Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-04-20
A COlOred Man and Woman Plan q
Neat Game in Denver
CHINESE AT THE WORLDS FAIR.
A Boy somuambulist Seriously In
jurcd.-Dlscovery Of Struggled
OPIUM.

out flaw or blemish.
Tn. telephone line that Is to connect
Hanford anu Fftapo IL nearing com
ri,,Iou. Ssyefal boxes nfe to ho put III
iarmhouses between WildnOWet anu
Chicago.
1eorgc A, Crofutt IL Mt Rawlins,
wyo,, with n corps Ct engineers max
inv the preliminary survey iot MS DIg
irfigating ditch, which viii DO taken
out OF the Platte river.
Mrs. j. IL. Parker, wife OF the CO h'et
OF the First National bank NJ Bah,r
City, Oregon, has committed suic de
by taking an overdose OF morphine.
Domestic iLfelicity was the cause oil
the suicide.
The Union Pacific railway Ia build.
ing hotel at Point OF Rocks,
wyoming. IL is currently reported
that a stage line will soon be placed on
the line between that point and the
South Pass gold iields.
The Orovilie, (Cal.), Mercury Ia urg-
ing tho formation OF u cooperative
company there ~ erect fruit chnnery'
The growth OF declduoua iruit orchards
in the vicinity OF Orovile the last nVo
years has been almost phenomenal
Detectives at Denver nipped In The
bud h very clever swindle on Tuesday.
q. l.. Cobbs, alias Combs, alias Evans,
alias Forester, and Lille Evans aru
now under arrest, charged with ottiin-
ing money under false prelvnses'
Both are colored.
Harry Perkins, o hoy Of fourteen
yearr, walked od the platform OF the
last mail ON the Union Pacific rail-
road, near HamHtOfk, Idaho, On Tuts-
day night. When found he was badly
mangled. Both legs aud one arm
were found 10 be broken. 1t Is sup
pOsed to be case tf somnamhulism
TIE train was running forty miles an
hour when he fell, anu II Is very re.
markable that lie was not instantly
killed.
On Tuesday It came to the ears Of
Customs Collector Flanagan at III
Paso, rexas, that large amount Of
opium had been recently Struggled
into that city. Deputy Campbell was
sent 10 search Tor the drug ana the
smugglor and found both. DIR. G.. +.
DAVIS, "a specialist In the city Of
Juarez, Mexico, was found with sixty
pounds OF opium. The goods were at
once declared contraband but the
offender escaped 10 his home AcToss
the line.
A sensation was created In the gov.
ernor's office yesterday tfuesday), says
the Denver Neics, by the discovery
that the engtosscd copy Of senate bill
No. % was missing. The bill provided
for the transfr Of s92,7sO ftom the
general fund OF 1890 10 the improve
ment fund upon which "a number OF
bills for expenditures are based. Tho
bill was stolen from the assembly
building, but the cngrossed copy WAS
found several days ago and placed In
the governors hands. Tho instrument
could not he found ht u late hour, and
unless IL turns up In the papers nj
the attorney general's oflice, Is hope
lessly lost.
The several hundred Chinese who
arrived on the steamer China on Sat.
ufdAy, at San Francisco, on their wey
10 Chicago for exhibition as Chinese
villagers, Were allowed 10 proceed by
rail to the Worlds FAIR city on
Wednesday. Collector Phelps assured
himself that the Chinese who present.
cd certificates were entitled to land
and they were hurried efl on the
morning train. Every possible pre-
caution has been taken, however, TO
prevent their residence In the country
after the closing OF the exposition.
Although the consul at Hong Kong
furnished each man with a certificate
Of Identification, the customs officers
deemed IL expedient to supply them.
selves with much additional data. By
tbis means It Il thought that any al.
tempt at fraud can be easily foileJ.
The body o, William McCtaokon,
who disappeared from 22ll Webster
street, San Francisco, about three
weeks ngo, was found floating In the
bay Of Lombard street wharf Tuesday
morning. The corpse was badly dc.
composed, but, from the clothing ami
paper found on his person, was identi.
He'd 10y q brother Of the deceased. Mo.
Cracken arrived In the city on Ser
TENDER 3ri from Australia. He bat
not been In business for some time,
ana shortly previous 20 his departure
for this country had suffered severe
attack OF sunstfOke, whioh had some.
what deranged his mind, 1t II pre-
sumed that during iit VI dependency
he committed suicide by jumping
overheard. Deceased was native Of
Ireland, forty years OF age and un
married.
On Tuesday afternoon about 2 O'Clock
a young colored woman entered the
Office OF Mr.. w. s. Cheessman aud
showed him book, In which was
written his name opposite suuscrip-
tion OF $50 for the Colored WOmen's
Aid association. Mr.. Cheesemun was
about to pay the money when he
glanced more closely ut the writing
anu discovered that his name had been
forged, and he also had forgotten TINT
he had ever subscribed the amount. HIS
huspicionsled him to speak rather rough
ly to the young colOTed girl, aud she
ut once rushed out Of the room aud
down the stairs. Mr.. Chesseman
ordered tho Cflice boy TO How her
and have her arrested. Once on the
street tho girl ran up Sixteenth street
anu was captured ut the posloilico 10y
Ofilcer Virgins. At the city hall she
gave her naino as Fanny johnson. Toe
book she had contained on two pages
tho names or number OF prominent
citizens and business firms for amounts
varying from $40 10 $50. The girl, whom |
brought before Chief Howe, con o. OF |
that she was but y fool In the twiudle,
the real maloactor being her husband,
with the many Aliases. Detectives !
found him In house at the corner u |
Twonty-fifth and Clarkson streets. The |
book which the prisoner used for col.