| Show WESTERN NEWS ITEMS all the lehi lebi sugar bugar factory company to is ha Vinea large lares storehouse built at ft the iw factory atory in which to store sugar the work of killing wolves in the I 1 northern part of the state is 18 progress ing rapidly says the laramie Lara oaie wyo boomerang the mount shasta manufacturing nyls box factory at sisson cal was almost totally destroyed by fire on priday night the loss lose is insurance while switching in the yards at adaa ataa ala loose colo on friday evening A ii thany roper bo per aged 16 and son ol of john job D roper lost his bis balance and fell from a our CM breaking his bis neck in two places MM ami dying instantly Mon montana tans In insists filets that her gold pro duet this year will show a gain of 75 per or cent over 1898 colorado claims 40 per cent while the receipts at the denver deliver branch mint indicates a bagh jar figure james harris a fourteen year orld old boy to IB in the care of the police at sacramento cal he says that his bid father is a chicago grocery maD james liaa traveled all over the country on atio and Is in now heading beading lor for home Xia ramie wyo boomerang bupt john davis of the chemical works has for or some ome time had bad a gang of men engaged at the sods soda lakes in gathering the sods soda crystals which have formed there during the past season he now has on the bank back tons of soda the los LOB angeles acsa express says that tramps are appearing at the doors ot of suburban residences demanding pie cake sandwiches and vienna zele good housewives adds the express facetiously will always keep a PA pan n of hot water on th the e tove stove a for them they dont want it but they hey need it A number dumber of ran ranchman ranchmen ranch ohmen men on the big and little laramie rivers in albany bunty remarks the green river wyo star say that they never raised auch immense crops of potatoes as were grown frown there this year vear john M deer joys jove has made affa affi javit that he raised 10 1096 9 6 bushels of potatoes on one acre of ground the austin nevada I 1 fire department makes this liberal offer on and after this date when an alarm of fire turned io in eagle hose company no 3 will offer a standing reward of to the person who ano arrives ra the be hose bose house bouse first with a span of horses each horse to have on a collar coblar harness on the hose cart I 1 tho the new works at duncan colo are now ready to begin work it if the treatment proves a success there will be a big rush to this camp vamp and prop erUes chica are now doing but very little will be worked to their tull full capacity while a R vast amount of virgin ground will soon be staked off by now new prospectors superintendent campbell cam of the burlington road to is in the city states the denver news he says a banking firm itt mccook has bought 2000 tons ol of ha ay in colorado to be fed to cattle in nebraska the demand for hay bay has baa been so BO great that many buyers are in in the held field and the price has baa gone up 2 a ton since th the e opening of the I 1 season A mammoth petition is being signed by the people of aspen Lead leadville viVe calida salida georgetown central city cripple creek creede breckenridge and other important colorado to towns tono no it is addressed to the business men and citizens of arapahoe Arap aboe county and asks them to stand by the mountains in the fight for silver eugene cugene Tarba Tar barelli a former em aloye of the colorado iron fuel company has COMMOn commenced ced suit euit in the district ojust at denver for damages for the loss lose of the use of his leg in an accident iv in the spring gulch mine in pitkin county last november Tar barelli was a driver in the mine ano ana in an accident had his leg badly mangled under the cars boise idaho Sta statesman teoman deputy sheriff J C connors of silver city has returned from blackfoot where he left at the asylum for the insane an old man named william maskelyne elyne the old fellow is said to be as mad as ajo a march hare he imagines ike he to is a pine I 1 I 1 tr tree and I 1 interposes vigorous demurrer to the wind gamboling tamboling gam boling among the leaves S N beach of evergreen colo who bad the contract to get out timber for four new bridges bridge on bear creek was wag instantly killed on tuesday morning he was unloading a large timber from the wagon when it fell across bis big breast and rolled over his bis bead crushing him into a shapeless mass mr beach was the owner of one of the largest saw maw mills in jetterson terson Jef Jeffe raon county J clement while at work in the logging camp has met with a serious 11 accident says the f nevada republican the accident was by a falling tree and resulted in two broken jaws whether the tree hit mr clement in its descent or of sprang back and struck him in the face is in hard to determine in some way it lilt hit him and broke his big upper and lower jaw Lara laramie paie Booma katig word from cripple creek colorado says that the ryan to toys vis are selling about 7 worth of 01 water there daily frond their artesian wel they have just purchased a largo large engine and boiler and will drill several wells for parties there one wali willbe be for the electric light works there as it is expected that the city water works will freeze during the winter as they did last year A sad accident occurred at liberty last laet saturday says the paris idaho post by which bich claud austin the IS 18 vearold vear year old son of bishop E N austin methi met his death he was coming down the canyon with a load of logs when hip team became unmanageable and his bis brake would not work he was thrown from his load und and the base of his skull aruck a sharp stick of wood producing concussion of the brain causing instant death colorados state treasurer has brought suit in the district court coart at denver against the old commercial national bank and its sure sureties fo for i r the amount of state funds deposited with the concern the treasurer says that when he assumed the office january 19 1893 the bank solicited him to deposit funds and as no depository was aa designated by law he did so no and took an indemnity bond in the sum of signed by a number of aromi nent citizens who are all defendants ephraim enterprise within the next week or ten days the gunnison roller mill will be completed and ready to commence work A good run to is expected as this year years a crop has been exceedingly good in that locality neils thompson and J P fransen Fr ansel of this city the projectors of the enter prize deserve credit for their work it will be a great advantage sd vantage to gurunl son and surrounding settlements as heretofore they had bad to go either to salina or mayfield Mayfle ld for their flour A japanese while leaving the depot at sacramento on sunday evening was set met upon in the rear of the he building by a couple of youths youth one of whom knocked him down and the other relieved him of 40 the jap says the youngster who knocked him down was about twenty years of age and the other a boy of about sixteen years the spot where the affair occurred is in quite dark and nobody witnessed it although the senet car terminus ter rainus was but a few yards yarda distant and people were passing to and from the depot A mysterious plague has suddenly broken out at and about wardner idaho in the coeur codur dalene mining country and within the last few duya days several hundred people have bion been stricken most of whom are miners the local physicians are baffled as am to the be origin or nature of the epidemic and local physicians have been called to go to wardner for consultation the people are greatly alarmed and surrounding towns are afraid that the plague will spread no deaths are as yet reported the medical opinion to is that the disease is not dangerous john was killed and paddy mannix fatally injured in an accident in the mountain consolidated mine at butte mont on tuesday afternoon they were descending deEO deEc ending the shaft when the cage suddenly sud denji dropped about feet the men were thrown against the sides of the shaft and were caught lb in the timbers nicholson s legs neck edtill aims and ribs were broken mannins Mann right thigh and leg were crushed and it le Is not possible for him to recover the aco accident ident wih was caused by the engine getting beyond the engineers control dr di JE N Grif griffith griffitts fitti of mcallister street san Frano francisco teco who branded a a baby on the 11 alth th mat has bag been tried for cruelty to a child and acquitted after marking the infant on the thigh with the letter M and a bar be low the letter the defendant sent it to the receiving hospital in charge of a messenger boy he freely acknowledged that he had marked the baby so that in some future time the mother could identify her offspring he was nervous and restless until atter after the verdict of not guilty was returned by the jury john fallon fallen got in from muldoon today and delivered himself up to deputy sheriff sanders sanden saying that he had bid killed willis jones falln faan claims olalea to have acted in self golf defence that attacked h him hn with a 8 ie out i a ga gash shtil tooth through it a heavy ib lockskin glove giove tr upon on his hift left 1619 hand band rod and ato amper batides betides be tides that he thereupon shot him with ariffe a rifle killing him there Ther ewas waa a witness to the tragedy besides the two principals principal jones lip 1 said to have been a dead snot shot and to have killed four men man in Call california formis fallon Is 81 years old and has baa lived at muldoon 1886 Fordi ferdinand nind lebrun an ex detective in jail at san ban jose cal awaiting trial for burglary in ie now in solitary confinement on account of bis big extensive arrangements to saw his bis wa way through iron to freedom lebrun was in the big tank of the jail he had bad torn up one of the blankets made it into a rope had sulphuric sold acid to soften the iron of the window bars bare and was waiting for his bis wife to smuggle in a saw and file ales when he would have out his hie way into the courtyard and scaled the back wall by means of the rope A fellow prisoner told of his bis plan grow grose the montana murderer who WM was located in missouri ba baa a again escaped ee sheriff 0 omarr marr cecii leonrad red requisition papers anil and went to missouri on the supposition that his bia man had already been arrested arrea ted but when he be arrived there he learned that gross was wag working an aa a carpenter on a bridge near the town in which he lived As the montana sheriff was well known to grow gross he be decided to have the local officers there make the arrest but when the latter went after their man be drew two guns and broke into the woods wooda with the muzzle of the weapons pointing in the direction of the officer montague H graham of the hotel del monte cal has baa mysteriously disappeared and his bib family who live in ban francisco are well nigh distracted with anxiety his aged mother has hag searched all over the city and for days has hai tramped along the water front in the hope of finding some trace of her son gon detectives have for the last ton ten days covered ban francisco sacramento oakland and alameda on the same rame mission alaston no trace of the missing man has baa been obtained since bince friday october when he was seen jim in alameda I 1 just as be was starting for his home in ban francisco am another other ml mine no to a aortal certainty n ty lias has been developed on bull hill bill at cripple creek colo the discovery diao overy was made some days daya ago but for reone beat known to the les lessels lessees sees it boo baa been kept quiet until now it was waa made on the wilson one of the free coinage company companas comp anys Is group of claims and at a depth of twenty feet to in the shaft abaft the pay streak la Is twelve inches in width and by sample assays essays of a quantity of the ore it will run ran to the ton the ore chute has bag been beau opened up also on the bleon which ai aide L 40 lines the wll san easaya assays on the ore have run as high as 17 ounces in gold and ounces of silver A curious verdict was waa rendered in the county court courtat at denver on wed wednesday nes attorney B S T horn sued thomas brown for professional services in a replevin suit the charges were but a payment of 20 was conceded by plaintiff judge le fevre feare instructed the jury that if there was a finding for horn it must most be for testimony ovy ao aa introduced for the purpose of showing that the legal ecru eau of ib be replevin proceeding had bad not been Don conducted ducted T ry re ret arned a verdict for B 6 2 Ador attorney bily horn therefore not only jre recovers covers nothing but he be must pay his bis 0 client hentsi HentS 5 and the be costs of the tb suit annie connors Cob nore a leadville girl of nineteen has baa disappeared from her borne bome and a 9 minor miner named gilroy coin oi ci dentally left at the be same time gilroy was one of annies ardent admirers aud and his affection was wag returned the girls parents however objected and forbade gilroy as visits at 2 saturday morning the head bead of the be family was awakened by a cold breeze he arose and found the front door standing wide open and upon passing through his bis daughters daughter is bedroom found that her cot was unoccupied tah the matter was at once reported to the police but at latest accounts no trace of the missing girl had bad been found A wholesale attempt to poison the in mates of the county hospital at cohues colusa cal was made on sunday morning hy by putting strychnine into the coffee twenty two patients are now suffering from the effects of the drug and one man has already died the wife of the superintendent is in very sick but the physicians hope to pull her bar through the coffeepot coffee pot was examined by a doe doc tor and be found trams traces of the poison therein it is in supposed the dastardly work was done by bg a chinaman who had had bad trouble with the be steward and had bad been discharged he bad mode made threats and swore to have revenge and it is believed that he be took this thin means of venting his bis malice another death is likely to result from the wholesale poisoning at the county hospital mentioned jim in these columns last week the discharged chinese cook who is suspected of having put strychnine in the coffee has not yet been caught immediately atter alter the news of the be deed had bad been received officers made a thorough search of chinatown but the suspect had bad fled bad it was found that he bad gone in the direction of Marys vUle and officers started on the trail aud aad followed it to that town they are still a searching arching rewards have been joffere offered for his bis oa otare the poisoned inmates of the hospital are still suffering terribly though a majority of them are believed to be out of danger the halley hailey idaho papers contain accounts of the killing of willie jones by john T fallon fallen on fish fifth creek both men were farmers and until re bently partners some difficulty arose over the dissolution of partnership the men quarreled and jones made a furious attack upon fallon with a keen edged sickle fallon succeeded in warding off the blows and this seemed to increase joneses rage with an oath that he would kill fallon jones started oft towards the house fallon surmising furm L ising he be had gone for a gun started alter him on the run fallon reached the house first and was load ing a rifle when jones came up jones again attacked him with the sickle A furious hard band to hand bund battle followed finally fallon succeeded in loading the gun and shot his bis antagonist dead he went into halley hailey and gave himself up he claims he be was forced to kill jones in self defense jones is said 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