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Show iOimiWEST NOTES. At Kinsman, Arizona, James Lynch shot and killed James Ryan in a saloon row. James Toombs was killed at Winne-mucca, Winne-mucca, Nev., by a switch engine backing' back-ing' on to him before he discovered its proximity. E. M. Moore, a laborer employed at. the Magnolia Bluft' army post ite, Seattle, was struck by a falling tree and instantly killed. The recent fire in the tunnel of the Central Pacific west of Trnckee lias caused a serious freight blockade. Some liOO cars of freight are waiting on the west side of the tunnel. Ray Hollenbeek, aged IS, was stabbed to death by Guy ISeckford, a schoolmate, school-mate, at Empire City, Oregon. The boys quarrelled over moving some blackboards in a school house. Beck-ford Beck-ford is under arrest. Sheriff Blakely of Portland, has offered of-fered a reward of 1,000 for the arrest of the assassin of Miss May Wallace, the school teacher who was shot while standing in front of a window at her home. It is announced that Governor Adams Ad-ams of Colorado, after the expiration of his term as governor, in January next, will start on a tour around the world. He will visit first the Hawaiian and Philippine islands and will return through India. Egypt and the Mediterranean. Joseph Allen, 20 years old, who shot and killed his partner, J. S. Reynolds, and concealed the body, after robbing it, in the brush near Mitchell, north of Helena, Mont., will swing- for his crime. The jury returned a verdict of murder in the first degree, after being out eig'ht hours. A passeng'er train crashed into a s-sviVaii eng-iue at Laramie the other day, and that no one was killed seems simply a miracle. Both engines were badly damaged and two mail cars were wrecked. The engineer and fireman fire-man of the passenger were only slightly slight-ly injured. The whaling steamer Threasherhas arrived in San Francisco from the Arctic with a big cargo. She has had the luck that has followed most of the recently arrived whalers and has stored away in her hold l.",000 pounds of whale bone. Her cargo is valued at over 50,000. The department of agriculture has discovered another kind of weather which sweeps over the west, oftimes with disastrous results, and to watch that weather Uncle Sam has decided to establish another first order weathev bureau in Colorado. The new office will be at Grand Junction. In view of the murder of John Daly, which occurred in one of the election booths at Butte by masked men on election day, the fellow employees of Daly at the Anaconda mines have met and offered a reward of 810,000 for information in-formation that will lead to the conviction con-viction of the murderers. For the third ti me enemies of Dan Sullivan of liutte have attempted to blow up his house by the use of dynamite. dyna-mite. Last week the third attempt was made and the entire family had a narrow escape from death. Mr. Sullivan Sulli-van claims he knows of no enemies, and the police are at a loss as to the means of discovering' the would-be assassins. Captain (iranville R. Palmer, of battery A, Alger light artillery, died at San Francisco on the 11th inst. Captain Cap-tain Palmer's health broke down under the strain incident to getting the battery bat-tery drilled and ready for the Philippine Philip-pine campaign. lie had been a resident resi-dent of Cheyenne for the past fifteen j'ears, and was a widely known aud popular man. An Indian named Truckee Jack, living liv-ing near Carson, Xev. , mourned the loss of his squaw, who, in company with a sister, eloped with ahaudsomer buck. Jack followed the two, and shot his wife's sister and his rival, hoping thereby to recover his wife. Put another buck grabbed .lack and while he held the enraged husband, the wife beat him over the head with a ride, causing injuries which proved fatal. Miss Xellie Puberty, a fair young woman of Boulder, Mont., has brought suit for breach of promise to marry against II. Dahlman of the same city, aud some sensational developments are promised when the case is tried, Dahlman is part owner of the (fray Eagle mine, a property near Boulder, which is rapidly making its owner3 rich men. A short time ago Dahlman married a waitress at the leading hotel in the city and failed to keep bis promise to tlio plaintiff, so she alleges. She asks S;;o.oe0 worth of balm for her broken heart. A shooting affray occurred at Pres-cott, Pres-cott, Ariz . in the Trilby mine, in which Superintendent Murphy, a man named Bruner and two others participated. partic-ipated. Murphy was wounded, Bruner Bru-ner was killed and the other two were i slightly wounded. The trouble was over locating boundary lines of two j mining claims. Over twenty shots were j exchanged at close range. Murphy I represented Cosieilo. an eastern eapit- alist. and is well known in mining j circles in Utah. Colorado, Montana and ' Idaho. |