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Show WESTERN HEWS" ITEMS. An Express Hessengcr Shoots a. Bystander. ASPHALT ASO PCTKotEl'H. A Cabooe on Iirc.-A Cldld Pois-oncil, Pois-oncil, Eic. , WYomsu. Laramie Jhomtranfji Thee was an enteodb r.t Grauger lastnight that caused a very Eensational reWt to be flashed along the line of?the Union r-aclfic Astbe Oregon Short Une train No. SO: was pulling out of Granger lastjnight several traniDs enueavoml to get on board. The express messenger heard them and bWHlwUVlhe Idea that the train was about to be attacked by robbers. Quickly opcnlnc tho tide door be tired a shot which hit a young man named E. F. Wheeler, who claims that he was standing on au adjoining adjoin-ing track and had nothing to do with the tramps. The shot took ef-i ef-i Ject in tho leg midway between the knee and ankle. He was taken to Green River on No. 2. All tills Is the foundation for the report whicli Rained currency early this morning to the eOVct that thu limited train had been "held u p"and a brakemau and the express messenger killed. The report Is eupjiosed to have originated orig-inated in the fertile Imagination ol the operator. On Juno 1 Vivian Edwards, a cripple, started out from Denver ou a novel globe circling tour. Huls driving a team of goats, his wife aud an attendant accompanying him on foot and his two children -m burros. Ho expects to reach I-nra-mieon June 10. Laramie Jloomtr-ung. Jloomtr-ung. eoi.oii.ux. Several car loads of orv, from Utah, consigned to the smelters In Pueblo, are transferred here dally. When thu wonders of tho Coates Creek dining district liecomes fully known, all of these ores from Utah will be smelted In Grand Junction. Orand Junction Star. The reported dlscoveiy of asphalt and petroleum iu the vicinity of Pric: ou the Rio Grande Western Railway Hue will attract attention to tlie eastern iait cf Utah. Price Is situated near the point where the Rio Grand Western cnx-ses tho Green River. The western west-ern iart of Colorado nud the erstern part of Utah resemble ea- h other very do-!. The boundary boun-dary line between Colorado and Utah is near tho eeutie of the county referred to. It is a high mesa or plateau country broken with narrow river valleys and deep canons. It contains considerable forest Land and on the meas then-is then-is a great deal of fine summer pasture. pas-ture. The agricultural land is tou-riueil tou-riueil alaiost entirely to thu valleys. The climate is milder than that on this side of the range iu the same latitude. In general the country (urtakes ol the characteristics of tlie great iuterioravgian exteudingfrom the-Rocky Mountains to the Sierra Nevada,of which it fonusa irt.The wealth of this country in the precious pre-cious metals is not grest. But it contains a great deal of coal, excellent excel-lent building stone and some iron-Copper iron-Copper has also been found iu the vicinity of Grand Junction. It is lossiblc that the most important rf all the mineral products will l-e found to be jietroleuin. There are indications of the presence i.f oil iu various juris of that region aud, although very little has bten dune as yet to determine whether l-e-troleuui exists ttiero in -jaying quantities or not it is nrobablo that experiments to determine this matter mat-ter will to made before a great while. Tne country along the Utah line has undoubtedly a great future. Its resources in coal alone aretulli-cicnt aretulli-cicnt to miiutaiu a very large piru-latlou, piru-latlou, ami it contains agricultural land enuueh to supply all tbu poj-u-lttlen with food. leinxr licpuM-van. licpuM-van. Monday afternoon about 4 o'clock, Mrs. Baumgnrdner, who lives a mile out, seta bottle of corrosive sublimate sublim-ate she wasusing on the tilde, and turned around to get the cork. As she turned her little two-year-old seizrtl the bottle and began to drink its deadly conteuu?. Dr. Williams was at once sent for aud administered admin-istered the usual antidotes, giving 1 the child temporary relief. The resulting burns are still very sore, but itis believed that there is no i danger of any fatal result. It was j a narrow escape? for the little one and shows how all importaut it is to ucq great care at all times in handling dangerous compounds. Grand J unction Star. Following is a special to thu Grand Junction Star, dated Cisco, Utah, July 8: A caboese on the construction train of the R, fi. W., running bc-twicn bc-twicn this Jioint and Crevaac, caught ou fire while in motion, completely com-pletely destroying the calwose aud contents, this morning. The train wasiu charge of Conductor II. D. Auld. Idaho Springs, Colo, July !. Some time ago the wife of Henry T. Ellis secuieu a divorce from her husband, which he endeavored to tit aside by an appeal. His apjieul was granted aud he was instructed that when the court costx of the original suit were paid he could live with Mrs. Ellis agsin. Without laying these costs he took up his abode with his wife and detained de-tained her from leaving. Yesterday she had him arrested en a I kidnapping charge and at the hearing of the case to-day a nice state of alT.iirs wasexpotui. In her evident) Mrs. Ellis testified that Ellis tried to comiel her to cohabit w ith his fattier, who made his home with them and whose bed was iu the same room. Other evidence ol a similar salacious nature was given in the presence of a jam of people, who crowded the hot court room to suirbcation. Ellis was placed under .siK) bonds and falling to secuie toll went to jail to await trial at the next t -tin of court NEVADA. The Reno O'atttte says: At an early hour last evening tlie Price reservoir, located about three miles wist ol Ophir station ou the line of tlie V. T. IUt, in WashoeValley, barst through tbc einbaukmentdam over UCiO feet iu length, and poured down into Washoe Valley, washing out and covtring with silt nearly 2U0 feet of track on tlie railroad and smearing debris over a tquaruinile ofturface. Tbc Price reservoir was built tome IS or -'0 years ago. It covered about two acres with a depth of water of 15 feet Fourteeu yearn ago the dam broke and n Hood of water was precipitated on the inhabitants in-habitants of thu valley foothills. The material of whlcii the dam was constructed was nothing else but granite sand and broken fragment-. The wa-hout occasioned a delay on the V.fe T. of nearly tixttcn hours. A wrecking car was speedily telegraphed tele-graphed to thusccneotdisasterwilh a corps of thovelers, and the passenger passen-ger train, due'here last night, rolled into tlie Reno depotat precisely 12:10 o'clock Uxlay. followed by a helping locomotive. NUnHASKA. Omaha, Neb, July 0. There Is good authority fur sjyinf that the half has not been told about C A. McKlbbcn'y crookedness while general gen-eral purchasing agent of tho Union pacific road. What has not been mado pupllc will, however, come out In due time and create a greater sensation thou the first exposure, by implicating other parties. Mr. Mc-Klbben's Mc-Klbben's lawyers say also that they expect to make a showing full of hot weather surprises, but thu company people predict that he will never go into court "I could tell the young man" said one ofllcial, "lhat he would be very foolish to do da su.1 So far as T know there Is not a parallel paral-lel case of such high handed rascality rascal-ity in the history of any-American railroad ilcKibbcn's ability is unquestionable; un-questionable; he has judgment of material over that of any man I ever BnnBxaBBBnanBmHa knevrj buttbo opportunity he saw for quickly niaiing a big fortune teems to have completely turned the young man's head." Butte, July 9. Tlie Miner, a morning toper pablished In this cliy, has been closed out by striking printer! tonight The printers felt tliat they had a grievance flalnst the f-jftczan, cot? reader and tele-Rraph tele-Rraph editor arid "deiiiaa'iy! 'heir discharge. The management refused re-fused to accede to their demands and the'mena!! went out. A meeting meet-ing of the typographical uuiou was afterwards held and this action was endorred. Tho strikers fomitng a large majoriiy ct thj t'nknij forced their own endorsement. The men about whom Ihu trouble had beeu made offered to resign, but the proprietor, W. A. Clark, refused lo accept, declaring he would tus- peud publication first, iwm parties remain obdurate aud consequently there will be no -Vuicrin the morning. morn-ing. The matter fill be referred to the president of Uie International Typographical Union and promises to develop tome interestiug features as it is claimed the uuion lias exceeded ex-ceeded IU rights iu striking against men In other departments of the jiajsr. Tlie Miner will doubtless be obliged to suspend iubllcal!ou until tlie president can be heard from. IDAHO. A gentleman up from Succor Creek, who has tinmlued the coal mineoieutd up by John McMabouv says there Is no doubt about this being be-ing a very Important discovery In its bearing upon the industries of this country. Two veins of a very good quality of lignite have been developed oulv three feet aiartwlth a strata of sandstone between them. These veins are respectively twelve and twenty inches thick, and, from their pilch, indicate that they will run together'acd become one vein in lees tbau one. hundred feet in. The coal in these veins is free from the gypsum and other folelgu tub-stances tub-stances which are found in othci veins of lignite hertabouts, aud in use in blacksmith shots iu Jordan Valley and elsewhere, RUd for healing and cooking it has proven quite satisfactory. A shipment of a load to Caldwell Cald-well has elicited an order from .there of twenty tons. Thtse two small veins, however, apj-ear to be but a small lortiou of the deposit. The use of a drill ou the same hill higher up h:u proven that them are other aud larger veins. Boriugs have betn inadu through a stratum up for a w idtli of -150 feet. As for as can lie determined by the borings, this coal is equal In quality to the smaller vein-". When it is remem-liercd remem-liercd that tins deposit of coal lies in the only iass considered practicable for the railroad line, now being surveyed sur-veyed to reach tlie rich mining district dis-trict of DoUtunr aud South Mountain, Moun-tain, Mr. MuMalione, their discoverer dis-coverer nnd owner, caunot be considered con-sidered far out of the way in claim-ng claim-ng th.it his mines are as valuable as torn- of thu rich silver mints they teem destined to supply with fuel. Sitccr tilt .IvakinciC. C.U.milLNlA. On July 0 a stretch of 25-J feet of -bed was destroyed by tiro nt Strong's Canyon, near the Summit, uot lor from Sacramento. There was some talk last year, in view of the improved appliance for handling hand-ling sunw, ol aboit-liiug the shells entirely. butUissaid thatJluntiug-ten thatJluntiug-ten protested, Seveial sections of the shmts have been recently demolished demolish-ed by derailed trains aud the heavy siege of la-t winter made necessary au enormous and cx.caslve lot of repair work. As the point of tins fire Is one of the worst on the "hill" for snow, the burned shed will undoubtedly un-doubtedly be promptly rebuilt. u July 7. iu the Superior Court at Naja. "jacjes Birk aud Joseph Moon, y were arndgucd, charged I Willi highway rubbery fur holJing up tlie Harbin Springs stic (hi June ll-.ili. They pleaded guilty, aud were tentenced to ten years each in San (ueuliu. August Thor-niau Thor-niau also pleaded guilty to horse stealing, and was sentenced to three yean. In San Quentin, and Charles A. Goog. au old war veteran, pleaded plead-ed guilty to grand larceny and was sentenced to San Queullu for three years. A di.-pstcii froui.Icfiersnn.Orci'n July Tth tays: Ijist n'ght thrv men entered the Chinese section-house section-house at this place and oue l-.eld the Chinamen outside at the ijint of a revolver while the other twoscarrii-eil twoscarrii-eil tlie house for money. They secured nlout S30- They then poured coal oil ou the fioor aud fired tlie house, holding the Cliiua-mm Cliiua-mm until the fire was under good headway. The men tl-en escain-l, but the Chinese recognized them as three town hoodlums and swore out warrants and the men arc now under un-der arrest. |