Show WESTERN NEWS ITEMS wm mellor jr jmj tells the rock bock independent that all the cattlemen I 1 la a the territory south of that place with the aingie exception of the two bar bapp company are getting rid of their cattle as feet feat as possible and buying sheep nearly everybody anticipates a hard winter coming and none wish to be caught in it with cattle C B R moorehead a west end brake mau had a very narrow squeak for his life on sunday at green river wyoming he was riding on the pilot of jack bliss engine and in stepping off to turn a switch his hie heel caught and his toot foot in some way was twisted throwing him on his fiech jut just off the track and aed tearing his hie hoe alioe and stocking from his bia foot he escaped with a sprained ep rained ankle hank free a notable character of wyoming is ia no more says the frisco examiner A nephew has shot him and that no anticipatory anguish might befall hank was thoughtful enough to shoot him in the back then another freel shot hot the nephew and at this point much to the discomfiture of cl citizens generally fatalities with some of the family surviving the cutoff cut off which is being built by the rock island connecting lincoln neb and jansen neb is rapidly ap pro preaching aching completion it to is forty five miles long and aad reduces the distance dle tance between denver and the missouri river by fifteen miles when the work is ie done the rook book island trains will enter lincoln over tracks owned by the company itself at present the union pacific is utilized between beatrice and lincoln commissioner heacock says the san francisco chronicle has remanded a chinese woman lee le sue bue whose adders and abettors abet abot tors tried unusually hard to evade the excia exclusion sion law lee sue arrived in san ban francisco from china on september last but was i denied a landing by the collector the tb evid evidence ened adduced on OB her trial on habeas corpus shows how the wily chinese manage things she claimed to have left here in october 1888 being then the wife of chum gim a merchant lee ong dai she said returned with her bar nit but the steamer records disprove that assertion aseer tion she had some knowledge of chinatown and the vicinity of jackson street where she claimed to t have lived her knowledge came from careful schooling by a chinese member of the steamers ers crew inspector mckenna discovered her in the act of learning from a chart the locations of houses factories etre ete tio people and even doors and win lows iowa the chart was seized and was placed in evidence after having been translated by rev bev mr mcmasters Mo Masters it was very complete with diagrams and names and an important special instruction upon the back W H Maki makinson nooD a real estate dealer of kearney street swore that he be knew the woman and signed her bar certificate when she left in 1888 she said she lost the certificate had it not been for the chart which she obe was caught studying so carefully lee sue would probably have beaten the law jaw and stayed la in the country creo ciao W gannor drove la in from pine mat flat camp wood district yesterday day with W R monroe a young mai man recently from colorado who had bad a fight with three bears bean on saturday last about 4 p m w and was badly chewed and fractured up says the courier the wounded man maa we was carried to the office of the plaza plaz stables table where dr davis dressed his wun bunds ds the right arm was badly chewed and the doctor said Bald compound fracture of ef the ulmer I 1 as an he be IV it A long claw scratch extended across the stomach tom aeb near bear the short abort ribs rib the right shoulder was badly lacerated several stitches ati were taken in an ugly gash right behind in the left shoulder there were two ugly tooth wounds lu in the right foot which was wai swollen and the left th gh h was wag badly bitten the bear had been seen in ithe the vicinity several everal times monroe started out with a dog and a 40 82 winchester rifle to buot the bear when three miles mile from home he looked up and saw a big cinnamon bear coming down the trail toward him not thirty feet sway he fired and knocked the bear down the bear sprang to her feet when another bullet stretched her dead her cub next put in an appearance and a shot hot lahd it low then came a great he be bear with savage growls and grinding toothbrush thrush tee too ing on the young hunter and a shot knocked this bear over only a few feet away the bear wag on hie beet in an in stant lant rushed on monroe and downed him and in the rough and tumble fight which followed broke monroe monroen Mon roea arm in his hi teeth and lacerated hla shoulder boulder the gun was waa knocked flow Monro monroew Mon roeM elm hands bands an he be fell he had io pocket knife in one of his hii pockets but could not get at it the dog red fled while the bear was chewing his hie master mailer up monroe called the dog the dog crept up and smelled ameller the bear and the bear made a dash for the dog monroe raya ran for a tree grabbed a limb with his hia un broken arm and was waa pulling himself up when the bear rushed on OB him again bit him I 1 11 j the left lefa thigh high grab grabber beti his hia right foot and had not Mon shoo hoe come off the bear would have pulled him down the bear walked off with the oboe in his mouth looking back at the same flame time laid down a few feet od behind a pile of rocks and died moo roe walked three miles over the rocks back to connor connora Con norB Is ranch in tha th Idaho penitentiary attha at the present time li is immured under life a e entente en D t tenee a nee prank frank armstrong Aror trong a young man who in 1885 in alburas alturas coull county ty took the life of paul klubert sl a well well known stockman armstrong was wag convicted convict edof of murder in the second de gree and he owes it to one man who tood stood out all night against the other eleven jurors juron that he was not found guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced enten ced to death armstrong I 1 is in many respects a remarkably sd pad ease he left his hia home in waterloo lawa iowa in 1884 a mere boy to seek eek hla big fortune in idaho he entered the mor vice of klubert and in 1885 shot and killed his employer at that time he WB was but 17 years yearb of age he admeto tie the killing hut but asserts that he was waa not to blame ton ten days day after the tragedy had been committed armstrong was wa arrested and his hii conviction speedily pee dlly followed he had influential relative in iowa but with remarkable spirit he did not appeal to them theal either before or after him conviction it wais waa not act until after he had bad been in prison for three long years yean that his hii family learned of hist hir plight and then thea the they centered their energies upon the wor work of securing curing ae a pardon for the us fortunate young man about two weeks ago W 8 robinson Bobin Boa and mrs mra C W wright of chicago the urcle and the sister iter of armstrong arrived in bolas they were provided with credentials credential from prominent citizens citi zeBi and official of iowa and illinois Il linoiR and they atoe also had letters letten from four of the jurors juror who convicted armstrong supplemented ted with a large petition bearing the signatures of wood river people recommending that the you youad ag man be pardoned they visited the penitentiary and the meeting between sister bater and brother he in his bia sombre prison gorb garb was waa an aa affecting scene cene but the appeal of mr robinson Bobi oBon and miss wright to the pardon board was wa a futile one they were given little or no encouragement and yesterday they decided to temporarily withdraw the application for clemency during the afternoon they sadly badly called at the penitentiary to bid their unfortunate relative goodbye and today they will depart lor for portland three hence they will again apply for a pardon for armstrong Arma trong idaho dau statesman |