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WESTERN NEWS MEWS ITEMS tb the a idaho senatorial deadlock was wae unbroken and the situation gau up to feb 14 tue the people of denver are clamoring clamors ig for a reduction iOD in water rates and ana tle city officials seem disposed to to the demand the arid land bill taking advant advantage alre of we the carey fearey land graus grant ol of 1000 Lou amrei has baa passed the wyoming logis login tat u re too regular session of the wyoming lature ends on saturday night february 16 there to some ome agitation fr the immediate calling of au an extra wion to dispose ot of public business busine ae secretary or of war lamont has baa in formed governor hughes of arizona Arix ona abat Gero Garo ulmo and his bis band 0 apaches now DOW bt fort bill will not 1 be returned to arizona as aa was wag feared bom branches of tile the legislature now DOW la have passed memorials memoria la to Cou congreso greso protest lug against the return of 01 tile indiana joe h of Glo beville boville colorado told a sad aad L tory at police head bead quat qua riera Lers tuesday after his big arrest upolu a g charge ot grand larceil y he WR war accuse I 1 of a 66 65 from john bt bica ac knowl edged having taken the guo gud but claimed that thai be 0 the act because his bis wile wife and ana six ix small email childr eju were in a starving condition frank smith was shot dead at midnight sunday night three miles milea east of arizona the murderers murderer are unknown A man named draper was arrested arrea ted on suspicion draper paid smith sunday two men entered the be residence at the rear door and awoke smiths wife smith grappled grapp leo with the intruders and forced them out of the front door when he was shot robbery was waa the motive but nothing was waa taken samuel J thoma the young negro negra who was waa accused of trying to murder the rev bev wolf and his hie wile wife in ID alameda calsi cala has been sentenced ced to serve forty years yeara in we the penitentiary ar Y thomas was waa not tried for the brutal on the wolfs wolfa but he was indirectly punished for it while the police could not secure evidence him still they were positive that be b was the man who committed the aue cruel deed dead the officers had him convicted ol of an alameda burglary anu ue lie got twenty five ears for it then he be was taken out of jail all anu tried on another charge of burglary and was convicted again judge ellit bilk worth in passing sentence ald be night give the young man ufa life on the second charge but he thought fifteen years would be about right the judge said amid that would give the prisoner time to think over matters thomas hau bau not a world to say bay to 10 any one as he was ironed and taken out of the courtroom court room the funeral of lyle was waa held bold tuesday irom from his bis hume chime in berkeley gala cale no he was waa a convict ten years yeara ago to life imprisonment iu iti dau dan quentin for the murder of a man mad named Sulli dulli morgan valley F Y r a loog long time past the me convict haa bus been aeeti slowly dying of consumption his relatives knew that death was a question of a short abort time they began to work for a pardon for him so ao he be could be taken home to die governor Jo vernor badu was waa plead pleaded etl with and importuned importuner ou all sides aidee lie he hesitated but finally signed the document making lyle jlyle it a iree free man it was waa governor budds budd Is first pardon and he said the only rea cion which prompted him to grant it was waa that lyle might die outside the prison walls walla lyle jlyle was so ao near death ebat tile the prison officials secured a gov launch to take him to berke ley the bay from the prison ht lived only twenty four hours boura utter after clr bl arrid ar riv he was 67 57 years yeara old water walter E ellsworth of portland ore whose wife died sudden suddenly ly sunday morning under suspicious aganoor uta ata noer noor has haa been arrested charged charge III with having poisoned his bla wife with strychnine in the intervals between cou con just fust before her death mrs ellsworth complained of the bitter taste of a powder her husband bau given her and ellsworth stated P physician hys ician that he had given her some om corn starch to soot he be her the reported tho circumstances to the cur cor and chief of police and it wt wa a decided to bold an autopsy au examination of the contents of the stomach sti en wed the presence of strychnine before the caroner Cur onera s jury ellsworth ortt protested his innocence ot of murder or any aby know knowledge ledie of the cause of hie hh wife cifes death the statements he be had made about the maier ivere were proved to be falate by the physicians physician who attended his bis wife and the jury found that death bad been caused by a strychnine nine poisoning |
