| Show WESTERN NEWS ITEMS colorado regiments received new today and rounds of ammunition kenneth mcrae tried for the murder of robert gordon has been found not guilty at rawlins Raw lina wyo the nebraska regiment has been presented with fourteen large flags bythe by the red cross ladles ladies of oakland cal the first nevada volunteers cavalry was scheduled to leave carson city today for cheyenne where the men will be mustered into service governor richards of wyoming has received a dispatch from the war department part ment to the effect that no DO in more ore troops can caa be taken from that state captain charles E woodruff of the medical department of the united states army and attending surgeon on the staff of general merritt has reported for duty charles van doon warden at the idaho penitentiary has been arrested for bt battery tery it being all alleged egerd that he assaulted douglas hix a late guard at the prison united states circuit judge morrow of san francisco is taking the lead in movement to organize a society to aid the families of the volunteers during the absence of the troops in manila it to la now thought that no cavalry will be taken to the philippines experience per peri lenee ence has shown that the shipment of Amer american leaA horses berbes would be impracticable and it would be very difficult to secure enough of the native stock the bay city wheelmen wheelman elmen entertained the members of company 1 I colorado night at their club house the soldiers were accompanied by captain grove lieutenant hilton and lieutenant hauley of idaho nellie adams alias zellah ward a young woman 23 yea years of age friday night murdered a young negro ch chas Kin kinwald cald alias charles brown in the empire hotel victoria B C where they weye were living together jealousy was the cause the directors of the oakland cal board of trade have instructed secretary sharp to draft a set of resolutions to in be forwar forwarded dW to the california senators ors urging them to use every effort to secure hawaiian annexation as soon as possible friday being ladies day at fort russell russel W wyo yo torreys torreas Tor reys rough riders were each presented with a needle case 1028 being distributed the boys gave a regimental drill review tor for the ladies and were treated ta a supply of c ck cake k e a and nd other goodlee goodies before the festivities were over E F M bradley was waa acquitted friday night at seattle wash of the murder of M F in hla his charge to the jury judge jacobs laid down a now new principle it was in effect that an unlawful intrusion into the home of a father may be made by means of a tele telephone anone used for the purpose of decaying decoying deco ying away children for immoral purposes the catholic truth society has arranged to erect a tent capable of accommodating commo dating 2000 people close to camp merritt Merrl tt and the priests of san francisco have arranged to td alternate in hold holding ng massoff mass on week days as well as sundays catholic sold soldiers lers will aul be granted full liberty to attend these thisie services lieutenant kraus of company company H cole colorado rador voil volunteers now at ait san fran WM was under fire thursday day he wab wa inthe act of hla his hair frair whan a bullet from the minnesota Minnee oia camp whizzed over his head and cut off the shoulder strap from his cost coat which hung beside him in his tent the shot was the result of carelessness the ahr threat t made by ernest faubel of san francisco chast he would commit suicide as stated in a letter that he wrote to coroner hawkins was carried into execution early tuesday morning in alta plaza near the scott street side he drank enough carbolic acid to kill several men and when he was found he was beyond human aid rum kum shu editor of the chinese newspaper in san francisco has opened a subscription list IW for the red cross society among h his countrymen and has already received receive from the sam yup tup company he is writing up the work of the red cross society in his paper and is confident a large amount of money can be raised among the chinese there the steamer albion from copper river reports that there has been a second heaves slide on the valdez glacier A number of pack animals were burled buried in the snow but no human lives were lost the glacier to is now impassable and traffic for the season to Is said to be at an end hy smith an inmate of the montana state prison at deer lodge so slashed hilmo hilm self elf with a knife tuesday that ha died thursday morning he imitated an operator for appendicitis opening up a wound from which his bowels protruded the prisoner was demented and was serving a sentence for attempted wife murder A dispute over lines led to the killing of captain charles fostman of the schooner louise by captain antone E christensen of the schooner reliance at the berry street wharf san francisco friday evening the men engaged in a rough and tumble fight on board the reliance they fell on the deck when christensen picked up a pair of blacksmiths pinchers pin chers and dealt postman man n a terrible blow on the head fracturing the skull he died a few hours later Chir stensen claims that he acted in self defense the monitor monterey left the mare island navy yard friday afternoon for san francisco As the vessel st steamed earned away from the dock she was greeted with cheers from hundreds of sailors 1 1 and people on shore who witnessed the departure all the he steam whistles in the vicinity saluted the vessel as she passed down the bay the collier brutus which is to accompany the monterey to manila will leave for san francisco today saturday and the two vessels will sail sa from san francisco today or sunday A dispatch from guatemala via san francisco says days instructions Instruct lona have been received by the agency in we this city of the pacific mall mail steamship company to retain in the port of san jose for further orders the steamer city of panama and newport lyoth lyo th of which are now anchored off the roadstead it is believed that the newport may be ordered to return to san francisco to be utilized as 48 a government transport and will transfer her cargo mail madl and passengers to the city og of pania panama which will proceed with them southward N X S harrold a pioneer and prominent ranc rancher lier of stanislaus county cat cal died at his bis home at EsC escalon RIOn about twenty miles from stockton at 9 wednesday morning from paralysis para lysla tuesday morning he suffered sulf ened a e brought on by w worry orry over him fin trouble of which he had had considerable ble of late at one time he was one of the richest farmers in the san joaquin vaney valley him wealth being estimated at he had a model farm owned property in other sections ot of the state and had money out at interest the chicago denver fast train of the gulf union pacific northwestern combination was wrecked by the spreading of the rails near sedgwick colorado thursday while it was running at a high rate of speed fortunately no one was killed and only a few received injuries beyond a severe shaking up the damage to railway property was considerable as all the coaches except the last sleeper left the track and were badly smashed the scarcity of water on oa the Pre presidio reservation has thrown the che men now encamped there in a serious predicament the supply in the reservation reservoir is about exhausted and the pumps which supply the waiter are not powerful enough to keep the reservoir filled stringent orders have been la sued cautioning the men stationed at the presidio against any unnecessary waste of water the culinary department has been ordered to use only enough water for actual cooking purposes and the men have been ordered to discontinue bathing until the situation alon can be remedied governor budd of california has hae commuted the sentence of ramon romero an aged spaniard who was waa serving a life sen sentence at a t san Qu quentin entill for murder he was sent from contra costa county in november 1877 an and will be released today saturday there was a strong petition for the commutation and it was recommended by supreme court justice and she sheriffs romero in 1881 rendered the state great service in extinguishing a serloma fire in the penitentiary it la Is also shown that he lent invaluable ald aid in assisting sheriffs thomas and harry N morse in hunting down vasquez the notorious bandit A dispatch from empire city ore says that friday the cape arago light house keeper thomas wymann hl haw daughter joseph yonker and john colwell were crossing from the main mainland lanO to the lighthouse in a basket running on a wire cable when about half way across roes the cable broke letting the be occupants cu fal to the surface about six sixty feet from the shore three of the party 1 fell into the water and escaped with slight injuries but wymann struck hl hip foot on the rocks and one leg was waa badly broken the lighthouse tender columbine which was lying near floated a raft of lumber to the unfortunate people and succeeded in taking thera then IA I 1 aboard rawlins ns wyo republican A couple of young girls named lillian pries and birdie bickford aged 13 and U took it into their heads to run away W with the soldiers who are going to the philippines last sunday ate moon when the engineering corps from new york went through the girls conce concealed alel themselves in the linen closet of one ot of the sleeping cars occupied by br tha th soldiers their absence was discovered by their friends and when the tra train arrived at rock springs officers were 4 on hand to intercept the flight of the 14 giddy girls they were returned to their homes in rawlins sunday the gart were well supplied with funds one having about ano and the other W the report from washington tbt tv the annexation of hawaii is about be consummated Is 19 given eye dence by the officers at camp memo and they are already figuring upon an order to send troops to the islands W t took look after uncle sams interests res a eche some of the volunteers who oho fear t they will riot not be sent to the philippi are counting cOunt upon being erdt ordered d W hawaii as a place of second choice gen merritt is arranging the details of the second expedition to the philippines but has not yet made public the assignments of at troops for the expedition and he will not make the order public until the date of the sailing of the fleet has been determined the steamship argyll captain ward at astoria ore thursday afternoon ter noon thirty three days from hong kong via yokohama and honolulu she left honolulu nine days ago captain ward say that for three days prior to his bis departure from honolulu the whole city was decorated with flags and in gala attire ready to receive the united states troops on their way to the philippines it is estimated says the omaha Stock stockman maji that the sheep of arizona number over and they arb erased mainly in apache navajo and coconino counties they are largely garde me merinos meri noe the wool ranks low when it is clipped on account of the dirt sand and grease it contains but after scouring it is classed among the best beet arizona sheep men have recently formed an association for the purpose of 0 o prosecuting sheep thieves philip welton stanford san francisco to is de dead from in new york tork after ian an illness of only three days mr stanford was the son of colonel A P stanford and P nephew of the late epla 3 with his mother sister and father philip W stanford spent his early boyhood in london but on the death of the mother the family returned to america and mr kr stanford entered the riverview river view academy where he obtained a captaincy and was graduated with honor having a mechanical turn of mind he entered the institute of technology in boston he afterward studied law at harvard and on his marr ulan helen west of boston they went to california where he was admitted to the bax bar and practiced for about even yea years about a year ago he returned to new york where he had been attending to legal matters in connection with the stanford estate the funeral will be held this friday afternoon at st james church new york william Vau mauning ning a san rafael cad caa milkman of considerable means pleaded guilty thursday to tearing the tongue out of a horse sentence was postponed until today friday eye swit swiftness ness of the fiendish act state that mauning Vau ning while ascending a grade drove his team into a ditch anabe and be cause the horses hories could not extricate it tied a piece of rope around the tongue ot of one ome of the animals said and tore it out by the roots the suffering animal fell to the ground but by beating it mauning Vau ning forced it to rise and drove to a marsh where it bled to death there were threats of lynching lunching lyn ching mauning thursday but it was finally determined ao to give him notice to leave town he e was forced to fly for safety and seek the tion of an officer some time ago he was charged with poisoning milk wt at the residence of 4 prison Dire director ebor wilkins and others be df tuse they would not patronize him he ae has also been in trouble at other times the schooner briham brings news to seattle wash that the revenue bear conveying relief to the imprisoned imprisoned whalers chalers wh alers is at dutch harbor the officers of the bear recently attempted to form a connection with the overland party jarvis but got only miles north of dutch harbor there the ice was found packed solid across bering sea and all further plans plane had to be abandoned no news has been received from jarvis A hurri hurricane cazie which seriously threatened the entire shipping of that locality swept over dutch harbor and una laska on may 22 during the storm the schooner helen was driven ashore though not seriously injured the ship dragged her anchor ana but for the timely assistance of the bear and bark harry morris would have been hurled on the banks and broken to pieces according to the officers of the briham the schooner fischer brothers had arrived at after an exciting experience in bering sea she tried to rush her way through the ice pack some miles north of and for a time it looked as if she would never get out for nearly a week she was in the ice pack unable to get either way A sudden change in the wind opened up the channel and released her A more accurate conception of the proportions of the main sugar factory building is being furnished as the big sections of the steel framework axe are going into place says the la grande ore chronicle the work was necessarily suspended during the past few days on account of rain this part of the work Is not more than one fourth completed and after the big pieces are put in place they will be securely bound together by thousands of rivets the riveting crew have lust just about finished their work at the ogden factory and will in a short time begin on the factory here the at the factory grounds Is practically finished and there is almost daily accumulations of material and machinery all the structural steel has arrived and several cars of machinery the latest invoice in the machinery line being tour four cars which arrived this morning eccles and nibley and other factory people are well pleased with the general situation of things the buildings axed are being put up in the most substantial manner the outlook tor for the beet crop is most encouraging and everything promises success it is very evident that the factory construction will require steady work with a big force from this time forward in order to have the same in readiness to handle the beet crop superintendent granger anticipates that work in double time and possibly with disregard to sunday and holidays will be necessary during the summer months the san francisco chronicle of today friday says after taps had been sounded at camp 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