| Show WESTERN NEWS ITEMS omaha stockman jan 18 J JS larkins was here from beo wawa utah with four cars of range cattle ed harris colored is in jail at pocatello ida charged with arson it being alleged that he set fire to trestlework trestle work near collinston collingston Col linston on the utah and northern A marriage oc occurred burred at cheyenne wyo wednesday the contracting parties being L B simonds monds Sl eighth U S infantry and miss louise marshall a belle of cheyenne the young couple left for salt lake after the ceremony while fighting fire in the fairview fail view tunnel near williams ariz monday two men named matthews and lyons were caught r by falling earth and when extricated it hurled buried for a time was found that both were very seriously injured and lyons died in less than an hour while it is not expected that his big corn companion panion will recover desme r of san francisco to is C W to go to the klondike by balloon he TP proposes to use the big ballok made for the chicago worlds fair which was held captive and he will be by james thompson of cincinnati A andrews of chicago and S X of pittsburg all expert aced faced aeronauts aero nantS A man named johnson was fatally thompson falls mont wounded at by a constable who had been bowled tailed upon noon to arrest him tor for pulling a asp ssp volver on a brakeman of the north arn srn who attempted to eject him his train johnson died 15 min aln the bullet bluet passing wa after being shot through his bis stomach A A dispatch from wallace ida says that is following the footsteps creek in the couer dal dalene ene VC f canyon A miner whose presence was undesirable having been waited upon by a aked committee and invited to leav leava fifth the memory of fred W whitney frh fresh in mind he be hastily complied with the be the cause of dislike for adm sm ws the allegation that he had forked for the bunker hill and sum VIM tail company at leadville colo tuesday night a tay occurred resulting in the kill andy smith W R slate a of mrs contractor ton tont tractor being the man who did the shooting he fired two bullets into the womans comans brain and then killed bim himself self slate w was as an admirer of the smith woman and had been ing to with her during an estrangement between her and her husband when he be learned they were to be reunited he stew frantic and did the shooting A sensation Is anticipated today in connection with the lynch lunching lynching lyn ching hg case at vence nev three witnesses have been subpoenaed who it is expected will reveal the identity of at least two more members of the lynching lunching lyn ching party at an earlier stage of the investigation several witnesses testified that constable grey rey bad stated that he recognized the leader of the mob and several veral of the lyn chers tuesday grey was a witness to contradict this testimony the fo following Vowing telephone message was received ec elved at san jose cal wednesday might ight from director of lick the very unusual phenomenon of a bright meteor in broad ai daylight was observed here today by IB 10 ap P coddington fellow in astronomy at the observatory it was seen in the west went shortly atter after 1 I this after oon noon at an elevation of about 8 degrees above the horizon mowing very rapidly toward the north in a path slightly in dined toward the earth it increased in brightness along its course and disappeared suddenly in a clear sky without any explosion being heard A chinese convict by the ahe name of ah sam was shot and almost instantly killed by the guards at folsom cal 1 prison monday while making a break for liberty the dead convict was sent from sacramento last saturday to serve two deais for assault with a deadly weapon making the third time he had been sent to state prison for a similar offense tense of he was a vicious man and was held to be mentally irresponsible by most of those who knew him while the cabinet saloon pre prescott acott ariz was crowded with hundreds of people mrs bell the wile wife of a mining man entered with a babe in her arms and placing it on the bar left with this farewell the father of this child deserted me and this babe caring more for whisky than either of us I 1 wish to tender now his child so that his appetite may be gratified to the extent of the deposit ther was a wild rush for the youngster seventy five men coming forward to ask for the waif the probate judge was wa c called on to settle the controversy and n d nas has taken charge of the child J P colllns collins of alexander valley near healdsburg cal committed suicide monday by shooting himself through the heart the young man filled a sack with rocks and tied a rope around it attaching the other end of the rope to the trigger of a shotgun he then lay down and placing the muzzle of the gun to his heart pushed the sack away with his hia foot discharging the contents of the gun ln in to his heart his parents were away from home at the time and on their return were horrified to discover the body of their son lying in front of their home colllns collins was about 22 years old the cause causa of the suicide was melancholia while momentarily crazed after long months month of sickness and a contemplation of the death that would result from his complaint john W lawhorn hurled himself from a third story window at the east bay sanitarium on telegraph avenue oakland cal monday afternoon and was almost instantly killed he was found upon a cement sidewalk that runs along the south side of the building by some nurses as he lay in a pool of his own blood he was carried quickly into the sanitarium and a doctor called but it was all over within five minutes and the next summons was for the coroner lawhorn lamborn had dropped fully forty feet striking on the top of his head and brkin ing himself an unknown elderly woman was discovered by policeman william gaynor of san francisco at the corner oi of leavenworth and eddy streets about 6 5 sunday afternoon sufferings suffering apparently from a fit she was taken to the receiving hospital where at she died dr fitzgibbon says either from the effects of strychnine poisoning or epilepsy he Is unable to determine which being urged repeatedly to give her name she said she ahe was mrs emily and stopping at that would say no more later on in response to the questionings of a hospital she said her name wan wals mary williams and to dr fitzgibbon just before her death she said her name I 1 was jennie webster and aged 54 i I 1 articles of incorporation were filed with the territorial secretary of new mexico wednesday evening of the white oaks kansas city railway I 1 the incorporators are J A eddy tf A hawkins H A connor G L christie and W H austin the director are C D simpson Sr scranton anton pa B S harmon hamon and G C W lowry new york john A eddy denver C B eddy W A hawkins max frost new mexico the capital stock Is the road runs from near white oaks lincoln county N M to a point on the new mexico texas line in union county about miles north connecting with a road of the same name t to be chartered under the laws of the state of texas surveyors will be put in the field immediately further particulars regarding the agreement recently entered into by the japanese the pacific mall mail and the 0 occidental ci and oriental steamship companies are now at hand arrangements have been made to bear in equal proportion all the expenses of navigation incurred by the three companies although the distribution of profits shaft be subject to the amount of the receipts gained by them under the agreement the occidental Occident aJ and oriental an wast pacific mail are each to reduce their number of steamers to three although they each run four at present the agreement will be carried into practice as soon as the steamers of tk toyo kison calsha now being bull built t aft england arrive in japan coroner robert baldwin of oakland calis positive that joseph ael H the was murdered avid and III making every possible effort to penetrate the mystery surrounding hw death at his request district attorney charles B E snook has de county detective henry herbert C the case and the latter is now cooperating with constable jack and his deputies in the work of invest invests gatlon gation the officers have subpoenaed ft a number of witnesses for the adjourned inquest and it to is expected that tw murder theory will be e quite clearly established A number of the friends or of the dead man are lending their assist ance and the circumstances of abw case are sure of a searching tion the government alaska relief ekpo exp under the immediate charge ot gen merriam commander of thede the department part ment of the columbia is fully fula equipped to leave portland oregon te in february by the steamer george W elder the personnel of the expedIt expedition expeditious Iou consists of a total of eighty eevea seven officers and men as follows capt georgr georgo buhlen in charge of transportation transport atlo and quartermaster of the expedition capt D L brainard commissary of at subsistence in charge of distribution of supplies capt B eldredge fourteenth infantry in charge of escort with E W dark clark fourteenth Fourteen tb infantry his subordinate first guy H preston ninth cavalry hi 1 charge of the pack train with first J A ryan ninth cavalry big h assistant and F M kemp as aa instant surgeon there are mulat a and nd nine horses in the pack train miss mildred amidon dark well known in san francisco musical cly cles committed suicide monday aate noon by shooting herself in the mouth at her home 2218 webster street tha th bullet passing into the base of tho th brain she had been indisposed for far two or three days suffering from ft a cold and monday and aad the day beford was abed though not thought to br bg seriously ill monday afternoon about 6 5 her mother left the room to be gone a few minutes she ha scarcely got outside the room joew she heard a pistol shot and hat hurriedly adiv returning found her d daughter a u ahter dea d e the still smoking revola revolver e r by her sid 29 0 showing whence the report had com death had been instantaneous A physician was immediately sum summoned monek but the deceased had too loo well chosen her bier aim to make medical skill of any avah yail and 4 the only service he could was to notify the coroner six selling sailing vessels which started from honolulu sixteen days ago have all arrived in san francisco within a sew few hours of each other the trip across the pacific became a race atter after the first day out and the contest was made exciting by the fact that the vessels were in sight of each other most of the way the competing vessels were the brig W G irwin barkentine W H diamond bark albert barkentine archer schooner transit and the brig aurline Tur line the W G irwin arrived OF off the head half an hour in advance of tire the aurline Tur line then came the W H diamond archer aloert bert and transit in the order named the last arrived off the heads three hours atter after the irwin crossed the finith line old ship masters say that te performance of the six ships is without precedent and may be reckoned n as one of the things that occur A sports in a thousand years the sports of san Franco Francol isco will witness probably within the next two months a series of conteas between three pairs of heavy weight boxers which may determine who is really the imming champion the choinski Choyn Choy naki ski and strut byan 20 round contest which will take place under the auspices of the empire athletic club is booked tw the te evening of february 11 at rac machnics diew mv pavilion ilion peter jackson is training at a n falth faithfully fully across the bay in Alt lam amoda for anything that may turn up JA in the way of a match peter is oter bly ably confident of 0 meeting peter caher in the near future at any rate t mckeon n has taken time by the fore beta ck and to the surprise of his many fiends and admirers he is training all and will assuredly be in the 01 spink of condition condition when he is called upon to give an account of himself V 6 A es is also at work in alameda for wis sits prospective match with tom sharkey preparations for the golden jubilee of it california the fiftieth anniversary of f the discovery of the yellow metal art ara making rapid headway the cele aranton win begin on monday next and continue borit invie during the week it will aiace many entirely novel features ariy every county in the state con iulg to fo render the affair a notable ev g a finals 4 I 1 14 of california in i with atme the junlee a mining which promises to be I 1 61 6 1 mafit t complete expositions of ver known ro im the w san 6 to elro aly desecrated in tab at f tue th coming oo ming carnival a abt arri arriving vink in large e yv buddha declared the day af the jubilee a 4 legal hollam holi d during the week of festivity 10 A kale schools will be closed sel bm Ibm Before h has state and civic pride keen n aroused to 0 o a greater degree and tt is altery evident that all former Vb popular pulak demonstrations there will be baled ua led if not bot excelled the committee of arrangements of the Nat national lonal stock growers convention at its meeting at denver tuesday adopted the report of the committee having in charge all preparations for the barbecue of the this feast will be hi historic for the reason leaon that it will be the last time in america where wild buffalo bears elk and antelope wilt will be served the menu will consist of eight beeves six elk ten antelope lope tour four bears forty sheep ten pigs opo esom MOrn ten barrels of pickles half a tow ten of cheese chee ae forty barrels of sweet r potatoes loaves leaves of bread and keg of beer W P anderson anderaon of the stockyards Stock yards and transit company zy who rep represented tented the denver efto istock ek grovero amo clation at the recent meeting 0 in st I 1 paul and secured the appointment of a large delegation to this meeting from that city was present and reported that large delegations would be in denver next week from chicago st paul st louis and kansas city ek ft vote of thanks was extended to mr anderson anderaon for the good work he had done |
