Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-07-18
NEWS OF THE WEST.
How The Fruit Canning Interests Of
California are Affected.
"MONKEYISG" wIru ELECTRICITY
shocking Murder aud Suicide at Los
Angelcs.-Terriilc Coal OIL
Stove Explosion.

Danube on Saturday afternoon NJ Port
land, Or. The opium was founu IN 'ne
tool room.
william Dunbar, manager OF tne
Merthants' steamship TrAnspo.'st.io,"
company, has been arreslei Nv ! ~
LAM, Or, IN n charge Of smuSsl,inn6 INN
opium. He was RELEASED ON GOWN
bonds.
George Brown, Il years Of age. soil
nj n r.. nrowp. "A resident OF The Last
nij,. Colorado springs, COLI drew tile
bnIl,ts from "A number OF revolver
caftriJpes, and emptylng the powder
into an old teapot touched a match TO
/, Tbe hair on his ACE and the font
~ his hend was burned on, ana II was
f,srrd he would loss his eyesight, hut
ihp physlciAns now believe they can
save IT,
Thieves broke into some Of tue sum.
mer cottages at Holiday Park, PEG,
and did large amount Of damage be-
sides taking considerable bedding,
carr eta and other articles away me
thieves LEFT the cottage Opon 20 the
elements aud wild animalf; opened tue
coal oil cans and allowed the oil TO run
all over tho iloors; scattered the wear
ing apparel Ill over the fo1rn ami
made n general wrsck.-HuUiuitC Juny
Chronicle.
H.. Brunei, French capitalist Of
San Ffanclsco, committed Suicide on
Sun ay morning ut Hughes's resort,
near May field, by shooting himself In
the heart with shot gun. Brunei and
his wifs came from San FfaDclscl a
few days ago for AN outing in the
country, anu took up their abode nj
Hushes'e Place. lie had been suffering
with asthma, having been thus Tou-
bled fora number Of years, aud this
is uupposed to be- the cause Of his act.
A coal oil stove exploded on Saturday
In the house Of Charles Kidd, In East
Riverside, Cal, and Mrs g. Lleh, his
wife's mother, was no severely burned
that her recovery IL considered doubt.
ful. Mrs. bish, who IN 6eventy.one
years old, entered the kitchen Just NJ
the stove exploded. Her daughter,
Mrs. KIDD, was In bed IN an adjoining
room with her baby, born three days
ago. The old lady, In her anxiety 10
save her helpless daughter aud baby,
No zed the stove and attempted to carry
II out doors. She finally got II out, but
In doing 70 she spilled the blazing oil
over herself, burning her arms, chest
and face. She would probably have
been burned 10 death on the spot had
not Mr.. Kidd come Ia and poured the
contents OF water barrel over her.
Mrs. Kidd Ia also In n serious condition
owing 10 the shock.
q. H.. kuhnef, Of Denver has met
with peculiar accident. He has now
learned by sad experience that cleo
tficlty II a very dangerous thing TO
monkey with. The Oakland, San
Loandro and Haywafds electric line
passes the door o. the saloon at which
he Ia eml Logged. Kubner did not have
much to do ON Saturday morning, 20
lie attached tho hose TO faucet and
commenced TO water the street. He
had not heard much about electricity
and hid not know that certain causes
would produce certain effects. The
bartender saw the Innocent looking
trolley wire before him. The copper
shOne bright in the afternoon sun. al
wonder II this stream can reach that
WIRE" said Kuhner TO himself Then
no raised the stream TO test his gupss.
The water struck the wire square, ami
In an instant the bartender was stand.
ing ON his head and the hose was play.
ing on him. He received "A terrible
shock and IN now confined TO his room.
On Saturday afternoon Special De.
tectives Selvey aud Smith OF the
Atlantic and Pacific railroad com.
pany, anu j. W. Bennett, the
merchant ut Houck's tank on the
Navajo Indian reservation, n. NJ,
called at the house OF an Indian TO
arrest him for throwing asWitch II
1uirino canyon, resulting In the death
OF freight engineer, and the visit
was fatal one. The Indian ma - u
desperate fight against the three,
grabbed the pistol " Bennett and in-
hicted flesh wound over his left eye
lie was getting the best OF Oiiicer
selvy when the latter called upon
Smith 10 shoot the Indian, which he
did, killing him instantly. The kill.
ing caused the congregation OF several
hundred desperate Nnvnjos, but iu
the meantime Selvy and smith had
intreuohed themselves In the store
building, and Bennett had caught u
freight ifaln TO inform the command
ing Ulcer Mt Fort WingAte, near by,
Of the trouble. Tho Indians kept IA a
threatening attiludeuutil midHig ht last
night,and whom the troops arrived from
Fort WingSte, anu a goodly number
famed white men, there was not "a
Navajo b be found. However, further
trouble IN feared.
In the county court on SaturJ ny,
Attorney Stidgor and Deputy sheriff
Duiiield, both OF Denver, were feed
Tor contempt OF court, the iirst 70 the
tune OF s2b anu the latter 10 the amount
of $40. Tue tr.uble arose out OF the
hRbeAs corpus Of ID. Mckenzie. The
latter was arrested on warrant IL.
tucd out Of the Denver Justice court
un charge of obtaining goois uude
,faudulsnt pretences and Duilield was
about to take him 10 Denver when
Prevented by witt Of hateaB corpus.
The case was heard Saturday, suIger
acting rs the counsel iOr Duliield and
the court ordered the prirUner dis
charged ON the grounds that the pa.
pers IN the case were fatally detective.
Before the prisoner could leave the
court he WAS again arrested on another
warrant. A. this the prisoners coun-
eel applied iOr another writ Of habeaH
corpus aud the court ordered both tue
shern and his prisoner Into court.
While the papers were being irawn up,
Mr.. StidBer instructed Duilleld togo
away with his man and he uiI so. Ihr
court soDt Sheriff Thomas Hler them
aud they were brought back when
near The depot. For THIS contempt the
court hued both Dutllrld Ruu SudgOf
Ia the amount mentioned.
A horrible murder and suicide oc.
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