| Show WESTERN NEWS ITEMS private jno A gailyer Gaff Gail ser company C fifty first iowa died tuesday at the presidio of spinal meningitis omaha stockman sept 16 the victoria L S co had fifteen cars care of catto catte here from kamas utah omaha stockman sept 19 john job juke duke J 0 duke and E J duke all ol 01 of park city utah had sheep on sale the CalAf orria heavy artillery maj jr S rice commanding has received to 10 proceed to the philip pines Wb aident mckinley has been invited x attend the idaho international fair ellch comes off at boise the early part of october the wyoming battery of artillery and the nevada cavalry it is under boid are to be assigned to angel uland cal private john A ganser company C efty arty first iowa died at the division fw S pital san francisco monday of IS A threshing engine on the collins ten en miles from olympia wash ed tuesday afternoon seriously favoring wing four employed emp loyes an in tacoma ta coma wash tuesday the ex building the largest structure f C its kind in the northwest was com Sef tely destroyed by fire athe e fourth united states cavalry is to garrison the presidio and a portion if the united states third artil artillery lexy VW HU be kept at fort point cal i oen ficen miller now in command at san Vf welsco will command the reinforcements ordered to manila batteries A aft A D of the california artillery artil leri will go ft the expedition the washington republican state convention will convene in tacoma to day wednesday for the purpose of nominating two supreme judges and iam congressmen at large N elliot was found dead in fag cabin monday at cripple creek tab a bullet hole in his head it is ased he committed suicide being driven to it through lack of employment fl 71 W ruick heretofore a prominent of idaho has deserted his party and will stump the state ath judge joburn republican candidate for congress kuicks action has haa created A pite a sensation the royal commission appointed to alre squire into certain payments to con on account of the new parlia wont buildings met in victoria B C tuesday organized and adjourned until monday the ofte earl of ava son of the marquis of dufferin arrived in vancouver 1 B Tue and lord brassey gov g IV anor of the colony of victoria vicoria australia aralia reached there in the afternoon ep ea route to australia the falling of an ore car a distance of at WO feet in the orpha mine at cripple creek monday killed matthew brana om and patrick fitzpatrick frank craword Ora word was badly injured and had a US if amputated oft monday last james C singer a visitor from montana was dead lit his room in san ban frani wednesday his hia will was fled for Ie baite te all of the property is divided equal shares between two aioo cousins w of new york has a number of championship belts 40 W weights to amateur boxen of 4 the olympia club and preparations for an athletic tournament under the auspices I 1 of this organization are am now mow in progress in california in each of the regiments at the pre are being baling taken up for the benefit of the family yi of henry hildebrand who was murdered by hospital steward rosser of the first i Tenness see the collections now amount to about 2600 2500 A sergeant corporal and twelve privates of battery I 1 third artillery will relieve the bat battalion tallon of washington volunteers under col fife who have been stationed at angel island cal the washington battal lon will rejoin the two others at the presidio to and get ready for their arid to manila R P neu of at the firm of heldmaier Held maler mater neu of chicago the contractors to whom was awarded the work of building the breakwater ter at a t san pedro harbor has arrived ait los angeles oal cal the formalities have now all been complied compiled with and the building of th the breakwater will begin as soon own as preparations pr ep can be made it has just been learned that on sept ath a number of children entered the residence residence of julius general manager of the southern pacific company san francisco during the absence of the family and stole various articles valued at over 1000 the burglars ranged from 9 to 12 in age most of the prop property efty has been recovered tene the democratic municipal committee t of sitting as a convention met in san francisco tuesday night and after adov adopting ting a platform made the following nominations for mayor james D phelan for superior judg judges rhodes borden frank J J M seawell and william T walace all except are now occupants of the bench perry 0 symonds a stanford university student has been selected by the british museum to make a thorough zoological collection tour of south america from ecuador to the straits of magellan Magell anand and he will leave sept 28 to begin his duties he will be accompanied on the trip by his brother lu ather B symonds and a mexican lad of 14 years whom he will pick up at magellan on the lourney journey south wednesday was comstock day at the nevada state fair weather was fine track hard attendance good first race trotting free for all mile and repeat six staT starters peo won lottle lottie G second mamie P F third ame both heats second race hurdle free for all one and one fourth miles Diab oleto won Cen tenella second Ba baldric Baler leric lc third time third race six furlongs purse fannie S E won macada second GOSSIP third time 1 17 the e new torpedo boat destroyer far bagu ra ut t has almost demonstrated that she can make the speed of thirty knots an li hour our required ired by the rivern government ment she has made one mile in five minutes and 9 seconds and several miles in a 6 fraction over two minutes A slight accident caused by something getting between her propeller pro pelleT and hull will necessitate some game delay before her official trial la Is made but it is believed by tier her builders that she will easily make the contract speed australian papers just received report a daring bank robbery at penhurst Pen hurst about miles froen melbourne del bourne an unknown man entered the local branch of the bank of victoria TIc tora and covering the mai manager nager mr va jamieson aleson with a revolver bound and gad him and obtained possession of the keys of the strong room he abstracted about six hundred pounds in notes and gold and made off A man named glen thompson has been arrested on suspicion the evidence against him being very strong As far as new discoveries went the expedition sent out by the university of pennsylvania to study north alaska from a scientific standpoint has been a failure three men of the party in charge of E A mcilhenny returned to seattle on the excelsior nearly specimens weighing eleven and a hall hala tons are in the collection brought back the specimens were gathered east and south of point Bar rowAnd barrow and represent a considerable expenditure but it 1 Is 19 9 said the scientists secured little that Is new george mulligan a miner who recently Te returned turned from the klondike lost loot a purse containing on a street can in san francisco a few days ago it et has beeh found and returned by john donahue the gripman of the car with the exception of 40 in currency the money was in checks one of which was a draft for issued at art dawson city on tale bank of british columbia in san francisco buligan Mu ligan who was wao so lucky as to recover his fortune intact left 20 at the ca car r house for the honest grip men the firm fires that have been sweeping over the She ephom mountains in colo have resulted in the loss of hundreds of acres of valuable timber and the burning of at least one settlers Ct lerps house and crops mr mandlin who has a ranch in a small valley in the mountain lost his entire years crop together with his dwelling and other buildings several other ranchers further down the same valley are endangered fires are also raging in the cattle dome piney country and in n the district dietrict south of vast tracts of fine timber have been wiped out the republican state convention of 0 washington nominated the following ticket wednesday congressmen W T jones yakima and francis W cushman of tacoma judges of the supreme court mark A fullerton ot of colfax and T J anders of walla walla the nominations of jones and cushman were by acclamation and the nominations of the supreme judges were made unanimous be fore the result of the first and only one ballot was announced the business of the convention was conducted in id a smooth and expeditious manner there were no spirited contests on the floor and the proceedings were almost fear feao cureless tur eless the prosecution in the botkin poisoning case believe that they have dasco discovered a means by which the accused woman can be legally turned over to the delaware authorities for fen trial chief ot of police lees has secured an opinion based on article 3 section 2 F federal deral constitution which provides that the supreme court shall have jurisdiction in controversies between two or more states or between a state and the citizens of another state A remedy la Is suggested in a writ of habeas corpus known to common law as a writ of habeas corpus and which if granted will result in the transference of mrs botkin from california to the state of delaware I 1 the convention con venton of the prohibition party of colorado was held at denver tuesday and the following ticket placed in the field governor rev 0 I 1 B spencer of denver lieutenant goy gor 1 arnor P F E dunleavey of trinidad secretary of sute state W A rage of grand junction auditor Ws mrs zeft Cli ambers of colorado springs Spring 6 attorney general toll topp ot of denver treasur 0 A rhinehart of denver of public schools school was miss allce alice Mitch mitchell Ml bIl of denver regents ot of the state university Aver sity A A reed heed of boulder and S B saalborn of Ore greeley eley the platform Is confined almost exclusively to a consideration of the liquor question no reference being made to silver or woman suffrage the anaconda standard says henry clay graves a prominent Dromi nent business rhan man of bannock was instantly killed sunday afternoon by the accidental discharge of a shotgun which he WAS tarrying carrying mr graves in company with A F graeter was coming from bannock to dillon in a buggy and when ben about ten miles from this place the gun which was a short double gun slipped out of the buggy and presumably the wheel struck the hammer discharging one barrel loaded with buckshot the entire charge tricking tri king mr graves in the left side just juat above the hip mr graves pitched forward out of the buggy and was dead before mr graeter could stop the team and get to his side australian altan papers received at san on the steamer alameda Ala meds re rt the wreck of the schooner C C yunk on flanders island on july with ten of her crew ell all of whom shipped on the well known coaster either there or in the north only two semen beamen albert krugh and john peterson were saved and but one body had been recovered when the alameda sailed it was that of peter nellson the list hot of the drowned is as follows captain and aad mrs nesson and two children ago aged 9 8 and 5 years respectively A hansen en chief mate J stump second ante 1 charles olsen peter nellson neilson charles Joa hansen and peter anton an ton able seamen the vessel was driven ashore by bya a gale and went to pieces in the surf george bowman of bridgeport tonn conn was murdered last winter during a terrible snow anlow storm by a companion named johnson of springfield mass he was almost in sight of the boldea meem mecca when his strength failed adin and he sink sank down in the soft adow johnson who was the leader of the he party went kemt back to him and with an oath loath blew out the unfortunate mans brains with a revolver this Is the tel terrible Tible story aliory that is told for the first ume time by J C smiths who has just returned turned d from alaska his partner edward T calhoun of yonkers N Y witnessed the terrible deed which was near their cabin a snort short distance from dawson calhoun Oal houn too nearly early lost his life from a bullet from Jq haason s revolvers revolver nothing was ever IJ bard of johnson it Is presumed he in the snow anew storm while trying ahto to escape tuesday nights caucuses of the ta republican convention were not vevy very productive of results the king county delegation could not agree on candidate for supreme sup tenie judge and ad till morning the tha northwest north wert 0 constituting what Is called northwest combine with ninety E votes vote did nothing beyond endors 13 L B blake of port townsend sor for W 1 y U chairman aman A rebo resolution lution ifa ea mr dorang ng B lake blake was at the fmc 4 county at U I 1 X t y caucus but it was withdrawn drawn n before action was wa taken at ly the contest for temporary an was between blake and t la ii in the le lead aa for per iff nf chairman developments Develop menta indi aae fr that the congressional nominees W cushman and aha jones fullerton Fuller toa oil fo be out of the woods in the te ON ak fat W one of the judges owing bo th the e I 1 by king county of st one ne of f its t candidates candidate it la Is biffl 0 ita o faree forecast farekas for ecat as the he remaining judge ake 11 C fl of seattle seatta I 1 derea 4 a very promising dark ark |
