Show WESTERN NEWS ITEMS r asil bunch of seven or eight skunks e rf them of the hydrophobia specie evere were killed near cedar ranch arione yone day last week lie unusual occurrence occur ence of a train on was seen in cle elum washing recently A spark from the en dropped among the hay of a carat sheep and was soon blown int into 0 aze and the car was scon in one hundred and twenty five burned to death A carload ad were belonging to robert alverson AT en route for dyea was efimi to the sheep car and was badly ft etched beached ea ched a arely injured saturday while try to oard board a car in san francisco and 1 car was moving tipped lipped he struck his head on wound and was dragged several wore before the car stopped he was aved d to the hospital where it was ad that he had sustained several abrasions of scalp and ear a contused confused cont used back and possibly some val injuries ff W I 1 bradford of washing county oregon has arrested gus chime line wanted for murder wax was caught saturday at a little ie called lone ione in morrow county awaa passing under the name of A brown at the time at the time of er bore a bad reau in the community having reed from the penitentiary a short before where aher e he had served one for stealing a cow charles Cb arles corcoran a man over 50 60 W of age was struck by a train at iva new mexico sunday forenoon an arm and several ribs riba were en IL he died early next morning county jail during all this time i without medical attention his effects was a deed from E curry of boston to some 1 tots also tax rece receipts apts for failand land in berkeley cal the body buried in the potters field livan evan david crossed the race while several wheelmen wheelman elmen were iulg i for a fifty mile relay with a tin team at carson nev saturday 9 and was run into by dr pie er colar bone and nose were ECU and her face cut open to the her lungs were bruised by a lure ra of the collarbone collar bone and she condition pie JA avery very precarious fl suffering from many severe W and his head is badly cut flirty and disreputable appearing bidual a who gave his name as w johnson was taken into cus I 1 y morning at Oakland CaI Cal ahad bad offered a worn confider i WS W bill to P johnson proprietor of f three ree mile ho house use upon discover ane swindle johnson detal detained ned his beake until he could send for the HB tables les johnson the prisoner took freest axtt very coolly asserting that to pass a worthless bit of 4 ws he had committed no offense y TWy oming news register B tar this season eighty three deck ck cars of sheep have been at hillard and it Is expected 6 gars cars will make up the years nta from that point As the a capacity of each car is it irwill wali be seen that the calculi iring bring the number up to 33 jt ollard being the te most een cen of exit in this county it will r improve as ab a shipping point anen e 4 fuhst S WL of ahel chef arizona reward of for i 1 the apprehension of n fm fl f mouse the piute diute murderer has been refused by governor mccord on the advice of attorney general fraser the terms of the proclamation do not allow for a payment for a dead man and it did not appear that the indian india pursuers had any intention inter tion of capturing mouse alive the claim was presented hy by sheriff freudenthal of lincoln county nev who had himself offered reward for mouse dead or alive thomas gough was cut across the foce at oakland cal sunday afternoon by his brother in law thomas powers the wound extended from the left side of the mouth to the back of the neck gough went to house while drunk and quarreled with mrs powers finally knocking her down powers jumped up from a sick bed grabbed a butcher knife and slashed gough he then went back to bed but later dressed and with his wife went away gough was treated at the hospital where thirty stitches were taken in the wound early tuesday morning an infant girl was found in a basket near one of the gates of the rose dale trotting farm near santa rosa cal the child was only a few hours old and was folind fou nd by one of the employed emp loyes of the farm who was on his way to the field to work the little one was almost dead from exposure when discovered it is now being cared for in the home of joseph gauldin superintendent of the farm no clew cira has yet been found that indicates the parentage of the child david davidson who murdered his wife emily davidson at randsburg brandsburg Rands burg cal may 19 1897 was brought up from bakersfield saturday for his preliminary hearing eight witnesses were examined and defendants attorney moved that he be discharged on account of the insufficiency of the complaint inasmuch as it did not state that emily Dav davidson ldson was a human being there had been some apprehension of mob violence but the trial passed off quietly and the prisoner was taken back to bakersfield on the evening train the steamer umatilla left wednesday for puget sound bound ports she had on board passengers ten of whom were bound for alaska captain A F rogers and james evans of the treasury department of washington went north on the steamer and will proceed with all possible haste to dyea and Sk aguay they are armed with full power by the secretary of the treasury to do all that is possible to relieve the blockade existing at those points and to prevent famine which it Is feared will break out this winter harry maguire Taylor about 30 years of age employed in the union iron works at san francisco made tw two 0 attempts to kill himself thursday night he boarded the 10 train at lorin bound for the mole and while it was running at full speed jumped to the ground he was uninjured and then made an attempt to dash his brains out by butting his head against a stone wall health officer H N rowell was called he administered an hypodermic injection of morphine and gave the young man into the custody of the police no cause for taylors action ts Is known beyond the fact that he had been drinking heavily of late friday body of herbert dickinson on aged 17 years was brought fron from nh camp mariposa Marl posa county cal where he accidentally shot himself thursday young dickinson whose father is a prominent rancher and an old resident of Pl ainsburg was on his way to yosemite valley with several other plainsburg ainsburg Pl people including his parents he tried to shoot some 38 caliber in a 45 46 caliber revolver but could not make them explode and finally pointed the pistol at his forehead just for funard playfully saying good bye to his companions pulled the trigger he died almost v instantly this is the most prosperous season known in pomona valley ca cal I 1 since 1890 the pomona fruit cannery is running night and day to fill orders for canned fruit at highly remunerative prices while all the fruit drying establishments never employed so many workers before boardinghouses boarding houses are full of men women and children who have come to pomona to work in handling the pomona valley fruit crops and streets and stores here have not been so active with business for many years there has been a dearth of workers and fruit driers and canners have been at their wits end to find sufficient help the state board of equalization falling failing in an attempt to raise the assessment of san francisco thursday voted to reduce the rolls of no less than thirty six counties the reductions are in no case less than ten per cent and in most cases fifteen per cent the total amount thus stricken from the general property roll of the state is and the result will beto be to raise the rate of tax levy to fifty cents and a fraction the burden of this increase in the rate of tax levy will fall on san francisco whose assessment ses is nearly one third as great as the entire property roll of the state denver field and farm J M jenson sons of brigham city Uta hare doing an immense business in the sheep line this summer they lately made several large shipments to the chicago markets and are making arrangements range ments for other big shipments they shipped 1200 head from opal wyoming from park city and vicinity from logan and this week they sent from soda springs idaho to the chicago markets the firm will handle sheep this year which at the low average of 2 a head will amount to J M jenson jr jf says they have been paying from to a head for sheep to for lambs the sugar laden bark ceylon awen ty eight days from honolulu had a narrow escape from being wrecked wednesday morning captain calhoun was bringing his vessel in on the flood tide between eight and nine when she was carried on to arch rock san francisco there was waa little wind at the time and though she got clear of the rock she was carried by the tide with heavy force on to the rock a second time the government quarantine tug george mv M sternberg which was close at hand pulled the ceylon from her dangerous position and she proceeded up the bay she will be put on the dry dock as soon as she unloads her cargo consisting of bags of sugar dick bell a round valley valle cat cal indian has been found guilty of manslaughter and will be sentenced in san francisco on monday bells crime was commit commuted ed on february th of this year in y reeds home bouse near covello on the round valley agency he and tom steele ancher indian had a quarrel over some grain ber bel accused steele of stealing the quarrel amounted to violence and according to bells testimony he retreated as far as he could but when he could retreat no further knowing that V steele wait waa f a dangerous character and had served a term in an quentin he drew hla his revolver and fired inflicting a wound in steeles Steele 3 hip from which he afterward died left without means by her husband and forced to see her baby in actual want for clothes mrs delia pollock of los angeles cal swallowed a big dose of carbolic acid and then laid herself down by the side of her sleeping little one to die on friday she was discovered by mrs wallace keeper of the lodging house and taken to the hospital where she is believed to be out of danger nearly three years ago mrs pollock married frank J pollock they had lived together previous to the ceremony the woman was very young oung and pretty but pollock deserted her almost immediately after they were made man and wife when her baby vas born pollock made no offer to aid his wife and allowed her to shift as best she could the drovers journal sizes up the chicago situation in the following editorial western range cattle are pouring to market in large quantities but not half as many have come to market as were here this time last year the season is well advanced and if the snows should begin to fly earlier than usual as might easily be the case the cattle would have to come at a very heavy rate during the remainder of the season to come anywhere near last years run the cattle are not in good beef condition A majority of them are not tat fat enough for or killers and carry more flesh than feeders care to pay for if it were e not for the fact that a great many ranch r men are afraid of their winter ranges the marketing of range cattle would be comparatively light as there is a great deal of confidence in the future the report of the san joaquin county counte grand jury filed wednesday disclosed some very starling facts which will require lengthy explanations from five public administrators who have faller to account for a large number of estates which have passed through their hands in the past fifteen years some of them run up into the thousands and there is no indication on the books of the coun county ty that they have been or distributed the records in many instances are vague I 1 and nothing can be learned from them but others show that the superior court ordered the estates distributed and no returns were made to the clerk of the court the matter has drifted on till the present grand jury mad an it does not accuse any of the former public tore corar but it uro ps that they be called upon to render an accounting of their stewardship according to two of the most prominent fruit growers at chula vista cal bloodshed will the attempt of the san diego land and town company to prevent the water consumers from getting their usual supply of water as threatened in the companas comp anys circular sent to each of its patrons recently recent lv it is not a question of ability to pay on the part of the consumers for th tb residents of chula vista who paid AS S high as an acre for their land al erected costly residences are prOba litty all able to meet the demands of the company but they feel that the company c gm is violating its contract to supply them with water at the rate originally established an acre general manager boal of the company saya that a the company wll go ahead regardless gard less of any kodo action the fruit growers might take in the matter while escaping from five blasts of giant powder on friday martin borland a miner in the employ of J N onais near tuttletown Tuttle town cal fell ell back jingo into a shaft by the breaking of a rope ladder he was using and was horribly mutilated this afternoon the mine to is one of the number of rich pocket mines in that vicinity berlands Bor lands scalp was torn off and his body cut and bruised ir a dozen places largo pieces of flesh were literally torn off of his body and one leg was broken borland was working in a shaft about thirty feet deep and started up a rope ladder to leave the hole when he set off the blasts he arranged five blasts of two sticks of giant powder in each of the five holes set them off and started to make his escape when I 1 aart art way up the rope broke and he fell back near the powder he cried out to a man who was working the windlass to lower the bucket but before it could reach him one of the charges went off and injured him so he could not get out of the way of the other four which followed in quick succession the injured man was removed to his room and a physician summoned who gave some hopes of his recovery but he will be a cripple for life borland is a single man and only went to tuttletown Tuttle town lately the doctors and nurses of san francisco axe are interested in a remarkable case of skin grafting on july a little boy named charles cobb son of john cobb a teamster was severely injured by falling from a lumber wagon he was caught between the wheel and the iron ratchet used for unloading lumber and the great and second toes of his right foot were torn off at the first joint the entire heel was torn off leaving the bones exposed dr D B was called to attend the boy and amputated the toes and sewed up the lacerated heel rahe I 1 he boy was removed to the childrens hospital gangrene set in while there and on the advice of dr he was A as taken to the maclean hospital he improved there rapidly but last sunday it became apparent that in order to save the foot skin grafting would be necessary A littile sister of the boy a tot of five years named rosie bravely volunteered to allow the doctor to taken the skin from her rig right ht leg to transplant to her brothers injured foot dr looks upon the little girl as a heroine as she nevar winced while the twenty grafts opre cut from her body in fact when asked if it hurt her she told the doctor that he could have more it if it would help her ber brother charlie the boy is improving the little girl is the envy of all her companions and the nurses at the maclean hospital say that they have never seen a braver child in the institution |