Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-07-11
WESTERN NEWS ITEMS,
The Rsck Springs Coal Miners
Strike.
HORRIBLE DEATH IN sFaffftr
tiendish Assault on 4 Little Girl
Crimes Of a "Trusty,- Etc.
WYOMING.

Grimes Of a 'Trusiy,- Etc.
WYOMING.
a Rock Springs dispatch states
That there is little change In the
situation there, though evidences m
weakening on the part OF the min
ems cannot be entirely Concealed
they declare that they VIII remain
forever Idle Rs a painted chip on a
painted ocean rather than accent
the screen system. Many Of tile
older men advise a trial OF the pro-
posed change. These accent in good
faith the company's claim that
wages will not be reduced and that
coal must be screened to meet COM
| petition. The men 70 the number
Of 500 to 500 gather in their hail and
discuss questions Of the hour. The
proceedings are translated into Chi
nese, Finnish and Austrian for the
benefit Of those people. This is the
hrst strike Of Chinese, but they
seem TO be true as steel.
4 desperate fight took place at
Wamsutta Station on the Union
Pacific Sunday between Patsy Tar
get, Conductor Lockwood and two
tramps who were stealing a ride.
The trainmen attempted 10 put the
tramps of the train. They resisted
and in hescufiie threw Target from
the roof OF freight car. He fell
under the wheels and was horribly
mangled, dying soon after reaching
Rock Springs. The tramps were
captured and are in Jail.
OREGON.
In some sections Of the State a
small black beetle Is destroying
clover fields 10y eating the roots Of
the plants.
a lew days ago three hoodlums Of
Jefferson entered a Chinese house
and held the MOngOlians outside the
building while they robbed il Of
500, and with coal oil started n
blaze that destroyed the building.
The harvest Of cereals in Ore
gOn and Washington will be the !
heaviest ever known. There will be /
magnificent crops Of apples, pears
and peaches.
A few days ago J. W. Brannan,
an employe Of the Front Street
Cable Company at Seattle, met a
terrible death. Hehad just oiled the
great sheave wheel around which /
the cable passes. ami being in a
hurry neglected to replace the
blanks covering the wheel. He
went away. but returned in few
moments for an oil can, and failing
TO notice the open place at the
sheave stepped in. The arms Of the
wheel caught his legs, and in an in
slant he was drawn between the
heavy timbers forming the frame
work and his life crushed out. The
WAS stopped Immediately
anu Brannan's body was found
rolled up like n hall and crushed |
into 4 pulp. He was married and
IS years old.
COLORADO. b
Leadville, Colo. July i0.-James
Miller, a gray-headed man Of sixty
years, has been arrested, charged b
with a most fiendish crime upon
the person OF little Gertie BurT, u
years Of age. Miller is a bartender
and lives alone in a house adjoining /
Mrs. Burr. Tuesday evening Gertie
and n little friend named Welsh,
while passing Miller's house were
called % his door. The Old man
seized Gertie and threw her upon a
The child struggled TO get
free, whereupon Miller tied her with
a rope and accomplished his pur-
pose. The girls were kept in house
until ; O'Clock the next morning,
when they were liberated anu the
Burr girl was threatened with
death IL she revealed 10 any one
what had happened. She immeii-
ltely went home and told her
mother. who notified the officers.
Miller was not CAPTURED dnul today, !
when he was placed under $1,000
bail ani lOiged in Jail.
Canyon City. Colo, July 10
The practice ever sincs the pcniten- ,
tiary was started OF permitting
..trusties'' 10 work outside the walls,
unguarled 10y armed gu2ris, has ar
last resulted in a heinOus outrage. !
Stimson, cOiOred convict,
who was sent up for larceny from
Arayzhoc county for two years, and
whose time expires in December,
dipped away from the garten force
,n the Helm ranch, tive miles east
4 town. at 10 O'Clock this morning. .
walked deliberately toward town,
and when half way there, he went
% the house Of Young Talmon,
,rutally assaulted his wife, stole a {
ant Of clothes and went 20 the river, '
ghere Mr.. POpe's son was fishing,
sud who had a fleet horse hitched
near by. He stole the horse came up
% town. and when last seen was cross
ny Lincoln PARK in the direction Of
he mountains. Mounted guards I
With bloodhounds started in hot
pursuit and they are only twenty {
minutes behind him, and without
loubt the brute will be overtakeh {
md his body left as food for the {
luzzards before nightfall. The citi-
lens will insist that no more TRUSTEES
e allowed to work on farms or !
,ardens without a proper force Of
lrmed guards, il II takes vigilance '
10 enforce their determ- {
nation. Convict Stimson's crime
proves 10 have been deliberately
he having choked his
victim until she was pOwerless TO
move. Warden Lamping says he {
las no room for the fiend at the pen. /
Il is sure that he will not be troubled
With him.
La Junta Colo, July S.-This
place is all wrought up with excite
nent over the attempt Of 4 number
If unknown firebugs TO burn the
own. Numerous efforts have been
made 20 set fire TO various residences
N the city, which have, as a rule,
proved a fat failure. What object
he parties expect 20 gain is not
known, nor can il he even surmised
IN the part OF the citizens Of this
place. Last Friday night the coun-
" bridge acrJss the rlver was dis
covered in flames, anil had II not
jeen for the prompt action OF few ,
,itiZens It would have been utterly
destroyed. Sunday morning about
/ O'Clock the bakery connected with
he European Hotel was burned.
The fire companies did good work
and n hard fight prevented the
lanes from envelOpiug the hotel
and destroying ii. An
fort has been made 10 discover the
principal, without success. IL will
,e n sultry day for him # he is
aught.
INDIAN TERRITORY.
FL Reno, /. T., July s.-A double
murder occurred at Fred, a small