Show WESTERN NEWS ITEMS sergeant charles charies H Rhein einhaus Rh baus company M twentieth kansas has been given a thirty days daya sick furlough corporal patrick ahern company B fifty first iowa died at the division hospital san francisco of typhoid fever omaha stockman sept 9 J M jensen was here from logan utah with eight double deck cars of western sheep an am explosion of four sticks of giant powder in a prospect hole at unionville Uni onville mont killed charles pratt sunday his body being blown to atoms capt capit W J garland G arla nd who served through the civil war in an illinois volunteer regiment died at cheyenne wyo sunday of heart disease he was 60 years olf age W W bradley olf of parma ida was foully murdered saturday by J A lyons because the former had protected the lait little girl from the cruelties cruel ties of her father A sheepherder known as baltimore bill was burned to death at helena mont moat saturday morning in the feed stable of W budd timber thirty five horses wre were also cremated maj john A ratter surgeon of the twentieth kansas has been recommended to the president by gen miller tor for appointment as brigade surgeon and for assignment to the first brigade the body of 0 casper feuse a sheepherder was found saturday three miles northeast of argenta near helena mont it is believed he had fought a duel and had been shot through the body W B casey a rancher was killed sunday morning six miles of phoenix arizona by john mander witnesses say the killing was in self defense mander escaped and has not been captured the idaho state campaign Is about to begin in real earnest headquarters are to be established at ait boise balse by the silver republicans and hon C E arney will act as secre secretary ot of the state central committee there are now patients in the division field hoapp hospital tal san francisco twenty four in the aed cross convalescent home seven in other hospitals hoppl kajs six in private residences and on furlough one patient t was discharged from the hospital sunday henry bracken a molder employed at the union iron works in san francisco was drowned in the river while bathing sunday bracken leaves a brother who resides at butte mont and a sister at port townsend wash the remains have not been r recovered it Is expected that the new torpedo boat carrague Carr agut gut will be in condition to make her trial trip on next tuesday the port cylinder which was rendered inoperative when aishe was recently speeded on the bay has been replaced by the union iron works which built the vessel dickinson kershaw a popular young man of preston ida died there thursday of typhoid fever kershaw was born in clayton near bradford yorkshire england june 21 1873 and was therefore in his year funeral services on sunday at 2 from the preston meeting house the silver and democratic conventions are being held in reno nov nev and i a warm time has already been in evidence although to date no killings are reported thursday was given over to preliminary work and much discussion concerning the rights of certain parties to seats in the convention governor lord of oregon has completed his investigation of the condition of the recruits of the second oregon volunteers and has telegraphed to the secretary of war that he found everything satisfactory the governor and col tuttle adjutant general of the national guard of oregon left san francisco for home sunday night william oconnor superintendent of the rocky fork coal mines was shot and fatally wounded at red lodge mont saturday by tom salmon ex president of the red lodge union there were threats of lynching lunching lyn ching and salmon was hurried out of town to escape it american miners on the yukon have hare joined in an urgent request tor for the united states government to lo boxe xe an assay office and govern government men tank dank depository tory at circle city their object is to protect miners against the money brokers who charge what are considered extravagant fees for drafts or exchange the steamer rosalie arrived at seal tle sunday night from Sk aguay alaska with sixty passenger from dawson who brought out about in gold dust and drafts william stanley ot of seattle had about in drafts the pounds pf af gold on which they were issued was shipped down the river to st michael william D baker a young man from augusta me attempted suicide by gaa asphyxiation in a lodging house in C san francisco sunday he was supposed suppose to be dead when found but was received at the receiving hospital he was wa formerly clerk in the office of the united states legation at tokio despondency was the cause of his act this week is expected to be a busy one ait the naval recruiting rendezvous in san Fravel francisco aco A large number of the men at present with admiral dewey in manila have completed their terms of service and the local recruiting officer has received instruction from to enlist men machinists firemen fen muri clans seamen and ordinary ammen beamen eim are au all wani ted the nampa ida leader so say while returning home fromi from town tail saturday evening september 3 ard 3rd oey moore 14 year old son of df G T moore was thrown from his horse jinn in n scantly killed when within about abut ball a mile of his home four miles east st of at town it Is supposed the herse gave A sudden jump to one side aide which broke the boys neck as he was an experienced rider and not easily thrown and his body was not bruised which would probably have fa ave been the case had his hl neck been broken by the tall fall the arm and hand of a woman who was probably not over 25 yeara yeam of age was found in lake merritt Merrl tt oakland cal sunday evening by two girla irene monroe and berhta waller who were strolling along the shore at eighth street taken in connection with the recent discovery by some boy of a womans comans head floating in the bay near berkeley this ghastly find strongly points to the commission COMMIs slon of a murder as yet undetected the head was wa not recovered but the arm Is now lim in possession of the coroner who will make a searching investigation the arm was broken off at the elbow apparently patently ly by violence As AB no orders have been received from washington by gen miller mill er the future of the ithe expeditionary odices now at the presidio is still un cirtain gen miller has approved the sentence of the coutt court martial in the 1 ciosse I 1 of arl vate A W scruggs of the alfirst tennessee ho pleaded guilty of an assault and battery on dan thomas a negro while the latter was waa under the charge of a military mill tary guard on m the presidio Pre dilo reservation the sentence is confinement at hard labor for three months dishonorable dis charge from the army and forfeiture i of pay the place of imprisonment r will be alcatraz among the passengers from st michael on the steamer fastnet Past Flast net was T tredford Tred fold who was sent to alaska by the london mining journal to examine and report on the gold fields he says that all the recent rich strikes have beep made on the Aine american rican side and little if anything has bias been said aad about them outside of bonanza creek there the irle Is nothing to approach them in richness but they axe are propositions prop sitione requiring money to develop and next year when capital comes in freely the people will mot be so numerous but moat m t of the wealth will be taken from the A ameiro 1 can side I 1 the republicans of preston ida and county ticket state senator W W representatives E peterson and aad J S mahey county commis glovers eio glo ners august ellason first district i daniel toney second district daniel lapray Ia pray third district sheriff P C bingham assessor and collector martin johnson clerk district court D J i j reynolds js present incumbent county attorney D 0 mcdougall Dougall Me treasur er richard douglass probate judge thomas thomai stevens superintendent public instruct loh J B E hickman coroner jt IL 0 jones surveyor joseph munn othree three men were hurled into eternity in the twinkling of an eye thurid thursday ay the dl digester easter occurred on the line of construction rUction of the robson pentleton penticton branch of the canadian pacific near brooklyn oklyn B C by a pre premature mature blast ar john n kinnar oscar anderson and tom antua were hurled far down the mountain side and killed two blasts were prepared one of eight kegs and the other of twenty kegs in loading of f the second after twelve kegs had bon been put lit in the hole became stopped an iron spoon to clear the opening land and instantly the blast went off A fire started at midnight in the dale U hauae ause Davell davenport port wash burning fiercely fl erdely tor for two hours and destroyed a large business portion of the town the loss logs is estl estimated mated at an unknown man sleeping in the hotel suffered fatal burns bearn he dashed through the flames but his hair and beard were burned off his face scorched and his clothes all burned off when he reached the street he to Is still unconscious and not expected to live finney oo co suffered the heaviest loss the following officers have been elected by the knights of pythias grand lodge for the jurisdiction of wyoming grand chancellor P C er laramie Ija ramie past chancellor J J 1 t 4 0 churchill cheyenne prelate wal asp y ek cambria keeper of yN tind and seals beals charles 0 green I 1 1 adamle master of exchequer 8 mee ri russell cheyenne master ot of ar arms me I 1 samuel carbon in kid e guard ej EL W stone cheyenne oter guard W W paterson rock cambria was selected as the peace of holding the next annual convention ven Ved tion gen alfred S hartwell who arrived kitt k itt on the steamer coptic from honolulu will leave today saturday for boston with a contract which he says was consummated between the hawaiian government before annexation and a syndicate of boston capitalists headed by james S president of the central and doubt american Aine rican cable company for the 1 construction of a cable between san francisco and honolulu and from there to yokohama the contract gives this syndicate an absolute monopoly of cable communication between honolulu and yokohama but is silent regarding the right of competition between the islands and the united states the san francisco call says private advises advices have been received in this city to the effect that the caroline group of IsIna ds which this country contemplated seizing had war with spain prolonged is probably by this time in the hands of the natives the native kings of the group who had long been at war with each other some months ago declared a truce combined their forces and began war against the spanish authorities ties who sent in vain to guam for aid after concentrating their forces at bonapa but they were poorly supplied with ammunition and in no position to resist a prolonged attack the supposition is that the place was captured and the spanish garrison wiped out this would virtually mean the capture of the entire group of islands I 1 |