Show WESTERN NEWS ITEMS fc at R T Row abauer was found dead near swan labe mont moat saturday a vic jam alm of heart beart disease deceased was a member of the united states mind lead oom com from the missoula Ml asoula district at great palls falls mont sunday avorn ing police officer luke curry was mistaken tor for a burglar and shot 6 dead ad by y isaac shaeffer Sha enter a merchant who labo re there from new york the united states cruiser philadelphia paja has come down to san francisco from mare island and on tuesday will sail tor for central american ports she I 1 will then go to the hawaiian islands i A contract has been let for the im mediate of the lewiston a vineland Vine tand bridge across the snake river the cont contract radt price being the B structure will be 1570 feet long and have fourteen spans the united states battleship WIS coasin will be launched at san fran cisco on saturday november and will be by miss elizabeth steph stephenson enson daughter aughter di of isaac stephenson of marln elate wis I 1 several ships bound for pacific coast ports from the orient and from new south wales are considerably overdue r and it is thought ht in the oases of two of the vessels there is little hope of their ever being heard from for pleading guilty to the charge of Wang laughter ta tobt se be a shoshone andian was friday sentenced at chey renne enne wyo to t ten years imprisonment the ithe I indian killed hlll ed one of his wives he 16 70 years old and may not live out ais bis sentence So hoops a tallor tailor shot and rauel ri Uel gustave guatave hager a shoemaker at sea title sunday sun day hager had bad ha d reproved toa for drunkenness drunken abess hager has a we living wt ait 1112 post street sam Tiran clow both men formerly lived in Ain geles the clutes charged at leadville olo with the murder of J F barger were released from custody thursday on the testimony showing that they had bad ample provocation for striking the blow which ended fatally baggent be ing very violent during the quarrel george crocker and J of the he southern pacific have gone north they will make an examination of a carbon hill coal mine in washington after which mr crocker will return to portland and join mr in an inspection ot of the southern pacific companas comp anys lines in oregon i A brandreth who claimed to be EL a nephew of the millionaire pill maker of f that name was found dead in his cell at the county jail fresno cal thursday having been arrested the night before on a charge of vagrancy he was a graduate of yale college mad and had traveled all over the world sheriff walen has handed to chief of police lees of san francisco over 3 W 00 in gold to bring the witnesses fron from A delaware to that city to attend the trial rial of the botkin case the money be forwarded alt once ance by the chief 66 that the witnesses can be there by dec sah the date of the trial Pa passenger train no 11 on the denver ft rio grande carrying coaches for the pacific ft ran into a f freight fight ight train six miles north of colorado springs rs at friday the engineer ineer of the passenger gerand and the fire aman n of the freight were slightly injured A enow c covering practically the e whole of Ca colorado lorado has raged there hy by a stoice e won sunday a heavy fall of temperature shortly before nolon ithe mercury stood at 66 degrees above and at 6 welock it had fellen to tio 12 degrees and was still falling the snowfall is out not sufficient to izaer feire with railway traffic arthur A brown shipping clerk for the albion lumber co is dead from the effects of a blow with a club inflicted by albert bierworth proprietor of the globe lodging house on howard street san francisco bierworth who is under arrest claims that brown who was intoxicated created a disturbance tur bance and that he acted in self defense the first death adiong the laval kled soldiers returned efimm camile Ma mila on the rio de janeiro Jani eino occurred sunday at ait the hospital san Franci francisco it was that of private thomas thoimas jefferson first colorado 06 orado regiment jefferson had been sick tor for many weeks typhoid fever and dysentery and several times on the voyage over pt it was feared he would nave have to be burled buried at sea game commissioner swan of colorado thursday received information that indians from utah had again invaded the state and were killing cattle in routt county he immediately laid the facts before general sumner in command of the department of the colorado who will send troops to drive the indians back to the reservation vice president watt of the san joaquin valley railroad is quoted as saying that in his opinion a satisfactory arrangement such as would permit the santa pe fe to operate its trains train over the southern pacific tracks over the tehachapi mountains would be effected and that the proposed new line for the construction or which the bakersfield and los angeles railway company was incorporated would not be built there has been a rapid decline in hawaiian commercial stock the shares falling from to 46 but the last sale of thursday was made at 47 mere than 1000 shares changed hands in the open board the stock sold at 60 a week ago it has declined a point or two a day but the sudden drop startled the insiders who axe are at a loss to account for it other sugar stocks have been slightly affected but their shrinkage is only nominal fire eire sunday morning the erection house and the boiler boller house which form a part of the colorado midland railroad shops at city four flour ini in the erection house were damaged to bo the extent of about 2500 each aad a number lot machine tools were destroyed deal troyed total to tal low lose Is ie estimated at about cause of the ithe fire is known but it is supposed to be due to a tive spark igniting waste word has been received from col funston commanding the indiana 1 that there were no officers wives as stowaways on board the transport he explained that word had reached him direct from the secretary of war just before the indiana left san francisco authorizing all who desired to sail to be taken as passengers this however was not known at military headquarters there jack E wing of the olympic club wheelman wheelmen elmen broke twenty nine amateur coast bicycle records at brelos park san jose cat cal sunday he began tine work mork at ast the two mue mark and came caine within yards of the worlds vy hour he rodie rode 28 allee 1089 13 1 3 yards in one hour as against 29 miles yards made by R D buggey at I 1 doe angeles august aug 16 1897 he was paced by two triplets and cdx tan diema all of the mast boast records from two miles up were beaten A lewiston special to the spokane spokesman re view says J M edwards ot of this city received news today from his brother in new york that the fam ilys right to a big fortune lad had been established and that the money was ready for distribution the portion of mr edwards and his brother amounts anio units to over the fortune has been be en awaiting waiting la the proof of for a number of years A recent court decree has settled se titled the question in their tavor flavor work is progressing rapidly at the presidio military reservation on the barracks which are being built for the new york regiment and the battalion of engineers now stationed ata tinned across the pacific the disappearing carriage tor for the large 12 inch rifle at the Pre presidio will be in place in about a month an 8 inch disappearing carriage and an 8 inch rifle will arrive in a short time from the east bids for the erect erection lon of the new milli military tary hospital will be opened on nov 29 and its construction will be hastened deciduous fruit shipments from california to the eastern markets have about ceased for the season of 1898 with the exception of grapes and apples which still go forward the total shipments for the season to date amount to cars as against oars cars for last season this is a falling off of cars which is considerably less than was anticipated early in the season owing to the drought prunes raisins and dried fruits axe are moving east in large quantities s it is estimated that the raisin shipments will amount to cays cars and that the prune crop and the dried fruit shipments will aggregate about the same number of oars cars james bruce simpson until recently recently deputy collector of internal revenue ot t butte mont was found dead in his room thursday morning with partly used bottle of morphine near him he had evidently taken some of the drug during the night he served as deputy under collector lyman A few days ago he heard that his wife who is in helena had started suit for divorce this with inability to secure employment to is supposed to have prompted the deed deceased was a graduate of the university of edinburgh and for some years ran a private school in heena all the whaling vessels from the axe arc tac and the sea due to arrive tat at san francisco are in port but two the mary D hume and the balleria Bal aeria will winter off herschel island and the tae bowhead will remain at igasaki Na for the wlater winter months the fearless is due any day six wl hIers in port are going out again before the end of the year four of them the callior nia hepatica He charles W morgan una and alice knowlen are now getting ready for sea and will sail in less than two weeks the four windjammers are going south in quest of sperm oil there is a little shortage on casks and this is ie the only thing that cihat is delia delaying ying the sailing of the whalers chalers wh alers allen alien L alford aged 21 years was arrested at the gates of san quentin prison sunday just as he had gained his liberty after having served a two i years term of imprisonment for a 6 forgery done in los angeles it to Is alleged that afford passed two bogus drafts on the first national Natt Nati bank of this city the drafts were for each and were drawn on W H allen alien of philadelphia according to td detec tive live cody alford is the wayward son of gen alford a millionaire wh whose ase ime is in texas the young man Is also accused of having committed forgeries in beatrice neb chicago spokane and portland or the san francisco examiner says no less than five new sugar companies have been incorporated in the hawaiian islands and within two years from now the output of raw sugar will be increased creased considerably these five companies are the wal wai A lua agricultural company on the island of oahu bahu which has been reorganized from the halstead plantation company and has a capital stock of nearly all placed in honolulu the american sugar company which has a new plantation on the island of molokai and bucks new plantation on the is island landof jbf oahu bahu the maul plantation in which alexander baldwin of san francisco are interested and the oahu bahu plantation company represented by hackfeld co of honolulu tn in judge belchers department of the superior court san francisco mrs nettle R craven has ha petitioned for a jamily fatally allowance from the estate of the late james G fair she claims to be hs his surviving widow on the irke strength of an alleged marriage contract and asks for five thousand dollars a month to take effect from the date ot of senator Seni ator pairs fairs death dec 28 1894 this means a el ealm aim for about back allowance she values the estate at the petition is signed simply nettle tle 16 fair action in the matter has been postponed until monday pending the arrival of judge truittt Troit tt whom judge belcher desires to hear the case mrs Crave cravens iDs previous case against the fair estate was lost in the superior chiat land and is now on appeal in case the judgment la is reversed mra cravens attorneys va wish her to be in a position tion to press apes all claims the denver news publishes the following telegram signed by R A alger secretary of war no thought has been given to muster out the colorado regiment a nor or will there be until peace is dee declared lared 11 last sunday governor adams ama received ece ived a letter from adjutant CS corbin in which the following language e was used it is the purpose of a the war department to return to the united states within a few months the volunteer regiments now serving in manila other volunteer regiments now being on their way to replace them it is believed this will have been accomplished and the soldier for whom you write will return about as soon as though his discharge were ordered immediately Wed the apparent disagreement th ent between the two messages Is causing considerable speculation as to wt whether elther a change has occurred in the philippine situation athin the past week the supposed suicide of lilian tirades a pretty 16 15 year old girl giri in bairt berkeley cal on saturday to is likely fikely to bo prove a case of murder the a autopsy topsy showed t that at the girl had been beaten en on the head until her scalp was laid open and her skull dented her wy lody was covered with bruises and there were no signs of strangulation after the surgeons had completed their examination they said that the girl ha had d died floom or had been rendered un ef by a blow on en the head and been tied up to the bet post the girls father W A Brom brandes des has been arrested on suspicion 8 us of hav having committed the horrible aimi the hie stepmother has become and refuses refuges to talk about an fugedy which was arst rep reported arted to tue police by the accused man mam the tell many stories of how the R girl was cruelly treated and the community Is greatly excited over the startling developments the idaho world reports a fatal accident resulting in the death of james T beers which occurred at van wyck about ten tuesday november ath mr beers had started home after the election driving a one horse cart he passed william mcguffin McGuff ln and john westfall at the bridge at the end of the lane leading to van wyck As lic he based them he raised his hand and said good evening gents and drove rapidly on it was anite dark and he missed the road when about halfway half halt way up the hill one wheel of the cart passing over a big boulder near the road the shock threw him about twenty five feet mr mcguffin McGuff ln hurried to his assistance si but found his unconscious in which condition he remained until S wednesday morang when he breathed his last on examination it was found that he had bad struck on h hs s lic licad head ad sustaining an injury to his spine he was also injured internally the blood flowing from his mouth and one ear blood has again been spilled in the fierce feud between the rival tongs of chinatown san francisco while alone in the upper story of a dingy building on commercial street ah pun was hacked and beaten by two high binders and left for dead his murderous assailants asal asai lants ah bow and sung yee fled at the approach of a lodger in the house whose arrival saved ah puns life the latter was found lying over a grating bleeding from a half dozen wounds with his skull fractured by an iron bar in the hands of ah bow and smeared with gore from the slashes of sung lees knife the chinese consul has posted a proclamation warning the high binders against violations of the law and stai stating implicitly the pun nun ashment that might be expected offenders are informed that riot not only will they and their relatives in this country feel the weight of chinas cainas wrath but that even in china their kinfolk kinsfolk will be held accountable for the mil doings of their brethren here C ferrill curator of the state historical and natural history society of colorado has sent a letter to the board of directors of the louisiana purchase centennial st louis mo suggesting that the board request the governors of those states that as a whole or in considerable part were established from the louisiana purchase issue proclamations that december next nex be observed as louisiana Pur |