Show WESTERN NEWS ITEMS during june the output of cripple creek was tons the same valued at the residents of evanston and almy wyo have donated for the aid of park city sufferers the democrats of wyoming will hold their state convention at casper natrona county august 3rd ard charles woods a sporting man committed suicide at boise idaho saturday by shooting train service on the wood river branch of the oregon short line is to be cut to two or three trains a week an estimate of montana g wool ell clip 13 this year places it at pounds with a value of about in the standard mine wallace ida archie shakespeare fell down an ore chute a distance of feet and wag wa tolled killed A slight blight earthquake shock was felt sit at los angles cat cal shortly before midnight thursday no damage has been reported A M x said to be of salt lake was badly beaten by editor arthur of the wyoming press at Ev evanston amston thursday the editor used a cane louis guggenheim Gugg of virginia city nov nev has been sentenced to five years Imprison imprisonment meM for embezzlement while k secretary of the grand lodge 1 I 0 0 F 1 general merriam Merr lam san francisco has ordered major prank frank W hess of the i chard united states artillery to pro s aeed eed to fort canby washington where aher e lie he will be permanently stationed the alger light artillery battery will Byo bably move over to the presidio to C 17 y saturday to join the forces at kaump miller the iowa regiment donled friday before brig gen hughes f the leadville herald democrat pub J at leadville col has been sold v t by its former owner william H grif i juith to james C Mc Lannan and lute IL johnson battery A wyoming volunteer light artillery wt wr Ulery tillery known as the alger battery te ft command of bf captain Palmer arrived at jacj san ban francisco sunday from chey anne and went into camp at camp r miller at the Pre presidio howard brewer in an exciting con r abt at san francisco has beaten the amateur swimming record for yards his time being 6 minutes 10 seconds the previous record was 6 jg 2814 23 seconds and was held 11 W slum blum of chicago f boards No ards sawmill at halley hailey ida was waa y burned on tuesday the fire being aabel by flying sparks five thou amod feet of lumber ten tons of grain tiling house and granary were red the whole entail entailing ing a loss thursday aBhi evening TM recruits ar abad at san francisco from IL they will remain in the 1 aan ar all night and this friday will march to the ground as tend the ifie at camp merritt Merrt tt adjoining arad 90 4 cuarte quarters rs of the wyoming troops flow melrose Ml rose mont on the big hole r two fax farmers mers george bauch and cwi iwi W wench got into a dispute about hay wench went to a cabin got a butcher knife and return returning lug cut but Va vauches jugular wench escaped and f aa UM been caught bauch died in y twenty minutes taft experienced in obtain 0 pa for transport sport service 0 caused the to seek tor for sailing vessels which may be available several have been examined and it is understood that the ship tacoma will be chartered to carry stores and military supplies to manila returning from church sunday evening thomas lewis a citizen of the big horn wyoming basin was struck by lightning and killed lewis his wife and son and E TV Cooking were seated in a wagon together and the flash kilic d the horses and burned mrs lewis and the boy col smith of the 1 first tennessee volunteers has asked major general otis for a board of survey to pass on the uniforms issued to his regiment the colonel asserts that the garments were made in chinatown and are worthless after ten days wear they are in worse condition than the old uniforms worn by the troops on their arrival in san Pran francisco cisco miss birdie sanders in resisting an attack by three men who opposed her retention as teacher of the white cross school boise ida shot two of them the third running away one of the wounded men wm kendrick lck may die it is supposed the men intended to abduct miss sanders in order to scare her out of the country A severe north wind has done considerable sid erable damage to grain and fruit in the sacramento and san joaquin valleys cal the greatest lops will fall upon the growers of wheat some conservative farmers estimate that 40 per cent of the cereal has been threshed out by the storm in certain localities the company of engineers organized by capt waln wain morgan draper left denver tor for san francisco last night over aver the union pacific en route to the philippines there are ninety two men in the company one hundred and fifty pennsylvania volunteers passed through last night they were entertained by the soldiers aid society the california eastern railway it is said Is ie to be extended from manvel Mi anvel san bernardino county to goode springs nev a distance of seventy miles it is said the campbells of salt lake city who own valuable lead mines at goode springe have guaranteed an average freight of tons of lead ore per week logan stair a fourteen year old boy was drowned in the tank at the bat natatorium on broadway los angeles cal thursday afternoon A dazen comrades were in the tank at the time but they haid had riot not the slightest idea of young stairs danger and left min him to drown he was waa probably slewed with a cramp the parents are from akron 0 and have lived in los 1 angeles three years the san francisco call says that the 9 schooner laura laum belonging to the mutual mining and transportation company of boston which was to have sailed for st michaels on may last is still tied up there owing to the tact fact that san francisco merchants mere hanto have liens on her amounting to over has been expended by the company in extensive preparations for or its ita proposed operations in alaska claus Ima Isak keens sens who recently absconded with over belonging to the pacific rolling MIUs mills company san elan francisco has been located by the detectives tec tives at st paul minn he has been indicted by the grand jury ead today go governor vernor budd will be asked to issue extradition papers for his return to that city he is in said to have left disguised as a tramp and to have visited seattle and vancouver vancouver before going to st paul the yukon northwestern dredging transportation company has brought suit to recover damages from william birch co george thompson and E T engelbrecht san francisco the plaintiff corporation complains of breach of a contract under which birch company agreed to construct and deliver within a certain time a stern wheel steamer thompson and engelbrecht are sued as sureties on a bond given to insure performance of the contract second horace T devereaux reported wounded among Roosevel ts rough riders at santiago is a prominent club man of colorado springs and denver he enlisted with the rough riders as a private later becoming a sergeant two weeks ago he was commissioned a second lieutenant upon the recommendation of col roosevelt devereaux is a graduate of princeton and played quarterback quarter back with the tigers for several years two companies of the second regiment of volunteer engineers went into camp at san ban francisco sunday on the presidio to plain north of camp miller one company to Is from colorado under captain draper the other is a california company under captain kreken major lanot Is in command of this battalion the colonel of the regiment is wallard Wll lard young two more companies are expected in a week one is in coming from salt lake and the other from arora portland south dakota needs forty more recruits at san francisco kansas wants several more and the eighteenth united states infantry is in short two men the united states signal corps detachment at camp merritt wants sixty or more recruits in addition to twenty reported to be on the way there them from the east and the united states hospital corps attached to the field hospital desires recruits to coma complete its quota of attendants no other vacancies exist among the different commands destined for or on the way to the philippines the steamer pennsylvania has brought to san francisco nine gold seekers from boston who sailed on the schooner stowell sherman and were stranded at montevideo Mont evidio their vessel venel was pronounced at that tbt port pom captain M F culbert and first officer roose remained to look after the schooner the men who 10 lo have reached there report that the ina bikers who left new york to in february on the schooner under captain mccarthy axe are at bues buenos ayres without money to pay par for necessary repairs to their craft it was learned at sacramento gal thursday night that a a field oce fice started near Roc klig plager county in the forenoon and driven by the idea fierce ce norther the fire swept southward burning almost everything in its path it reached the american river jumped the river and swept over the MUS hills clew to the river and how tar eastward la is not known ho houses us ew bema fences grain and hay fields lordwood oord wood etc were wiped out and it is sald that th considerable live stock perished seit several persons axe are said to have been in aured ex secretary of state john Sher mair arrived at seattle thursday night from alaska speaking of his trip to alaska mr sherman 7 said paid it I 1 wai most deligh delightful taul I 1 have ever wi pleasure of taking the stranger of all was the constant daylight ka would be better governed aa regular territorial laws is on a on elusion I 1 have reached on this ahto visit t I 1 believe it will be a very short time until congress gives her these it may be years before statehood can be given that prohibition law to which alaskans Alas Ala kana object so strongly does not seem to prohibit entirely as I 1 noticed a great many saloons if the law cannot be enforced it would be better were it taken off the statute books according to the san francisco examiner the next fleet of transports for the philippines will consist of the peru city of puebla acapulco umatilla and pennsylvania the acapulco is expected at any time from panama and upon her arrival she will be impressed by the government the umatilla Is due today from puget sound ports and it is said that she will be taken upon her arrival the pennsylvania is expected every day from philadelphia and there will be no trouble in securing her the rio de janeiro is due from china and japan on july ath she will be taken but will reach here too late to go in the next expedition A correspondent of the sacramento bee writing from long canyon placer county cal says that monday evening all the miners employed in that locality went into the boardinghouse boarding house and during the meal one of the men re marked that some chinese were going to work on a road which is being built from long canyon to soda springs all of the miners except one went to the mongolians Mongo lians camp and told them they could not work and compelled them to decamp the miners returned declaring they would not work for people employing chinese and were paid oft off and the mine is idle the man who would not go on strike ran away and hid bid in n the bushes but was caught and narrowly escaped lynching lunching lyn ching the chinese were driven away with guns being forced down the canyon for two miles it now seems possible that the next expedition to the philippines may wi sail within ten days although only two transports the peru and the C city ity of puebla are aval available lable the pennsylvania which arrived sunday and the city of rio de janeiro due on tuesday are likely to be chartered or impressed by the government there were patients in the field hospital on sunday 80 being afflicted with ith measles about thirty more soldiers are in private hospitals private savoy company E twenty third united states infantry to is dead of pneumonia the kansas and south dakota and other regiments which have received shoddy uniforms are being outfitted anew the unserviceable garments having been recalled and suits of good quality substituted the steamship acapulco from panama a and way ports arrived at san fran tisco friday the umatilla from puget sound bound and british Collim bla atso also reached quarantine and the city of panama was expected from central america Ai friday PIrl day evening it to is understood that these three vessels will be taken by the government for transport purposes the city of puebla and the peru are rapidly being fitted up and the departure of the fourth fleet to manila nila to is expected to be set for july the idea of sending each ship off as it is ready without waiting for a fleetham flee thas not been favorably considered and the next expedition will be similar to those that have pio preceded ceded it although the term fleet to is variable and may in 1 elude anything from three to fifteen vessels major general E 8 otte oils has announced no definite plans in regard to lits his own departure according to present besent indications he will not go un er hlll il the final fleet sails through the golden gate t A t |