| Show EVENTS IN TllI WEST + A Record of Occurrences In Neighboring I States and Territories BIG OIL DISCOVERY AT TACOMA WASH Ooteruor Mudd 11111 be CanlhhtIIo lion tow Dead liltPeek an omen Mali Clquly At Albion Ida IIntunlny Jack Dolan Do-lan II cowboy blew his brat na ont with a Halll > cr revolver Drink ant heavy losses nt gambling caused it In attempting to steal a ride out ot Pocatello Ma < on a northbound freight Sunday evening Mike Muck a Slav 30 Years ot age had his right hand and left foot mangled necessitating necessitat-ing amputation Hob Works manager of the Dugan house finite Mont shot and klllnl lid mil In the barroom nt the place at midnight Sunday The men hahn ha-hn tioulile before and renewed It Three Pilots were fired The San Tranclsto Chronicle Buys Gin fluid has Informed his friend that In view of the retirement of Senator Sen-ator White he will be a candidate for he United States Hepate l provided the next leglilatlirv 1 In I Democratic The United States nssny olllce Jiai Prepared n Btatementihowlnic the 10 ductlon of mineral In Idaho during 1 1597 It crecllla that mute with 12 125331 gold 171013J1 silver and 5 1 I Ml231 lead or II totnl nf 137C9H8 an increase over tH96 or S1978010 The entire builnnn pfrtlon of Cortez Col was destroyed Sunday by l a fire finch originated In lllockmers hotel I The loss l linn not been entlmated but It In I thought the loxx I on I lie buildings will be In the neighborhood of ijootio find the damage to stock will exceed that amount 11111a cut shooting ducks on th A r marnh rq near Pan rFtc Cal Inr WII bur Lnnglllc n young man from Dos ton was shot In the calf of the right leg and badly wounded Tuesda > by the arrl < l ntal discharge of the gun of his companion Henry Woodward The Injury In-Jury Is I not likely to prove fatal The accident was due to Woodward fallIng fall-Ing his gun being discharged ait a result re-sult sultThe The 12j earold son of J H Paul of Eureka Cal met with a shocking accident ac-cident at Hell R Hannona shingle mill pt Trinidad Thursday It 10 supposed that ho became entangled In the hart When found heOn wn lying on the floor Unconscious On arm wn torn from Its see ket and the other was brnkeji In two places loath legs were broken and the boy was badly cut about the face and body It Is hUd he cannot can-not survive his Injuries A dispatch from Laredo Mexico Slits n remarkable clopmnt has just been frustrated there Senorita Juanl tn Derail daughter ot a prominent l citizen secreted herself In a trunk and arranged with a servant tn hap It shipped to 1rroon lhero oho wuo tu jolq her lover Enrique Srrga and the two were to go to Texas and be married Uefcre the trunk reached 1 fire111 the girl was suffering so terribly ter-ribly that she made her presence noon She wa released and taken tn a I hospital Serrga hr lover wa arrested and Is I now In prison An original plan for applying for an once has hn adopted by Alonzo Ilrndford of I1ay arils Cal lie won n member ot the Second Infantry of Town In the Into war He served through the rebellion On February 13 1SCJ he was shot In tho knee at the battle of Fort Donaldson and he ban fcrwarded to Washington his petition to be appointed postmaster there with an Xray photograph showing the location loca-tion of the Confederate bullet as evidence 1 evi-dence that the wound was received while facing the foe Lorenzo Ijapham superintendent or the Clause Pprcckels building Sar Francisco was caught In the sidewalk side-walk elevator Thursday afternoon and almost Instantly killed Lapham Intended In-tended to run the elevator up only a few fet to take a measurement When he wished tu top he grasped the wrong rope sending the elevator up faster han before The sidewalk door were closed but not fastened and bed Lapham remained on the elevator ator he could have pushed them open but he hid no time to think In IMs panic he tried to jump from the lending platform wa caught between be-tween It and an Iron beam supporting the sidewalk and his life was crushed out Ina moment The death at I1nry OInktrchn who wa for litany years almost a re eluse In the lonely hills or Allamont Cal has revealed a storor a lost fortune for-tune and devotion to 11 dead wlte memory rhlrtlIvo years ago he wn cue of the wealthiest Inhabitant ot New Haven Conn He was I entitled filth the Winchester arm company having many large contract with that corporation I10 lot his fortune through a i shipwreck which carried > to the bottom a cargo nt ammunition and Prins In tt blch he was heavily Inlrt ad before going tn California his wit died Her remains were Interred In a New Haven cemetery As the city grew It encompassed her resting place A short time before his death the husband refused to accept JloOCO for the Plot He was postmaster and express ex-press agent at Altamont but him bul rB ventures In California did tout trove successful Tacoma Wash was surprised by the nnnonncmnt made Thursday that petroleum springs had been discovered on un unoccupied tract nf land opposite oppo-site the exposition building In the heart ot the residence portion of the city The discovery was made accidentally acci-dentally some time ago Several wealthy men who learned of It succeeded suc-ceeded In keeping the matter quiet until un-til Thursday and In the meantime have been negotiating to secure the oil land George W Dickinson formerly genera manager of the Northern Pacific railway rail-way has closed a deal for the purchase pur-chase of twenty acres for 80000 Another An-other oil tract adjoining Dickinsons purchase has ben leased by the Washington Cooperrtlvi Mining Syndicate Syn-dicate composed ot Attorney George W VogB Charles W Thompson rc8t i ly Hanker gf J Ientlcost Phoenix lal > cock Di Cloes and other wealthy Ta comnns Their lease runs for fifty years with all mlnlne lights The oil docs not exude from the surface of the ground hut Is found In considerable Quantities not far below and Hows water tonthe water lflow mixed with water to the water level where It accumulates Only holes a few feet In depth haw jet been dug but experts have bn taken over the ground and exhaustive tests made as to the quality of the oil These tot have beep highly satisfactory The product compares favorably with the best grade or oil frum IcnnoYhnla wells and Is what is known OR parallln all which la ot much higher grade than the ordinary crud i petroleum |
