Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-05-20
NEWS OF THE WEST.
An Alarming State Of Affairs Prevails
In Chinatown, San Francisco.
SUICIDE OF A PoLIcg.sERGEANT
Pursuit Of an Eloplng Couplc.-A
HlIorridD Story from Idaho.--A
Lady Faro Dealer.

The rawmllls OF Nevada county are
running to their fullest capacity, anu
IL In said that II will take them soihe
time TO catch up with their orders.
John II. Crane, In jail at Yuma on
n charge Of assault to XIII anu .no
robbery VI n Chinese, made Nh unsuo'
cessiuI attempt nj suicide on Weuhcs'
day.
Tho Cheyenne city council has
,.ssaa nm ordinance making 1t an
cficnse punjshable by n fine OF not less
than $40 nor more than s75 to distrib'
ute poison for killing dogo.
The "formation chair" at Soda
Strings has been taken from the sprlng
and placed for few days ON exhibl.
ton ut drug store before being packed
up and sent TO Chicago. While the IN
crustation Of the chair is perfect, the
delicate outlines OF the carving remain
distinct and UNCHANGED.
The Algodmes (Cal.) land grant,
confirmed some days ago, IL one OF the
grcatest additions II YumNs protperi-
ty. In three weeks the price OF tine
land has risen from $50 to sloO yer
acre, and Harry Carpenter, now In
Denver, has sold 100000 worm NJ
that price.
Tho usual kicking Mt this season OF
the year with reference to the distri-
button OF water from the streams OF the
state Of Wyoming has begun. There
appears to be more trouble this year ~
the light snowfall last winter failrI 10
MI the mountain gulch,s and conse'
quently the streams nre much lower
than IA usual at this season OF me year I.
A dispatch from Ciermoun', Wyom.
ing, says that cha Cruso and James
Stewart, members OF roundup outlt,
had a serious alteration. Alter some
shooting on the ntreN they met In q
saloon. Cruise struck Stewart over the
head with n pistol. The weapon was
discharged and Geo. Wllles, keeper Of
the place, wounded In the thigh. No
arrests were made.
Alice Cummings, n well known faro
dealer, spent Sunday IN the city On
Cheyenne Leader, where she will
open a bank, She has been ealing faro
nj Creede lately, but lei, the mining
town for the excitement o. ,..o Natrona
metropolis. IL is understood Miss
Cummings Is backed by n wealthy
Denver sport.
Sergeant Richard II. Duttou, com.
pany Il seventeenth infantry, has
committed suicide at Fort Russell,
Wyo., by shooting himself through
the head with a 4o-caIibre revolver.
The deed was done In the orderly
room while the soldiers were NJ uin.
ner AND the BODY was not uiscovereu
until half IN hour later. sergeant
button wasa good soiiier ana popular
with his comrades. he had been
nearly twenty years IN the sefvice anu
was serving the last year oil hiH iouflh
enlistment NO cause Is asslgneu ior
the rash aci. lie mas relatives In
Kansas anu Iowa.
A story comes from MontpeIler.
Idaho. telling that that little town IL
IL sseIna that n local photop pher has
been .xhibiting nude pbo,osrsph OF
ore OF the leading society ladies OF
Montpelier, ana that ny come means
every society ihuy IN the niue burg
has seen the picture anu talked u over
win ner ifienus anu toiu now
"horriu" was. Inc taik was 80 last
anu turious, says an exchsnge, that
,he iair lady In question heaid about
anu NJ once Instituted sun against
me photographer alleging thnt he had
taken her lace and affixed II to a nude
portrait.
George M. Walters owned n farm nj
Irvington, Col, and was worth about
Sl5, 900. The other dHy Mr.. Walters
died md left will which Ia not Ina the
usual line OF testaments, The deceased