and tlie chll-dren chll-dren had nothing to eat anil, were In a half-starved condition. It is said thu mother Is well able to support them, but Uie officers say she prefers pre-fers to spend whatever she may make by engaging In any kind of dissipation which may suit her fancy. O.ronide. COIiORADOi A small blaas occurred In Uie rear room of Vetter A Sons' paint shop, Grand JuncUon. last Frldav nm-El Ing. The lire caught from a small stove that was used to heat water being too near a wooden partition. urand Junction Star. J. M. Dawson, an employe or the Consolidated Electric Light Company, Com-pany, was Instantly killed last Siturday w bile engaged In pulling down the arc light at the corner of Fifteenth and Welton streets, Denver. Den-ver. It Is stated that be was Instantly Instant-ly killed and without pain. |