Show WESTERN NEWS ITEMS more snow enow at rawlins than at any point along the railroad in the state of wyoming A committee of denver lawyers has baa drafted a new divorce law which will be presented to the legislature it will stop some of the loose practices of the county court in denver deaver by throwing all divorce business into the distri district 4 court A scheme has been arranged to organize and incorporate a company to run the palace hotel at logan the capital stock is to be divided up and placed at 5 per share A considerable portion of the stok st ash has already been subscribed for A H corman city clerk of colorado springs has been discovered dike to be a defaulter having embezzled about of the city altya fu do da his salary has been only 1200 per year and he began bean two years ago to take small sums he invested a good deal in hi cripple creek property his bondsmen will have to repay the money the children belong belonging lag to the sev anth ward sunday school at logan by a unanimous vote have decided to donate their nickles and dimis dim is toward the completion of the salt bait lake tern tem pie instead of having a christmas tree and the usual festivities the movement was a spontaneous one on the part of the children and surprised superintendent and his aids logon logan journal burnal E W fuller a physician in the crystal river country has commenced suit in the district court at aspen colo against orman cook the contractors on the elk mountain road for the complaints al leges that on april let defendants defend ante without authority were blasting rook for the railroad grade and tha th t a large rook rock was blown through a aladow of plaintiffs house striking his wife and resulting fatally while charles bouten of elsinore El elnore was visiting his friends in chester last week a trunk was taken from his wagon the contents of which were worth 60 it was suppose 4 to have been taken by a dejected coot who passed through this county a few days day after going south with a team and wagon and the garb of himself and family indicated that several trunks of clothing would be acceptable rioh field advocate the city fathers of colorado springs col have received an interesting proposition from a miner named A miller he claims to have discovers i very rich gold bearing ore in the city park in north cheyenne canyon he asks the privilege of mining it and agrees to give the city a royalty on all the ore taken out mr miller has taken to his partnership judge john cochran who ho has presented the mutter matter to the council the matter will be decided at the next meeting of the council state game warden liand land has received a letter from the fish and game warden of salt lake to the effect that pounds of elk and deer are at rawlins Bawl lbs wyo the animals having been killed in colorado as is supposed A certain denver deaver dealer is in also said mid to have been handling some of the game said to have been illegally killed A well known cattle man from western weste colorado has written to state warden gordon land that parties of hunters are killing deer and other game in his section and shipping it out by the wagon load denver sun the mother and sister of convict halton who was killed recently at the idaho penitentiary by turnkey french and an account of which appeared in the DESERET NEWS are to in boise city looking up evidence pertaining to the killing mrs halton may have the turnkey arrested on a charge f murder mr french jig ie willing to stand trial being anxious to be fully vindicated for the killing it la is said the dead convicts parent parents Is who reside at shoshone were highly indignant at the state officials for shipping their sons remains to them in a cheap coffin they returned the coffin to undertaker glover informing him that they did not propose to have their son eon aured like a pauper on december 16 charles ricker bicker of orin junction found the following letter on the telegraph table of the orin junction depot near cheyenne wyoming charles ricker bicker of orin junction december 1892 oh 1 I say lay you better quit the fists old boy we are onto on to your racket tor for some time you are a rustler and a thief 02 A rough sketch of a 0 effin with skull and crossbones follows A week before this thin mr bickers ranch buildings were burned by unknown parties and no clue has been found to the incendiaries bicker Is a small ranchman the anonymous letter and the burning of his ranch excite considerable apprehension among the small ranchmen ranchman ranch men in the he a vicinity M B gwinn was up from caldwell esterday Sst erday says the idaho statesman mr r kwinn says that last Satur saturday dRY men engaged in excavating near caldwell for the purpose of building a dam a cross across the boise river discovered a cave in which they found the skeleton ek eleton of a human supposed to be that of a boy about eighteen years old near the skeleton was a flint look lock rifle on which was stamped the year of its manufacture 1826 a bunch of california matches and a powder horn born the gun was badly rusted and the a tock stock was full of worm holes but the matches were well preserved the discovery created no little excitement in caldwell some think the bones once belonged to toan an indian but the fact that ft a POW portion ol of a glove was found on the bony hand discredits this theory mr dan schroder Soh roder of salina was accidentally shot last monday says the richfield Bich field advocate he and another young man were shooting rabbits rabbi tp and after emptying his gun the young man was given Sch gun both barrels of which were loaded a ai d cocked after firing one load and not realizing that the hammer bammer of the other was up he be sprang the breech down to insert another cartridge which sprung the hammer of the loaded barrel down and the whole charge entered tae fleshy part of mr Sch thigh making a terrible wound and leaving th the shot wad and all scattered around th the flesh next to the bone it is a terrible wound but it to is thought that by proper medical attendance the young man will recover without permanent injury in the district court at Colo colorado tado springe judge campbell has denied the application for an lor brought by E ER R sparked stark Star kEd ed delavergne et a al against the katoa mining company it was held that the evidence pree prea anted did not substantiate the bill sufficiently to grant a preliminary injunction it appears that the defendants took an option and agreement to purchase the raven and other lodes at cripple creek the agreement states that the proceeds from the sale of the ore were to be placed in the first national bank of this city and the plaintiffs plain tifis to have a certain percentage until the option was taken up in the applina ion the plaintiffs claimed a failure on the part of the defendants to deposit money received as stated above and alleged fraud mexican consul ornelas of san an tonio texas has received a telegram from the city of mexico denying the rumor that loneta es rocha is with the filibusterers filibuster ers on the border cooba was instructor at the national military academy at chapultepee and the report that he was engaged in the uprising created a sensation on recount account of his prominence and influence the report that the mexican soldiers who escaped from the san ignacio fight were held as prisoners by the texas authorities has been ascertained to be unfounded news at the military headquarters here bore is to the fidot that troops are on the heels of the bandits and an enita engagement gement is hourly expected it is however doubtful it if they ever have more than a chase since the bandits are better frontiersmen and have easily eluded the troops hereto fore for A dist distressing resting accident has occurred at leadville colorado in which michael the six year old son of abraham isaacs a harrison Har rleon avenue merchant was wag almost instantly killed the boy had bad been in the habit of catching on to wagons and stealing rides about coon on an tuesday he caught on the tongue of a trailer which was coupled to another ore wagon and goinn down chestnut vi street treet soon boon afterwards the boy fell face downward both wheels wheals of the wagon passing over his bis back he uttered a piercing scream which attracted the attention of the driver who immediately stopped stepped his bis wagon the boy got up in a kind of dazed condition and turning in a circle four or five times dejl into the arms of a man who had come to his assistance the unfortunate little follow ellow was w taken into a house near by where he expired in a few moments the spine was fractured and he received severe internal injuries on tuesday night the boarding house and residence of mrs S sims and mrs R hinckley Hi nokley at white pine twelve miles north of sargent colorado was completely destroyed by fire and Z d mrs Hinck leys two children a little girl five years old and a baby boy twelve months old it being impossible to got get near the building when the fire was discovered the mother rushed wildly to the door of the burning building screaming for her children and could nut not be persuaded to leave until after she was horribly burned about the lace face and body and almost bereft of reason the remains of the two children were recovered but were burned and charred beyond recognition it Is ie supposed that the fire was caused by the baby pulling a 4 lamp off of the stand as it was left playing on the floor while the mother was absent to get some medicine for the little girl who was sick in bed robert hinckley Hl the husband find and father was crushed to death a few weeks ago while working in a mine near there the case against the alhambra Alb ambra theater at denver for attempting to run a performance on sunday night will be heard by juige sopris on wednesday chief parley farley told man ager stern he kad had instructions to prevent the abe performance at the office of the police board it to is stated that the board took no official action and did not issue any order asa matter of law neither the tabor wonderland tie me alhambra nor anyone else ban baa a right to give a sunday performance when the board attempted to enforce this strict law it found public opinion to be strongly against the closing of properly conducted places of amusement and decided that there would be more true morality in letting them run than in closing the doors the board has had bad the alhambra case under consideration the objection to the house being open on sunday I 1 ig fj founded on certain rather loud lito graper which were hung bung in various windows about town they presented teil the female form with considerable candor and announced that the opera teason season would open on sunday even ing the words sunday eveni evening ngsi were in large type the opinion of the board though not officially expressed seems to be that sunday en should show deference to the fact that many persons are opposed to them denver news the supreme court of montana has decided on a question affecting the political control of the legislature by a vote of two to one the court overruled the demurrer filed by the republicans public ans to the answer made by De democrats mccrate to the alternative writ of mandate and denied the motion of the republicans for a peremptory writ ordering the canvassers to count the vote of box elder precinct As the legislature meets two weeks hence says an exchange the democrats democrate are maneuvering to kill time and stave off a final decision until after that day as hamilton democrat holds the certificate and would thus help to organize the house the republican attorneys will en leaver to push along the case as an fast as possible there to Is considerable excitement at the zuni indian pueblo new mexico over the thumb hanging of an old squaw by the governor of the village the squaw was accused of witchery and about a week ago the governor ordered that she be taken from her wigwam and ana hung up by the thumbs for the evils it to is imagined have corns come from her blackart black art prophecies she was not without a following and last laet thursday she was cut down in direct opposition to the wishes of the governor As an soon as he realized that a portion of his subjects were arrayed against him he be ordered their arrest but the officers found that the abe offenders had armed themselves and threatened resistance both sides are heavily armed and on last lait saturday a conflict was only averted by the governor not meting an effort to theold the old squaw the trouble is of such a serious nature that a troop of cavalry from fort wingate has been there this is the first know case where a dortlon of the villagers have come out oui boldly and defied the mandate of an indian governor |