Show WESTERN NEWS ITEMS application has been made to gov arnor osborne Oa borne of wyoming vi to commute the sentence Ben tence of frank frani H howard who was wae sentenced to hang bang for the murder of deputy sheriff horn at dixon wyo to life imprisonment the reno nevada journal saye say that a man named robinson Robi naon of reno has baa discovered a way to evolve electricity from heat beat in so eo thorough a manner that every house bouse can be tupp applied up plied lieu with incandescent lamps as cheaply as ae they are now dow supplied with keros kerosene eue A few nights since a general store at castle rock bock was robbed of about 1000 worth ol of goods by three men the meu meli stole a team of horses from one man MAD and a platform wagon from another and loaded it up with blankets ready made clothing cutlery tobacco etc carson nev aels saye eye an im meuse meteor was observed on tuesday morning between 12 and I 1 o the flash the whole t ky and the fiery trail left by the visitor extended across the heavens from the north to the south mouth the rock bock springs wyo minor miner says that john buff of atlantic city was arrested bw b sheriff whitmore on the charge of shipping east as dried beef last june pounds of ore which it Is said aid he be received and concealed the ore was stolen from the famous burr mine the 10 year old son of P F M cook living five miles south mouth of Free noCal was shot in the forehead on sunda evening by a neighbors boy of the same age with a 22 caliber rifle the abe boy aimed at his bis comrades head bead but claims that he be did not intend to shoot about it is in thought that the wound will prove fatal on wednesday night as an a freight train passed through fresno cal the engineer discovered that his bis engime had iua over four train tramps pe who were supposed to have fallen asleep while warming themselves the near some cinders lying on the vack rack instantly killing three of them and mangling their boales in a shocking manner A reservoir scheme la Is under way at doulder boulder colo the six mile ditch reservoir Beser voir company campany has baa puro based acres of land about four miles north and two miles east of town preparations to build bud an lim immense mense dam have been made and work will soon begin the dam will hold bold about cubic cable foot feet of water eight masked men on wednesday night might rods rode up to the abe ot of jose chevas romero bodero near los bunas LuDa new mexico and calling romero out throw threw a jariel over his and dragged him to a bridge stripped him of his clothing and whipped him unmercifully they then bung bone him to a beam until he was nearly deada dead and rode away arrangements have been perfected by the ranchers of sari sao diego 1 cal 1 for the planting of banai canai re on a large wale scale and a company has been organized to handle the product A tannery is in to be erected in this city V cost and the he plant will be extended a so rapidly as the supply of manaigre anai vanal gre increases the roots grow wild in lower california but it is believed the output can be largely increased by cultivation there was a serious street car accident on tuesday afternoon on the corner of junes jones and geary streets san ban francisco francieco one of the hyde and jones street oars car of the california street cable system struck a boiler bolt which had been places in the channel or slot by some malicious person seven people were injured and the car was badly wrecked the board of county commissioners of mesa county colo coloa has begun suit in the district court against the proprietors of the arcade gambling abuse of denver to recover alleged to have bave been lost in their place at laro jaro and other gambling ways by W J quinn then county treasurer of adess bunty the money it to is claimed was county funds ous gus breene breede an employed at the lime kiln at lime creek colo was killed monday afternoon by an explosion of giant powder the powder was frozen and the man was thawing it out when one of the workmen accidentally dropped some hot lime on the giant and the explosion followed breene was instantly killed his body being tearfully ear fully mangled condemnation to Is being heaped upon the fresno cal city board of trustees eee because they reduced the jagt s ol of firemen bremen on tuesday night they desire to repaint all the fire apara apparatus ap aratus tue and owing to the shortness of the city funds they took this means of ratel raising ng the money the reduction made is 50 percent per cent some of members say may they will resign mayor van horn of denver has re a communication from the sufferers by drouth in western nebraska making an appeal to the people leopla of denver fur for assistance in the way of 01 clothing to protect them from the cola during ahw coming winter it Is 18 stated that children are even now buffering ufler ering ing from cold tor for wane of cloth ing the sheriff of los angeles Aa gels remark demarko the san francisco Chr chroniak CAron fote should clear out the tramps who are terrorizing terro rising several colony towns near that city the tramp evil is in bad enough chob these vagrants vagrant come u single spies out but when they come to in battal luBS handed together for plunder they should be so soundly punished thai bat they will never have the stomach to repeat their performance idaho dally daily statesman george ellis the negro who Is incarcerated iu in the county jail at boise held tor for burglary la is playing the crazy godge again he set fire tu to some rags in his cell call yester jay ellis eills Is the man who escaped several months ago by cutting through a brick wall but was captured at calo we well he took with him about luo belon belonging glug to general the Coxe leader pioche nevada record wor was at the yuba mine last sun day and the lamillar familiar toot of thi whistle to is pleasant to hear the shaf will be put in good working order the first thin thing gafter after which some prospecting will be done it is a good silver mine that will pay expenses these days day but the yuba is one of them every pocket of ore found Is 18 rich both in silver and ancl lead and finds a ready sale at the salt like lake and other markets the deadly trolly wire has bag caused trouble lo in oakland cal again A team of horses driven by leslie hay den of the oakland cream depot were instantly killed on tuesday hayden was wag driving his team down duac the street when a dead wire dropped over the trolley and the end of it fell across the backs of the horses both animals anim als cropped iroD ped to the ground and died instantly st the horses were valued at hayden had a narrow escape himself the novel eight of seven crow in ID deans before a U gilted states district judge charged with contempt of court was witnessed at helena mont on wednesday tuey were ordered to show cause why they should net deg be punished for contempt in not answering summon surn mone to appear as am witnesses before the grand jury the indiana all said they had bad no money with which to pay traveling expenses so they bad to wait until the marshal came after them hem under the circumstances judge knowles decided to purge them of contempt says the manoos colo www news of a rich and extensive strike on the snow flake east manoos has haa reached town it to is also reported that another contact to feet below the present workings has been un covered that shows if fine no results in a goldpin ore tested last week from the breast of the drift antho OD the snow flake which was then in 70 feet re u rheu 10 and 80 30 respectively for w second cond and first class ore at that time the streak was forty inches thick but now it is claimed that the ore body has increased at a greater ratio in qu quality allty A special from monte monie cristo wash says A struck the drying house of the pride of ef the mountain mine friday and burled burglid ton ten miners the warin alarm was given and a force ot oi evenly seventy five men set about to rescue the imprisoned men louis erickson was covered head downward and was wae taken out dead william mccarty was struck if tick on the back et at the head by a broken stick wm win kelly was struck in the face W E R smith fell on a stove store burning his bis forehead but was waa not seriously hurt four others were out painfully about the be heads all of the men were rescued alive but eelk sou but and are doing well michael shumani well known wining mining man of spokane wash returned on monday from his mines in the Okan ogon district he the it nad ad of a veritable veri tabie gold bonanza at the very summit of the cascade Cas catie range of mountains near slate creek two young men arm anacortes Anao ortes named baron and gerrish are the lucky finders shuman sou man says that the boys boy after a weeks work the crudest of f implements have cleaned up 12 OUO with plenty of the same rich dirt in sight eight nearly all the miners in this section of the country have flocked to the new el EI dorado and aad staked stake dout out claims claim mary fikani aged 18 13 yem year was waa painfully if not fatally injured on monday night at leadville colo the little girl Is a well known figure round around the rio blo grands grande depot where she be soils sells specimens to the passengers gerti on the to tb rough trains monday even ing she was at the west bound train as usual As the train started abe had made a sale she bhe raised her hand to receive the purchase puro base money when she slipped and fell her left arm being thrown under the wheels of the first firm coach the entire train passed over her arm and the child did not make a single outcry the arm bad to be amputated at the shoulder richard dower died at his boarding house in the clear grit terrace yesterday says the butte mont miner death was the result of au an attack ol of typhoid fever brought on in a vera ver peculiar manner A month or so bigo ago hewn he ware working in we orphan gir mine with a man named morgan and a slight cave ol of earth occurred ana adu burled buried the latter dower was badly at the accident as he supposed wait that morgan was if noi DOI fatally injured and for nineteen dayo thereafter did not sleep a wink by reason of the tact fact that his nervous system had received a severe shook the rho losi load of sloop sleep wore him almost completely typhoid fever then had an easy victim A serious accident happened to the machinery of the moody moodyville Mood ville saw mill at t vancouver B con tuesday which will cause the mill to shutdown for some months the will mill started up as usual at 6 but at 10 o the crank pin of the engine broke the engine raced around at terrible rate 0 speed before it could be stopped sad and the result was that the cylinder heads beads burst the machinery cannot be repaired at vancouver quite a little history is attached to the engines in this mill they were built forty years ago lor for her maje ship sparrow hawke gun boat for many bearson this station after fifteen years service she was condemned and dismantled ana the engines were purchased aed by the mill mil which used them tor for twenty five years louis doucher Dou oher a minor miner employed in the Por portland dand at cripple crook creek colo met with a peculiar accident in the mine a few days ago which resulted in death he was working in the norta aorta drift of the foot level and had bad spit his holes hoks and was standing with fai teen other minors miners at the station feet away toady ready to come out for jancu when the auarles exploded A small piece of rook was driven along the drift which struck him with force enough to fracture frantu to the abe skull back of the be tight right ear the deceased was a good miner and leaves about in cash to his widowed mother in adult addition IoD the portland company pays free insurance on men killed or it ii jared while in their employ he will receive one full pay or about 1200 from the insurance john west while out hunting huntingdon hunt ingon on the headwaters of pine pin creek picked up in a gulch an iron cannon ball I 1 which he took to the office of colonel park henshaw Hens baw says the chico cal An enterprise anaese gese when looking at lawe it we think we can trace this relic back thirty seven years when the hat creek indians indiana made their raids ou on abb valley and a company of vol volunteers went out after them from red bed bluff under the command of gen bale and slaughtered many of bow dandy young and hi good both now bead were of this party and they did nood execution with their trusty rolae the party had bad a howitzer picked packed on a mule when they left red bed bluff this thia cannon ball however seems larger than those used in the howitzer which we think was wag a six the coal excitement for western idaho is being again aroused through the visit of union pacific officials to the horseshoe bend coal prospects to investigate its probability as a point and whether it would justly the COL COLs s ruction of a branch line we learn that they were not satisfied with the horseshoe bond district a and nd give oo no promise of a road we are pleaded to note that mr lievi levi allen alien has nakaju of the occasion to write the boise statesman tuat he be can show the pacific officials or anyone else something domet bing to open their eyes it if they will take the trouble to pay him a visit rhe great number or of undeveloped coal coal prospects in this county and the antis factory results obtained from testing samples is good ground to believe that thai an investigation in earnest would show up some wonderful coal fields webster signal william coombs coombe a young cornishman marks a member of the american protective association was on morning acquitted at butte montan Mo utano of the murder of jerry condell Co noell ai irish catholic on the ath of july the murder was the outgrowth of the re jinious riot in butte on that day the evidence against coombs was considered positive but the jury acquitted him arter after being out twenty four douro great indignation has been aroused and coumbs coombs is hold held in jail for protection during the trial one of the attorney t L fur for the boasted that there were eleven or twelve members of the american protective association on the jury atles it ia a well known tact act that that organization contributed 2000 for the defense judge speer wax was so indignant at t the verdict that he be dismissed the be jurors from runner further service at this term of court affidavits affidavit have been made mad to the effect that one of the jurors said he would convict no man tor for killing a irishman mrs amelia evans wife of alex der evans who resides on the ranch south of petaluma Pet Po talpa aluma cal P corn littou suicide on an friday morning by aturo ing her hot clothing with coal oil anu and etting fire fir to it her husband was a blent absent from home borne at the she time her son a buy boy about 16 years of age was working in ft a field near the house bouse aden his attention was attracted by a volume of smoke rising from the he orchard he rushed to the scene and found his bis mother lying on the ground in excruciating agony the clothing was nearly all burned away and her br was badly charred an empt joal coal oil can lay jay beaire beel her attendance was at onue once summoned sum but nothing could be done and she suoi died mrs evane was at one time an inmate ot of the insane asylum at nape and had on several oco asiona attempted antke 0 her life navajo charlie with half balf a dozen braves and three ihre squads squaws made an la in to tormenting renting ter eiting little group ot of indians about the theu aion depot yesterday says bays the denver denter mews bews the party came in f from rome oklahoma where charlie has baa some relations and where he goes every year to spend a month or so they arson their way home and left 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