Show WESTERN NEWS ITEMS matt byner who for several years past has been in charge of marcus dalys racing horses at butte mont has retired from the turf and monday left that city for eatontown Eaton town new jersey at butte mont monday morning a highwayman attempted to rob J N londoner a ticket broker he felled the latter to the ground but was frightened oft off before accomplishing his purpose george dietricht Die tricha well known young youn 9 man of helena mont was shot and instantly killed sunday afternoon on nevada creek by henry kessler also of helena the men were wc re hunting deer and the shooting was accidental mr and mrs eli A gage the former a son of the secretary of the treasury have just returned from dawson city to which point mrs gage bears the distinction of being the first white woman visitor they report great suffering in that section for want of food daniel S lamont lament ex secretary of war reached san francisco from the corti sunday accompanied by a party of friends they are there purely for coir pleasure so he declares and during their brief stay in the city are making the palace hotel their headquarters A sad accident happened at sacramento cal sunday A little daughter of gustave loeser was carrying her infant sister down a flight of stairs slipped and both fell to the bottom the infants head struck the floor causing concesion conc of the brain and it deed in a few minutes steffan baumann for many years i the proprietor of a hotel in sacramento cal shot and killed his wife saturday afternoon and then shot him set sef he has a good chance for re covery no reason is assigned for the deed other than that baumann was temporarily deranged over business rei verses chief of police ellis of pocatello idaho arrested two convicts monday the men having escaped from the i deer lodge mont penitentiary about a week ago their names are william howard and george F stevens both about 24 years of age the former was serving ing time for burglary the latter hatter for manslaughter mrs genevra johnston bishop of chicago one of the favorite oratorio singers of this country and the highest salaried church singer west of new york arrived in san francisco sunday and has apartments at the palace she has come west on a concert tour and will remain remann in that part of the state for a more the montana equal suffrage association commenced its third annual convention at helena tuesday with 1200 20 members present miss helen knowles haskill presides over the convention and the first session had as its feature an address by gov robert B smith in which he strongly expressed his disapproval of the move james egan a section handras hand was run over and killed on simpson hill near carbon Wyoming by a pusher engine early friday morning a week ago he was taken to carbon but died at 1030 the he same morning A severe storm on the hill prevented the approach of the engine being heard by the unfortunate victim howard and stevens the two escaped convicts from the deer lodge mont penitentiary who were arrested at pocatello ida monday night are about to be taken back to that institution ution it was thought by the officers that stevens could be persuaded to enlighten them as to the whereabouts of the remaining two fugitives from justice but he would say noth ing wilson vilson barrett the great english tragedian who ranks with irving is at the pacific hotel san francisco where he arrived tuesday evening unan bounced mr barrett is on his way to australia Austi alia for which country he sailed by the steamer Alax alameda neda thursday he owns a theater in london and ta is famous as an author and a stage director and a producer of plays as well as an actor foss and manau mcnaughton gaton principals alij in the alleged abduction of the roberts roberta children at plumas junction cal who atthe at the same time stole five of bedford roberts horses were arrested at a place known as station friday by sheriff church of lassen county and bedford roberts they made no nd 1 resistance and were placed in jail at a t susanville sanville Su where they were charged with horse stealing I 1 I 1 the police of san francisco axe are rear searching thing tor for two clever bunko men who have been operating oil on a rather extensive scale in the tenderloin dle dig erict there it is said that during the past fe few weeks they ther have swindled edit i least a dozen bucolic stra strangers by the timeworn time worn lock trick their lat latent victim is henry lehman aged 6 years who arrived there a few days ago from roberts island receiver J sam brown of the de funch first national bank of helena mont has tendered his resignation the same following closely upon the appearance pe arance of bank examiner J R flynn with a letter from the comptroller saying that he had decided to con the trust with the tailed failed mera mer chants national of that city under th management of receiver eugene T M wilson who has haa chae ot of the latter bank edward sullivan one of the native sons of san jose cal was shot in the leg sunday by wm kelly as the result of 0 f a quarrel the shooting occurred in east san jose where both parties reside kelly claims that sullivan attacked him with a knife and that ue he fired in self defense the wound of sullivan Is ia not considered necessarily dangerous ater after eluding the officer a for several hours kelly was arrested arre feted and locked in the city prison an important lumber deal was closed at santa cruz cal tuesday when the santa cruz lumber yard com composed bet of the loma prieta lumber cong company hy and F A hihn company purchased kd grover co s large stock of lumber recently sold at sheriffs sale to robert dollar of san rafael and leased grover co cos s mill for five yee years this puts an end to all lumber war W which resulted from having so many lumber firms inthe in the field in a tumble down hut near san leandro cal lies the body of mrs john with friends watching over it unable to secure a certificate for burial the coroner b haft been called to the scene to conduce an investigation and there is a aj possibility of fastening the responsibility for ahe tle womans comans death upon her husband the case is one of the strangest gest thol hak bak ever been laid before the alameda county authorities one of the most severe wind and halt haft storms ever ek in that sect low swept over placerville erville cal saturday afternoon the wind ind attained inen dous velocity and caused serious damage in the twenty minutes which it continued while hail stones as large an aa walnuts fell breaking skylights and windows several buildings were damaged by wind the cyclonic hailstorm storm was waa the culmination of a heavy thunderstorm A boise filise idaho monday den ben wilson commenced suit against the pioneer gravel and gold mining com pany limited the plaintiff asks for siny and also for the appointment ef f a receiver pending a settlement of the file case the complaint recites that mr wilson was to receive shares of f the capital stock of the company or in cash he made the deed hut but the company has only paid him therefore he now brings suit for at denver thursday work was beun sun on one of the biggest enterprises started in colorado viz the erection of a large electric line and power plant lant to furnish electricity and power tor the cripple creek district the plant lant will have Us its location at gold and will cost halt half a million at the xe head of the enterprise are davidh moffatt president of the first national bank of denver and eben smith a prominent business man of the colorado metropolis HI schell a well known rancher of presto cal has just been arrested on ft A charge of horse stealing the arrest was a great surprise to schell and his friends but the officers claim that they nave mave a clear maseto case to show that schell to one of a dexterous gang of horse thieves who have been operating in riat hat valley for years with WB oro at the schell pasturage which is located near the laguna delache yant grant about thirty miles southwest of town A dispatch from san francisco today says ays that up to date thirteen whalers chalers mid and four tenders have arrived from the arctic in all they brought barrels of oil pounds of whalebone and pounds of ivory besides a large quantity of furs A conservative serva tive value of what has come town aown is some of the vessels caught in the ice are bare others have bavo a number of whales to their kedit but there to is no chance of them reaching san francisco this season benjamin walter a saloonkeeper saloon keeper of aan francisco is among the missing his friends fear that he has committed suicide ul clde last friday walter purchased a saloon aloon a on larkin street and seemed ta to b be e doing a thriving business shortly before 8 wednesday night mrs walter received a message from her husband liue band in which he stated that he was tired of living and intended to commit dulcide pul cide lie he the key t to the saloon and in a postscript said that by the time she received the mes sag age he be would be dead the home of william gibson at butte mont was wrecked by an explosion early thursday morning the odd aeed being the work of some person whose intent evidently was to send into eternity the entire gibson household at the time of the explosion a group croup of mourners were sitting in the house surrounding the laer bier of mrs Gib gibbons gibsons sons mother the report PO rt of the explosion caused considerable e consternation throughout the city iut but fortunately it did not result in awk any fatalities chief farley of the denver police de received information from a rel reliable lable source thursday to the effect that ati an effort would be made during th night to take fred C sanchez the mexican aeldean Ae idean who murdered his youl young ig bride two weeks ago for the purpose of collecting an insurance ranee of he I 1 had secured tred on her life frona from the coun ty jail and lynch him As a precaution the chief called in all the city men and stationed them at the jail during the night thus preventing the proposed onslaught fred elliott El llott who was beating his way on the top of an eastbound santa fe freight wednesday morning at 3 fell asleep and fell under the cars near san bernardino cal his left leg and right foot were crushed off we he crawled twenty five yards to a tree where he lay three hours in the rain until a westbound train picked him up and brought him there he was taken to the county hospital where he died while his injuries were being dressed his mother is reported to be a wealthy resident of wisconsin james holmes wm win starr D dunn W dowling E G waltz and walter mccoy convicted of the killing of C A marrs the nonunion non union lather will not go to san quentin or to any other prison governor budd of california has decided to commute their sentences of one years imprisonment each so that the terms served by them in the county jail while awaiting trial for the crime shall be considered as sufficient punishment and the men who are out on ball will be freed from miss edna ackerman the beautiful and accomplished daughter of J D ackerman jr of oakland cal committed suicide by hanging at the home of her grandfather on oi the island of hawalt hawaii on october the grandfather to is one of the wealthiest coffee planters in kaua district and the young girl was his idol A coroners jury returned a verdict of suicide while temporarily pora rily insane but rumor says that the real motive grew out of a most unfortunate love alfair affair involving a prominent young society man of honolulu the body of antonio bertolino an aged san francisco fisherman was found on the beach at bolinaga Boli cal november ath and his death was s supposed 1 up until saturday to have been the result of an accident A letter received saturday morning by sheriff harrison from deputy sheriff J win field pearson casts a new light on the occurrence and carries with it so strong a suggestion of foul play that the authorities thorit ties les there will make a thorough examination into all the circumstances suf surrounding rounding the old mans sudden taking off information was received at san ban diego cal saturday from san quentin lower california that three ot the sailors of the schooner Grace which sailed from san francisco a few weeks ago under command of captain A W hall for the lower california coast in order to leave the men to develop mines said to have been discovered by hall three years ago have arrived at san quentin sick and suffering as a result of the terrible privations through which they have endured since the grace put them ashore at santa rosalia bay aay miles south of san diego As the result of reprimand received from principal mcchesney for having been disorderly in a theater and patronizing a bar the young men students of the oakland cal high school will an editor ot of middle town lake county to make good a statement printed at his instance warning the principal of the boys conduct and to compel the author of the article in question to come out into the open the matter has stirred up much feeling at the high school the prevailing sentiment being that some borne malicious person has set about it to annoy the oakland students with unwarranted stories mrs 0 dunning the divorced wife of a prominent ex merchant of tulare cal made an attempt at suicide saturday which will probably result tn in her death but a short time ago her husband failed in business and she claiming that he had mistreated and deserted her obtained a divorce previous to this the loss of an only child a daughter almost grown had deeply affected her she attempted to strangle herself with a rope saturday morning and with a large carving knife she almost severed her hand hoping to bleed to death but neighbors discovered her and called medical aid the Dunnin dunning gw are among the oldest and most well known people in that city the latest developments in the belew bele w poisoning case at dixon cal leave no doubt that it was a case of deliberate murder but the identity of the is as much a mystery as ever from discoveries made thursday it IV ig practically certain that the deadly drug w was as placed in the family teakettle tea kettle and not in the at first supposed oBed the officers are still working diligently on the case but as yet there are no clews which point to the murderer the fact that the poison was brought into the house and put in the teakettle tea kettle narrows their search somewhat and gives them hope that they will event baly arrest the guilty party seized with remorse for an act of theft william andrews a boy of it 1 j years residing at thirteenth streets street oakland cal endeavored to atone fois his crime friday morning at a lodging house at california street by andin his life the young man made aj an earnest attempt at self destruction but buff J I 1 before death came the landlady of the J house discovered his plight noti notified fled taj ala ia police and had him removed to tb the harbor hospital the physicians ric the hospital labored incessantly over a him d during the remainder of the dw aft but it was apparently too late and laja V night the young mans case was arv zi bounced hopeless f the montana woman suffragist ij closed their convention at helena A thursday after pledging themselves to t 1 l work for the election of men to tw t legislature who will promise to vote to H submit the question to the people at ft 3 the election in 1900 the 0 ce 8 chosen were madame P F rowena d president mrs nanita 13 bagi ley sherlock of boulder vice pr prest dent mrs martha E dunckel oaf butte recording secretary mrs ard T garvis of helena correspond ing secretary dr mary B atwater marysvale Marys vale treasurer mrs dotha al dolan of helena auditor mrs XU BB knowles haskell of helena chairman of the state central committee A hunting accident which will re reaud 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