Show WESTERN NEWS ITEMS several children have been poisoned in idaho lately bleating by eating wild sego A 13 mosher 66 years old dropped deadam dead at naps cal monday from beart disease it to is stated that squirrels have been killed billed by poison in washington since march let loot last the badly decomposed body of alexander 0 bailey a pauper was found near the ormsby county nov poor house bouse on june 3rd ard at san ban jacinto Jao ioto cal the other day occurred the death of dolores abaraca of soboba hoboba tribe of indians she was told aid to be years yeara old peter of livermore cal died monday from the effects ot of being thrown out of a runaway the previous day ue he leaves a large family frauk sullivan who lost his left leg by a southern pacific train running into his maizon at a crossing in san francisco has begun began suit for A los angeles man the court to pay his bis divorced wife 76 75 alimony settled bottled the account by giving her bet that sum eum of money all in fi nio kelf the oakland cal board of education Is considering a proposition to close the she high school in that city because became the public school expenses are largely in excess of the receipts in alameda cat cal in the citra struggle for electric lighting the poles of i the electric light company have be been en confiscated and on monday the street fittest F took them up frederick mille mill a fruit peddler 70 years old was assaulted by hoodlums in san francisco francieco his hia wagon turned over his bis wares scattered and himself badly beaten with a club and his arm broken frank bangs 11 years old was hanged to a tree on friday at seattle wash by three of his schoolmates because he had bad given one of the trio a severe thrashing he was cut down just in time preston idaho new era mrs lucy margetts marget and her daughter annice have gone to salt lake to meet phil husband of mrs margetto margette who is in in wat that place on his way home from his bis indian territory mission charles hobbs informs the preston idaho now new bra that tie had bad a conver motion with 13 W eccles of the 17 P railway while in salt bait lake and it was stated that the company have no now w decided to build stock yards at Pr preston eaton the arizona gazette announces announce that arrangements have been made by the two railroad companies running out ot of pheonix whereby each route alil wul run ran an excursion train out to california during the summer on alternate weeks judge ogdon ogden tendered rendered a decision in the ome oaie of william paxson against the southern pacific railway ganway in which he fouled the right of a stopover stop over logo lege on a five cont cent ticket for a contina oud ride on an the broad guage line jine to alameda wesley weeley T lewis a church sexton lexton at san francisco is in jail all in default ot of ball for criminal awault assault on on a 14 year old girl he probably does not want to be at liberty just yet since the girls brother to is watching an opportunity opportune to kill him at san ban diego cal jaaj says the los loe angeles Aoge lea times time food mothers have been exercised of late over the action of one of them who gave her naughty infant a sound bound spanking apan king right in the 0 treet street oar car in full view of tbt he astonished passenger engere sarah russell a young woman 18 years of age was waa removed to the receiving hospital tuesday night might from the orpheum theater los angeline angele where she ehe was suddenly taken ill III she died at the hospital next morning jabe cause was cerebral hemorrhage edward klimmer a pointer painter in the employ of H E helner heiner fell thirty feet from a building monday at aft redwood cal and was seriously injured internally rupturing a blued vessel in his hia lungs klimmer Is ii a resident aident re of Wat watsonville sonville and has haa a wife and A warrant was issued saturday at eureka cal for the arrest of otto olsen alias alla carlson carlsen for giving liquor to a minor olson is in a yung young mill mili hand band ahoon memorial day gave I 1 quor to the eighty earold daughter daugh tet of mrs mary ayers a widow from the effects of which the child died friday night john cavanaugh Cavanau gb a southern pacific section foreman was wae killed friday afternoon by being struck by the en gioe gine of the southbound south bound train at los ijo Ange angeles lesCal he leaves a wido widow wand and six children the coroners coroner a jury gave a verdict of accidental death and ex operated one rated the railroad between 1200 and 1600 1500 cords of wood six cars and two furniture can were burned at hesperia Hea peria cal monday afternoon the wood to is estimated to have been worth to the oars care were worth each making the loss jose to the santa fe company about tramps are supposed to have started the fire mark browna wi lo in a case in justice Car carrells Carrol rolls Pa court in san fran caloca monday afternoon became in caused at the court and made an assault an the he letter latter brown grabbed the justice and was about to throw him out of the court room but was prevented by the arrival or of a bailiff who lodeen brown iu in prison thomas silk bilk postmaster at forest ville cal was at a picnic in the woods on saturday when he be handed a small email caliber title to a young lady remarking that it was not loaded the lady was handling the weapon when it was discharged the bullet baljet striking silk bilk behind the left ear the doctors have hopes of saving his bis life dr charles G kuhlman who refused to tell the name of an affliction of which one of his bis patients died has baa been sent to jail for contempt the courts have decided that it is not a physicians s privilege to refuse to state a disease of a patient when the information inquired after is in essential to a judicial ascertainment of the cause of death A mining company to Is operating at the pot holes on the colorado river about fifteen miles above yuma arizona on a novel plan dredging machinery has been anchored on two large fiat fiet boats boate and a system of sluices I 1 Is placed on others the debris from its t the bottom of the river is scooped up and run through the sluices which are placed a lutle below the surface of the stream ex united states senator ozora pierson stearns steams of minnesota died at pacific beach near san ban diego cal monday of pneumonia fix ex senator stearns steams came west last october for his hie health healt bhe be and bis big family having spent the past tour winters in california deceased had a highly honorable war record and has held the position of circuit judge at duluth for foi many years the remains will ie be taken to los angeles for cremation A certificate of incorporation of the alpine land and reservoir company was filed friday afternoon the principal place of business will be carson city and the incorporators are governor reinhold sadler 0 A Livings buric george W keith william M thornburg Tb and ana george 1 I lamy this company will develop land now waste for want of water anu ana construct storage reservoirs to irrigate arid lands in nevada james cushman Cu abman 60 years old until recently employed in the railroad shops at mojave cal committed suicide friday by taking an overdose of morphine cushman lost his wife about a year ago and never recovered from tho the bereavement he took the utmost care of her grave and f frequently aly passed the entire night bight weeping over the lonely mound on the desert he took to drink to grown his bis sorrow and fi nally finally ended it Is by killing himself with mor morphine paine the fresno cal supervisors have obtained legal advice on the subject of compelling sheriff scott to work the be prisoners on two meals a day the tao legal opinion given them was that they had bad nu no right to order the sheriff to starve the prisoners and that the aber effs Is duty to is to see that the prisoners in his charge receive humane treatment the strike of the chain gang has not yet evaded they refuse to work on two meals a day and the sheriff refuses to punish them for not working the supervisors had bad ordered the sheriff to starve them into submission I 1 the coroners jury wednesday brought in a verdict that E A harley ahanley who was found dead in his room tuesday night came to his death from excessive use of alcohol he was formerly well known as a scientist and when quite young accompanied the government scientific expeditions to central and south america he was an extensive traveler in europe and other countries he was 41 years old of late years he be has lived JD in fresno cal being employed as an expert accountants accountant civil engineer and assayer assay er august aukust breig a german attacked a bear in the mountains along Ijar Lara amle urle river wyoming on saturday bregg was armed with a pick and was giving bruin the worst of it when the pick point was plunged deep into the animals hip and breig was unable to got get it out then the bear started atter alter breig who broke into asun a fun once started it was hard bard for the german to top stop but when he did so be found that the bear had bad not followed him for far but had turned in the opposite direction and breig saw aw the animal disappear over the hill bill with the pick still fastened in his hie flesh word comes frem rem calico cal that that mining camp bas baa been cleared of gamblers recently 11 ports bad been coming into the town tow from all directions and the result was seen tw two 0 weeks ago when So ollard shot and killed roland in a gambling house bouse the indignant citizens decided that things should go no further and ana ordered the gamblers to move on there had not been a murder in calico before for years and the decent element of the town accordingly served notice on the sports not to upon the order of their g but go 0 o goat go at once they went and the most moet of them are now at as daggett a station on the atlantic and pacific on friday J E woodward was sent to 0 o san Q bentin for one year for per j u ury ry he be having sworn to a warrant for the arrest of a man for robbing him when as a matter of fact he was in the fresno jail fall at the time he be claimed yae he was robbed at red bed bluff he has served many months in jail all for malicious lying he once telegraphed mrs downing at oakland that her husband who was in fresno had bad lust just died and the whole family came to fresno to find it false again he started a report that the wife of professor sanders banders had bad committed suicide and again he personated persona ted a soldier fifty years older than himself and tried to get bis big pension he is twenty one years old saturday morning a gang of striking fishermen concealed on the 06 oregon bank of the columbia river near the little settlement of clifton Ore dregoi bregor goi attacked two boats each containing two men returning from a drift for salmon the weapons used were winchester rifles rifle and over forty shots were fired at the nonunion non union meo men one of the boats was riddled through and sank almost immediately the two fisher fiaher men who occupied it at once struck out for the be other boat and scrambled safely aboard notwithstanding the con stant slant shower of bullets that hit the water on all sides of them the remaining Ina ining boat managed to got get safely to the other shore hofe sinking just as its oc pants reached the bank another victim has been claimed at dealba Deat ba curve Y as the railway crossing cross dg at the toot foot of goes street oakland cal Is known lurry larry moore aged 9 years to is the victim larry in company coln PADY with a younger brothers brother toed stood watching the overland train just before noon monday as it approached him from th the 9 direction of the sixteenth street station they were oo on the berkeley track and the overland train made so much noise that they did not hear the berkeley train corning coming behind teem guem As the local rounded the curve the younger brother caught sight eight of it and sprang from the track but not before larry had bad been caught and hurled some distance from the pilot the boy was dead when picked up prank frank wheeler a convict in san quentin prison cal escaped from that institution at 3 monday after noon As an wheeler Wb eeler who was employed in the jute mill mil was leaving the mill to go to hie big eel cell an an ot of his big started a fight among the convicts and wheeler taking advantage ot of the officers officer attention being centered on the fight immediately took flight the prisoners were im medi mediately atey looked up and a thorough sea search rob made for or the missing convict but no trace of him was waa found the guards guarda continued their search until 0 9 next morning and then searched the surrounding country they are now positive that the man is within the walls walle wheeler was sent to san quentin for burglary in march 1888 and two weeks later made his bis escape and was not recaptured until 1895 when he was found in ia chicago upon motion of united states attorney foote the famous sul euit of the interstate commerce commission against the atchison topeka and santa fe railroad company and others which attracted considerable attention in its day but has been buried in the court files for years was dismissed monday at san francisco recently the united states supreme court de aided a similar case so that there was waa no further need of perfecting the appeal which had bad been prepared in this case calle clerk monckton ton of the united states circuit court of appeals hat has the record of the case caie up to date it to is contained in ten large volumes numbering in all about pages whole tariff sobe schedules dules and time tables ar aro w given had the appeal been perfected perie oteO the printing of the me record would have cost something like 2000 that is about the amount of money in dispute in the suit john P harmene al k arl the tramp who found the which train robbers brady and browning stole of wells fargo coa express about two years ago was sentenced at sacramento on monday to three years imprisonment in folsom penitentiary he seemed to be surprised at the sentence but said eaid nothing his attorney frank 13 sprague made a plea of leniency before the court passed sentence he paid a id that harmens was not a criminal and showed none of the characteristics of a criminal he was wag a poor man struggling for min aa existence and aid had come upon a large jarge treasure buried in the ground near the sacramento river he haldone had done what ninety nine men out of one hundred would have done under the cir air and appropriated the money to his own use judged judge RInk boya replied by saying that he could readily understand the prisoners temptation under the and that there was nothing in the evidence to show that he was a criminal at the same time the judge said layou you had ample opportunity to reflect ald to seek out the rightful owner of the property when the property was traced to you you made all the reparation la in your powers power but you bad spent a portion of the money and could only return a part hermans hermani was camping in the brush in yolo county on the night of october 11 1894 when the overland train was robbed and it is in believed that from his ru rude e ot of boards and willows willow he watched the train traia robbers bury their plunder at al all events be found it next day and transplanted all but which be carried in his bis blankets across the river into sacramento prom from there he went to san francisco where he be livel a riotous life he returned once and replenished himself from the store etore ol of bidden treasure and was spending money lavishly when pounced upon by the detectives detective to whom be made a olean clean breast of the whole affair t A one of the most pitiful cases that has come under the notice of the police 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