Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-12-31
NEWS OF The WEST.
Strange Experience Of a Man Who
Died Of Consumption.
A MOTHER DIES In TIE NIGHT.
Career Of a Nobl min's Daughter-Ar
rest for Blgamy-ueld for Muir
d,r-Beaten 10 Death.

Omaha Stoekman, Dec. 20: J. G..
Carroll ana ]. q. Murdoch OF Park
City, Utah, brought in two cars OF
cattle each.
Frank Chapman, who killed Daniel
Green on little Lost river, ldaDO,
Christmas day, was held without Uail,
ON Wednesday, to answer to the charge
Of murJer. Chapman says he shot
Green Ia eeli.ueiense, aud then DID
not intend to kill him.
Fred Rogers, arrested In Pocatello,
Idaho, Tor Digamy, was bound over on
Wednesday,, on charge OF bigomy.
His bond was fixed ut $500. He mar
ried his fret wife In Portland, Oregon,
six years ago, and she has tw9 chill
dreD; he married his sec nd wife in
Pocatelio year ago. He deserted hir
fret wife, and says that before his sec
ond marriage hs learned that the first
wife was dead.
Butte (Montana) Liter Mountains:
When Con Lown-y returned home
this morning from his work Mt one OF
the mines VI the A naconJa company,
he found bib wife cold In the embrace
OF death. The only occupants OF the
house last night we're the mother ant
her little boy. The mother had retireu
last night, anu according to tho little
fellow's statement was in her usual
good health.
Joseph Obele died sud EMILY in Lara
mic, Wye. Dec. 20. Ten years ago he
became III cteJ with consumption,
and lost thu power OF speech; for four
years his vocal chords would give
forth only delicate whisper, which
required the closest attention TO under.
stand. Six years ago his power Of
Rpescn Huaoenly returned. He has
been under the Koch treatment fer
bomo time. Tuesday he was taken sud
denly iliend died in few houre.
Frank Dlrriq1e died at Livermore,
Cal, on MONDAY, presumably from the
effects Of severe beating received ON
Christmas day at the hands OF Louis
Petitice. The latter, who had been In
custody since Saturday, W ~ be charged
with murder. Both men were en-
ploysu at the Paris vineyard, three
miles south OF Livermore, auu quar-.
relied during dinuer on Christmas.
Darrique was shockingly beaten about
tue head AMI was badly cut up, al
though as far as kn0wn Petitfice only
used his fistP. There were no witnesses
ami the cause OF the fight is not known.
Rawlins, Wyo., Journal say,: Some
OF the railroad boys running west |
from here, state That Schlatter, the |
healer, who caused such q sensation in |
Dsnver some timc ago, is tramping |
eastward on the rOndbed OF the Union |
Pacific. He has been seen two or |
three times. and tue boys claim they |
nre not mistaken as they saw him IN |
Denver and rec0gnizau him coming
this way. He carfies a large bundle |
ana 10 making about four miles a day.
He seems to avoid the towns or passes |
through them at night.
Mrs. Margaret NJ. Booth was found
dead ON Monday, at her homo In Oak.
land, California. DR.. J. J. Medfos was
called as soon as her body was dis
covered, but the woman had been
dead for some time. Heart disease
was the case Of death. Mrs. Margaret
Booths life was once OF ronancs ana
tragedy. She was the daughter OF Sir
James Montgomery OF Il go and
Montgoo cry castles, birOnet OF
Scotland. Her father LETT Scotland In
1912 ana came to the United States.
1t was here that his daughter was
born and married. With her Husband,
a man OF means, she settled In S ezra
county. Following the death OF her
husband came series OF bereays.
mentr. An infant son was poisoned
through the error OF physician; a
son was drowned; another was stabbed
by robber, ana third, In a clerical
capacity in Alameda county, was at.
"a n nj MT a |
in twenty.iour hours. The woman
met and loved man, whoae MANS
she kept secret from her friends,
and accepted his offer OF mar.
risge. Business called him away from
California. Their wedding was fixeu
for the date OF his return. From the
hour Of his farewell she never heard
from him, and the mystery OF his fail.
ure TO return WAS never explained
until the death, some years after, OF
her daughter, who was Mrs. DR..
Fonda. Mre. Fonda called her m other
10 her deathbsd and confessed that in |
her girlhood she had conceived a dIs.
like Tor the man Mrs. Booth had prom.
lsed to marry, anu, bent ON preventing
the marriage, she mad Intercepted the
letters that mad besu written 10 her
mother and had produced an sslrange.
ment. II had been the secret OF her
lie, and with her dying breath she
asked for the pardon of tho one she
had wronged. The hour for expiaus-
tions had gone, ana Mrs. Booth had
never, to the day OF her death, heard
OF the man she promised to marry.
year by year Mrs. Booths property
dwindled. until she was forced to COM
mcnee the sale OF her personal effects
and the heirlooms OF her family.
some OF them were very rare, anu
found ready sale among the wealthy
people. Recently she has hau to dc.
pend upon the charity OF the super.
visors OF Alameda county and such
assistance as lew frienus could give
her.