Show EVgNTS 1 + + IN TIlE WEST A Record of Occurrences In Neighboring States and Territories GERMANS COLONIZING CALIFORNIA LANDS Sulddo or a SUIIO Berman Omter AIdt1 IUlllugTh Ilhneelf Iom s ttludowa A forest fire near Glenfcood Col Friday spread over mueh territory gpe destroyed considerable Vineyard property I tleorge Armstrong of Oakland Cal I wn nerldentnlly Killed Saturday near Coulter sills where liens n s on fill way to the Trinity county mines Aim Strong met death Recording to the private telegram received through Iho discharge of his own rllle by tit Reel dent Manuel 1cllowK who shot and killed Dolores Garcia at Calltrano Cal on the night nt Juno ICU last nan been found guilty of murder In the first degree de-gree The kllllnB was the result of a mgstimJIng feud between the men Catch waR killed while standing In the doorway of his saloon Assemblyman John W lower who vial 1 arrested at San natal Cal tho other day has been released The claIm olllnrya Iurrawho caused his arrest for keeping his hoe vii y buggy was ntlrnctorllf adjusted by I hill brothrrandJootle Redden allowed Power to Iu on his own recognizance Joseph Phillips all old fIt grower 01 Yuba California was thrown from a i buggy 1rlday morning and received such Injuries that his l recovery Is E Lrt1i hall not regained A I clninneiis l slnec the accident Mr hllllpi is i well known throughout the tate benlg the propagator of many new fruits I The first shipment of walnuts from California of the crop eif 1S07 was made Friday bf the Santa Barbara County Walnut association to J n Inderrle den of Chicago and consisted of fourteen four-teen tons of first grade oftahell wal nut These nuts were shipped from the Ooleta dlt let and the secretary of the association elates that this fears clap In 1 i that section will bo larger than lost year and superior In quality While getting out of his cart In Bradley Cal a young man named C G Corel let fall a 33caIlber revolver revolv-er vvhleh was discharged Tho bullet entered Iwo Inches nbov tM navel and passing entirely through the body coming out three Inches tu U right ot the spinal colum lie 10 n nephew of T Treac y a Han Prunctoo connector con-nector and was stopping nt the latter lat-ter a hltumen min near there The wound will probably prove fatal Martin Krerner n barber died sod Ifny Friday afternoon while walking along the track of the North lne > in < Ilailrnnd nt Ignncte about nine miles from San Rafael Cal t station Agent I White of loencln I saw the man stag goring on the track and ran to his ns stetanee but he died before lie could reach film Coroner laden of San lln fael took charge nt the body and removed re-moved it I to Son Rafael where an Inquest In-quest wan to be held It Is I thought that appoplexy was the cause 01 death James Vnlr was Killed at Lake TA lone Ca Friday morning while switchIng Ing lumber cars on the Carson and Taboo Ta-boo I iiarrowguago railroad Valr had cut ort some cars ahead at the loromc ttve and mill standing on the pilot attempted to replace n coupling pin In a draw head but the fiat idenlnc gnp was misjudged Whim and Instead 01 securing n hold on the car he slipped under the moving train The brake beams on the cars urn very low and his body was crushed Into Pieces De tensed was about 4S years old and leaves a widow and daughter Bans Peterson n tnearold boy lost his left hand In February last Inc In-c of getting It caught In ni engine operated In tho shipbuilding yard of Rudolph W Shultie South San Trancsco The Injured lad by his nrdlan Friday brought suit against hultze to recover WOO damages Complaint Is mode that chuH7 < operated the > engine without n permit front the lioatd of supervisors lie Is further snld to ha > o been negligent In prmlttlnit children to plAY about the yard without hating taken any precaution pre-caution to protect them fiom Injury Tho body of an unknown man was toil nd at Holy Cross cemetery near Collma Cat Friday morning The ele erased wn eren the evening before silting near one of the graves Near the body lay n small bottle containing curboUe acid The deceased wore n i black Prince Albert gray striped < trousers white linen shirt and black slouch hat lie appeared to he about CQ years old On his person wer found two hnndkerehlrIR coo hearing the name at A Brown Ilewas clean haven and had the Appearance of n man who hd seen better day The verdict of the coroners Jury was that of suicide Charles G Bertram for years Steward t Stew-ard of tho Pacific Union club of San rnnclsco was lun over hy n narrow guae traIn Friday nigh ot Morton station AII Cal He wn onboard on-board the train due nt Park sit set nt 515 oclock and In attempting to jump nil the platform 01 a forwent car before be-fore the stop at Morton street he was swung under the cars Ills right Ig was badly crushed and when tho trail stopped he was found lying on the track with his right leg under one wheel and his rich hand caught under another The trainmen nnd passen Bers had to lift the car from the roll to extricate him A curious case 01 8ulclde was under Investigation by Coroner Long 01 Fresno Cal Saturday Late Friday night Louie ragurides nlRhtwatchmai 01 the courthouse discovered a man In a comatose condition On a bench in the adjacent park The man was removed re-moved to the Jill and was attendee bv Dr Long It was soon ascertained that he hail taken a large dose of laudanum and that the polon ha1 been thoroughly Absorbed DMU ensued en-sued early Saturday morning The lend mans name was WUUam Schmackenborg lie was out of work and hail been drinking heavily It Is Bald that lie was an officer In the German army at noble birth and n count of the province of HoaaoCassel The plans that tho Alcatraz Asphalt company have In view for the future Involve the expenditure of two or thrive million dollars In Santa nor bnra county Cal This sum or the major part Is I to be expended In the IIIquoc and lAvlotll regiOn these two places twentyfive miles apart being the terminals And the country between the territory of the double pipe line The mine is in the Rlsquoc district north of Los Olives and at n point on the seashore ana and n hall miles 1101 Onlota landing where the company will build a whart reservoir and other work The company has cortracted for 600000 < fet 01 lumber tn he used In the construction 01 n bearding house sleeping quarters and such other buildings as will be noce entry to complete the works This lumber Is to be shipped from tho pin rls In Wnshlngton and Oregon and will move by water The advance guard nf a bin German colony arrived At Salinas Cal Satur day evnlns Forty colonists representing repre-senting fiiilllea numbering 200 PeO pIe mainly from Chic gn and the East itef there to settle up in land landed hv the German Cathode Colonization ocletj They were auornpanlcd by August HIZ president U S Kant rice president and N It Lang secretary secre-tary of that society Four tracts of land catch cempoaed r from 9C tn OOQ acres have laOn bonded These lands x111 be aptloncol and old In Iota of DO acres such to Iepre sentatlves of families The present olonlits will settle pun the pence ranch about seven miles south nt tho city They pos from Sh60 In 3 QQQ eh and It Is I their purjioee to begin be-gin the erection at houses and get their land In halo for raising beets Sixty families me exlrrced soon Upon their arrival n iuieh and schoolhouse school-house wIII IJo built Silver Standard nIXhurg Ida 1 We have to record another case 01 loss through file This time Gen irge Briggs or Lfmnn Is the unfortunate whoso stare stock ot merchundl and elnell 1g boost wns burned to the glOlInd las Monday The particulars at the cause 01 the firs ale as far its wo could learn about AS fellows At about 7 A 01 on Mundny last Mr lrlgs went Into I the I store to get some sgnr as It was a eli dark she procures n match and lighted It I after recur leg the sugar she threw the mate b own > thinking It was entirely extln Rillxhed and left the Mule In about 10 minutes she returned tn the store anti found It all nblnre ierjthlng was done to save the hlll1lnll aOl I re ron lunt but to no avail all bet fig des roved Mr Smellle the adjuntrr for the Insurance companies sent to Ly man on Monday Cnlng and we learn tram him the tars I In Mr Iii lugs I IB I JQOO on which there H I 2MO tl 3ul In the Home or Utoh unl 120 In the llarlford of Connecticut Insurance |