Show WESTERN NEWS NOTES lt in the case of watson vs terrell for libel on trial at pocatello ida the jury has rendered a verdict for the defendant fen dant tho king ranch in monterey Mon lerey county cil has been purchased by the sugar company the price paid ie said to have been the land will be devoted to the cultivation of buzar beets for the supply of the new factory at salinas A collision occurred on the oregon short line wednesday al 1 be aiding six miles south of pocatello train no 8 going south collided with a northbound freight which occupied the syjing the shock was alight and very little damage WAS done prof perrine one of the members of wabe lick observatory staff sen francisco has received a letter from the french academy ol 01 science announcing that his work in astronomy has been considered of euch value as to merit the bestowal on him cf one of the annual erizea th award will be made at a public meeting in paris in the latter part of this month pritchard ninth cavalry fort been granted a leave of absence for one month with to apply to the proper authorities ties for an extension of bis time one month the leave is made effective at the conclusion of two trials which a edini on before the court martial at is member of fie court taft death of frank B wadman oc cidred suddenly at butte monr bues tues lay As his body was about ti be chipped to hia home at coroner tremblay interfered and ordered it held pending rn to the cafeo ot deth wadman recently released from the montana asylum and ae he bad often made threats ol 01 himself he ie believed by many to have accomplished his own demise by taking poison he waa heavily in aured the body of ernect hawthorne who disappeared from abo silver stream die brict near wellington N Z recently lias been found it had been pressed into a harlly dun crave on the spot where hawthorne and a man named stanhope bad established a after the disappearance of hawthorne stanhope moved camp and wao afterwards arrested charged with corgins a check and Is in jail that haw was murdered is beyond doubt an explosion ah the helena frisco mine at gem idabo wednesday moning instantly killed joseph Mo Namara and joseph 0 babes the accident happened jaet before earning off shift both men were frightfully mangled one beine entirely unrecognizable and tho other had only one side of hia face left intact nothing could be learned regarding their antecedents bowes is said to have a wife in san francieco mcnamara was a native of new york but nothing is known of bis relatives both were young men 25 years of age or under celestine gimonet one ot the notorious proprietors ol 01 houegs of ill fame on st marys street san francieco who was arrested arre sied last week by the ended her life monday by inhaling gaa early in the morning she took breakfast with her housekeeper anna baugue bougue Bou gue at her residence pine street and afterward retired to the bathroom f her own apartment where inched a rubber tube to the gag burner and inserted the end in tier mouth she had determined to put an end to her existence as ahe bald that ehe was being persecuted by the police negotiations have practically completed at san francisco for three or more pugilistic contests peter maher and peter jackson are moot in february and tut kyan hi january and george green and billy gallagher at some time lo 10 be settled later the occidental club haa secured the maber jackson congest co niest and the na the other two maher is giving away cons demable weight in making a match peter jackson he will weigh like thirty five pounds less than jackson who also the advantage 0 him in height and reach maber the advantage in age of eight fenre and is in better con H 0 nash librarian of standford Stand tord university and J 0 rowell librarian libra iian of the university of california are at work on a which i carried out will materially chance the laws of the country and at the time build up large national libraries in a number of the bg cities of the united states St atess the plan is to require authors obtaining the protection ol 01 a copyright to cupply rop es of their work to several depositories located in cities in different sections of the country senator cerbins will introduce the bill in the united states senate it will direct ahn establishment of additional depositories in the cities of chicago Chic ngo denver sin francisco and new orleans laramie boomerang the ice on the river is about four inches thick it is not so thick as it waa a few days ago last year the union pacific company cut and shipped from this city care of ice which was stored in their houses along the line the amount of ice taken from the river at this point depends on conditions at oth r points it the weather is generally as to make ice alone the line a comparatively small quantity ia cut here the work of gathering the harvest here begins ut eoon aa the ice is sufficiently thick they have men now engaged in rebuild ing the dam in the river about two miles ap the river from the city thia dam was washed out last spring |