Show WESTERN NEWS ITEMS omaha stockman nov 23 E D clyde of heber utah was at the yards today and had cattle on sale at spokane wash friday night wager hurlburt aged 24 grasped an electric cord gave a gasp and fell forward dead willie the 8 year old son of james jamea I 1 hall was killed by an engine at nampa ida friday the boy accident accidentally all nf ran into an approaching locomotive not seeing ee it the battleship wisconsin was launched at the union iron works this morning is the first california built battleship not christened with the native wine of the state i in san francisco friday night the police stopped the fight between smith and joe bell 11 lightweights light P tei t weights ei I 1 pa ta in the third round to abot aboia possible possie e injury to the contestants A W barber is on his way to boundary creek for the purpose of ie securing curing information concerning the overflow of lands on the american side by dams built on the canadian side at cheyenne wyo gus carl has been convicted of attempted murder for which the penalty is from one to fourteen years carl shot gib dark clark a 4 fellow employed emp loye inflicting serious wounds among the passengers going to alaska on the steamer rosalie which sailed from port townsend friday was R goldstein who claims a portion of the townsite te of juneau under a mineral location made in 1888 united states senator perkins will leave san francisco for washington to I 1 morrow in an interview he said personally I 1 do not favor the retention of the philippines but great questions of state may arise which will outweigh my opinion he expressed himself as favorable to the repeal of the war tax the united states gunboat wheeling has arrived at san francisco from mare island after undergoing a general overhauling the italian cruiser etna will leave today for mare island where she will be put on dry dock it Is expected that the monitor Corna comanche nehe will be taken to honolulu at t an early date in tow of the iroquois thousands of sheep are imprisoned in the mountains near pendleton ore three feet of snow has fallen in the toot foot hills there and the sheep cannot set et through it to the valleys below ah the situation results from the fact that sheep men have kept their sheep on the mountain ranges as long as possible on account of the dryness and lack of grass outside unless chinook winds blow and melt the snow sheep men will be unable to bring their sheep out without heavy loss col J A andrews ex united states indian agent at lemhi leahi agency idaho was taken before united states commissioner capron at denver friday afternoon for examination on the charge of having embezzled indian funds to the amount of he was bound over in the sum of to appear for trial at the next term of the federal court to in idaho andrews was captured in idaho springs J W nee of tacoma is at vane Vanc er B C with an interesting ing klondike ma mastodon s thaon story he say gayb V 0 of a I 1 MB ft due 0 of f bones found on sulphur creek one waa 46 a tooth between four an and d one halt half and five inches long and nearly two Inches thick at the base another was the leg of an animal from the knee to the ankle it was five feet and a halt half in length from the ground to the animals body te the distance was probably over ten feet the whaling bark charles W morgan will sail today tor for the south seas in n quest aest of sperm oil the morgan will be the te first of of the whalers chalers off this year ear 1 she will be followed by the alice rin R in orN rIes california and horatio thia little flemet oat will cruise in the south seas and then go 0 to honolulu to ship their catch to ian san francisco prom from honolulu they will sail for the sk and S japan aa beas after replenishing I 1 their the I 1 r 61 outlets ts the steamer w chalers whalers are I 1 laid aid up I 1 in n oakland creek and will not at ae leave ave ford t ue arctic until the spring A terrible windstorm in the oil district of california near lo 10 angles caused much damage thirty seven derricks were blown down and wany many overhead pulley wires and aad smokestacks smoke stacks two oil tanks helding 1 MOO 0 gallons of kofl were punctured rid by talog lauing derricks and the 0 ou is running through the streets several houses and barns were crushed under the falling derricks the cottage of mrs romero was struck by a treavy aheady timber which went through the roof a and fell across the bed where her two children were asleep but curiously neither was injured one horse was killed two hundred men are clearing alky the debris george lavigne gained the decision the decision over tom tracey friday night at san francisco at the end of a twenty round fight at pounds or under the fighting was clever and interesting throughout but lacked the excitement which usually accompanies a contest between two such exponents of pugilism lavigne did decidedly the main work being aggressive in every respect forcing g tracey ra cey about t the he ring and compelling p ilin g hi him m t to 0 us use all his cleverness and shiftiness ti es of foot to avoid the little champlon champeon cham plon s rushes tracey did not seem to be at all chagrined over the adverse decision and took it all good the crowd was as large as any that has assembled in woodwards pavilion since the walcott green fight probably persons being present the steam whaler fearless captain james mckenna the last of the arctic fleet to arrive at san francisco this winter has just reached port with nothing to show tor for her four years voyage she Is one of the vessels caught in the tee ice at point barrow the story of her rescue has already been told captain mckenna said when ni nipped ped by the ice we were but thirty ailees miles from point barrow it if we had been able to go thirty five miles further I 1 believe we would have come out all right when the vessel left plover bay on october the steamers alexander and bowhead were there where they expected to remain until november in the hopes of catching some of the late whales last year the natives say that seventeen came into the bay as late as this the bowhead took two bowhead whales after the others left the arctic two were sighted by the fearless but the boat steer ers missed them captain frederick keye company B first north dakota volunteers who arrived at port townsend sunday night from manila on leave of absence lepor reports t that among both volunteers and regulars regul r the feeling is strongly against the retention of the philippines the officers are all desirous of returning home and a large number have tendered their resignations which will not be accepted many have asked for leave of absence the insurgents are very insolent and even refuse to obey the orders of the american authorities the insurgent camp was ordered to move eight miles further back from malate but they refused and the americans were powerless to enforce the order the americans and insurgents are not in close touch and a distinction seems to be made some insurgents are allowed to come with their arms arm s inside the american lines while others are disarmed before they can enjoy that privilege judge buckles of solano county cal has just decided an interesting case involving the question as to whether a person can acquire property as the direct result of his own crime the decision is in the affirmative louis JE frank arthur thomas susie belew were brothers and sisters louis and susie were unmarried and each s E hessed estates in their own right the vh e father and mother were both dead frank was without means and possessed a family mily with whom at the time he was not living he murdered louis and susie with no apparent motive except to succeed to a portion of their respective estates he pleaded guilty and was hanged the petition for the distribution trib ution of the estate of susie and louis belew asks that the said estate be distributed tri buted in equal shares to the sury surviving i vi nf brothers and to the estate of F frank ra n belew one of the brothers filed objection to any distribution d being made to the e estate of frank belew on the ground that lie he having murdered his his brother and sister he could not succeed to anhof any of the estate loft left by them to this objection a general demurrer was interposed and has ban been sustained judge buckles declaring that unless the court can change the code of civil procedure the estates of bouis louts and susie belew must be distributed d I 1 s tri buted in equal parts to the estate of the murderer frank belew and the two surviving brothers |