Show WESTERN NEWS ITEMS one of the most moat interesting measures introduced during the present ses sea ion of the idaho legislature is the apportionment tion ment bill presented in the senate by hon HOD B F morris of idaho county As pat canell was wag crossing cro esing the tracks intje railroad yard at rawlins Baw line wyoming a day or two ago he was run over and out ii two by a switch engine there were two engines coming towards him one frow either direction while he was watching one of them the other ran over him ho he leaves a wife and four children in destitute circumstances colonel mike gray headed beaded an ex tion in 1872 to hunt for the ban Ju angold juan gold diggings he left pueblo with a party well equipped for the journey they traveled to within 60 miles of the placers when they were obliged tu to turo turn back owing to a scarcity of provisions and the hostility of indiana he spent in trying to fi find ad the placers which the guide was waa taking biking li hm rn to but which have remained undiscovered until the pres pree ent winter tombstone arizona prospector oils shinn one of the best known railroad rail roid men in the northern part of the state and a conductor on the uree gree ley salt lake and pacific has met with an accident at windsor a few miles above greeley colo which resulted in the loss lose of an arm while doing yard work he be fell from a oar car in mch ich a position that his left arm was horribly m mang anglea leu necessitating amputation H he 0 will probably recover though the shock was a terrible one A private letter from charlier Ob arlier of now new pork who has baa been spending several weeks at the volcano house in hawaii give some interesting dehalle de about the activity of the great volcano maunaloa mauna loa the crater is fast filling with lava and columbian year will be marked by one of the greatest eruptions on record every night the whole dome of the mountain is illuminated by the the fires from the lava as it if by a great electric light the last great eruption was five years ago if there should be any talk in the next legislature of removing the prison from here says mays the yuma aimes it will to be just juat as am well to remember that should the institution be moved all the land and improvements would become the property of ft the town of yuma such were the conditions dpn up n which the land was originally criven to the territory to erect now new buildings would oust cost at least and berba perba pa more no legislature would probably have bave the hardihood to saddle such a debt on the people fifteen oases of mountain trout try iry were received in santa fes fe now new mexico by the gu gun a dub of that town last week from the united states flah cow corn missioner miBs ioner iODer these theme young youn scout will be dietri distributed buted in santa fe county and are the first consignment of ordered another cargo will be received in february y which will be used to stock the rio bio nambe there are three branches of this splendid trout stream in northern santa fe county and they represent over miles of water flowing through the most picturesque tur esque region imaginable there are now DOW no fish bob at all in the nambe stream they having been killed years ago by the dumping sawdust into the stream and by forest fires the employed emp loyes of the rolling mill at laramie Liar amle wyoming have all been served with notices informing them thein that they were discharged and that they would be paid in full on wednesday of this week the mill to is now shut down but when it resumes opera eions a lew few weeks hence a rew scale of wages will take effect for all ton nage men th the 10 reduction it is stated will affect only twelve men but it wa alu be a heavy reduction on some of them it la Is rumored that some of the men will not be taken back but so far as na A known all of the old men who apply for work when the mill starts up will be employed the now new scale will bo the amalgamated association eato agnic boomerang eastern and california fruit growers are awakening to the fact that colorado la Is becoming a 8 power in the fruit raising line says meld field and farm and that mat her possibilities in this respect may be considered unlimited even her northern counties adjoining blak wyoming produce magnificent fruit the portion of the state best beat suited probably to the raising of fruit la Is that lying along the arkansas river especially ally lly that portion of the plains region which is watered by that tream stream the length of the valley ig 18 boo miles mile it contains it a greater acre age in arable lands than any other valley of th the state tate the valley as now developed and in processor proc process essof of develop moot ment warrants the horticulturist in planting any kinds of small fruits and deciduous tree fruits that are grown in a tern tein aerate oil ate says bay the cheyenne leader the rev bev john marshall a colored baptist mb moleter leter is in in town playing a bunco game came he has ban a longest of signatures to a fund be to is collecting ostensibly for we the building of a baptist oh church in deriver denver for or the colored people he obtained 1 from chief parley farley and was wac about to work captain phillips Philllp a for a similar contribution when bruce the colored bailiff of that th pel police lee court interposed and exposed mitre marshall all the pro preacher steber beat the colored P people eople of boulder out of a church an and d then removed to cheyenne where he worked the tee same game marshall Is a sanctimonious looking old gentleman wearily wearing spectacles silk hat and carries an umbrella he to is smart at talking and easily wheedles dollars out of his big victims Tic tims he was farea out A large number of wolf and coyote scalps are being brought in to county clerk maynard says the laramie Boon boomerang wang for the purpose of getting the bounty on theno them the clerk punches a bole in the ear of the pelts and the owner receives an order on the treasury trea eury for his bounty on grey wolves the bounty is 3 and on coyotes sove ere ty five cents mr van ortwick from near Lar laramie arnie peak was in yesterday with the pelts of nineteen coyotes and a gray wolf he received the bounty of 1725 and then disposed of the pelts lew van val houton houten was in a few days ago with about fifty pelts of gray wolves and coyotes for which he received a bounty of about 40 george nowell newell was in today with the pelts of five coyotes and one gray wolf these anti animals nals are caught principally in traps although it is difficult to entice a gray wolf into such a fastening F young frank amero B mero is on trial for his hie life at pianta fe N M on the night of november miss Misa Adela a daughter of the la Is e Te telesfor leefor jara millo and a beautiful girl accompanied by her younger sister and several relatives sat eat in the depot at LOB luuba awaiting the arrival of the northbound atchison topeka and santa fe train which was to convey the young ladies to denver to finish their education at one of the female colleges there A winchester bullet crashed through a window of the waiting room and miss min jaramillo fell dead among her effects were found letters from young lfrank jfrank romero it was commonly understood that he be wa desperately in love with her bar and had repeatedly sought bought her he hand in mar ariage but that she had given him no encouragement in fact had formally declined to nosi noiA v ledge his attentions he was arrested and has since ince been iu in jail he claims to be able to prove an alibi many love letters written by the he accused to the deceased will be introduced produced irod trod during the trial albert sherwood a man 36 86 years old has committed suicide in a tragic manner man nee at the home of a friend in oak land california Cali he had been employed as a clerk in a broadway store anc was a well known dhar character acter about town says the san francisco chroni ole when J lesser failed for the other day sherwood was thrown out of employment he was then living with his wife and child in a ninth street lodging house bouse the young man became very despondent and commenced to drink heavily in a few days he was attacked with delirium tremens cremens and was in a bad condition his young wife nursed him and brought him out all right then he became possessed of the idea that some nome of his enemies were trying to chloroform him this was his constant fear and so earnest was he in his remarks on the subject that his wife became convinced that perhaps there was something in his statements the couple then secured rooms at the home of robert flemming twentieth treat street and bad been stopping at this place since last wednesday sherwood showed a disposition to out cut his throat so his wife hid bid all the knives in the house and he was watched day and night on saturday he left 1611 his room and went into the kitchen he was followed by his wife and mrs flemming flamming before they could reach him he grabbed a huge carving knife and was justin just in the act of drawing the keen blade across his ahr at when ha wife rushed forward and ana stayed bis bin hand Bb erwood showed fight he made another effort to cut hla his throat but his wife was too quck for him she grabbed the keen blade with both her hands and in an instant the blood was gushing from several deep cuts sherwood gave the knife a jerk and the sharp blade slid through the woman comans hands bands cutting them in a fearful manner by this time mr flemming hau had taken part in the deadly bt struggle ruggle for life the two women a iter after a desperate effort secured possession on of the knife and threw it over the fence into the next yard sherwood seemed to have lost his mind entirely by this time and suddenly he picked up a huge fork and jabbed the prongs three inches into his throat the two women struggled with him again and gained possession of the fork sherwood rushed out of the room and into the basement with one blow of his fist he shattered a window pane and secured a piece of glass glaes his terrified wife wa just entering ente the basement when she saw her husband draw the glass across hi throat the spurted out and as she rushed forward he be fell dead at her feet he had bad severed the jugular vein and also alio the windpipe mrs sherwood stood like a statue for a moment gazing at the horrible sight eight before her it dawned upon her that her husband was iraa dead and then she be broke down the coroner was waa notified and removed the body to the morgue |