Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 25, 1891, Page 11

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE ATURDAY, APRIL 1801--"T'WE News of the Great West The Cream of the News of the Northwest is herewith presented in readable form, No other paper makes this news a leading feature. It is the week’s history of the great northwest, P e - Prohibiton Fanatic Driven Out, | Daniel L. Rador, brovet bishop and Metho- ate missionary of Wyoming has re- signcd and will retire from the field as soon s a successor can be selocted and sent to the 5 work His resignation has already been for- 4@ yearded to Bishop Nine at Topeka, and will b acted upon immediately by the missionary board. Last Sunday Rev. Dr. Rader made this announcement from the pulpitof the | First Methodist church of Cheyenne, | Ho read a couple of short ox- corpts from a lotter written him by | the bishop, Tn these he was asked what he hiad been doing that his removal should be requested by citizens, who wrote that he had o himself unpopular. On the strongth of pation was sent in, The al of Dr. Rader will be directly to the elobrated Laramio incident, says the Chey- ounc Sun. The Wesloy contonnial was ob- gerved there by the Mothodists of the state, {Toward the olose of the week Rey. Rader i fected polities into the meeting. This was in the shape of a littlo resolution setting up the prohibition party. In speaking to this question Rov, K mado an_outrageous assuult upon the workings .of universal d the women suilrago in Wyoming. He cha with failing to use the ballot wnd said that about all of them were after offic Bence afraid to vote their convictions or 10 . urge moral reform. And as if this was not Giioush he added insult by shamefully scoring state socioty and saying that in iraveling over Wyoming he noted more women than men drink. Laramic's Methodist pastor, a tenderfoot, followed s superlor in the same strain. The only original reports of the pocting ublisho were presonted in the Btood ramie evening dai It is under- theso were prepared by a clergy- that R Rader's utter onsid pruned be- the cony reached tho printer, Mrs. Eliza a promment lady of Laramic, re- 1o Boyd, pponded vigorously to Dr. Rader's villainous utteran A wave of indignation that gainca in size and strength swept over tae and s were man an bly state when accounts of the mecting were pub- lished. Theorring churchman 1ssued an open letier which only made matters worse. Ever since ho has from pulpit and platform and in int tried to recall the calumny, but the people believed his true sentiments at the Laramie me Ame out ng and he has been ob- noxious sineo, When Rader was mude mis sionary three vears ago he was pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church of Cheyennie. Kidnapped ¥ McKay, better known as Mam van, a girl 14 years of ave, was kidnaped last Saturday afternoon from the home of her / adopped parents, Mr. and Mrs. Keevan, of Beattle, Wash. About 3 o'clock a hack drove up in front of the house and a we iressed woman and a givl perhaps 18 elighted. A min, whose foatures could not be clearly dis- tinguished, croached in one corner of the convevance and remained there during the rather exciting encounter that followed. The woman and girl were Mrs. Aiice McKay and duughter, of Tacoma, mother and sister of the girl they ufterwurds kidnaped. From the hack the woman walked rapidly up the stairway, closely followed by her daughtor. They boldly entered the Keevan apartment, in which were Mrs, Keevan, who lay on a k bed, and her adoped daughter, Mamie. Mprs. McKay rushed inside and grabbed Mamie, who resisted with all her power, Mrx. Keovan screamed, but could not get out of bed, The woman dragged her daughter outside and down the stairway. Meanwhile, half a dozen women living in the neighbor- hood congregated at the foot of the stairs. As soon a8 Mrs, McKay and her daughter had dragged Mamie to the sidewalk, a Mrs. Cross, who lived adjoining, seeing Mawmio struggling to break away, interferred, and took hold of the girl. Mrs. McKay shoved her away, and commanded, “Stand back," and at the same time made & motion as if to draw something from the bosom of her dress. AU this juncture the hack driver joined in the tussle, and finally succeeded in getting Mrs, cKay, her daughter and Mamie into the hack. He then jumped into his seatand drove rapidly away. Ofiicers were detailed to search for the kidnappers, but no trace can be found of them. Mr. and Mrs. Keevan adopt- ! ed Mamie ten years ago, when she was a ehild only 4 years of age. Several mouths 8go Mrs. Mokay made an attempt to kidnap the child, but was unsuccessful. Mamie Ko Too Dangerous to Pe Around Loose. S. R. Fulcher is an old-timer among ranch- n on the Rio Grando near Alamosa, Colo. 'wvo months ago he sold his ranch to David Hodgson, a prominent citizen from Long- ™ imout. Old man Fulcher has a son named Millavd. Millard is an_epileptio. Lately he has been suffering severely from his com- ] pluint. Ho has beon sick in bed at the old homestead, and so Hodgson has been attend- Ing to him. Saturday nignt he started up “tn his bod and remarked, “I am going to die; P I want to fix He then my papers.” Jumped up, seized a db-calibre shooter, and without provocation. Hodgson througn vne shoulder biade, Hoag- 5o staggered to an adjoining ranch and his condition 18 dangerous. Old man Fulcher, who recently had a cutting affray with his son, escaped to o neighbor's. Millard held tho fort with two shot-guns and his six- shooter. Two constables arrested him the next morning. He made no resistance. When futervicwed he said he had nothing against Hiodgson. He was crazy, and if he had killed anyonc he did not kuow it. He was taken to Alawosa and mado a determined objection to being locked up, fighting and curs- six- shot nz tho citizens ' singly and collec- tively, He was committed for trial, Hodirson's deposition showed that Millard gavo hun a lotter to wail, sorted certain papers and went back to bea, almost immedi- ately afterwards springiug up, seizing his y six-shooter and commencing shooting. Hodg- \ son dodged at the door and the bullet, catch- ing him below the shoulder blade, ‘wards, shattering the bones and came out be- twoeen the third and fourth ribs. Hoagson ran for a neighboring house and Miilard con- tinved shooting, but without further effect. Wyomin ¢'s Irrvigation Sche: e Engineer Mead of Wyoming will have two parties in the field this summer, one In southern Wyoming and the other in John- son and Sheridan counties, The groater part ©of his own time uot required by ofiice dutics ‘Will bo spent with the former party, who will begin gauging the ditches of the Littie Lara- mie und its tributaries early noxt month, T are over fifty ditches on the Littie Laramie and seventy-five on that stream and its tributaries. 1t will take a month to gauge these, after which the party will proceed to tho Platte and gauge all the ditches on that river and its tributaries, from the Colorado line to Kort Steele, or everything south of the Union Pacific railroad. This will occupy the rest of tho summer. Tho other party ‘will have its summer's work, and more, in Johnson and Sheridan counties, The law ro- quires that in ganging the engincershall first take up those streams the waters of which have already come in litigation and the cases aro in court. It fs for this reason, chiefly, that he begins with the Lattlo Laramie. The othor party is sent to Johnson and Sneridan Partiy hecauso in those counties there is prob- ably 05 much plowed land as in all the rest of tho'state, though there Is wore hay land in other soctions, The capacity of every diteh Rlong cach stream from source to its mouth must be gauged. There are over three thousand ditches in the state, varying i Jength from a quarter of a mile to fifty miles, The records in the past have been carelessly kept and now no oue knows the whereabouts, longth or capacity of half of these ditches, 8llof which must be looked up as soon as possiblo, Saved His Father's Life, Miss liva Weaver is the heroine of Arvada, Calo., and the whole town is sounding her profee. Her father, Thomas Woeaver, was trimuwing apple trees, whou s unlucky slip of the hooked knife sent the keen blade doep 1nt0 the Wrist,complotely severing tho radical artery, When he reached the housre, alvoady Weak from the loss ot blood, which came welling out iu coplous jets at every pulsation, bis e Johu nounted the swiftest hossefon the place and sped away for the doetor, two miles away. But the roads woro heavy with mud from the recent rains, and no horse can make the {;mrnuy in time to save the life so swiftly obbing away. Courageously Miss Eva took the needle and though tho deathly pulsations sent the blood into her face at overy beat, she calmly and_neatly sewed up the wound and taking a puft ball bandaged it up until the doctor's arrival the homorrhage was completely stopped. Mr. Weaver re- peatedly fainted and his pulse sank twonty- two, but he has rallied until_ his condition, though undoubtedly serions, is at least very hopeful. The doctor says that but for the prompt tetion of the danghter the patient would unquestionably have diod before his arrival, Boy's Prize Fight, A pantomine prize fight between two boys by the name of Billy Burke and Tommy Auter took place in a stablo in an alley last Monday night betweon 11 and 12 o'clock, says the Denver Republican. Novody was hurt, but as there was a horse in the stable an acoldent might have resulted from the rash affair, and it is high time the police should co-operate with the humane society, and tho mothers of the city in preventing such silly amusement. The horso might havo vicious, or the police might have mistaken them for areal *“dead tough mugs” in the dim uncertain light of the lautern and clubbed their foolish heads. Bill, C. Tommy arranged the oxhibition pectation of making a little spending ¥, and suc led in getting o number of , who thought it would be amusing to sce a child’s prize fight, to make up a small stake, and a goodly nuibe be a real prize fight i the £2 admission and went in. The little fellows donued the gloves, which were two ounces in weight, und for the fiest five rounds thoy very skillfully punished the rarifiod, in- vigorating atmosphere in a shameful wanner without regard for its feeling: 1u cho sixth round the crowed got mad and disgusted and called on them to do some- thing, whercupon the poor little fellows turned pale in an agony of Their knees trembled beneath them and 100Ked as il hoy they wished they had staid at home ana left such naught; deutally hit the stomach would hit back. business for men. Billy acci- lommy in the faco and again in d then he was a i Tomuty was afr, 3 would hit him again, so some friendly fellow inthe crowd who folt sorry for the boys slipped outsido and rattled at the door and gave them an excuse to quit,amid a good deal of confusion, ns they thought tho police woro er thom, ybody was disgusted, ana when they went to Jake Hildebraud to get tho stakes he wisely refused them. The sports say they have seen all the boys’ prize fighting they care to. Mo Tragedy. Dell Cazier of Nephi, Utah, is a Mormon elder. Last July it became known that this husband and father was iiving up to all the requirements of the Mormon church, not ex- cepting the colestial law of marriage, says the Salt Lake Tribune. A sweet and interesting young lady had been inveigled by him through the medium of wine and confiding words. This had been done, by the w without the formula of even church ceremo- nies. The father and brothers of the girl re- monstrated but the saint bulldozed them. He pron faithfully to divide his goods and chattels between his lawful wife and the young woman, suffer like a true martyr in the hands of the law, and then with his effects art for Mexico. his was all promised to stave off prosecution until the February term of court, in ovder to nrotect his property from the oficials, But Cazler refused to divide his property. He denounced the outraged irl an Hlonuunwd her a strumpet. The minds of the worthy parents were fived and they saw the depths of. this Mormon's de- pravity. The girl was brought before the grand jury in disgui,o and an indictment was found. Strangled a Woman. The mysterious disappearance of Mrs. Bwmily Fossum of San Francisco has been cleared up by tho discovery of her body in the cellar of her home on Stockton stroet, where only a few weeks ago she had opened u simall, store with one Androw Hodgoberg as a partner. Hedgeberg had been employed in Sierra Valley, but went to San Francisco when the snow came. He put in 8100 for his sharo in tho store, but soon beoame dissatis- fled with his bargain, and has been heard to denounce Mrs. Fossum, swear at hor ana de- mana the return of his money, which sho re- fused bocause she was penniléss. She, how- over, offered to let him take th of the receipts as they came in. One night u few weeks ago thoy were heird having o hot dispute, and suddenly all became quiot, and Mrs. Fossum was not seen again untal her dead pody, horribly mutilated, was found in the cellar.” The autopsy showed that Mrs, Fossum_died of strangulation. Hedgeberg has not been found, Mrs. Fossum was a na- tive of Denmark She lived alone, oxcept for the companionship of numerous dogs, cats aud parrots, to which she was very fondly attached Death Valley Observations. John H. Clery of the signal sorvice, whom Genoral Greeley solected to open the signal station fu Death valley, has gone to Furnace creok on the east side of the valley whero the new observatory will ve located. Rooms have been secured at the Coleman borax works for an oftice. ‘I'his station will be fully equipped with instruments of the finest man- ufacturo and the greatest precision. Con- stant records, covering each hour of the day and night, of the air pressure and temperature will be socured. The wagon rouds leading ta the valley being impassable, Clery went by pack train’ via Darwin and ‘Wild” Rose canyon, which left him but twelve miles across the valley to reach his destiuation. Mr. Clery volunteered for this work, gomg from Kausas City. He enters upon his disagroeable task willingly, expectiug to remain at Furnace creek until the autumn at least. This station is being established in connection with the survey now in that region in charge of Dr. Merriman of the department of agriculture, P. V. S. Barelett of the geologicalsurvey has gone into tho valley Yo assume charge of the topographical work connected with the ox- pedition. Colorado's Mafla, A Maflan outrage occurred early Monday morning ou Lower Front street, in Leadyillo. An unknown Australian was found lying in a dying condition near the railrond track, with several knife wounds iu his side and body. The residents in the vicinity were aro used and the man taken to his home, a short dis- tance down tue street, He would give his name to no one, not even to the attending physician, but sald that he had been assaulted by several 1talians whilo on his way home. T'wo huge gashes were found on the loft side of s head and wnother, ovidently made by a loug stiletto, entered the side just bolow the heart and pierced the left lung, When found ho was unuble 1o talk, but after a free uso of stimulants, named several of his assallants. Two Italiaus, who gave thel names as Joun Smith and John Doe, h: been arrosted, and are held at the city jail to await the result of the man's injuries. Many more arrests are expected in & short time. Tho locality in which the deed was comi mitted is inhabited by the worst elomonts of the city, and is composod almost entwroly of Italians and Austrians. Baiting Coyotes with Ohinamen. Lus* winter the carcasses of about twenty Chiunmen were resurrocted from their rest- ing place near No. 4 coal miue, says the Rock Spriugs (Wyo.) Indepondent. They were taken up into u canon near No. 6, whore for several nights a number of Chinumen were eaguged in boniug them, The bones were packed in tin cases and shipped back to China for burial. The rost of the bodies were left in the canon to bo devoured by coyotes and dogs. The zest with which the coyotes took Clinamen for broakfast, dinner, supper aud luuch put an ides in'o the heads of some 1 people up there. They bought a quantity of strychnine and proceeded to doctor up a lot of hams, shoulders, sirloins, rib roasts and ¢ lets with the medicine. 1t had the desi effoct. The poison only added a finer flavor to the cold meat and tho coyotes dovoured it with increased eagerness, As a vesult, over twenty coyotes have turned up their toes to tho cold winter sky in the region of No. 6 the past month or two. A Big Clean Up. A well-known citizen of Astoria, Oregon, C.W. Ayres, has been on a remarkable mining trip. Some time ago an old miner told him that on a cortain creek {a Siskiyou county, Cal., were falls which pour down into a hole worn out twenty to thirty feet. Tho streawm, which is Shackleford creek, flows through a rich minmg district, und the miner’s theory was that this holo was full of gold. Mr, Ayres went with him, and after climbing through the mountains to the spot, examined 1t carefully, and afterward em- ployed mon, buflt a "flume and carried the vator over the abyss, Thoy then went down into the hole, bt the melting snows were causing such a'flood that they only secured one pailful of dirt, This was found to contain #10 in coarse gold. Mr. Ayres savs.ho will wager that there are two barrcls of gold nuggets in the hole. He has recorded his claim to the mine, and as soon as the waters recede, will see what there is in the bottom of it. Ifitisallasrich as the pailful be will have a fortun hanged Grips. D. D. Holdridge had a bit of hard luck at Sloux Flls rocently, says the Howard Dem- ocrat. He went down there to argue a caso with a gripsack full of legal authoritios, and while getting off av Sioux Falls mistook an other man’s grip for his own and carried it off. e did uot discover his mistake until he got into the court r om, when, after being admitted to practice beforo the United States cireuit court, he went into the grip to dig up his legal authorities to make his argu ments, and exposed to tho horrified gaze of Judge' Edgerton a loaf of rye bread, a fine string of bologna sausage, throe bottles of Milwaukeo beer and a red ‘bandana handker- chief. The judge told Holdridgo he had no objection to his boarding bimself, but that he would be obliged to forbid him sleeping in the court premises, Holdridge postponed his gument and went out to look for the man with whom he had traded grips. Afraid to Catch a Burglar, Two prominent citizens of Stockton, Cal., one a married merchant and the other a young man about town, the other night tool two entertal joung society ladies out to an oyster and wino supper, after which, in- stead of properly going to their homes, they retived to a house of shady ch Dur- ing the night a burglar went through the house aud carried off the young man’s panta- loons, his watch and money. After he had been provided with a new pair of trousers, the young fellow unthoughtedly rushed off to the olice station and made a complawt. The ofticers recovered the trousers and have a good clow to the thief, and now the two men are fearing the fellow will be caught and pro cuted, in which event some facts of great in- terest to four respectable familics may be brought out. Assaulted a Child. Isaiah Tufford. sixty vears of age, was ar- rested on a warrant sworn out by Patrick Callohan, charging him with assaulting nine year-old Sadie Callohan. The crime is al- leged to have bsen committed Sunday after- noon. The girl complained of being ill and was taken o a poysiciun. She was examined and the ph an’declared positively that the girl had been assaulted. The little one was afraid to t 11 her paren’s ‘at first, but hnally broke down and confessed that Tufford had taken hor in an alley back of the Chamber of Commerce. Tufford is a carpenter and has a shop in the alley. The young girl has been in the habit of playing arcund the shop d in this way made the acquaintance of Tufford. She says that Tufford gave her nickels and candy, and after he had outraged hor made her swear not to tell upon pain of being killed. Hushing Up a Scandal. Erol Goode-Wright is determined to secure a divoree from Willard C. Wright of Berke- ley, California, and she has commenced an- other action asking for a divorce on the ground of desertios Mrs. Wright was a very prominent character at the legislature w0 years ngo, and her husband declared that if sho persisted in presenting her suit on the ground of cruelty he would ¢xpose her con- duct at Sucramento and thereby involve some of the high ofMicials of the state, including members of the legislature, Subseguently Mvs. Wright dismissed her action. A short time ago Wright wrote a letter to his wifo, telling her that she could have a divorce on the ground of desertion, providing that sne would waive a judgment for alimony.. He in- formed her that if she did not briug-suit he would do so. Six Lucky Men. Five mew’s lives were saved Monday after- noon by the timely warning given by Join Owens, the nitrate man in the Home powdor works, which were located Just outsido the village of Petersburg near Donyer. They had just time o get out of the works " when 50 to 800 pounds of pure nitro-glycerine blew up. There was a flash followed by a torrific salvo and a shock that brokd windows half 5 mile dway. Huge tanks of irou and massive machinery were doubled into folds and hurled through the air, falling 1,000 fect aistant, and all the adjoining buildings of the concerr were mashed beyond repair. The former site of the main structure where the tricky liquid was manufactured is now a cavity over elght fect deep. Shoshone Reservation to Be Opened. Surveyor M. B. Carpenter will shortly ro- sume the government survey of the great Shoshone Indian reservation in Wyoming preparatory to the apportionment of lands of the reservation among the Indians and tne ultimate throwing open of the residue to gen- eral settlemont. Mr, Carpenter says tho sur- vey is about half completed aud that six weeks' work with the chain will finish it, It 1s probable that the northern portion of tho reservation, constituting ouc-half of its area, will be purchased outright by the goy- ornment from tho Iudians. That section lios between the Big Wind river und Ow! creck (tho latter stroam being in the Big Horn basin) and comprises some of the finest min- eral and agriculwral lands in Wyoming, Penalty for Cattle Stealing. B. F. Humason, & wealthy butcher of Spokane, Wash., has Just boon sentenced to two years in the penitentiary at hard labor, He was at the head of a band of cattle thieves arrested here three months ago. The operations of the band exteuded over a year past, and cattlo have boen run off the raiges throughout the western part of the stato to an o, ngate value of £30,000, The best legal ‘talent in the state was reprosonted both for and against the accused. Pending an appeal to the supremo court, Judge Blake refusod to allow the prisoner out on bonds, Late in the afternoon Judge Hanford of the United States district court granted a writ of habeas corpus. Tho prisoner 1s sixty years of age, and Lias hitherto borne an ex- cellent reputation in the community, Wouldn't Keop His Promise. An odd sort of law suit has been on trial in Boulder, Colo., in which & numberof Gold Hill minors are interested. About two years ago £2. W. Bald of the Alamakee mine *struck 1t big.” Ho felt good and he said to his work- men; “Ill tet you share my good luck with me. 1 am now paylng you $2.50 per duy. DIl raise the wagos to 3. Things went on smoothly until the mine got 10 “‘pinch " Then Bald told kis workmen that he was not nak- ing anything out of the miue and he could not pay but to $2.30. This was paid. That Was a year ugo. The suit brought was for tho 50 cents exira a day. Tempting English Sportsmen, Four varioties of bear common to Wyom- g are reported to be numerous in the moun- tains dividing Wyoming and Colorado. It is sald that A. Houston, 8 well known hunter and stockman, who owns a ranch io the upper Platto vallay, has a standing bet of his ranch and stook against $10,000 that ho can kill fifty bears in tho adjacent mountains during tho course of one hunting season. This bet of Mr. Houston has boen sent to England and postod in all the gun clubs. It is more than probable that it will be covered, in which case, it is believed, thero will be ' fifty bear ess and Mr. Houston will bo $10,000 ahead. Railroad Men's Fight. Just after midnight on Monday, Tom M Hugh, an old-time Union Pacific engineer who lives in Laramie was badly used up in o fight in the yards thera with Dave Tobin and James Fulton, two swikchmen who belong there. Tho engineer claims two lanterns were broken over his ead and that he was knocked down and repidatedly kicked in the face, Ho exhibited soven ugly wounds, Fulton was arrestod. A local ofeiat ex- presed the beliof that Tobin was justified in doing what ho did and swid if he was fined bo would pay tho fine. Ho says Engineer McHugh tackled the switchmen first, calling then insulting names, and that thereupon Tobin struck ui McHugh pulls the fast mail between Laramie and Choyenue, Potato Growing Contest. W. J. Sturgis, of Jobuson county, Wyoming was awarded a medal as the cham- plon potato raiser of the county and world. Other growers have boen envious aund R. C. Nisbet, of Del Note, Colo., challenged him to a contest this scason. Sturgis signified his willingness to accent but imposed certain conditions, These were not satisfactory to Nisbot bocause, he says, the season is too far advanced. A report from Dol Noto says that should a contest be arranged thove will be some of the heaviest potato growing e lioard of, us Nisbot is confidont bo can etter t asan 1 do an 60,000 pounds or 1,000 bushels on is valle acre, Luck of Mining. Panl Larsen and Gus Mobikg, who have been workiug in the Apex lodo mining claim, on Silver mountain, near Asheroft, for four years, have, after driving a tunnel 345 feot and an upraiso seventy foor, struck a rich oro chute runuing 287 ounces in silver to tho ton. These persevering Swodos work about. one-third of their timo for other miners, and 50 000 a8 they got money enough to live on a few months return to their own property, and in this way, after doing some £6,000 of work, have at last been rewarded by finding that which makes a bon king of a day laborer immediately it is laid bare. New California Railroad. The common council of San Dicgo, Cali- fornia, has just passed the Peninsular rail- road bill, which provides for the building of the standard guage railroad from San Dieg at least three miles southward and to Yuma, The contracts have already boen lot for the grading and laying of forty-five miles of road northward from San Quentin, The locomotives and three thousand tons of rails e now on the way consigned to the latter aco and to San Diego for the bullding of the 4 southward from this point. ro: Whipped by a Buek, Charles Gardner had an experience with a deer near Sturgis, S. D., the other day. Ho had no gun, so he chased tho buck jnto the corner of a wira fence and tnought he wovld capture somo venison anyway. He called a neighbor to his assistance, but the buck whipped them both off and finally got awa During the struggle Gardner's clothes were torn completely off and in_shreds, but other- wise he was uninjured. The neighbor was delegatod to get another suit of olothes, whilo Gardner waited behind a haystack. Baby's Bath in Lye. Mrs. Peok of Puoblo, Colo, heated a bucket of lye water for the purpose of taking 50me paint stains from her husband’s clothes. During her absence from the room her two- year-old daughter fell into the seething water. Her crios brought her mother to the spot, who pulled her from the bucket. The child \as burnea 1h a mpst horribls maznor about the arms, breast and legs. She was injured so badly that it is feared she will die. Sheep as Witnosses, A case with some novel features has just been tried in Evanston, Wyo. The Corrinne Mills canal and stock: company charge that Hiram C. Shurtliff took possession of several sheep belonging to the plaintiffs. The sheep, seven in number, were taken to Evanston from Carter and used in court. The sheep oxpressed testimony of great value in the case. It is said to be theé first time that sheep have been brought into ppen court. A Justice Convicted of Robbery. Thomas L. Joy, alias Lovejoy, was justico of the peace of Mississippi township, Sacra- mento county, California. He has just been convicted of robbing a man named Kelly of #50. When he was brought up for sentence his counsel asked that he be sent to the Kol- som prison as he had friends and property in that vicinit, Joy was committed there for two years, California. ‘The late Dr, Samuel Merritt of Oakland, is to have a $35,000 tomb. Sacramento officials Kmpusn to break up the highbinder dens in that city. The crowd of tourists entering Yosemite valley is unusually large this year. ‘The pool rooms having been shut out in Sau Francisco have moved to Oakland. The estimated cost of the reception to the president in San Francisco on his approach- ing visit is $12,000. The bricklayers’ union of San Francisco has refused to boycott non-union iron cast- ings for buildings. It is believed that Willie Polumbo, a boy of thirteen, has been stolen from his tome in San Francisco by a band of gypsies. San Diego has closed a contract by which it gains coutrol of a water system for twenty vears, thus insuring cheapand abundant water. The Californiz and Union insurance com- panies have been consohidated under the di- rection of Daniel Myer, the orincipal share- holder, The shoemakers strike in San Francisco is still unsettled. the league having rejected the proposition for a settloment suggested by the employers. A number of Santa Clara county grape- growers met at Cuperlino and decided to in- corporate and conduct business on the co- operative plan, The society of Dunkards, which has been seeking a location in California, has finally decided to locate its colony in the San Jacinto valley. Grain is being injured by the Hessian fly in the southern portion of Napa yalley. At the same time crops of other kinds never looked better. In the Sonoma valley the outlook is most excellent, although the Bartlett pears are lia- ble to blight unless there is wind and sun- shine to prevent, The dead body found in Marin county is now thought to be that of J, C. Wilson, a traveler in the employ of a New York firm 'of diamond dealers, Harriet Hawley, a San Francisco 2s swindled out of all the money shohad by Attorney J, C. Hall, has gone crazy over her troubles. The investization of the charges of cruelty to pupils in the San Francisco Valencia streot school is stirring the educational department of that city to its depths. In southern Califoruia the cool, cloudy weather has not beon favorable to the fruit crop. Deciducus fruits ave in bloom, but need warm, clear weather. J. M. Wither, who crossed the plains from Missouri to California in 1550, diod the other day at Napa. He was i ‘native of Kentucky and seventy-soven yoars of age. Five Chinese highbinders were sentencod in San Franeisco to six months' imprisonment in the house of correction, haviag been found guilty of vagrancy uuder the new law. The Central Pacitic has. re-elected its old board of directors, Stanford, Huntington, (. F. Crocker, C. E. Brotherton, Timothy Hop- kins, A. N. Towne and k. H. Muller, jr. The town of Alameda elected two out of the three trustees upen the issue of high liquor license, which will be hereafter §00 per year. Tho low lleense peoole elected one trustee, The state board of health’s monthly mortu ary statowent for Mareh, shows tho largest | record of deaths for any montn in many years, the doath rate being 1.53 per 1,000 of povulution. The Oakland syndicate investment com- pany has been formed, with a capital stock of 810,000,000, for the purpose of reclaiming the water front in that city, building wharves, ete. Tho California fish commission organized with the following officers: Joseph D. Red- ding, prosidont; Ramon E. Wilson, secre- 'y3 Joseph Morizio, troasurer; Wells, Fargo & Co., bankors, United States District Attorney Garter has brought suit to declare forfeited to the go ernment the Gallegos distillery,seized March by revenue officers for dofrauding the government., ‘The stato board of horticulture met and re- elocted Elwood Cooper, president; L. W, Buck, vice president: B. L. Lelong, secre- tary; Sol Ruuyan, tresusurer, and J. L. Mosher, auditor, Miss Jennie Lillie,daughter of a rich Santa. Barbara farmer, abandonod her father's houso and s now seskgig an engagement on the stage. The stage-struck girl has not been successful as yet. The California world's fair commissioners expross themselves in favor of a cumulative exhibit for California at Cnicago and a sep- arate building to be exclusively dovoted to California producis. Ellery E. Dixon, rne of the provrictors of the Lassen Advocate, is on trial at Susan- ville, charged with beiug leader of a gaug of horsethieves who infest northern California and southern Oregon The Army and Navy republic league of Ouakland disbanded because Maaoa (hapman would not recognize it in making his appoint- ments, It will bo reorganized as an inde- pendent, political club, 1t is now said that the eift of St. F'rancis de Sales church which was attributed to James 000 to tho Oakland, in Canning, a convert from Protestantism, was donated by Mrs. Leland Stanford. A namber of men have been searching for some time past for a_treasure box said to be located vear the Clift house, San Francisco, and it is reported that they have discovered it by probiug with rods. 1t has been discovered that while in loss than a year in Sun Francisco Chinese bonds- men have gone sccurity on habeas corpus cases for 1,390,000, all of them togethor are assessed at'only §300,000, The harbor commissioners have been con- sidering the removal of the Pacific Mail con- pany’s docks in San Francisco from tho pres- ent location to North Beach, but C, P, Hune tington and other directors 0ppose it. William D, Eckstein of Los Angeles, who bas been a loaner of monoy, has failed; lia- bi 225,000; assots, nothing. Ho paid 3 5 per o enta monthj interest, and ¢ of course, will lose the principal. A woman cighty years of ago was found lying drunk in her yard at Monterey the other day. She was cirried into the house, where her husband was also found in an ir toxicated condition, He is only forty years old. Chef of Police Crowley of San Francisco 18 daily receiving complaints from countrs towns of the operation of & gang of swindl who are selling bogus pawn uckets pur porting to represent valuablo jowelry in San Franci ‘The five trustees of tho Kaweah colony in California, have been found guilty of cutting timber on 'government land. An expose of the colony shows that the leaders have made much money, and deluded a large number of inuocent people. A regularly organized gang of robbers was capturod at Merced Falls. They have been operating in Morced, Mariposa and Fresuo counties, and when arrested had horses, wagons, stoves and household furniture in their possession belonging to peoplsin the three counties. “The plan of organization to be submitted to the olive-growers of California at a meocting to be in San F'rancisco in July next provides for the establishment of an olive oil depot in that city where the difforent brands of oil may be sampled and _information concerning the industry be collected. Crops of all kinds are more backward than usual on account of the cool, cloudy weather. The temperaturo doportures in all portions of the state are greatly deficient, while the rainfall deportures are largely in excess, which gives a good outlook to hay, grain an fruits. Don Shorb, the seven-vear-old son of Hon, J. De Barth Shorb, was bitten by an English bulldog at Los Angeles when a crowd teased the animal. It became enraged and suddenly turned and grabbod the unfortuaats child by the leg. Oune leg, one hand and ove arm were literally chowed up. The animal had to be shot bofor hio would ot go. ‘Ul boy will Mrs. Laura Cosgrove, aged seventeen, took adose of “Rough on Rats" and died two hours later in San Jose. Her mother kent a house of ill-repute, The girl ma d two years ago James Cosgrove, an englneer. Thoy lived togother a few months and sep- arated. Lately she had beon keeping com- pany with a young man and learued that the neighbors were circulating stories about her, Fritz Harms, a Yolo leper who had been quarantined on an island in the overflow sev- eral miles below the town of Washington, died a few days ago. His remains were brought through the break in the levee to the Stockton city cemetery. Young Harms was aflicted with the loathsomo dis- ease of leprosy for years, and his life was a burden to bimseif, his relatives and the tax- payers of Yolo county. Deeds have been recorded granting to the government the right of way for cutting a channel for the San Joaquin river through what is known to steamboat men as the head ranch of the long bend in the river, twenty- five miles below Stockton, The cut will be 2,800 feet long, 800 fect wido and twelve feet decp. This cut-off will remove the worst bend in the river, and will give the stream better velocity, which will improve naviga- tion by scouriug out the channel. The Bear Valloy and Alessandro develop- ment company drove the final rivet—and a silver one it was—into its pipe lme to Ales- sandro last Saturday. This is the first pipe in a series which will deliver 12,000 inches from Bear Valley to the San Jacinto plains. 1t is expected from this flow of water to irri- gate over 80,000 acres of land known to bo adapted to citrus fruit culture. A special train is about to leave New York for Red- lands, among the passengers being many eastern capitalists interested in land about to be placed under this irrigation system. The Bear Valley company has plans per- fected for improvements which will cause the expenditure of a large amount of money within a ear, Colorado. Durango is pretty certain to have a new sawpling works, Recent rains have been of great benefit to both farmers and stockmen at Las Animas, Prof. N. B. Webb, late superintendent of the Central public sehool, died of consump- tion. The tunnel run by the Seek No Further people at Leadville encountered good ore, but it soon petered out. Cattle wintered well in the Whito r country and the big suow fall assur abundance of grass this season, A foot of solid mineral has bee the ( nearly er 5 an struck 1 patra mine at Empire that mills 30 in gold to the ton, The columbine won the state flower cou- test. It took the lead in every town, proviug its popularity by a large majority. It is rumored that the Anaconda mino at Idaho Springs 15 soon to change hauds. It is now closed down pending the sale. Norwood, San Miguel county is a now town starting in the Shenandoah valley, The finest timber grows near there of all kinds. ‘The Progress, o Saturday paper, was horn in Pueblo lust week and in'the afternoon tho editor’s wife gave birth to a baby b, There are throo horticultural socities in the Arkansas valloy—Canon City, Pueblo and Rocky Ford, All are doing a good worlk. The Durango city council has made pro- visions for the encouragoment of the new smelter to bo erected by Grackitk & Co, Three boys arvested at Graud Junetion for burglarizing several stores have been scn- tenced to three years in the reform school. At Colorado Springs Sunday an operation was performed upon Miss Myra Higbeo, who was born blind, which enablos her £ s fectly. Chief Fugineer Thomas Wiggles of the Rio Graude Southere fell of t Duraugo and broke his right wrist his left ankle, Oscar Walker of Grand Junction succeeded in landing a white salmon welghing ove pounds. 'Tho fish meusured nearly two n longth, It is reported that the Stecling wine, in Boulder ceunty, has beon sold for 50,000, Judge Luner owned it. The purchasers aro not named. Johnson, the negro who sawed his way out of tho county jail at Trinidad ten days ago, was captured at Thatcher. This is his sec: ond escape. The state board of agriculturs appointed Miss Girace Patton of Fort Collins professor of Euglish and stenography at a salary of #1,500 a yoar, Two miners named McGuire and Mulyaney were recently bunkoed out of §00 &t Lead- ville by two alleged mine owners, who have since disappeurod, The smelters of Leadville will present President Harrison with a silver brick and a collection of labeled specimens upon his arrival in that city. The Dolores county papers claim that 885,- 000 has been paid out already this sonson for claims in tho vicinity of Nolan, a new gamp that is being boomed. rttlers on the Maxwell land grant have issued an address to the public protesting agaiust their eviction by the Maxwell com- pany, which is about to begin. J. P. Looney of Fort Morgan 1s fitting out a large force of teams to work on the Iliff and Platte valley ditch. Fourteen miles will bo added to the ditch already built. Tho trustoes and stewards of tho Methodist Episcopal church at Boulder adopted vlans for the new church edifice. It is to be built of white sandstone ac a cost of 815,000, A miner named Jordan fell soventy ot Th the Californi; at Central City and sus- tained se s on his head. No bones woro broken. It is thought he wiil reco! “The Larimer county commissioners adopted a resolution offering liberal premiums to the farmers and stock grow for exhibits of their product at the next county fair to bo held 1a Septembe For tho first timo in tho history of the city council of Leadville the incommg officials at ouce proceeded to business and mado a clean sweep of the people hold ing office under the old adm There -three well-dofined cases of small-pox in the vieinity of Walsenburg, but none in tho town. Altogother there have been about forty cases and but one person has died of the d Work on the oil well at Trinidad is pro gressing. ‘Thoy are now down about twelve bundred feet “and still working in a block of shalo which smells strongly of oit. The tem- perature is 108 degrees, Sam Howe has been abpomted chief of de- tectives by the Denver police bo Ho has been on the force for along time and made an enviable record. Howe once belonged to General Custer's command, A strike has boen made in_tho Paymastor at Ited Mountain, At tho 400-foot level rich wineral, including steel galena, gra and ruby silver was found in a big v ore runs about #4,000 to the ton The railroad company built a stock shute at Gate View, and it is probable the Cebolla cattlemen will hereaftor lond their cattlo for the castern markot there, instead of Sapinero, as they have done herotofore ive hundred and forty have been made to the for seed for farme; applications unty commissioners ks, which would require an expenditure of over $10,000. The appropria- tien for this purpose is only §3,750. Rev. C. W. Simmons, a r ecently veturned fonary from India, has arvived in the San Luis Valley to take charge of tho relig- ious work connected with the Methodist church at Stanley, Mosca and Garrison, Thomas Walsh had E. C. Harbison, H. DY Jones, Charles Majors and Charles E. Per- ham arrested in Gunnison charged with con- spiracy to assault and kill his son. The trial occupied a week and all the defendants were discharged. During a recent rainstorm at Kocky Ford lightning struck the Santa Fe telegranh of- fice with fearful force, seriously stunning Operator Foulke. The sido of the building was considerably damaged and one instru- ment burned out. Water of the new artisian well just bored on the property of Mrs. Julin Higgins at Brighton contains largo quantities of differ- ont minerals, especially iron, sulphato of sodn and sulphur. Some of it has been shipped to New York for analysis. Tratareli Bonaventura, an [talian, in a sa- loon row in Pueblo, was , frightfully = slashed by Naro Urabino, - Bonaventura’s face wus disfigured for life and Heé tiay lose his tongue. Naro was arrested charged with as- sault with mtent to kill. Durango cast the largest vote at the receut election of any town wost of Pueblo, exc Leadvilie and Aspen Durango cast votes, Ouray 778, Del Norte 53, Tetluride 850, Alamosa about two hundred and Silverton apout threo hundred and fifty, A laborer named Gus Swanson employed at the big tunnel near Leadville had an al- most miraculous escape from death, He was gru\wink along in the tunnel when n portion of the ceiling "gave way, part of it falling on Swanson and breaking his right leg just above the knee, The Nolan Creok railway company has been organized at Aspen with $2,000,000 capital. The road will ran from Castle, a station on the Rio Grande, to Nolan creek, a distance of eightcen miles, Surveyors have started and the work of grading will be commenced within a few days. An explosion in the Cameron shaft of Ar- gentum killed Foreman Edward Reed, Thomas Kennedy and Jack Mahoney, miners, and injured Edward Gillein and one other miner, The accident was iu the breast of the mcline, 1,400 feet from the mouth of the tunnel, and the bodies ave still there, Irank Painter, the head brakeman on an extra cast-bound stock train on the Colorado Midland, was struck on the head while stand- ing on the top of a car at Colorado Springs, The train was passing under a viaduct, and Painter did not stoop. His head was badly crushed. The man was taken to Denver, Canon City Record: Tho only genuine kaolin bed in America, so far as heard from, is that owned by Doc Silsby, situated a inile and a half northwest of this city, and not far from the entrance to the state ditch tunnel. Kaolin 1s the hardened clayey rock from \\'hi;'h the beautiful ware known as china is made. Contractors on the big tunnel of the An- tioch at Leadville have already succeeded in driving it more than six hundred feet, and had thoy not encountered some exceedingly hard rock of late, would have been still fu ther advanced. As it is, if this rate continue they will complete their 1,600 feet befo) October 1. The Warren ditch will be started as soon as the frost is out of the ground, Thisf diteh was surveyed last fall, and will be taken out of the Arl or about twelve miles north of Bue ista, and will run along close to the wi foot hills and down into Adobe_park. It will, when finished, cost about $75,000. James G. Flomming, one of Robinson's successful prospectors, comes to the front nother strike, which bids fair to rival find of 1884, This strike is also on the Robinson company’s property, where Mr. Flemming has been "leasing the past two months, “A fine face of fifty ounce ore is now in sight and is getting largér wiih every shot. % R. Holden has now under construction at Aspen a lixiviation plant which cost 000, The process to be used has, claimed, uy udvantages over the methoc from making a higher pevec ago i The hy-product of the and copper is retained, and it permits of ore not bejng crushed so' fine as is gonerally necessary. Somo « about a 1ren who were gatheriug fowors mile and a half west of ado Springs, came in about dusk Satucday even- ing ana’ roported that they had stumbled ucross the body of a dead ‘wan lying in a field. A scarch was at once insti but no deflnite directions had heen given by the children, the police were forced to give up the search, A man who was discharged from the Revenue tunnel at Ouray last week, but ro fused o #ign tho pay roll, walked iuto Man- agor . W, Roe ofice, pulled an ugly looking pistol on him and demanded bis pay, Mr. Reed and his assistants reasoned him out of his desporate threat to kill sou flually b ately as b one, und walked out of the ofice as deliber- walked in, I'rom ‘I'rinidad it is reported that the Union Pacific road wilt build a line of its own br tween that sty o 1 Pueblo this year, It is claimod that the Rio Grande doos not want o renew the lease which axpirves soon. Tho Unlon Pucific is getting out thousands of ties at Catskill ready for skipment. The relations of the two ronds are anything but pioasaut, and are g ng wore complicated every day. San Luis vailey favmers are uotso far along with their work as they werc a year #ro at this time, 'The seasou is about “two weeks later than last year, Not wuch m than half the grain is In the ground. Tn 1500 r was turoed luto tho Costilla citch 11 Aprit 10; this yoar it will not ba running until May 1. "Other hoadgates will be opened ten days or two weeks lator than thoy were in 1590, A public meoting has boon bield in George- town to considor the offer of the Denver, Apox & Wostern railway to build into the town, provided the town gives freo dopot and switching grounds, frea right of way and £0,000 cash, The company oxpects the from Idaho Springs. In_roturn it will freight for five yoars at 3 por cent off Colo- rado Central rates. Committoos were ap- pointed to report this woek: George Stillman, a laboror of Lyons, lics at the county hospital at Boulder in~ & somi-un- couscious state. Heo breathos rogularly, oats when ho is rafsed up and fed, but says” noth- ing and is apparently asleep, He can answer no questions. While at work at Lyons he fell from a derrick in a stono quarry, & dis- tance of about twenty foot, striking on his head. The skull is not fractured, but hoe is suffering from a severo concussion of the brain, Colonel Alfred J. Ware, one of Colorado's pionecrs, died at his home in Denver. Ha was born in Stark county, Ohio, in 1838, Ha tirst located in- the California gulen, near Leadville, whore he was successful in his mining operations, He then went over into the San Juan mining company, and from there to Hreckenridge., Success' still con- tinued with him, and at the time of his death he was tho owner of many paying properties in Summt count, stabbing affr: o L. . Cole anch, one mile we Arvada, in which Charles Herroll, fc wn of the ranch, was severely cut in two places by Gill Jawos, farm hand working for H in the leshy vart of the left forearm, sever. ing the muscles and artery and striking the one, and the other in the head. No ona 1 to know but the princinals what ciuses lod to tho cutting, as there wero no witnesses, Horroll says James came from Denver drunk and attocked him. He picked up a chair and tried to defend himself,” when James drew his knife and cut him. Jawes claims Horroll . One cut is hit him first with a chair. No arrests bave been made. Wyoming. St. Thomas parish, Rawlins, is out of iyder is the new ety marshal of » Cambria coal mines near Newcas‘le umed work Mining has been tempora: the gold fields south of Opa Judge Dundy presided at the United Statos district court that opened at Cheyenno last Monday. Many horses in_the vicinity of Big Horn have been afilicted with lung fever and other diseases. William Lueck, a Rock Springs express man, hus skipped out leaving debt unt- ing to §1,500, It is estimated that within a radius of six miles of Rock Springs upward of one million pounds of wool will be sheared this spring. At the last meeting of the Rawlins board of trade £,000 was subscribed toward a pro- jooted £25,000 hotel. It is planued to be of stone, threc stories high, A man named Elison is reported by Chey- enne papers as having recently lost ‘at rou- lette in that vity &,000 out of an inheritance that fell to him'in the cast, The Episcoval church at Neweastle has re. ceived u_handsomely t oak baptismal font, a gift from the lndies of St John's Mis- sionary society, Washington, D. C. Chatlie Miller, the convicted boy murderer confined in the Cheyenne jail, amuses hin- self by writing poctry. The worst of it is that some of the papérs publish the stuff. Coal shipments from Rock Springs are in- creasing. Seven hundred and thirty-seven cars were shipped last week. The Anaconda smolter is increasing its orders to almost their old amount, During a recent hunt in the mountains of the Snake River country oyor General Richards shot several fine spocimens of the Rocky Mountain sheep, which is known as the American chamois. ‘The Union Pacific employs 295 men who live at Rawlins. Thero are 136 in the repair shops and round-house: engineors, 54; fire- men, 48; conductors, 20; brakemen, 48; vard- masters, 2, and switchmen, 7. A band of moose was recently seen in tho vicinity of the great Yellowstone lake; and a hunter reports sceing a solitary but very wary old bull moose recently near the shores of Lake Alice on the head of Bear river, A new mineral discovery in Fremont county on the Stinking water is said to promise well, Assays of specimens show 63 per cent lead and fifteen ounces of silver to the ton, ana another of 54 per cent lead and thirty-three ounces of silver, Laramie authorities are bound to break up gambling in that town. Kour men who wera arrested the other night and two who were let go on their own recognizance skipped ont. The others who were under bonds had to pay 52 and costs each, cns of Buffalo subscribed from ono to fifty trecs each to be planted along either side of the boulevard soon to bo constructed from Buffalo to I'ort McKinney under the joint auspices of the city and cointy govern- monts and the authorities at the post. Kfforts ave being made to have a road built from Piedmont to the Victorin mines. On account of the bad condition of the road from Carter station, on the Union Pucifie, Con- tractor Byrnes, who has been hauliig ore there from tho mines, has had to suspend work temporari T'here is an ordinance in Laramie that any- one living two miles out of the city on a ranch is privileged to carry a pistol. When a man comes to the city aviaed the police ave obliged to notify him thot he 1ust not carry arms and 1n ¢ase he docs not disavin i thirty min- utes he can be arrested. Rev. Mr. Wilson, of Lusk, while walking from Fort Robiuson to Crawford, met a negro who without warning hauled off and knocked the preacher down. Wilson drew a razor and kept the negro from repeating the assault, but the latter picked up the minis- ter's valise and van away with it, Choyenno's new vity bonds are reported to haye been sold through the instrumentality of Senator Caroy, at oue-half cent premium, to . Taylor & Co. of Philadelphia. The honds comprise” 85,000 refunding wator bonds, £60,000 new water bouds and 65,000 viaduct bonds, making a total of 213,000, A few nights ago at Rock Sprgs ther was a ficht botween Cyclone Dick, a cowl and George Galahos, ' Mexican sheep herd The Mexican pulled a knifo and the cowboy used his teeth. When the fight closed it was found that tho Mexican's neck was nearly chewnd off. Dick has been placed under g3 to appear at court. Most_encouraging reports aro current vo- garding the probability of raising the monoy necessary to construet the Douglas diteh, . Bevan Phillips of Donver, who represents English capital, visited Douglus recently with o view to the ultimate purchase of the local company’s rights, and the early inauy- uration of work on the diteh, ‘Chieves and hold-ups recently hold carvival in and arouna Laramie. One night two masked mmen entored the shack of Gregory Milan, at Crow creck and Thonis, and held the old man up. They tcok his watch, tho revolver from under hiz pillow and %/ in money. Milan made a fight with the armed burglar, but was overpowerd F'rom the Centonninl ¢ comes a report that work 18 to bo resumed on the ol Michigan mine. Another discovery is said to huve heen m fa it. The mino was last oporatel by a cor pany from Grand Rapids, but his been idle ly suspended in high for along time and was genorally losked upon as worthtess | Cold Hil hoom Is reviving in the smailer camps Laud for an_ experim lon nas boen purchased tear by the i versit 'L comprise: ac go0d agric land. threo direc pic 1l be useful in o 5 The lund produces hountaful only but fruits and garden yproduce, i owned the property and the 15 §1,170, claimod that lakos on the pias, o e of the best known an d most uso o graduatly deying up, On first discovered spread ovor an area o acres and was very doop, but Is now dry others are sheinking perceptibly each ‘The Laramic Republican thinks this to the ant of water taken out of irrigation purposes and shows the importance of the work the state eugiucer is 10 begin this summor, The N astle Journal says that the speing term of district in Weston coupty wilt be loug remembered and has cavsed 33 onds less amount of comment cases which properly came beforo the disposed of, but tho g ing attorney brought i ) when Tho