Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-09-07
NEWS OF THE WEST.
An Insane Man Shot His wife and
Then Attempted Suicide.
A nALr.cAsrE WOMAN IN LUCK.
An Infant Found Alive After Being iu
CesspOol For Seventeen
Hours.

three charges Of forgery at Moscow,
Idaho. Hinokley, while deputy
county auditor, embtzzed $780, 900 Of
county money by a sys1em Of bogus
warrants.
Geo. Neumap, Of San Francisco,
attempted 10 board = btaNebeam ut
Glendal, thirty.fOuf miles irom GfRuts
Pass, Or, ON Tuesday m rning aud
fell. Both legs were cut oil, He Will
probably die.
On Monday Mrs. John KinneOn,
who was on her way by fail ~ Lee
Grande, Oregon, found her little babe
dead In a sea, where Bhe had laid " a
short time before while she secured
some rest herself. She LETT tho train
with tho remains at Cheyenne anu
the burial took place III Fort Russell,
che being the wife Of soldier.
Tho O'Keefes In Alameda county,
Cal, are hard nj work ON their family
histories In order TO ascertain " they
are not IN some way related TO ore
Daniel Oikeeio, who died a few yvats
ago leaving fortune Of 100000
suyefeignH. Tue estate T. now 10 the
court Of chancery Ia London, abd somu
oakland people have made o claim
toiL
According to tho Aspen, Colo,
Times, an Aspen girl has Just found
her father, OF whose existence che his
always been unaware, She had been
brought up by the man who hal
spoiled her fathers life, her stopiather,
aud now her real father turns up with
wealth while the mother VINO doiofttu
her husband, lives In poverty with
the dissipalod man, who was her sec.
oni choice, In western Colorado.
The hop. pickiug season has opened
ut santa Rosa, Cal, aud the great de-
maud for help has drawn large mum.
bsts Of lAhOrcfs 10 the fields. In cOnsC-
quencc the cannerle- anu ftuit. packing
houses arc growing shoft.hRnded, anu
much fruit that was Intended fOf
canning has been hutfledly shipped
away TO save IL. Several hundred
IabOrers, male and female, could find
employment In this vicinity at present.
Jerome Willard, an Interpreter Of
Chinese, has filed a protest with the
SUPERVISORS Of San francisco, against
tue employment Of Chinese ~ the
interpreter OF that tongue In the police
courts. He claims that the law
specially prohibits the employment Of
Chinese by the city for any purpose,
and that n an interpreter Of Chinese IL
needed, many efficient white men can
bs found TO MI the bill.
Carrie Lewis, n li.year.old negro
girl In fall at Fresno, Cal, awaiting
trial before being cent 10 Whittier re.
form school, on Tuesday attempted TO
commit suicide by HmOtheriDg heHelf
with gas. Sho occupied room by
herself She closed the window,
stuffed rags In all the cracks, turnod
ON the gas and lay down to die. The
Tailor smslled gas and opened the door
before any damage was done. She
admitted that her purpose was suicide.
August Nelson, 81 years OF age, end.
ed his life on Tuesday In the Waldo
House on Market street, San francisco,
by taking dose Of rat pois9n. Hard
luck and general dependency was the
cause. Several years ago Nelson was u
contractor, and constructed u number
Of buildings In San francisco anu the
surrounding country. Dull times
exhausted his bank account, and his
pgo being against his ever making
another start Ia life, he decided 10 put
an end 10 his earthly career. That he
had contemplated suicide for several
days IN shown by memorandum In
hts pOckst-book, dated September ard,
Ia which he btqueHthed his oatpe inter-
tools aud other personal effects to his
friend, A, Newman, Of WOOdside, San
MnteO county,
On Tuesday afternoon the neighboTs
OF Manuel Zero, who lives IN Con-
cord, Cal, were aroused by the cries OF
ms wife, aud some OF them entering
the house found the woman apparently
In dying condition. A physician
was hastily summoned and found that
the woman had given birth 10 n child,
but the child was gone. The woman
confessed that she had given birth to .
female child 1T o O'Clock In the after.
noon and had. put II In u sack and
thrown II In cesspoOl. The coroner
returned TO his home In Martinez, hui
att O'Clock was at Concord aud pro,
ceeded 10 secure the remains Of tn,
child, On going 10 the ctsspOOl h,
was surprised u hear the infant crying
Rnd after getting the sack found Ii
alive and unlnjufed after lying In the
place for seventeen hOurs. The child
N being we'll cared for AMI will live,
ID. UTbancheck, an Insane man
shot his vito on Tuesday at Napn
Cal, and then shot himself. Both az,
still alive and may recover, He hal
been an Inmate Of the asylum for slmi
time past. Until Il few days before h,
seemed much improved and at tn,
urgent request OF his wife was allOweJ
to return 70 his home ON leave Of alb
ssnce. Mrs. UrhancheCk was about he
household duties at home ana whoI
no began shooting she was taking nj
the ashes from the sitting room stove
lie fred two shots Mt her tho iirs
entering one cheek, passed through
her mouth and came out through tn
other chork. THE second shot MISE,
her. He thon went to the back porch
placed the pistol In his mouth an,
fired, the bullet ranging upward ant
lodging In the lott temple. II Ia no
known where he got the pistol.
by a decision rendered In tue Unite
States court at Seattle, Wash, b.
Judge HRnford, Mrs Lena Graham,
hali.caste woman, IL declared the sol
heir to the estate Of Frank Matthias
deceased. This estate Il estimated I
be worth at least 100000. Fran
Matthias was AN old settler who hive
Tor many years in Seattle ana vicinity
About year ago he died at some plac
In California and Mrs. Graham put !
n claim for the estate. She alleged an
proved to the satisfaction Of thu cuui
that she was tho natural daughter {
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