Show WESTERN NEWS ITEMS il late advises advices from sitka alaska MAU sorte that large and extensive coal de immitti s have been discovered at whale atts on baranoff islands about 40 t gefrom Be from sitka i T scott president of the on iron works at san francisco i afi at once ance leave for washington pre ad to bid on all classes of vessels f about to be built by the government these include two harbor defense vessels two battleships five torpedo boat Mot and four torpedo boats 3 kirk of san francisco has bigg sued the western union telegraph eaSl pany ny for damages for refus iss to transmit a dispatch until he had fluxed to ita it a one cent revenue stamp V te claims claim that the company and not fik sender of a message should pay for t S necessary stamp rear admiral KArk lands condition U jinro slight improvement and his say he has baa a fighting chance his ble life commander J J brice f was recalled from the retired list log abie of hostilities espain hS pain la de in command of the yard fog admiral kirklands Kirk lands illness S H u calvert of seattle wa wash sh who ye turned ed from alaska today reports stampede tam pede has haa occurred from lake iett t and the trails to big taku ka miles in the interior the rush started by the report that gold from two to six dollars to the been found nant 13 X smith of the utah which left the Pre presidio this ay iy morning for the yosemite leoia oia parks will not be able to any the troop he was taken III al day ay and is under care it h that in a short time he will able to retain his men A passengers AS of the steamer Fa rallon ach cb arrived at port townsend at I 1 this morning say that it was arted d at ay that one woman a child had perished in the fire was raging when the ste steamer asmer fogu att the railroad and red assi s hospital was in imminent dan SR M scott has resigned from the 1 of directors of the central pate ballrot Ball Rail rod and jos D grant has ham en elected ejected to serve in his stead mr otta letter of resignation came from j petersburg and that his ab ab would prevent him from giving affairs of the company the atten ti Oey demanded aa will soon be opened at Bo bonners ariy orlet or st paul for the construction aya nelson and bedlington railway run alwn from bonners perry ferry on enal take lake wash a distance of 63 this will give spokane a second connection with that lake in boas are that the great northern forested in the proposed arpad ie edew new torpedo boat destroyer far is stil on the dry dock at the aron on works under undergoing goi repairs bably ly wili will remain there until when she will make another j this performance will depend of the official trip the prin work woric now being done is the ad lent at 0 the balances on her rud A 60 southern pacific railroad com as announced a reduction of the rate on canned goods in car or shipments of over in the future the tariff will 1 11 halff fa cents per hundred 1 P pounds ad apply from california points ants common therewith to and new orleans via the u sunset route these theme rates will go into effect on august the directors of the ithe hawaiian commercial company of san francisco have decided to propose to the stockholders an increase of the capital stock from ten to fifteen million dollars it is declared to be the plan of the directors to increase the output of the plantations and mills and to introduce improved methods of manufacture on the islands steamer victoria arrived at victoria 13 C thursday night from the orient she brings news that miss simmons a missionary at yokohama while in a launch was run down by a junk and killed the steamer which also arrived here from the orient tonight d had several cases of measles aboard she was placed in quarantine gen king has received a petition from fifty prominent kansas members of the supreme court subordinate judges and members of the kansas bar asking that he take favorable notice of charles hamilton twentieth kansas who enlisted as private rose to his present rank and is now on detached duty driling the second oregon recruits more farm machinery of all kinds has been sold in moscow idaho this season than during the past five years all put together this is evidence that the formers are fast recovering from the effects of the panic new wheat is being delivered at the warehouses at lewiston at the rate of from one to two thousand bushels per day headers and threshers thre are running everywhere in the snake river country A at t no time in the history of laxmi farming ng experience in the vicinity of blackfoot have prospects prospect for a bountiful wheat harvest been more encouraging joe rodgers the lost river sheep king sold ewes at 3 per head this week to A leuman of rock springs he I 1 also sold pounds of wool to mr of great falls montana tor for 1575 per hundred abbott is agent for a boston house blackfoot news there is ito be a biweekly bi bl weekly steamer service between san francisco and puget sound bound ports poets in the near future the steamer corona will be ready tor for service in a few days and as soon oon as she is put in commission the new schedule will commence the corona will go on the southern run taking the place of the santa rosa the latter vessel will be put on the puget sound route and will run in conjunction with the umatilla walla walla and queen there was a net increase of three thief cases at the division hospital yesterday making the total number percy whittaker of company 13 first tennessee died of cerebrospinal meningitis in gitis about a dozen men of the battalion of the eighteenth regiment which Is about to leave for manila have been reported at the regimental surgeons surg bons office as physically disqualified surgeon major rafter says about forty cases of disability in all have been reported to the board an issue of of bonds to run tor for forty years at six per cent interest has been decided upon for ithe building of the stockton and tuolumne railroad or the womans comans Wo mans road as it is popularly known mrs annie kline is at the head of this california road an associated soc with tier her as directors in the ithe company are mrs sally morgan green mrs E T gould maggle maggie downing downin 9 Brainard Bral aard and hannah lewella lane their road Is to be allty miles long running from stockton Stock too to ville in tuolumne county through a rich mining district nineteen miles of grading have already been completed nearly all of the utah troopers at the presidio will leave saturday morning for the yosemite and sequoia parks the command includes 1096 men all told and two will be left in the hospitals the enlisted men of the washington volunteers axe are to unite in a petition to the secretary of war ask ing that they be sent to manila or allowed to return to their homes they have grown weary of waiting the first and second battalions of the regiment have been here nearly three months and the third battalion arrived on july the men say they enlisted for war and do not want garrison duty the question of whether or not the sending of troops to manila after tile signing of the peace protocol will be continued Is being discussed in arm army circles at san francisco gen merriam referring to the matter said 1 I shall make no change in the present arrangements range ments unless so ordered by the authorities at washington every man of the expeditionary forces will be sent to manila if I 1 am permitted to do so I 1 cannot say whether the journeying of troops to the islands would be construed as an infraction of the protocol with peace an assured fact the troops would be merely guards to preserve order still I 1 look for orders from washington settling the matter one way or the other one day last week a destructive hall storm fell here doing much damage to the crops in the fields it cut the heads of gral grain n off and ahr thrashed as h ed the them m out some of the farmers lost their entire crops while other only a portion ti of them the wind also odd much damage raising the roofs of some of the houses and corn that was ready to tassel out was laid low trees were also uprooted such a storm has never been witnessed here before the lightning was vivid and continuous and the thunder shook the ground the farmers had been rejoicing thinking that they were going to have good crops but their joy has ha been turned to sorrow st johns arizona herald general merriam has issued an order which indicates that the to go to manila on the transport arizona next sunday will consist atthe elgh eighteenth infantry twenty third infantry fantry ln second oregon recruits tenth pennsylvania sYl vanla recruits first Col colorado oraLIO recruits and first nebraska recruits making a total of 1620 raen mew the scandia has been ordered to be ready next thursday to ito take the seventh california and possibly part of the third artillery the remainder of the third Is ordered for service in alaska general merriam has haa sent word to the red cross society that he would allow it to send sen d ito manila six trained male aufses nurses on the steamer arizona and an equal number on the scandia Sc andla Is a list of the twelve members of the columbia exploration company who according to ad vices received rec Ived by the alaska commercial company at san francisco are supposed to have been wrecked on july 2nd and in the Kusko wim river in alaska captain J T P F murphy bowl bow ing green ky robert P frierson Fr lerson Gad gallatin latin tenn tenal wm T payton gallatin tenn C H mitchell Ml tenn doe doc allen alien ky ell knudsen genesee ids ida engineer keusler Re usler milwaukee Louls louisville vIlle ky 41 S lines seattle A C abets stetson 0 seattle wash 0 E allrud redmond redmont wash H clifford hare H are residence unknown the party sailed from seattle wash on may 31 the columbia exploration party was waa outfitted in seattle and went north with the intention of going up the river in the small steamers jesse jeaan and minerva captain murphy of oc bowling green ky commanded the jesse the engineer had formerly run a locomotive in the south and know knew little about marine engines the remainder of the party was for the most moat part composed of young married men of well to do southern families all well provided with money captain cartoon carleon of the lahme says that the men in charge of the expedition knew nothing about the handling ot of a boat |