| Show WESTERN NEWS ITEMS nothing new under the sun there has cut his hair and is learning to ride a bicycle some of those east indian tribes dont act as though they were a bit afraid to seize the british lions tail wheat and potatoes both staples of agriculture and twin dwellers on the poor mans table are both going to be high this winter bismarck thinks the franco russian alliance is not worth much to france the old prince is a remarkably good guesser bob meeks was convicted at par paris is idaho on monday night aug 30 for participating in the bank robbery at montpelier last august two men have been captured anyel in yellowstone low stone park supposed to be the pe persons r who held up the park stages two weeks ago lee davis a young bicyclist of butte montana took a header on sunday while scorching and received a fracture of the base of the brain from which the doctors fear he cannot recover W T schaal a wealthy resident of oswego or committed suicide monday by shooting himself through the head he recently injured one of his eyes and feared total blindness he was 68 65 years old the agent of the diamond depot upon the placerville erville and sacramento oal cal road was robbed of 60 50 tuesday night about 9 by two masked men this to is the second robbery of the agent at that station within the past year by the giving way of a ladder at kendrick lck on friday two men named lukins and hamlin were thrown to the railroad tracks one leg had to be amputated for mr lukins Li and mr Ham hamkins hamlins lins injuries were internal and serious herr most the would be martyr anarchist ah is about to move from new york to buffalo declaring that the former is not a grateful place A town that appreciate the hirsute johan and his ever open mouth must be indeed ungrateful the increase in the price of grain does not exactly fit the editor of the guin alabama gazette who remarks that the dollar wheat may be all right for the northern wheat growers but our mouths will water for a biscuit before this thing is over the new york sun remarks we think it safe to say that unless something now wholly fin unforeseen foreseen should be developed there will be a turn of the tide during the present year and here men have been fancying there was a turn in the tide about every twelve hours it Is quite amusing to observe an english correspondent compare the spontaneous popularity awakened by the duke and duchess of york among the irish to the servile adulation of the english but the correspondent thereby gives a pretty accurate description of what a actually is section 22 of the tariff law has become quite a vexatious question the T he president and cabinet may have to set it aside in order to keep the southern pacific from getting a monopoly of western coast trade while the giant corporations of the east will be shut out christian a german who peddles vegetables around stockton cal sought ought the end of the police tuesday to find his wife whom he had left in stockton while he went to peddle in the country the officers ascertained that mrs and two children left for mexico last monday anthony wilkinson aged 12 son of john wilkinson a wealthy of pine bluffs wyo was killed thursday morning by being thrown from a by a runaway team the boys head struck the iron frame 0 of f the rake fracturing his skull and killing him instantly gov richards of wyoming has appointed the following delegates to the national irrigation congress to be held this month at lincoln neb D H elliott of cody E gillette of sheridan james A brockway of douglas H altman and J M carey of cheyenne marshall lee of eugene or says that the curfew law will be hereafter strictly enforced all girls under 16 and boys under 18 will be kept off the streets after 9 and some older ones will be arrested tor for disorderly conduct if they do not behave themselves A special to the topeka capital from toronto kan says A boiler used on the place of A H cox a prominent farmer seven miles north of here exploded friday afternoon sept 3 killing two children of mr cox and H V carlisle an engineer of this city and fatally injuring mrcos the cause of the explosion is unknown while playing with matches in an old outbuilding used as a storehouse at fort wingate new mexico on tuesday little alice winstone and harry arnold aged 3 and 4 years set fire to a can of oil causing an explosion alice was burned to a charred and unrecognizable mass harry was badly burned about the head and will probably die there was a fight in the chain gang at los angeles cal on wednesday which may result fatally frank kohler and mike wilson members of the gang were at work shoveling dirt into a wagon they became involved in aa a quarrel and wilson struck kohler over the head with a shovel fracturing his skull the injured mans condition is extremely critical W B wilcox deputy state game warden of colorado has been murdered while in the discharge of his duty his body was found in the vicinity of steamboat springs with a bullet in his head he had started out for the purpose of arresting a party of eleven men who had been encamped in williams basin all summer and had been illegally slaughtering game for the hides the denver fire and police board demanded the resignation of chief of police obrien on friday on the ground that he does not posses ss the judgment or discretion requisite to successfully manage the police department it is understood that the action was taken on account of what la is said to have been illegal and improper orders issued by the chief regarding certain female prisoners clara fallmer the california child homicide and would be suicide is experiencing perien perlen cing renewed trouble from the bullet in her lungs the wound Is bleeding internally and the girl has contracted pleurisy she slows shows an utter indifference to her condition and does not seem to care to live it is probable that thai an operation will be performed in the course of a few days it if the wound does not heal dell gomez a white woman who was arrested on a charge of murdering E C jones a colored barber on the dinst was discharged in the pomo v court at sacramento on wednesday a abc SS the conclusion of her preliminary the woman claimed jones was shot while they ctet ib struggling I 1 ng f for or the possession et ofa IL pistol with which she said he habil threatened to shoot her edward Brenn ingham a barber waff I 1 drowned in the sacramento river CL calt a short distance below the moti mouth othe american yesterday brenning ham who was about 24 years of ae 21 aj together tp gether with a number of compan lona a went up the river to the treacherous spot where several parsons have been ft drowned within the past three arl months 0 and went in bathing he was uns unable to swim and getting beyond his depth i was drowned A special to the rocky Moun mountain news from sterling col says JE flying machine was seen at this place li a few mornings ago by G A Nen 3 benstein nen stein noticed a large black object W C in the southeastern part of the heat 41 ens traveling rapidly toward north northeast past he watched it pass cl across the heavens moving quite idly in a straight line he watch wat cheair until it passed out of sight and to is qua bip vinced that it was a bona fide machine detective goodman of los A cal arrested on wednesday e in a lodging house an 18 year o I 1 who confesses to five robberies emitted during the past week plunder was found in his posse poss he says he is a brother of IF L rig a wealthy resident of P paa A burglar who gave the name ol of ry horner was also landed in jail ja confessed to numerous burglaries have been committed in the so western part of los angeles of late lat CN babbitt at one time vice dent of the bank of california a st himself in the abdomen th thu night at oakland cal with a sll intent and died friday from the of his self inflicted wounds ba who was 60 years of age and had ad physically and mentally unsound two years past took advantage temporary absence of his n nun plunged a large carving knife alito ix abdomen he leaves a widow and ai daughters joe sullivan alias kid sulev su ja a notorious san francisco chai cha was sentenced to tour four years 1 in quentin by judge burnett monday ae hernoon for attempting to pick a mans pocket at sim san jose cal flu the juvenile carnival a few weeks week sullivan at one time was pro ei san francisco politics A v very e ter mined effort was made to clear but the jury after only ten mi deliberation returned a verdict P guilty A resident of livermore naz oliver is in a peck of trouble beca of the joking propensities of some his friends during the absence mrs oliver at the seaside the joh entered the oliver home and d ed evidences of feminine occupancy a the chamber sacred to guests st mr oliver returned home there w scene and only through the inter inte tion alon of his mother in law oliver able at length to clear himself of suspicion of wrong doing mrs AIa ight of san ban francisco taken to tho the receiving hos hospital I 1 T day suffering from a dislo dislocated ted she received her injuries she ab in the course of an argument with husband they had quarreled said and losing her temper i she attacked her better half with a pr scissors he knocked the act sclest of her hand and rendered her by a blow which diet disturber distUrb ea mechanical arrangement of ll 11 she recovered consciousness her id had disappeared miner aug 30 there was a i aw delav delivery ery on the womans comans side of elty city jail yesterday morning when frotten came down stairs to iff we me how jailer boyle was getting il several women complained that wey were ill and had suffered from ad during the previous night the 1 wel chief Is a big good hearted fellow f v A ama as an none of the prisoners were barged with anything more serious than misdemeanors demeanors and most had out t the greater portion of their sentence aen am tence he concluded to turn them 1 loose and gave orders accordingly i ZAs IMS angeles cal times it is ref that the man eating alik arte rte unknown unan own along this part of the coast has invaded the waters of california A small shark ald sad to be of that species was caught last week at catalina and yesterday was hauled ashore at f arteen fourteen footer 01 cove it is not alleged 6 tut the big shark had any human re 1 and there be some ip ina inside may about his having an appetite for there are bathers at the ip es whom no shark would tackle toA ess he were blind law hattie doble who resides near r 6 do cal with her parents very surly e j y lost her life from an open gas sit tuesday night while visiting her iffat the girl was instructed on re how to turn out the gas the discovered escaping gas day morning about 5 traced it to miss dobles doble s room was found in bed in a state of in in the girl denies that she apted P ted suicide she says that she engbers en bers abers having had a dream about instructions given her and it is ru Sinni sed I 1 she arose during its course I 1 turned I 1 oil on the gas ay r the first time at this season of year in the memory of the 1 oldest citizen of port townsend agton a violent thunderstorm prevailed ailed beginning at 3 aday afternoon for more than VOW hour the rain fell in torrents the t for three months by mariners marinero ma asin rain is welcomed as it will serve to ael the fog and smoke which has hovering over the sound and during the storm the rest resl AW M 0 of o superintendent aubert of the public schools was struck by ang 9 and almost demolished 1 little I 1 atle son of john M mcarthur sacramento Bac cal met with a ser accident tuesday the child chil d to in only 2 years old was playing it a neighbors horse which was by the sidewalk and in reaching to fo pet the animal on the nose he ca forward under its feet and was tt pled on when picked up a mo arf later the childs left arm was to be broken in two places and deft side of its head and face was al ishoy bruised the tending att g ghyst i fc W was as unable to state the extent of s injuries but held out hopes of childs recovery e home of alfred bader at oak cal has been suddenly plunged t the deepest sorrow A girl baby ur days old was smothered to at an early hour wednesday ig as it lay by its mothers side JTB bader is prostrated with over the strange calamity the asme one had not even been given a awe as yet and the most careful watch was kept over it wednesday pa it awoke from a deep sleep took tk nourishment after which it d down by its mothers side and 6 sleep once more the bed g became bunched about its li it Is ie believed and literally eed the child when mrs noticed its condition she was horrified to find her child dead at her side an explosion on the property of the portland mine cripple creek friday night sept 3 destroyed a section of the florence cripple creek track and injured several people michael lafferty was seriously wounded and is likely to die there has been a dispute as to the right of way of the florence cripple creek and the midland terminal and the electric circle through the dump of the portland rumors have been circulated as to the trouble seven shots were fired at the time of the explosion but it is said they were fired in the air latterly lafferty was injured by flying rock it is impossible to ascertain who fired the powder which destroyed the tracks news has been received of the tragic death on monday last of charles fignani aged 21 years at prattville cal young dinant and his mother were in the kitchen together when the mother had occasion to step outside she had gone but a few steps from the house when she heard the report of a pistol she rushed back to find the young man lying on the floor with the blood oozing from a bullet hole in his fareh forehead md A smoking revolver was lying by his E ide eide he had died instantly it is supposed to be a case of suicide but the only cause for such an act was the young mans continual eilef over the loss of a younger si sister s ter who died suddenly two years a ago go deceased was one of the most widely known and most popular young men in plumas county some time ago the city council of denver passed an ordinance granting a franchise to a coal gas company which agreed to furnish gas to cu customers at a greatly reduced rate from froin that charged by the denver consolidated gas company now operating in the city and furthermore to pay the city a royalty on all its business on friday mayor mcmurray returned the ordinance to the council with his veto on the ground that the city was not sufficiently protected by its provisions accompanying his message was a proposition from the denver consolidated gas company to lease its plant to the city at a yearly rental of 6 per cent cc nt on a valuation to be fixed by a commission of experts the mayor is a strong advocate of municipal ownership of gas water and similar plants wool record between and will be added to the value of the yearly wool clip of new mexico alone by the new tariff this is the estimate of president luna of the association of wool men in the territory new medicos cos sheep industry is valued at the protective duties on wool will make the sheep of the territory double in value the wool growers of new mexico already see the benefits of the legislation every wool grower in the territory says mr luna knows that his flock has almost doubled in value we have the finest climate in the world for sheep raising our lamb crop this year will add 85 per cent to the number of sheep in the territory the people of new mexico have begun to realize handsomely on the promise of prosperity about 1 wednesday night two shots were fired in the upper portion of the globe restaurant tacoma wash john a farmer from sumner and max doebell were discovered lying on the floor in the hall doebell doebeli was on his back with a pistol between his legs and was on his face both were shot in the right breast when the officers arrived was turned 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