Show WESTERN NEWS ITEMS evanston Evans tons Is floering flouring flou ring mill with s a capacity of fifty barrels a day started up last week the grand Jund junction tion star has ha reconsidered its determination to sus BUS pend its daily issue atter after january let and will continue as heretofore the war department ban baa advertised for bids for the construction of one set met of stone atone barracks at fort washakie Wash akle wyoming the bids will be opened december 16 15 theold the old st HL johns canal cana canalaz lat at phoenix arizona Ar laona Is being opened up again and acres of land will be watered by it this canal was ruined by the flood two years ago caldwell idaho tribune ris ria to is raging throughout the country and ft a number of deaths have already been reported the payette valley and boise valley are alike affected A conference of count county y authorities has ban been held at denver at which the question as to what should be done in reg regard 1 ard to the pauper problem was discussed cunee d at length two important gatherings begin their gese sessions loDs in denver december 28 they ire are the state teachers association and the Farm farmers ersI alliance and industrial union the denver stamp 9 company Is in employing men on suck and oada exclusively the company la Is shipping extensively to idaho wyoming utah and new mexico the union pacific police force seems taba A great many brakemen brake and conductors are being watched and it Is expected a number of removals will shortly be made cheyenne sun hoo doo one of the he ban francisco high binders arrested some time ago for wearing a coat of malland mail nd carrying concealed weapons has been sentenced to six months imprisonment in the house of correction the dillon most moat general electric company has been incorporated by earl P wetmore charles H alexander and josiah bowden with a capital stock of in shares of each the agricultural college department of the university of wyoming has issued bulletin numbers number 8 which treats of irrigation and duty of water the bulletin is from the pen of prof B C buffum professor of horticulture it lie is understood that the owners of the monarch mine at marysvale Marys vale are negotiating for the sale of that proper erty to a syndicate says a local exchange and the deal will probably he be soon consummated if the sale is in made the consideration will be something like A light footed individual entered the el paso house at buena vista colorado a few mornings ago at an early hour and proceeding to the room where the proprietor was sleeping Ble drew his trousers from under the pillow and took two pocketbooks from them containing 25 in money no clue the raton baton electric light plant at it don ion now new mexico has been sold at public auction to satisfy a judgment of against it hold held by the first national bank of raton baton fred bruegman the present manager of the concern bid it in the plant is valued at the shipments of ore from cripple creek colorado via caon ca on for au gustand amstand september was pounds of E f this pounds went to denver to leadville and to pueblos pueblo teams are hauling constantly and the tonnage of the next two months will be increased now new medicos cos school of mines is located at socorro where it has twenty acres of fine land and a building the socorro chieftain has haa lately issued a pamphlet in regard to the school and calls on the territory to give it the support that its importance demands for it spiro Drago manovich and his wife loise who horsewhipped horse whipped and sand mand bagged M kosach the other night at san ban francisco have been arrested and held on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon the russians claim that they are not of their L rationality the boise bobo mcm says F B schermerhorn assistant mineralogist for columbian commissioners now located in this city to is receiving his samples of ores from the various mines to la custer lembi and altaras alturas counties this collection to is composed of more than specimens and will be one of the finest shown the body of a man has been found on the beach about ten miles above aganes anta monica canyons san francisco supposed posed to be the remains of young anderson Andere oo who mysteriously disappeared from the sleeping oar car of the southern pacific company on the new wharf at the canyon on the ul night of the of last month fred mendenhall a miner employed on the L smuggler at aspen col fell fall from the ladder on wednesday wed sustaining ta injuries from which w lob he died mendenhall with a number of other miners going up from lunch when from some unaccountable reason deceased lost his bold and fell fall about twenty five feet when hon george WC hilds was waa in dejover on his way to attend the dedicatory services of the childs drexel he bore r a at colorado springs Sp ringo says th ahr t denver news mews he stated that be desired to make a donation to the newspaper writers union this city in pursuance 0 this pr ielse the genial proprietor of the philadelphia ledger has forwarded his check for mining in colorado Is ie looking up says ays an exchange at creede a num ber bar of determined gentlemen camped on the outer bound of a abe e property are facing each other rifles of large caliber in hand this la is so BO much like old times that the heart of the pioneer thrills but at intervals there cornea comes a feeling of apprehension that after all there may be no shooting there to la much mua excitement in the city of mexico over a search that has bao been conducted by inaco doaks and associates in the little town of Tep ezot tan near where the in gold that according to tradition supported by documentary evidence lies buried in the old cathedral of I 1 where it was stored by the jesuit jesuits about the oloe close of the eighteenth century sundance Bun dance wyoming cassette sundance witnessed another gold excitement yet yesterday erday it seems that some very valuable placer claims have been discovered just where we have not been able to ascertain several of our business men got wind of the fact and the town was almost de populated in a very short time it is a foregone conclusion that crook county nas gold just how much it is impossible to state the city council of durango colorado has refused to grant permission permie sion to the bell telephone company to use the streets street for its wires the objection was that the company has cont contracted meted with seventy subscribers at 80 per year that its patents will expire ID in march that the service will then become cheaper mind and that it would be shortsighted short sighted policy to permit citizens to bind themselves with an 80 contract when by holding off till march cheaper service will be DO deible Ible A telegram from rapid city dakota says Wilcox saw mill was blown all over the town of black hawk seven miles north this morning the eth dinst as the result of the explosion of a boiler three employed emp loyes were burled buried in the debris and when dug out BOB ben richardson was found dead and L hart and a man named stewart badly crippled and injured stewart may die the explosion Is s reported to have been due to low water in the boiler says the helena independent A voluminous complaint has reen filed in the district court by grant hwhalen against the helena school trustees it is alleged that the cost of the building was and that had bad been paid leaving a balance of the contractors say the they y were delayed two months by reason of the deep excavations necessary for the foundations among other things it is alleged that materials were furnished not included as extras A report comes from south valley that joe Lynch who was shot through the body some weeks ago in a saloon oo 00 n sal at wt wallington ll ington by a vaquero n named m e d tex and who it was thought would recover is now in a dangerous condition with the chances against his recovery as blood poisoning has set in if the man dies tex may find himself in a bad box as there seems to be considerable satisfaction among the people of that section because he was not hold held for the shooting dayton nevada tirades S reports of the wanton slaughter of game in the northern part of fremont fj emont county wyoming have reached sheridan says the evanston Ev ansten news whole berdi of elk and other game are being slaughtered and even a number of the few remaining buffalo supposed to be bw under the protection of the government have been shot by the so called sportsmen the slaughter Is 12 certainly no worse in fremont county than in ila this county especially by indians indiana and sheriff ward will add new laurels to v his crown if he takes prompt steps to bring the red rascals to punishment A special to the denver news from pueblo colo says considerable speculation has been rife over the probable pr effect of the death of jay gould to pueblo and the different projects in which he was so go largely in te rested in this vicinity the con census of opinion is that it will be of vast benefit especially to the extension of the missouri pacific to gunnison Gunn lson as then the whole line to the east could procure fuel at simply the cost coat of production mr gould for some novae time has been indisposed to assume now new responsibilities while those associated with him have realized the advisability of many extensions of practical necessity to the system the terris gold and silver mining Milling company of marysvale Marys Mary vale are out with the prospectus ros the company is offering a 1 limited number of f shares for sale tu to ena enable ta a the directors to prosecute work on the me john lincoln mine which is ie the most mont promising of their numerous claims A tunnel is now in about 40 feet on the ledge and a contract of feet more la is to let soon the end of which will be A some feet below the surface or crop op pings the ledge is a large one and some small streaks of rich carbonate ore has been struck in it which will assay nearly per ton Z this from the do de lamar idaho nugget mourn fred and archie jordan have returned from the seil nell mining district where they had been representing some mining claims they brought with the them in some boma earn ples pies of gold ore which prospect way up nd feel much elated elat edever over the out look tor for that camp in the spring they intend to run a crosscut tunnel that will cut their favorite ledge at a depth et at between two and three hundred feet the plowman mill to is work working ing nicely and giving satisfactory results that neil is destined to be one of the dividend paying camps of idaho is as certain as any undemonstrated mia in ing g propositions A few days ago a prisoner atthe at the nevada state prison while working 9 in the laundry was lifting some clothes out of boiling water when the bench on which he was standing gave way and precipitated him into a large tank of hot water where for a few moments 4 he h was completely immersed he ble gave an a agonizing cry for helps help when 11 several persons rushed to the tank and pulled him out his clothes were re moved at once and his body covered with flour this being the only available remedy at hand band his face and budy were horribly scalded and his left arm was literally cooked to the bone and shrunk to half the natural size the physician says that in all his bis experience peri ence he has never seen io so frightful a case of scalding U advises advices ad vices from aztec go jrsn n juan soon to now new mexico say ay that J W spencer a well known rancher has baa been convicted as accessory in the murder last spring of young willett and sentenced to too ten years inthe in the penitentiary john C who was hired by spencer to do the killing to Is now in the territorial penitentiary serving a twelve year sentence spencer was in love with miss bertha starlett the belle of the county and was jealous of willetts willetta attentions to the young lady spencer promised a wagon and team and aid money with which to leave the con itry if he would get willett out of thew ay iy and he did the job w well 11 killing willett as he was returning fro from om a d dance since in company with miss starlett special to t me ne denver news M W E lennan lien nan a belhart net hart lawyer is in jail here awaiting trial on the charge of passing wurth worthless less checks on several great falls people he to is quite an able young idad man and was in a fair way to achieve success at his pro bession fes yes sion when he became infatuated with faro after loosing all the money he had bad in the bank of bethart Ne lhart he induced county auditor ringwald and others to indorse his checks for amounts ranging from 50 to this was in august he I 1 st most of the money at foro faro and spent the remainder on women finally to escape arrest he be tied fled to denver where he was wai captured last sunday by sheriff hamilton a wd and brought back to stand trial lien len nan an claims he has been wronged and th that at be still how has enough money inthe bank of to meet all outstanding ceba great greag ralls fau mont along dispatch beese walter assessor oleat of ads ada county idaho thinks that wonderfully rich loh diamond fields have been discovered on the south bank of the snake river east of walters walter ferry sad and accompanied by half a dozen friends started for the scene of the reputed bonanza to make locations legations the discovery was made by a parly parky oi of surveyors survey who were at work at the site of the proposed dam at the mouth of bruneau river in owahee county the engineers suspecting that the peculiar white stones stone might be valuable sent nt a quantity of sheba to portland for ex and were quickly assured that they had run amoros genuine diamonds city attorney stevenson said that bat he had been assured that bat the for mation of the ground in which the diamonds were embedded was of ex acely the same nature as that of the famous kimberly diamond mines in s south 0 uth africa drover denver news new the famous eleven league clause in the act establishing the united states court of private land claims has come up in a test case before the land court at santa fe now new mexico the come case to is that of the alameda tract near albuquerque general W E earls earle of ef jeffries earle washington IX DC C appeared for the claimants and united stites states attorney Q G reynolds for the government it will be some days before a decision is announced the emited jutted states attorney holds that this Is IN an imperfect grant and that therefore congress has a right to say thab not more than eleven leagues shall be confirmed to the claimants almanto cl general beneral farle earle relies on the united states supreme court decisions to the effect that the united states has bound it MIR self elf by a treat treaty y to acknowledge and protect all bona lids fide titles title granted by the previous governments and this court has no BO discretion to enlarge or curtail such grants says saye the grass grasi valley tidings the dam of the nevada county electric power company on the south yuba was carried away by the high water of wednesday the cause of the mis fortune was an immense log fully live five feet in diameter and seventy feet long which came down the stream with the swift current and striking a large upright timber of the dam caused the whole structure to give way the men at the dam reported a few hours previous to the ac accident that the dam was waa all right but that ten feet of water was flowing over the logs from one ond find to the other the dam will be rebuilt as soon as the river gets low enough to permit it Thee work of building the flume and grading for the plant plan will twill be continued through the winter the breaking of the dam Is quite a misfortune to the company costing three months work and cash but this will not stop operations by any 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