Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-04-26
NEWS OF THE WEST.
Sensational Failure Of a Clothing
Firm at Boise, Idaho.
A mASIAr's FREAKS AT pnGyIx.
Strange Story OF n Fugitive from jas
tice.-Rallroad Enterprise
IN Arizona.

The San Francisco Chronicle has
purchased new press. and has ap
peared again 10 new dress OF type
The tribune, daily Populist sheei
started at Beatrice, Neb., carly In th'
late campaign, has suspended publicn
ton.
There is n proposition GA hand TO es'
tabllsh telephone line from Carson %
uenoa, Gardnerville, Wellington aDd
South Camp, Nevada, taking In NIL way
stations.
A man named Williams, who wal
serving ns member OF the grand jury
at Phoebe, Nevada, the other day lei
down the stairway OF tho NeYnli
Hotel and broke both bones OF MS
right arm between tho wrist anu
elbow.
Advice have been received that an.
other carload Of oranges shipped IA
Liverpool, England, rom the Pomona
valley have cold for S3.65 per box, and
would have brought better prices but
for tue fact that England IL well sup
piled with Mediterranean fruit nj
prices that the Pomona fruit brought.
Growers will get 100 per box clear
profit.
A general needing Of the orange
growers at Riversite, Cal, hus fesull-
cd In the first steps toward Ofganiza.
ton for securing and maintaining
prices for the orange crop Of 1894. A.
board OF trustees, eleven In number,
was appointed 10 incorpornts the
organization, which will he known az
the Riverside Fruit Exchange. The
general plan " organization Ia similar
10 the plan formulated by the meeting
recently held in Pomona. All orange
growers In Southern California have
agreed upon the Same plan,a anu general
organization Is expected.
w. II. Carlson, mayor OF San Diego,
CAL, and ID. g. Reed, president Of the
San Diego AMI Yuma railroad, have
arrived at Yuma, Ariz., for the .jur-
pose OF securing terminal facilities, the
night OF way and cooperation OF the
citizens OF Yuma In the organization VI
the Yuma and Ptmnix Railway com.
pany, only another name for tho same
llne through Arizona. The San Diego
line is l76 miles in length. II will
pass over the fine valleys OF the
SuiohhuOt Will hOnhNh anu otutit AOf
$50 miles, and the richt II portion OF
the Pacific coast, all OF which eau bo
irrigated with water from the Ola and
Colorado rivers aud Will open nn
almost entirely new country. IL Will
parallel the great Colorado canal,
Denver projec., for seventy.nve miles.
IL 10 one Of the most valuable failroal
properties under consideration in
a riIona mr. Caiiforniu
Mrs. J. o. Bradford, wife OF n team
ster living at Garden Lane, Denver,
attempted to commit suicide on Mon.
day evening. She took "a teaspoonful
OF rough on rats and fell over on the
Moor ready to give up the ghost. The
poison, however, made her very sick
and worried the children, who sum.
moned help. Police Surgeon johnson
was notified and he relieved the Wa.
man OF the extermlnator. tShe will
recover. No Information could he OBJ.
tained from Mrs. Bradford about tho
attempt that she made upon her life.
Her husband was not ut home when
she took the drug. He states that Mrs.
Bradford had boon dependent for
several weeks ami that she had threat.
ed TO kill herself She borrowed the
".
saying that she desired II for the pur.
pose Of killing rats which infected her
home.
Says the San Francisco Chronicle:
A few months ago Miss Jeanette Nc.
Lellan, who Ia considered an important
witness in the Merritt will rontesi,
made up her mind TO 20 20 South |
Africa. When her parents heard about |
II the lady was on her way TO Africa |
with some friends. She had bee n |
Samuel Merrltvs bousekeeper for 25 |
years. Nobody In Oakland knew the |
characters and dispositions OF DR..
Merritt and his sister, Mrs. Garcelon, |
better than did Miss Mcclellan. Her
sudden tlight from the city caused
great surprise. II now appears that
Miss Mcclellan had quarrel with the
people whom che accompanied TO
Africa, ana when she arrived In South
Africa she turned around and came
lack. The other day letter was re-
csived from her and she was then in
England and was soon coming to
America. 30 after all she may yet he
the leading witness In the great con.
test.
The yells Of n maniac startled sew.
eral hundred people who were In front
OF the pOstofllee at Phoenix, Arizona,
on Monday morning Us he ruahed
down the stairway Of tho Williams
House, and started AZTEC Mike Rice, n
former clerk Of the legislature, who
ran up Washington street pursued by
the demented man. After running
two blocks officers caught the mad
man, and he was finally overDowert d.
lie was q. j. Driver, who came heia
recently from San Francisco. he was
taken to jail and Bna on revealed his
name, also letter Of Recommendation
from II. PaguOngray, buslness m IN
OF San Francisco, who rerOmmenut
Diver as n bOOkkeeper. A chamber
maid In the hotel early that morning
found Diver lying ON the floor with q
sheet twisted around his neck and both
ems tied 10 the bed. Hu was black IN
The face when released. A doctor was
summoned who soon relieved him.
Later Mrs. Medium entered the room,
ana seeing his muscles twitching,
asked him II he had taken polton,
after which he rushed aftr her, hut
she escaped, aud he made the mad
rush TO the street.
About month ago young woman
about twenty-five, black,eyed and a.
tractive, was coming West on the SANTA
Fe partly to visit relatives, but NOR,
TO secure employment, says the san
francisco Chronicle. She met on me
train smooth young man who rave
her fictitious name ana failed 10 en-
tighten her as 10 his object In coming
West, which was TO escape from the
Of an eastern railroad COM