Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-10-03
NEWS OF The WEST.
Attempted Wholesale Murder Of Prison
0llCIals BY COnYlclS.
A GAMBLER suOr AND KILLED.
Three Cinnamon unlawfully In the
United States-Shoekiug Accident
10 a Railroad Empleye.


received telegram from Chicago Stat
iug thst ths yale OF the $4,000 water
bonds bad been made. IL " expected
that the city 1fliclnls will he able To
begin work on tue plant ~ an early
date.
Backfoot (idaho) Negg The Forl
Hall reservation willperuaps, bs the
next reservation thrown open 10 set.
tlement In Idaho,a aud we think the day
when this will be done Il not far IN the
future, a. every effort Ia being made TO
that end.
John NikaRi, n German employed
on the Santa Fe trhck-lAylng gnng,w
stuck with a coupling pin by one OF
the crew Of the local freight on Sunday
night near Granada, Colo, and knocked
under the cafs. Both legs were cut vi
and the man died Ia short time.
The Wallace (ldaho) Miner eayG
the train crew arrived here lest night
TO repair the Mullen branch o. the
Union Pacific, anu that part Of the
road will shortly be pat ~ complete
repair. It ~ believed that tie Burke
branch will also be- rebuilt shortly.
There n sufficient material arcumu.
lated nj C0liax 10 build twenty miles Of
road.
At Salmon City, Idaho, there GO.
CURED n small nre on the night u
September 20, which destroyed n small
house OF little consequence. II. II.
Crane, q well.known contractor oi Salt
Lake City, with hiA son AND I'd. Haf.
per, all from Salt Lake City, were
catching In the house NJ the time, aud
the fire was 20 rapid In iis destruction
that they lost everything except the
clothes they bad on. Mt Crane lost
tools and clothing valued al $500. I'D.
Harper had his hAnda bauly burned.
while youug Crane bad his hair, eye
brows anu face badly ac0tched.
on September l0lh, says the Carson,
Nevada, Appeal, the Spafks Il Hatrull
Cattle company u Elko county, New,
brought suit against James Bews for
going on their lands with a band Of
sheep, and eating their feed. The suit
resulted In MIR. Bews paying $3.50 aud
counsel fees 10 the y'eatIOrnoy,
J. W. Dorsey, Of Elk0, who brought
the suit. Mr.. Bews ALEC agreed 10 keep
OF the lands OF the BpprRs company
nnd In other ways. the suit promises 10
be very important. Stookmsn Ia
Nevada have paid very little attention
Their stock has Iun almost indiscrimi.
nAtoly upon all land unfenoed, hut
there IL likely TO be great change Ia
this Teep,ct In the near future, and It
viii mako land worth more aud give
home stockmen a great advantage over
tho wandering bands that have here
toforc absorbed more than their share
81 the feed.
N.A
TOW days ago Al Tombstone, Arlg.,
aud taken TO Tucson for trial before IN,
district court on charge VI being
unlawfully In this United States.
Since the time Of tho enactment OF tue
Geary law many Chinese have come
into Arizona from Mexico Tor the sole
purpose OF securing iTte transportation
10 their pRtive land, aud the three
now In jail, II seems, are ON A n erloan
hlil for no other reason. The exclusion
law provides that In the discretion Of
the court Chinese found unlawfully In
the United states may be sentenced 10
imprisonment ut hard lnbOr for not
more than one year and then be de-
Iored. IL IN likely that In this future
Chinese convicted on this charge IN
Arizona will be given the full benefit
~ the law. Tits believed that this will
have the effect Of stopping a. once the
flood OF Chinese from our sister ~.
public.
A gambler named Frank ID rrliy
WIS shot aud killed Oni Main tttevi,
Helena, Mont, about 0 O'Clock on Sun.
day morning by another gambler anu
prlzt-hghter named Tom Clhry. Tue
men had been together mCtt OF IA,
night and were apparently on Rood
terms until toward morniDg. Both hHu
BEEN drinking, though neither was
thought to te drunk. Daring tue
morning hours they had scuiilc 10 q
gambling house, IA which Douily got
the worst OF 1t, but they niteIwhrd
took n drink together anu nothing more
was thought about the matter. About
the hour named they were ON the
street talking, when Dotriiy was seen
10 start from Gary ON thn run, crying.
"No, don'l.D ClaTy followed low
steps, stopped, took aim with a large
revolver, nfed, aud Doiriiy was deaJ,
shot through the neck. Dorfity wac
well known Among sporting men all
over the West. He was the partner Of
DslmoTe tue gambler killed by Billy
Fay In Spokane n year ago. Dorrily
was In regular battle with Mitchell
anu Bennett, who kept gambling
HOUSE in MasOula some ytafs ago, IN
which twenty shots were fired. Clafy
IL q San Francisco man, who posed NJ
a prize n liter al different times. He
was arrested without resistance.
Attempted wholesale murder and q
partly successful jail delivery was the
record OF events at the u. 5. peuiteni.
arr on McNeil's island, WASH, n few
days ago. Warden Palmer OF the
prison ana four guards ha1 remsrk-
able escape from sudden death. Tue
tsnitentiary prisoners, led by John
Wade, notorious Hmuggler, VINO
once before made suocossiul escRle,
IecuTed poison and placed II In tn
food OF Warden Palmer And his assist.
ants. hut Tor the fact that the desptT.
ate prisoners used too much Of tue
deadly atuii not one OF the intended
victims would have ESCAPED with hit
life. As n was all OF them were
made dtathiy hlok. During the excite.
meni which followed, four " the prl.
fOnert, with Wade at thor head, made
their escape from the Island, and uts
plte the most vigorous search the
quartet has been at large ever since.
The island IN separated from all other
land by amile Oi cold salt water. IL b,
believed that the four men escaped on
rude raft 10 the mainland and are
heading Tor British Columbia, II they
have not hlfeady reached thoie. This
poisoned guards were incapacitateu
Tor work for several days, but are now
assisting In the search tor Tho escaped