Show WESTERN NEWS ITEMS all of new mexico north of socorro has baa been visited with heavy raine making the country look bright and green columbus wright the deputy sheriff who was accidentally shot at the camp of the deputies in beaver park colo on june 8 died unwed on wed morning charles ferrarie Ferra rip a boot and shoe merchant of eureka NOV nev committed suicide on tuesday morning morn log he was wae a native of italy aged 46 years no cause is known for the not act mrs a resident of H hanser alcser junction idaho has sent in a claim against the state for for three thre paintings palo tings which she furnished for th the idaho dabo collection at the worlds fair arthur bow a 14 year old runaway from aspen colo was captured io in Ul glen enwood wood springs by the US marshal and started back for his hie mountain home in the lender care of the conduce tor on the next train the alfalfa crop in natrona county wyoming is said to be unusually large this year and cutting has been commenced on OB several ranches the season is at least ton ten days to in advance of last year A gold bearing belt supposed to be an ancient bed of the colorado river is reported found in yuma county sixty miles up the gila river from yuma ariz it Is sixty miles long and one to two wide dr F M eckford a prominent citizen of glendale cal was ruo run over and killed on tuesday morning at the she water street crossing of the santa fe railroad in pasadena ecklord was a retired physician and very wealthy deputy shariff wilson has baa just died in the county hospital at colorado springs springe from the effects of a terrible beating which he be received in colorado city last wednesday morning the coroner is investigating the he ease case the tiegs land and promoting company of boogie wyo haft buts filed articles of incorporation with a capital took stock of the object is ie the purchase of real estate platting game me into town sites erecting buildings etc charles charlea T smith appeared in a J jue GE licea lice a court francisio on Monday and gave up a 4 silver watch a pair ut ul cheap K haold old plated sleeve buttons and a rhinestone shirt stud to satisfy the claim of a local dry goods firm arm for merchandise ch bought by his die wife george W ford a prominent mer chant ohan and tand odd fellow of prescott A Ts T became violently insane on monday and was committed to the military hospital he imagines that his friends are trying to kill him to secure the in ou aurance rance on his lile life naps napa cal horsemen are puzzled over a cage of blindness in a horse one of a team of val valuable colts colt s which have been driven but a short time suddenly became stone blind one morning last week no cause c can a n be assigned long valley nov nev has been visited by a very severe hailstorm A woman who was carrying a basket of eggs was caught in the storm and all her egg were broken by the hailstones mu grain aud and garden vegetables w beaten down A meeting ot of some of the tax pay ex in the arvada portion of jeffer county colo has haa been held to devi degli some means to have taxes reduced committee was appointed to lay thel th arle grievances vances before the county comin sio ners 40 the laramie wyo athletic alu blute which for a long time has been one 0 the most popular organizations of th city is now understood is practical defunct it to is however thought po sible that the organization will be r under another name malachi dillon billon owner of external sulphate eul phate of soda nods properties in the j ink mediate vicinity of rawlins wyo in the city says the denver loewes news I 1 fo the purpose of negotiating an a annai anu unu sale of soda nods to the argo shelters smelters sm elters ers foj fluxing flexing purposes charles ball whose abusive la guage caused maud bentel a waltr gaitre to commit suicide at amadee cala weeks week has been arrested and lodged V the jail at Su sanville on charges disturbing the peace and using cent language L A wright the bicyclist tourin from boston to san francisco Fran cleoo on olm wager passed through colo on sanda bond at noon he was in good condit and td expected to make leadville Q night his route lies over range one of the highest in the con bouc try fy i glint clint card a well known foushi colo miner went to the bouldi boul house at boulder last friday slid and t landlady going to nis nil room at noon sunday lound found him dead he hi evidently been dead many noun hours r hy ing taken a compound of whisky aa ag laudanum the shedid owners in the east end morgan county colo bomp complain th they art are unable to secure bearen to remove the wool oil manyuen many men from the rain belt reglo reg are finding employment among farmers farmere and an ai many such will given work as aa can be ac accommodate commod the ranch house at the ranch up the san ban pedro river to tow the sonora bonora mines was robbed saturday during the absence of n employee employ ef the burglars stole etole a abts worth of wearing apparel a personal property they conceal cone their identity preventing trailing muffling their feet with stake the suicide epidemic which has hag p ailed for the past month in thin oh continues una unabated batea remarks the S francisco Fran cleoo CA chronicle ronicle the victim mania are found in all pi lions and walks in life on queed two new cases were added to til already too long list hat of sell destroy the state board of agriculture marki the denver fews has baa aut authol the construction of a new ho hafl cultural hall ball at the agrical collese college the plans plane are already dra and bids will te ie advertised for fai week the now new building has baa b rendered necessary nece seary by the ic creasing increasing attendance a fact that will be gratifying to all friends of the school at Ataop a special ecial meeting of the austin nevada school trustees the other OV evening it was decided to close the school for the remainder of the term on account of the prevalent epidemic scarlet fever which is getting a strong hold bold on a number of children in austin and surrounding country As be concluding act of a drunken jollification and resultant free fight among bohemians Bohem ians and italians at a pueblo colo boarding house bouse george smilisa was shot in the thigh at an early hour on sunday morning mo receiving a painful flesh wound mark ralls balls was arrested charged with the shooting hooting four other men are in jail charged with being mixed up in the riot A rockslide rock reek slide has occurred on the line of the florence and cripple creel creek railroad near canon city killing a laborer by the name of james hurley A large number of men came near being caught under the slide but saved themselves by prompt response to an alarm the engineer saved himself by jumping in against a perpendicular plank the slide glide passing over him bima says bays the idaho statesman coo COD is now before mr dewitt the attorney sent out from washington to take evidence in idaho indian depredation claim cases mr eatros claim to for which he alleges he lost while operating the rocky bar stage line the indians made frequent raids on mr eatros stations killing the took stock and burning the buildings A man named bagwell a gamb gambler lef was shot and instantly killed at north yakima wash on tuesday while going home by an unknown man who afterward made his bis escape and is now BOW at large the murderer who was concealed behind a picket fence awaited until his bis victim had bad passed by and then shot him in the back with a rifle the bullet pierced the heart and bagwell died instantly A new stock company has just been organized in laramie liar amle wyo to be known as the dipsomania perfect care company it to is organized for the purpose of treating and drunkards and also for curing people of the toba tobacco coo opium and morphine habits also for the manufacture use and sale of various medicines used in the treatment and cure of the tee diseases mentioned the shelton clipper western kansas kanam tells of a farmer living near wood river who raised two acres of peanuts last year harvesting a yield of forty five ave bushels per more acre he sold the crop at a bushel the expense was 80 per sore acre leaving a net profit of per acre jim in addition to this he found that the vines of the crop were worth fully as much as the best beat of hay bay for feeding the cree sun dance of three days has just been concluded at havre montana three braves were hung bung up by thongs thrust into slits lu iu their brea breasts slashed by chief little egg all fainted A young buck had slits cut in his shoulders and into these thongs were inserted to which were tied four buffalo skulls which he be drugged dragged after him eighty pieces of flesh were out cut from arms to be kept as an takeno the body of an infant was found in the platte river near riverside cemetery at denver on wednesday morn log ing it lay jay under one of the coxey boats stranded at that point around its neck was a cord such as an is used to tie back curtains curtain and the newly born babe had undoubtedly been strangled with it the arms of the helpless mite had bad been tied with a long jong tan colored shoestring the coroner was notified and the remains were removed to the morgue bov Bio karde says say the helena mont herald has returned ned from livingston ivingston Ij where he be went to inquire into the fields case application having been made to him to respite the condemned murderer the governor completed his bis investigation saturday and decided not to interfere he says the statement made by fields himself and the showing made by his attorney are entirely inadequate to warrant avy interference on his bis part hon P xi smith ex postmaster of rawlins wyo wye met with a very serious accident a few days ago when near his ranch about twenty five milles miles south mouth the horse boise he was riding stumbled over a bunch of sage brush and fell upon him breaking one rib and severely injuring him internally he was brought to town and lays irk in a very precarious condition he is nearly 60 years old says the dispatch and will have a hard struggle if he gets through over on the north side of the river says ays the bakersfield cal mr camidge has an apricot orchard that the owner feels disposed to enter for a premium it to is only three years old yet the present crop will average pounds to each tree some running as high as pounds this crop has been sold on the tree for aj U cents per pound there are trees to the acre hence the crop will bring the owner the very tidy sum of of which at least will be not net profit at a mass macs meeting of the wine grape growers were held at san ban jose gal cal on ar sour saturday kourday day all were enthusiastic over the he plan ofa of a syndicate controlling the output for five years in order to increase the prices of their product contracts to sell to the syndicate were signed by growers representing 1600 1500 acres and many carried blank contracts away with the intention of signing them later Is if to is said there Is no doubt that about all the growers of santa clara county will go into the com combine blue james G halliday an employed at the state asylum at stockton ton cal was tram stabbed three times on tuesday night by E 0 burton a former patient burton was committed to the asylum some time ago for alcoholic mania he apparently recovered and was given oud odd jobs about the institution on tuesday night he be attended an encampment at good goodwater water grove and got drunk halliday attempted to take him home and burton drew a knife ind and stabbed him three times in the body it is said that halliday Halli days a wounds are not dangerous the fort collins wyo express gives the following picture of the trials of the farmers of that section grass grams hoppers hopper sare are hatching out in some of the gardens of the city and also ako on the farms along the poudre and in the foothills football great numbers are also reported from about the vicinity of greeby with the lost leaf roller and codling moth in the orchards dp the colorado beetle on the potatoes the web worm in the alfalfa the pea weevil the bean bug the squash bug in myriads myri ads the army worm in the oats the onion maggot the cabbage worm out cut worm everywhere and we the grasshopper easily pleased and nibbling at everything public school work in fremont county colo says the canon city record is making steady progress A few statistics will emphasize this fact the school census ol of the county per SODS gone 6 to 21 years ot of age in 1883 1888 was 1380 1330 in 1898 2800 the average at in schools for the same dates is and 1329 the number of teachers employed has increased from 81 to 77 and the number of school houses from 19 to 82 with a corresponding increase in valuation in school property from in 1883 to in 1893 the number of volumes in school libraries was but 66 59 in 1883 1888 while the last report is exclusive of tree free text books california has secured another record says the san ban francisco chirops we iole this time the record breaker is a young lady who bids fair to gain celebrity as a rifle shot on saturday last at the ach ual zon park san rafael miss lizzle captured the first class medal at the he monthly meeting of the ladies california Sc huetzen club with a score of 1121 out of a possible the best beat previous ladys score was made by mrs Ut sohig the mother of the young lady miss is in described as an a pretty demi deat brunette rather petite and has seen twenty winters winter she is a native daughter and never did any shooting until about four months ago A man named olsen oleen has baa been arrested on suspicion of being the murderer of stelle stella R randolph last april re marks the bellevue idaho herald he was at that time working for mr loving in the vicinity of the place where rethe the crime was committed committe dand and it was known he be had no surplus means since blocs then he has been on the ranch of mr gannet and recently displayed considerable money which caused the impression that he might be implicated in the crime it is in reported that he be has shown a letter aletter from a brother in the eno east who sent him some money A legal examination has ban not yet taken place but it if no new evidence is in brought out it Is in probable he will be discharged after the settlement of a dispute at a ball game in bessemer colo on monday the trouble broke out again between two men not concerned in the first difficulty harry slater a steel works work band and lloyd a negro lloyd drew a knife and slashed slater twice under the left eye and across the nose inflicting serious cuts lloyd now ran toward the rio bio Grande tracks jumped a freight train and rode to the round house jack oleary aseel works sw switchman and friend of slater also caught the train in pursuit of the negro when the train stopped oleary says lloyd drew the knife on him picked up a club and rendered lloyd unconscious with a blow over the head making an ugly scalp wound the virginia city nevada juer enter prise prim wyn the consolidated california virginia weekly utter letter shows showe that the face of the west crosscut on the 1700 level is in 30 ore The there can be no gainsaying gain saying the fact that thata a large and nd rich body of ore in i that which has re recently dently ben been discovered the facts facto known show that the body has baa already been marked out and that hat the ore assays essays from 80 to per ton the opinion of mining men is that the ore extends extend both above and below the points point at which it has men been reached and it to la generally thought that the ore are above the 1660 1650 level to la of greater richness than any taken from the now new bonanza however this may be enough is in known to assure anure the fact that men will be put to work and at least a partial revival of the 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