Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-05-09
NEWS OF THE WEST.
Sam Small's Daughter and Her Hus'
band Cannot Get Along Together.
A MURDERER BREAKS JAIL.
The Victim OF a Guilty Conscience
Epidemic OF Burglaries In Denver
"A Cowboy Murdered.

Justus Loeber, n prominent bushes,
man Of Wardner, Idaho, mas hangeu
himself. Financial troubles, brough. oy
tho recent fire, are said to have peen
the cause.
I'll, wolfiey, editor OF the Arizona
Psnubi,can. has been indicted foi
criminal libel against &. ;, Masten,
superintendent Of the Maricopa ano
Phoenix railway.
Pueblo (Colo.) will entertain the
msmbcrs Of tbe q. A, II. this week. ths
annual cncampment meeting on lues'
day, May IL.
For the first time in the history oil
sArisona an oath Of Office has oech
taken before woman. Col. Wm'
Herring, curator OF the insane NJ, lun',
and q. Z. Bagg. prison commissionei,
took tho required oath before Miss
Sarah Herring, daughter OF the former
gentleman.
Charles Streat, o Rio Grande brake.
man, while coupling cars In the yard
mt Florence station was severely and
probably fatally squeezed between TWO
cars. The cars caught him In the
small OF the back and II Is thought
that his liver Is Affected. Streat was
removed TO his home nj Pueblo.
Mrs. Emilio Etiennc, who obtained a
divorce from her husband, jacob
Etienne, six months ago, is said to
have been very much astonished to
read In the papers that her former nus
band had obtained license TO mary
her again. She never authorized such
n step, and IL much pained ut the I'M
desirable notoriety II has given her.
She believes that EtieDno Is not In his
right mind.
Doc Goodwin, who recently broke
the worlds record by tying n steer In
forty-eight secsnus, has lassoed
mountain lion ON tho mountain trail
near wickenberg, A. 4. The cougar
made desperate light, but the skilliui
cowboy managed 10 run his horse on
one side Of n mesquite and the animal
ON the other, breaking its neck, and by
"a skilful movement hanging him In the
tree. The scalp was sent to Prescott for
the s25 bounty.
Leis jackson, a daughter OF Sam
Small, tue evangelist, has brought
to recover $4,000 which she alleges
her husband, James Jackson, Ind lost
In gambling, 80 says the Idaho Demo-
Graf. MIR. aud Mrs. Jackson were
married about year ago. Soon alter
ward Jackson's mother died, leaving
him $4,000 in cash. He began going
the pace then, and 10 now nearly pen
niless. The couple have not lived TO.
gether for some time.
J. NJ. Campbell, the most extensive
sheep raiser IN weitern Texas, lost 22
per cent Of Lis flock, during the past
Twelve months by coyotes. Campbell
has hit upon n novel plan Of exterminu.
ton. He entrapped twelve coyotes n
month ago aud shut them up with
dog, which was badly affected with
mango. The coyotes soon caught the
disease and are now thoroughly COW
cred with the parasites which produced
II. They viii be- turned loose on the
ranch In a few tsys, and Campbell
expects the disease to spread among the
coyotes 30 rapidly that there VIII not
be- one OF them left In Texas IN two
years.
A sheepherder on Huuter's creek,
seven or eight miles west OF Reno,
Nevada, went TO Mayberry's ranch ON
tho Tfuckee river and reported that
Evans and Sontag came TO his camp n
day or two ago anu purchased couple
OF sheep, which they took into the
mounthins. The rheepherder sail he
had worked with Sontag In Fresno aud
that he could not be mistaken In re-.
gard to his identity. George Carpen-
ter, who works at the May berry ranch
anu who brought the news 10 Reno,
says that the sbeepherder Ia q reliable |
man and he believes that the two
desperadoes were at his camp as he
stated.
Whilea party Of workmen were ex.
tending u water tunnel into Indian |
hill, six miles north OF Pomona, Gal, |
they found the remains OF q msstodon |
ninety feet below the surface OF the |
hill. When the news got abroad this
morning there was fiocking 10 the |
scene OF the discovery by every ana.
teur and professional scientist Ia Po- |
mona valley. Several mastodon teeth |
In q nne state OF preservation were
found In the gravel, and also pieces OF |
jawbones over u foot long and weigh
ing over fiity pounds each were brought |
W tue fuiIhNts INV Woth 10 uuhtI sHt L
supervision OF local naturalist, who
believes that valuable part, Of the
skeleton OF q mastodon may be un-
earthed.
George w. Wellington, who escaped
from n Mexican penitontlary, where
he was Undergoing lite sentence for
murder, two weeks ago, aud who
arrived In Denver last Thursday, has
LETT for hic home In Boston. Yelling
ton was the station agent at Chihus-
hua, Mexico, and one evening upon
returning home shot, for some cause,
Riymon Gonzalez, general II
the chihuahua state troops.
Wellington pulled out n pistol
anu shot Gonzalez In the
head, killing him instantly. Well.
ington was tried and Mt fret wss SEN
fenced TO death, but the Mexican
authorities concluded that to execute
Inc American would Le too ilagrant a.
view OF the facts, No he was sentenced
to life term Mt hard labor. After his
conviction his vile returned to her
relatives In Boston. Wellington man
aged TO escape through friend named
harry French, who bribed one OF the
guares TO overlook him. Wellington
lett Mexico under the cover If night.
The Stlto Investment Insutanoe
OF California 10 In u had way
says the San Franeisco Chronicle. Al
the present moment the company,s
stock Ia greatly impaired as the result
VI manipuiations by the directors. Its