Show WESTERN NEWS ITEMS sister nory bridget of the catholic church died saturday at anaconda mont the national irrigation Con congress greab will convene at cheyenne september 1st ast 2nd and and 3rd ard ground was broken thursday for the new public building at cheyenne which is to cost michael leary a miner aged 25 was struck by falling rock in a cripple creek mine saturday and killed Livings tons electric light plant at helena mont was destroyed by fire sunday loss half insured col barber of the new york volunteers now at san francisco is in poor health and will go to the country to recuperate charles ahrens fell under a moving train at idaho falls wednesday night and had both legs cut oft off below the knees the democratic central committee at boise idaho has declared in favor of a union of all silver forces in the state tor for the coming election IT 0 hartman was drowned in the gunnison Gunn lson river near grand junction col sunday hartman was a postal clerk and highly respected hay is bringing such big prices in nevada that farmers are seriously considering the proposition of making it from wheat it brings 8 a ton the third battalion of the tennessee regiment at san francisco has been presented with a splendid silk flag by the women of Mc Kinnville tenn the iowa regiment now on the coast is receiving generous contributions from the towns and cities caties in which various companies were organized senator shoup of idaho has returned home from washington and Is authority for the statement that the fort hall indian treaty is sure to be rati ratified flea by congress dewill dewall T tucker rucker a private larcom ln company L slut iowa now at san francisco died sunday of pneumonia the remains will be taken back to council bluffs tor for burial hon thomas hooper of sundance wyo has been declared insane and sent beni to the asylum the loss of his money in mining ventures caused his unfortunate condition chris who has a son and daughter in salt lake was found dead in his room at salinas cal sunday he was 76 years old and death ensued from natural causes the third battalion washington volunteers un consisting of enlisted men and 17 officers under command of col J H whitley left portland saturday night for san francisco quartermaster long at san francisco has received instructions to charter no more vessels but gen merriam has not received orders to discontinue sending troops to the Phillip pines on complaint of Assie assistant tant surgeon hoffman hofeman a board of survey has been ordered to examine the bacon furnished the men in the camp of the nebraska recruits at san francisco sandy olds and charles anderson two well known confidence men were a arrested at seattle wednesday night on suspicion of bunk joseph neen a returned out of 1200 trouble over a water right near idaho palls falls ida resulted wednesday in the wounding of W F P cash who was shot in the knee by J Z A johnson johnon the wound destroyed the gent lemans knee cap the sureties of joel ware poster foster late assignee of the T A kent banking house Cheyenne Wyo have been called upon to make good a shortage of poster is said to be in canada at present at kemmerer wyo saturday brakeman named shaw employed on the oregon short line had his foot crushed by the train he was brought to salt lake and is now in the hospital joseph baker a private in company B first tennessee at san francisco died late saturday night at the division hospital of dysentery several men in the hospitals are in a critical condition rifles have been ls issued aed to the recruits from pennsylvania now at san ban francisco and their equipment is in practically complete the oregon recruits as yet have neither uniforms nor arms it is reported that senator perkins has received a telegram from secretary of war alger stating that the seventh regiment of california volunteers will sail for manila next week on the transport scandia william drumm the arack sprinter of the bhe university of california who was to have been track captain next year has enlisted as a private in corni com pany L second united states engineering corps coms private benson company E first new york is in the post hospital san francisco with what threatens to be pneumonia private keese company 13 first washington is in the hospital with typhoid fever the steamer centennial has been inspected for the third time and may yet be engaged as a transport the lahme and Alli alliance anoe will probably be employed to take the new york regiment to honolulu herman L watkins convicted of murder in the second degree for the killing of matthew of muldoon ida june ath last has been sentenced to 20 years hard labor in the state penitentiary A large cattle sale was consummated at cheyenne thursday the warren live stock compary selling through 17 W G gill 2600 head of cattle to I 1 N humphrey of cedar city S D tor for upward of the transport rio de janeiro will receive her complement of 1000 troops today and will be in readiness to sail for manila on sunday another 1000 will depart on the steamer st paul on next tuesday or wednesday while rowing on lake couer dalene near chatcolet Chat colet ida sunday frank helland and thomas allen alien tell fell overboard and were drowned their bodies were not recovered mrs holland saved herself by clintin ato the boat the army and navy christian commission tent at camp merritt accommodating com mo dating 1000 persons has been located with the kansas regiment the commission will locate another tent within the lines of the first new york regiment the removal of the division hospital from camp merritt merrit to the presidio to means more than its location on a better site for the invalids instead of being cared for in tents will now be quartered in comfortable brick wild ings ingo the dry bones of oliver kilbore Kil wore 6 crook county wyo horseman who dla dis appeared rather mysteriously in february 1896 1895 were found near sundance friday the skull was brushe d leading to the belief that the man was murdered daniel fletcher 35 years old whose parents live in logan utah fell from the bow ofa of a steamer at lake coeur cheu r dabene dA Iene near spokane thursday night clayton clay ton barnes bames jumped in and faund the manaut just as fletcher was lifted into a small boat he expired ex queen LlUu okalani attended by her physician dr english of ington and mr and mrs mra Hel eluke have arrived at san francisco from washington en route to honolulu the party will leave on the gaelic next tuesday for the hawaiian islands private john lynch of company A thirteenth minnesota volunteers while thursday night at san francisco made an assault with his bayonet on E D eaton an insurance man mam he was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon the idaho board of pardons is cont con sidi sl dering iring the cape of frank armstrong sentenced to life imprisonment for shooting paul culpert in 1887 As the crime Is now looked upon as man it Is believed that armstrong hu has been sufficiently punished tor for it Th elargest sale bale of wool ever made in the west was effected thursday by a sti louis firm the amount was three qu quarters ofa million pounds of ter wool which came from the southwestern states ss and it will require cars to transport it to the eastern consignees consig nees ass asi a result of recent primaries marlea hela beta in i the fourth congressional district Jud judge geha john L shepard pard of marion county texas has been declared by the executive committee to be the democratic nominee J xi crawford now represents the district and was defeated for 01 st paul a transport will be re reaby some som tini time next wee week k possibly by aly tuesday an and will probably carry originally designated for her by major general otis one battalion of tha theSda tn volunteers volunteer ti recruits of atthe I 1 the colorado volunteers and part 06 69 the signal bons eons detachment Nt datto atto aged 25 26 until two yeara ago agoa an officer of the italian army recently a resident of butte mont got donyla on a drunk drank lately and spent all his naw itys his hid creditors began to press him saturday he threw himself in fruitt of a great passenger and was ground to pieces brigadier general miller has ordered IL a board convened to examine inethia into ehte physical condition of coti coh E m C little once acting com mai adaar iKler of the twentieth kansas vol un teera te discover ithe be tot not cally disqualified for the dittes of his post Go governor Vornor budd of california has for to labor fitz geton copies of between the chinese minister and the secretary secre tary tarT of state at washington Ington in read to alleged annulment of con heob of considerable legislation and correspondence no decisive action waft taken antia yesterday recruits of the fourteenth in amren tit enloid at port leavenworth kas and but just arrived at have been assigned to tit aa bt bf the Twe abw infantry for ra mationg rat tons tiong quarters ano an until they dair can be for haydee to their reth regiment nent now on its tile the 1 benjamin blodgett a well to do e tr alb ha kiyik disappeared at san francisco within the last few days and his half brother E W haskell has enlisted the service of the police to assist in n finding him he was to have sailed on the steamer umatilla on his way home when he dropped out of sight the big ships arizona and scandia can each take 1600 1500 men if they are sent to manila with troops the number of men sent to manila will amount to gen merritts friends say sa y he will be satisfied with that number in spite of the fact that thai troops be longing to the philippine expeditionary force will be left behind camp merritt was formerly condemned as a nuisance by the san francisco board of health wednesday the camp has long engaged the attention of the board and while it was the sub dier general otis and staff two battalions of the south dakota volunteers officers and men of the utah volunteers artillery and 53 men of the signal corps branns iconoclast of af waco texas has been sold by mrs carrie bran widow of the late editor W C brann to F T korpie corple of fort worth texas it is not known whether the sale was made to satisfy indebtedness the purchaser will continue the publishing of the iconoclast for the present anen it is thought it will toe be moved to fort fon worth after thirty seven years of service servi cr col louis T morris fourth U S cavalry who was in command of the presidio for the past four months has been retired on the ground of f physical disability and today friday will turn over I 1 the command of the post to brig gen marcus arcus P miller it is not known whether or not gen miller will be the permanent commander of ohp th Pre presidio the transport st paul has haa come off the me dry dock at the union iron works san francisco and is 19 now being prepared f for or the reception of troops she will probably be ready to sail by the end of the week the arizona and scandia will be in condition for the voyage to manila about the same time extensive alterations are being made oft the steamer centennial and she may yet be accepted by the government sickness ss among the so idlers now at fan francisco is increasing in the division hospital are aft patients and in the Pre presidio barracks hospital 45 a etal of soldiers not counting perhaps a hundred less severe cases in regimental hospitals more so soldiers idlers are afe sick now than during the bad wt ather eather when about men were at camp Mex merritt Merrl tt where today there ate are only a little over half that number capt hayes of the st paul received a an unofficial report of the catch of the whaling whaling fleet just before sailing from st C michael the figures given iven capt ebanes yet are horatio barrels of sterna erni oil jeanetta Jeanet jean at tf 3 W knales ales s karluk 5 whales win bayliss 3 whales h ales and the alexandra Alexand rk clean the alexandra is said to h have ave been ashore at afi cape but nothing is 13 known ua a to the extent of her injuries the steam whaler bowhead has 1300 1 00 pounds of oa bone tor for which she traded active preparations f for or moving tine the t 0 pa at camp merritt to the presidio dlo will begin today monday and in three day ya the new grounds well be ready tor for reception of at least a part of them it Is the intention of generals merriam and miller to move only those troops that are not soon to be assigned tf td transports those troops therefore t eliat at receive orders to change camp Y know that they are destined to remain in san francisco some weeks the sali ban chronicle says f several 4 veral private Priva aln the kaam ment acting as tot their home papers have been print NI letters and in complaining some ca basea severe criticisms of their off officers leers day colonel funston ordered the bozil zao flagrant offenders of them to brought before him to whom he g a scathing rebuke with the warn wari that they might expect severe pu pun ment should they aagon offend in a manner at the board meeting of tile the oil OH pj dubers trustees today monday los lop angeles cal the price of th crude petroleum will ibe be advanced a barrel the chief reason ti this advance as explained by beer secreta St asburg is that the present stun above ground is decreasing instead increasing und and that the trustees ha been obliged to call upon their rese desei to fill their contracts and that t quantity in the tanks in the field also in their own tanks is growing smaller it is understood that brig ge benea charles king will be in comina command aa 1 I the next manila expedition nuee he wi probably go on either the arizo arizona Sc scandia andla brigadier general M now commander of the Pre presidio i will remain f for or the present at th the pressed desire of general mer men referring to the men to go to M general king said it is my pe pera opinion that every man of the e dictionary forces will wall be wanted in int philippines and wall go there bas should manila betoken betaken be taken from the ss ish and the war settled in the moriei as fax far as spain Is concerned aitu forces now there or already bordere depart it is not doubted that bet G merritt will be glad to have before he is through with agal agulan the men at camp merritt and Pre presidio may rest contented that t will see all of the philippines they sire |