Show NEWS NOTES saloon of harris kirtland at wyo was burglarized sunday day ni night iVand and a revolver and some biti to taken thi the young foung daughter of policeman of Oakl oakland imd Ca calwas laA bad ly batten by a mad dog saturday night the anjima anji ml was st at once shot the condit condition ign of thi the child to Is being carefully watched wat ebed walter preston a 17 year old boy in santa clara cal w was as robay fatally injured saturday everit evening hg while hunting on the alviso inar marshes dhea tie ile was about to step into a boat when his gun dropped and was discharged the load of buckshot ter rib ft wangling his shoulders sugeat Sr geat t shea and posse of san Fra consisting of officers galloway Mot morion toli tracy burke hanley AT silver made shortly after midnight saturday tUy one of the most sue suc adoo ful raids ever attempted in china toafa emr resulting in the capture of paraphernalia and over in coin Me december cember alth at denver colo the famous windsor hotel will be sol sold at auction to satisfy an indebtedness of owing to james william barclay M P and john irving courtny courtney of london the windsor was built in 1881 by an english company and was at one time the leading hotel in the west the banking institution at delta colo closed its doors monday with A R king as assignee the bank was stocked d tor for and the deposits are eald aid to be about no little excitement has been caused in that vicinity tv as the depositors always regarded the institution as being thoroughly safe the afton cal poisoning mystery seems to be as dark and unfathomable as ever six days have passed since the little town was thrown into the greatest excitement by the death ct c t louis belew and his hio sister miss sule belew rumors have been most persistently circulated but as yet the officers have not seen fit to make any arrests aarto Copt captain aln leopold lefebre linguist felic fencing ift master mariner and lawyer passed away saturday night at the I 1 oakland cal sanitarium for the last six years captain lefebre has suffered with epilepsy but was not seriously taken until two weeks ago he was 53 years of age and leaves a widow he has resided in oakland for twelve years he was born in lisle prance france two convicts locked in the same cell at san quentin cal became involved in a quarrel saturday night when one of them named sam brandt received a painful stab in the right breast with the blade of a broken scissors in the hands of oneill how oneill came in possession of the weapon is not known but it is thought about the prison that he picked it up while at work in the jute mill chief justice sullivan of idaho handed down monday the decision of the supreme court in the case of the state vs thomas fitzpatrick and james gadsen gadsen the judgment of the lower court was reversed and the fhe su preme court held that the secretary of the state land board has no authority to employ attorneys to foreclose mortgages given to secure loans for the school fund this being the duty of the district attorney the daring burglar who has been operating in the western addition san francisco is behind prison bars he was arrested last thursday night by detectives crockett Croo kett and silvey while in the act of ransacking a house at 2112 sutter street his hia name Is sydney kellett aged 19 years although an innocent appearing youth the police say he is a desperate housebreaker with at least thirty burglaries to his credit martin devine a young attorney of sacramento cal dropped dead saturday morning while carrying an armful of wood into his house the cause of death was heart disease resulting from a stroke of paralysis rede received ived a number of years ago he was a son of J C devine of sacramento and a nephew of james H devine of the city board of trustees por for some time I 1 he has been working for a local money lender as collection attorney A dispatch from boise ida says say that the trial of H C st clair for th the murder of john becker began at idaho city monday the day being sent in securing a jury the only feature of interest was the presentation of a long affidavit by the defense fot for a continuance it sets forth that the defendant could prove by various parties now in british columbia that the team belonged to him as well as the camp outfit and the money which he is accused of stealing from his victim at helena mont monday the supreme court sustained the constitutionality tiona lity of the inheritance law passed by the last legislature the law imposes a tax of ofa 16 per cent on bequests to any beneficiary not a relative where the estate amounts to over the tax on estates directly inherited where the value of the estate is over Is 1 per cent it is estimated that the decision will yield the state from estates already in process of settlement A dispatch monday from sand point idaho says that A J sage a well known rancher living a few miles below that city was shot and instantly killed sunday while out hunting an old acquaintance named john snyder who went out with him hunting and who became separated from him for a a short time seeing what he supposed to be a deer moving among the trees fired at it and upon reaching the spot was horrified to find th that at he had shot his hie friend dead william henry kroger of san baa francisco has started his married life with a riot he called on justice fred clift at oakland cal saturday night with his bride a miss carrie ella hewett of san francisco and after induct inducing the magistrate to perform a marriage ceremony defied him to collect a fee for the same and ended up his argument by landing a few blows on cliffs ebest chest besides taking a score or more mom to himself the bride shrieked and swooned upon the floor and a dozen men had to separate the infuriated infuriate A groom and the judge edward reddy manager of the chicago clock company whose place of 0 business is on fourteenth street oakland cal and who lives inthe in the blake building on washington street took an overdose of morphine saturday night and died a few hours later despite the efforts of physicians to revive him reddy had suffered with nervous ness and lumbago for years and saturday night he seemed to be in great distress he went to a drug store and purchased a quantity of morph morphine itte which he took all at once he never re gained consciousness in the case of the heirs of john evana ex governor of colorado vs the pacific railway company russell sage and george gould to low 1 acres of land in the pacific la lansa grants the plaintiffs attorneys fixed on monday amendments to their cejp plaint with the united states court the principal allegations in amendment axe are that gould and ai as 94 trustees have received all the 1 ceede of the sale of the lands tor for i past twenty years which they have bained instead of applying them the debt as was to be done accor to the original agreements J L stillman who shot and kilt john D fiske in fresno cal on of july 1890 died on friday e ing of paresis in the hospital of prison at san quentin ile he had bes recently returned from the NIL asylum to which he had been com ra ted stillmans Still mans death from mental balance recalls the fact that at t lesef time of the trial the plea of anew was strongly urged in his defense tea akal went to show that he had tiac burth no good cause tor for a agal against st the man he had murdered jury decided that he was re and so brought in a verdict fixing punishment at imprisonment for ot the wyoming supreme co court dered a decision monday in t the e bon county election case su t the contentions of the plaintiffs county attorney treasurer and c missioner on the democratic ticket k the last election the court d decad cl that foreign born citizens must be quiren to read the constitution in J english language in order to vi one hundred and fifteen finns i voted the republican ticket could read the constitution in english their votes were accepted as B could read in their own langus the decision will put the E candidates in office and settles an constitutional question the leading electrical companies of the coast have united the formation of a construction pany and articles of incorporate have been filed in san francisc sacramento it will be known as fiance Fin tince and construction compi coat and has a capital stock of shares will swill be divided between various electrical machine turing concerns and each wt equal representation in the directors which will be com comi follows 0 S young president manager A vice dent george P low secretary secre talT dutcher superintendent of ca coni giop and john maxtin martin colonel pr preston estori will be the attorney |