Show WESTERN NEWS ITEMS oregon is shipping apples to texar there is ie a mild epidemic of mumps among the people of laramie wyo reiter belter under sentence of death at astoria ore is only 22 years old lias las vegas and albuquerque N M each two post offices snowstorms Snow storms have driven the miners and prospector otora from the mountains ol of southern oregon sacramento Is coughing and sneezing for the grip has made its appearance again A dog jumped from a window in stockton cal but bul escaped death by striking on a boy boys 18 back A russian engineer david golov meng deeo is to in ariana investigating the salt river irrigation system S B R chambers chamber of the sweepstakes mining company has adlea very suddenly at ouray colo of heart failure the wash city council are discussing the question of abandoning electricity lur lor gas in street lighting 4 f the supervisors of el dorado county have p pissed an ordinance to prohibit the killing of quail iu in that county for market purposes A neveu st ven year cearold old pupil in a truckee school drew a knife when his teacher attempted to whip him he was di aib armed and punished andrew jensen wanted waned at ontario antt ami santa ana for the forgery of checks has been arrested at colton yesterday by marshal mccaully Mo Caully A silver prune tree from the farm arm of james wilkinson south of cornillie Cor villie vIlis or shows an actual growth of twelve feet feel from the bud in one year there wa wai i 3 a boiler explosion at the camp of contractors on the los angeles outfall sewer three men veti serious aou wounds and were badly burned nevada city cites a cla ampton mining drill operator is in soon to meet the middleweight middle weight champion cham 1 ton of the colorado mines in ah a arifi drilling ing match for 1100 a side one day last week there were two deat deaths hsin in the ne butte mont jail A prisoner r committed suicide ai by taking morphine ne and an aim old man died 01 ol natural causes cause A walls walla walla wash drug clerk signed an agreement not to within two blocks of a given store he be did so and the one he offended had bad him arrested it has been decided by a seattle justice that a man cannot be convie convicted tec of using aulgur language to an officer unless union someone besides the policeman heals him they ring the church bells belle so long at lebanon or thai bat the express wants an ordinance passed providing punishment for ringing one bell longer than a minute the lost last rain in southern california was moro more injurious to crops than was wae supposed much of the second baisi t crop was spread mud aud in some vineyards this crop was ruined the indian convicted of burying a child alive at the parker indian agency A T has been sentenced to three years and seven months in the territorial the people of nc nevada vada city and grass valley valey ary aro considering the advisability vis ability of rebuilding the grand stand and stables recently burneo at Ulen Olen race track the Ros rossetta mine which was recently purchased by griffith fladd fly no of 01 leadville for has leen bonded by the owners at a much higher figure word received at colorado springs states that the money is forthcoming from the east immediately for the erection of the jensen glass works at colorado city the dead body of an man has bad been found at los Vi vigiles giles near the hot springs N M there were no marks of violence on his bis deroon nor means of identification enterprising citizens ot washington nave have trieu tried the experiment of shipping apples and pears to china anu and japan in every instance so tar far the fruit lias rea reached ched its destination in good condition friends of a newly couple in southern oregon the house and gave a pau concert 2 the groom re seated the familiarity anu put the entertainers to flight with a revolver william var ker her who had his left hand baud blown off and was otherwise injured by a premature explosion ol of a alast in the nickel plate mine in has succumbed to his injuries lo junee I 1 stockton police officers are indignant at an electric sart streetcar etcar line liae thai thac h lamade a a rule compelling I 1 of f the force to on the front platform or pay regular fare they refuse to ride at all now A tramp at threats that he be intended to blow up the town anu and railroad constable wolf took look the chap into camp and on searching him found two packages pac paca Bages ages I 1 ot of dynamite in his pockets an enterprising thief was at work in a stockton note hotel cal his presence was discovered but while the greets anu and hotel people were gathering to burrou surround nd the room the buelar lei left t through thru the C H wyman the he stockton cal CAI land attorney who embezzled a clients money and was found guilty has been sentenced to two and a half years at san dan quentin wyman was formerly an i torney in tills city it is reported that southern california capitalists are considering a proposition to locate a beet sugar suar factory at stevens Bi evens on the asphalto Asp hallo halto branch ol oi the southern pacific line north of buena vista lake reservoir churl charls D trotter arrested at spokane for having fired his bis promises premises causing the recent disastrous explosion there is confined to his bed from injuries he has had not slept since the papers were served on h him in the total registered tonnage of the wheat ships that have left tacoma wash since september 2nd and those now there loading and waiting for car cargoes cargo goer ef and those known to be on the way to tacoma from foreign porto porte amounts to tons the people around brighton colo rado it is in elated tita ted have become indignant over the actions of pot hunters from denver who in est eat the fields and shoot boor ft regardless of life and property one arrest has teen made and the offender punished an attempt is being made by the mexican central railroad company to build up the trade between california and the mexican i tale state along its line rbt freight rates will be fixed at such figures as an to put the san ban francisco shipper on a parity with eastern firms another big strike of gold ore is credited to the union mine in the alms alma culo colo district the exact value la is not yet known but the owners are so well satisfied with its apparent richness that they have decided to ship it in sacks backe to denver under close guar lens a girl of 20 has committed suicide by the route at the boss boas lodging house blake street san bun francisco she was a wa waitcel wai trean itrel and been unable to secure employment tor for some time despondency Is ia presumed to have been the cause A sandbag of the most villainous and formidable kind was found in butte mont it a tew few days ago it consists of a piece of one inch rubber h ee be a foot ai ald aid d a hall half in length it is filleau with three or four pounds of no 6 shot the hose bows being with wood at the ends ende thirty three indictments against ex treasurer Trea furer adolph krug and his hig asao chates have been returned by the grand jury as true bills at seattle ton krug is charged coa in thirteen indictments with bising public money la in a manner not authorized by law and anc iu in alue with larceny by embt embezzlement within a short time water will be running through the new hew pipe line of the utica company which is in tu to cox coc vey the water from the st vrain colo it is one of i the be greatest projects ever undertaken in boultier boulder county and will furnish water and electric electr lo power for a large district three los angeles mashers received a wholesome lotson a few days ago they were in the habit of annoying young women in the park and sunday they addressed some remarks to ladies indies whose escorts were near A trio of battered and dejected duties dudes called at a drug store for rel repairs airs a little later A certain rash cowpuncher says the bonanza hustler was recently ruti running bing around the large hot springs on the big horn offering to wager ta that thai be could jump into it n ked and awl swim in across about forty feet in the almost boiling water but found no one anxious to encourage him in his bis suicidal notions A santa clara county attempted to take some cattle of a mexican when the latter drew a large knife the from his bis pocket a tobacco pipe aud and pointing it at tie ti e mexican ordered his surrender rh inking he was cf with witha pistol the mexican corn com plied piled the othe northern pacific railroad hm hauled an average of care can of shingles every month so far of the present year jear from puget sound to eastern cities and cark caric ads a month for the same ame time have been shipped by water to hawaii australia mouth houth america and europe cripple creek is going to surprise the world this year and colorados gold old output wid surprise herself says the denver sun with the introduction ot of a new process by which low grade ore can be success wily treated the camps output to ia going to te be in increased by tens tans of thousands of tons tone the contractors boring the new gas gaa well at the stockton Stock tou cal insane asylum are in difficulty A large iron roller became detached from the he appner atus and dropped to the betom 1780 feet below the surface they are now trying to remove the obstruction to one side aide so no that work can go on there to is a company to be forme 1 fur for the purpose of building a telephone line from vernal to fort e says the vernal AX express preas A telephone line to the post connects connetta con neota vernal with a telegraph bervice to almost any point in the united states the government Is going to have a line bite book bock and ouray the survey of the gravity system of waterworks water works lor for casper wyoming has been completed corn plotted the estimate provi Jes for a reservoir feet in size and twenty teet feet de dep p to contain gallons sufficient for a population ot of 2000 people it also provides lor for twenty fire plugs distributed throughout the city the entire cost is to be john A milan an employ of the union pacific at cheyenne ivas was hel bel i up and robbed on the viaduct the other night he had bad just cashed his bis pay check and was returning with the money when he be was aret by two wea who demanded the cash when he be refused to give it up tiny they took it from him with wilh violence there is no clue to the robbers one of the most disastrous rations that has baa taken place in Lr luramie Li ramie amie wyoming for years was thu the burning of the clark pelton employed Emp loyes corn COM lumber yards yarda ou on street on tuesday the large lumber saied and all the lumber it contained was destroyed and the adjoining shop and office buildings were almost totally demoli demolished shea loss insurance 1250 while sheriff li K drais drain of pins pinal county and james mccoy weri were daiv jug on the road from casa grane to arizola the team became un agag able and collided with a telegraph pole chattering the buggy and throwing sowing th out the men and severely injuring both the horses ran into a barbed wire fence cutting cutti tig themselves so sj they were rendered worthless it was a valuable team the quiet and serene waters of monterey bay cal have been die by an uit intruder ruder fur for the last week or so wi ich has afforded much pleas ure u re and amusement to the people 0 that vicinity the intruder iut ruder is ie a huge whale which seems to enjoy the situ aaion also he has been continually emerging merging from the water and spouting to a great height it is ia thought he is of me bout bearing species aud several id shermen have been in pursuit but owing to the cleverness of the whale they have failed to capture the prize it to is said that it is ie the largest of the kind that ever came into monterey bay cattlemen in the southern part ot of martinez Mart iDez county cal in the bor hooi of tic aloe valey and lias las peak have for the past five months been greatly annoyed by the operations of a gang of cattle thieves the rhe sheriff was notified he be has betta quietly working on the matter and at last lasi secured evidence which pointed to frank ot of tice valley and charles alne as the thieves or leasere of the gang cang parties have returned from the san marcial sonora coal fields for the working of which a syndicate recently cebu red a concession irom from the mexican government they brought a large quantity of anthracite coal taken from a ton ten and a halt foot stratum penetrated by a forty foot prospecting shaft it is said that prospecting with a diamond drill has proved that these fields contain an almost supply of the finest of anthracite coal colonel C E K royce the defaulting treasurer of the veterans home association at san ban francisco has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment at san quentin Quent ln the disgraced lawyer I 1 appeared in court wearing a dressy prince albert cost coat which was closely buttoned about his ample form he had evidently dressed with special care in honor of the occasion and awaited the sentence of the court with an air of gaim calm self if possession the desert thirst has claimed another victim says the san francisco Francl chronicle henri C leonhard an old man on en route to friends in oakland about six we weka weeks ka ago disappeared medlee ared he was traced as far as the needles and aj though bough a diligent search was made by his relatives and the officers no further trace of him was wag found insun on sunday his remains were found about five miles from here where it is supposed he be wandered and was overcome by beat and thirst the town of tekoa wash has adopted the ball and chain r remedy mody e or tramps and its first application is the trump tramp was made fat fact 0 o a ball and chain and put t to work on th abe street estreet while his bis guard was taking a rest somewhere the pris prisoner picked up the candon ball and started to walk butof out of town with if he was kras caught and three heavy balls were attached to his bis leap he will not work but throws away the implements ot of street labor that are given to him A man evidently the same who has been operating in butte has tried to work helena on the raised united states note rocket racket says the helena in independent de adent at a saloon on main street he presented a 2 bill which had bad been raised on the face to a 10 at a clothing store he tried to rass pass another 2 which had bad been changed to a 20 his work was very corse in both cases and the frabj was detected in time to prevent ODY any loss 1088 to abe clothing people to whom a raised bill was presented anted at the saloon the game was worked all right in neither case had bad any effort been maje made to alter the backs of the bills bilk M phelan who resides on shady creek eight or ten miles from here was in town today he reports that there to la a superabundance super abundance of till all kinds of game over in his section doer deer are seen in droves of five and six and are proving a pest peat to the ranchers there about aboyte they have eaten up nearly everything at this place and at ray bays Is ranch the other night they got away with wilh over head bead of cabbages people over there are standing guard at night with dogu dogs and winchesters Win chesters to keep oft off these bul bol J foragers for agers of the woods Q all ail and irey squirrels are also unusually plentiful while there has never been so many deer seen in toe te cU country kie before fore that section ought to prove a hunters ia paradise radise tor for a while nevada 0 lotfy transcript millard county blade C A ames and J M huwell howell returned on monday from osceola mr ames was gratified with the fact that he be could not hire a man in the camp every one being employed he will send men out from salt lake the gentleman reports good progress on the gold mill avd and that it |