Show t WESTERN NEWS ITEMS ITEMS u C K Palmer ex-county ex and a well known stock and rancho ranch- ranch ranchman o man of Plateau valley Colo died very Terl unexpectedly on Monday even eVen- evening evening 1 ing after arter an illness of only three days daya A young man picked up a bill bUl bUlon billon on an the streets of ot Sheridan Wyo the theother theother other day He started to blow in the cash b but was arrested He com compro- compro pro by paying back 70 to the man who lost the bill Seventy pound streel rails raUs are being put pot in on 00 the sixth division between Walcott and Fort Port Steel a distance of or seven even miles There are six more mlles miles of 01 the rails to lay to complete the con con- contract contract con contract tract on that district Cheyenne district Sun Sim A party of ot fishermen on Monday at Aspen Colo found the body of James Jamee Brown rown colored colore t in 10 a small lake Jake just above town Brown Brown had bad been missing for several days daYI The presumption Is that bat deceased walked or fell teU into the lake and was was drowned J H Brown a carpenter 36 years of age fell from the roof root of the new schoolhouse house building in of con construction con con- construction on Eaton aton avenue at Cripple Creek Colo Jolo on Monday and died tram from the injuries received next evening even- even evening ing log Be He suffered intensely from j In n- n Injuries until death ended his agony I Vacaville valley vaney Cal is again dis disturbed dis- dis disturbed disturbed over the labor Jabor question and some unknown miscreants have out cut outI down about fruit trees because the Japa-I Japa owners employed Chinese and Japa Japa- Japanese nese laborers laborera ETer E er since the raid of the Industrial Army last spring there b has been more or less leis unrest among a ar certain class here herC L The work of ot exter exterminating wolves is being prosecuted vigorously by ranch ranch- ranchmen ranchmen men Jaen In the northern part of ot the state says YI y the Laramie Wyo Boomerang Hundreds of or the animals have bave been driven into Wyoming by the prairie fires Gt-ee recently raging In northern 2 oNe oNe- Nebraska e- e braska The two and a halt half year old child chUd ot of John was burned to death at Butte Batte Mont on Monday Her lIer dress dreel caught fire while playing around round a pI pile of rubbish Every bred or of clothing was wag burned oft off o her er before assistance arrived and she Ibe lived t but ta a few teW moments Michael Cook aged 20 years went o out shooting on Monday morning witha with a c companion Arriving at Washington county he be undertook to drag his bia loaded gun from rom the wagon by grasping it by the muzzle The gun was 8 Cook Cooka hand band and wrist were BO so o badly shattered battered that they bad had to be amputated Virginia Nevada Chronicle Four members member of or the C O C O gang assaulted and andl l beat squaws near the Nevada la last t night The squaws live Uve J iq near Dear the brewery and the young toughs went to tu their place of abode during the night and set upon them bem beating and wounding them shamefully John J Anderson was wa crushed to death on Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday-at day at Ph als Ariz by ten ten- tons tone of rook rock falling upon him while working on a in the 1 Union mine He was VIS apprised by bythe bythe the boss bOBS of the dangerous ground It was his first shift and be he had bad only worked four hours Two other miners barely escaped the falling rock rook graz graz- ing grazing them The Leadville Colo Water Power company is to build a pipe line Une twelve miles in length and will erect a plant for tor the purpose e of generating electric electric- electricity electricity electricity ity to furnish power to the mines and smelters This will wUl practically re revo- revo revo o- o j mining and smelting in the camp by reducing the co cost t of ot runn Ing pumps other othur machinery Arrangements have been made whereby persons desiring to make the trip trip roundtrip from irom Cardwell to Boise Bole can oan canIo 1080 lo so comfortably by taking king the staKe stage at 9 o'clock a m and returning at p m A brand new Concord stage stagecoach stagecoach coach has haa Just been added to the ser ser- service service vice and the ride between Caldwell CaLd welland and Nampa Is II really a delight delight-Cald- delight well welt well Tribune Samples Sample of opals in the rough brought In from a newly discovered newly ledge in N IM w hereon several claims have bave been located have have- been out by Jewelers at Santa found to be of a splendid quality of both fire Are and royal opals These specimens were taken only ten feet from the surface i Several miners are preparing to de- de develop develop de develop the claims claim James G West and Terry Dolan were badly burned on Wednesday at Oregon by the explosion ot of seven seven thirty kegs of ot black powder at atI atthe atthe I the government rock quarry They were preparing to explode SOU kegs ot of powder when the thirty seven were accidentally ignited This is the third explosion that has happened at this quarry and the cause caule is il attributed to carelessness Reno Beno The California Press association representing one onehundred onehundred onehundred hundred and seventy newspapers In our si sister ter commonwealth decided to tomake tomake tomake make an excursion to Reno Beno and ana Vir Vir- Virginia Virginia ginia They met meet t in Sacramento on Tuesday December and by a special train will wm make a daylight ex- ex excursion ex over the mountains arriving at Reno Beno sometime on the afternoon ot of the Frank Bell BeU and Arthur Ward who bad baa been spending the She evening at the house bouse of ot friends ls just fust outside of or Belt returning home when they were attacked by an Insane man named Anders who came upon them unexpectedly from the brush brandish brandish- brandishing brandish ing Ing a loaded revolver Two shots were wert tired fired before the men could overpower their antagonist who received some very severe outs cute cul and bruises about the bead and face tace A proposition having been made malJe to the Cheyenne to increase the force e i there if a re reduction of wages was accepted the men have to accept the reduction under the following conditions condition First that the men should be allowed to work six days each week second that a days day's work should constitute nine hours hour third that aU all men thrown ou out oui of em- em employment employment em in consequence oon of 01 the A Be BeU R BU U strike should be reinstated It begins begin to look very much as a though Idaho Idabo would not be represented at the next net session of the sippi sippi congress which will twill convene in ID St Louis on November says the Boi Boise e Idabo Idaho Statesman Governor McConnell said yesterday he be bad had en- en en endeavored to secure delegates to rep represent represent resent Idaho In in the coming session but he be bad not found a single Indi Indi- Individual individual Individual vidual who was willing to go and bear the expense incident to the trip Mr Ed Wood who lives four tour miles below Cald Caldwell well Idaho on the Sebree ditch had haa a sample of vegetables on exhibition in the office of Gipson Qwinn Gwinn last Saturday raised on sage sage- sagebrush sagebrush sagebrush brush land that surpasses es anything for size ever seen een in Caldwell The sam sam- samples samples samples ples were beets radishes turnips squash quash and aud potatoes One blood table beet weighed 17 pounds w while hUe the radishes measured 13 inches in circum circum- circumference circumference ference and aDd weighed 5 pounds each each- each Caldwell Tribune Laramie Boomerang The Union Pacific Railway company has hal Just ob- ob obtained ob obtained United States patents tor for acres ol ot land Ian on the Laramie plains This is part of the land covered by the deeds of ot tb the W Wyoming yom Central Land and Improvement company The purchasers of 01 Ian land a from this com com- company company pany paDY will be highly gratified with this information as in accordance with the decision of ot the Supreme Court of or the U United States the patents having baving Issued the title is forever settled Springville Ind pendent It is be- be becomIng becoming be becoming coming quite common to see aee a few low of our native Indians driving a span pan of horses and wagon in a civilized man man- manner manner manner ner Tuesday old ola drove through town with his family and family effects his biB wives and children sItting in spring seats and wearing shawls and bonnets bonnets as any other ladies might have done The ne next thing we may look for tor is our native ve dark female inquiring for tor the latest Cashion in dress cutting A telegram was received in Denver Denyer on Wednesday eV evening ning reporting the drow drowning Ding of ot Mrs G Q A Boyd and aman a aman aman man whose name was not known S In Inthe the Castlewood reservoir near Castle Castl R Jek Colo Mrs Boyd and aDd daughter were out boat riding on the reservoir with a hired man named George and a aman aman aman man named Stott a Castle Rock druggist A sudden gust lust of wind upset the boat and Stott was the only one ODe who escaped he managing to climb upon the bottom of ot the boat ManU Manta Sentinel The Sanpete Valle Valley railroad have bave commenced the shipment of coal The article is as good 2000 If jf not superior to any on the market market and is Ie selling at 8 per ton at the depot or at a at the mine Full supply is 18 kept kepton kepton kepton on baad and a train load is brought In three times a week The purchaser get gets a superior quality of coal at reduced I prices and has bas the satisfaction ot of knowing that in purchasing it he be gives employment to his own neighbors neighbor and assists in developing the re resources of his bis own immediate neighborhood J During the parade at Helena Mont Monton on Monday night the fireworks caught fire from the he shower of ot sparks spark and set th tha fireworks to t blazing There was a quantity of Roman candles red tire fire and ana other of the Dyro display and aDd in a moment moment the be fireworks began to explode This to to- to gather gether ether with the blaze frightened the horses drawing the float Boat and they be- be began be began gan to run The men on the float jumped and escaped without injury except Dr Barbour who bad had his bie arm brok broken n A serious cutting affray occurred Toe Tuesday day night at t Mora a station tatton B a few tew miles mUe east ol ot N Nampa amp Idaho on tb the Oregon Short Line Eight white men said id to be employed on OD a Union Pacific construction train got into ioto a row over overa overa a game of ot cards card with a lot of ot Japanese section hands bands One ot of or the Japs Japi is reported to have hare been cut in a dozen places He may die Another J Jep p phad bad his hll hi nose noce out cot nearly off oft another had bad most of nil big upper lip Up off still till another suffered d a broken brokon arm while there were several everal broken beads and cracked ribs U P Davis from Leadville came cameto cameto cameto to Denver says ay the News New a few tew days daYI ago and took lodgings lodging at the Lanktree block He met a couple of ot friends friend who were as ai poor as a himself The friends chins were grizzled with beard bear and Davis Davi gave them permission ion ioB to call caU ana use ule oil his razor zor w whenever they needed a shave hare Last Lk t evening they called while Davis was waa out The razor pulled hard bard and they began to search learch the bureau drawers drawer for tor another They found a roll rollof rollof rollof of 27 which they stowed away in a corner and ba hastily tUy left len the building with the money Davis Da via complained at headquarters last lait night On Tuesday morning a stranger showing bowing unmistakable symptoms of insanity appeared at a ranch on mil mis mi million lion slon creek Mont and created considerable con- con commotion by his hil crazy antics His HII face tace was wai wa covered with blood and be said that be bad fallen from a train He could give no coherent account ot of himself other than big biB bi name was wao San San- Sanderson derson He became so 80 0 violent that he be was waa driven from the ranch at the point of a gun CUD Later in the day he be under under- undertook undertook took to swim wlm the Yellowstone river and when half baJt way across was wai seen leen to sink He came up once threw up bl his hands bands wildly and then went down Lehl Lehi Banner During DorIng this fine ne ano lovely weather the farmers farmer of or Lehi Leb are showing bow how they feel towards raising railing a beet crop for tor next year As A Aone one passes pawel through the fields field he be can cao see lee ee the plows plow running In all directions turning over the soil soU oil for lor next years year's crops Boys Boy and men are scraping u p every scrap of 01 manure and hauling It Iton iton Iton on to their land Jand looking not only one 7 year ar ahead but even two The people of Utah county have hare not felt the bard times like the people of other counties because the enormous amount o of mane money the sugar lugar factory distributes among them here beret But tb there are many who are ungrateful and end work against the interest of at this thle Institution James Jame Kelly a your g mechanic 27 years yar of age living Jiving near Butte Butt Mont Munt Monton on Wednesday made the third un uc ce elUi attempt within a week to com com- commit commit commit mit suicide and when revived revive made madea a confession It was wa that be he met a ayoung ayoung ayoung young lady in Portland about seven Beven years ago and w was engaged to marry her ber He had given her all aU his hil money amou amounting to 1400 to keep but three days daYI before the wedding while they were ere walking together she Ibe be told him that she Ibe he had lost JOlt Jo l the money Then I 1 killed her ber laid said Kelly KeUy rand and she haunts me day land and night I have no reace or rest nt re t and cannot bear this thio hor hor- horrible horrible life lite any longer the remorse remone is II i awful He would not give giro the wo- wo woman's wo mans man's name J B a farmer from Rio Ric Blanco an experience with bunco sharps sharpe Saturday evening at Denver and on Sunday called at police headquarters headquarter and told his story lost lo t in cash and in checks He was wai standing landing in front of 01 the Albany hotel about 7 o'clock Satur- Satur day Batur-day aay evening when a stranger intro Intro- introduced introduced himself accompanied him to see ee some iome valuable le specimens taken from Colonel Bucks Buck's mine at Cripple Creek The colonel was wa not in when and his ble hi new newfound newfound newfound found friend arrived and the couple ot of other harpen joined the game to pass away the time and oon game without limit was wai on lost in He then made out checks to the amount of ot 2 O These followed the cash George Weston a balloon balloonist lit came near Dear being mobbed at Cedar Park Santa Banta Clare Clara Clar CaL on Sunday He Hea a advertised to go up op In lu the balloon and oo e down with a parachute At the first trial the balloon ascended a couple ot of hundred feet with Weston Welton perform perform- performing performing Ing on a trapeze and then descended Weston announced that the managers of the park had bad promised half halt the oU oil necessary to make sufficient hot air He sent lent ent for tor more oil and tried it again agaiD Just Jost t when the balloon was wae a filled the themen themen men who were holding it let it go and cold air rushed In Then there was wai Ii a amad mad rush for tor Weston by the enraged spectators He was wai surrounded by a yelling threatening mob His Hil costume was s torn his |