Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-04-17
NEWS OF THE WEST.
4 Stpt.ssnarlan RuO DCBa BY a
Train In The Street..
TO MAKE CALIFORNIA TwosrAtEs.
BoJs Hired 10 Murdcr-Jommtfci al
Travellers Tax Valid - Typhoid
Fever victlms-Ril,uAy survey,

NJ. Hartman, . MERGED, Cal, mer
and was drowned.
At the late city election In Tempe,
Arizona, tue Interest was 40 slight that
only niniy.Ihfes votes were poliei.
The supreme court Of California has
decided thgt city ordinances imposing
iaI of $50 psr gu rtei on commercial
dfummsrt 10 constitutional.
Mary Blaine, vile q San Fran.
cisco car conductor, took cafbOlio uui1
SUNDAY night, wniio under the IN.
1uenos OF liquor. 5ne leaves two
children under 5 ysaTs Of age,
Theodore DurfHnt, " Emmsnu'
church murders fame, has been In
prison In Ban francisco more than =
year His case IL now on appeal ~
the supreme court.
Percy Alvstson, Of Rodlands, Ca,
committed suicide on Tuesdsy while
mentally dsranged from typhoid fever,
his wife died from tie di,ease shortly
alter They leave baby year Old.
The Salt Laksn registered al lead.
ing hotels IN Ban Francisco on April
10 were; n. Ross, at the Ba OWN;
M, IL. WAlRef, |. N. BaTfati, J. X.
walker, NJ. J, Chse,man, al the Pal
ace; anu q. w. Gfoo anu \. II. uroo, at
the Grand hotel.
II. l.. Maxwell, who wa. shst In the
head aud neck In CApAy valley, Cal,
by one si the Stevens boys on A ri
tn, died Tuesday AFTERNOON. Dist let
Attorney Hopkins Ia h. receipt Of No
Letters which charge that the b y,
were Induced by other parties to suoot
the old man.
II. II. Green, ~ yeAu Of age, met
hlB doaih on the tracks Of the Southern
Pacific road 10 San Francisco Wed.
uesday afternoon. Toe old man wac
walking south on ths tracks, and hAd
lust stepped upon the bridge crossing
Day street. when he was struck by en-.
Rinr IL, hauling y train ifom Han jose
He was thrown Oh the bridge anu part
way down the embaukm, Mt, but was
not badly mangled. lie was picked up
dead a lew minutes later.
A remarkable accident occurred 10
tile Santa Fe train running from SANTA
Monica 10 Les A ngeles, Cal, Tuesday
morning, Tho locomotive struck n
COW anu the animal was thrown with
great force against u telegraph pole q
few let from the track, breaking ~.
The broken pole fell toward the train,
striking a car ami crashinS through
the widows. Some Of the passenger
had narrow escape from being cut by
nying glasF. The pole hit a brakeman,
Just missing his head. He escaped
with ugly bruises.
Tuesday afternoon Bert waterma u
anu Levi Hannah were thTown from a
buggy near Santa CfuE, Cal, by the
horse making q sharp turn. Waterman
was thrown against the rocks, fractuT-
lug his skull. while Hannah escaped
witbla few bruises. 1t was supposed that
Waterman was killed, 20 n COM was
0rdUfed aud Witnesses summoned for
the inquest, which was sci for next
day, and relatives were asked what
disposition 10 make OF tho TemalHs.
When the Wagon Carrying tho cUill o
reached the scene II was found that
Waterman was alive, He was con.
ysyed 10 hls home, but the chances tor
his recovery are slight
Cheyenne, Wye, sun, April II: wor
was received Al the capitol this morn.
ing that Hairy Llghthlgh, an Inmate
OF the state psnitsuIlaty whose term
Of imprisonment expired tOJEy anu
who was 10 have been discharged from
the Institution has become vol ut y
insane. The man waa therefore hs y
anu cared for pending aTfanR, me ats
Tor his delivery TO the UinlA aOunly
authorities. Llghthigh wbs a resident
OF that county. Tue governor tele.
Efaphed 10 Judge knight the olreuni.
stances OF the oase aud ~ soon ~
directions are received II Ia probable
the man will be sent there, tfisi for
ip,anity ana sent 10 the state insane
uylum.
The pro posed division OF California
Into two states came mp before tue Eau
Bernhrdlno board Of supervisors Tues.
day In formal commune ION from
the board Of San Diego county. II 10
claimed that the law OF 1859, providing
for the division OF tue slate 10 still 10
force. This law proyidss Tor adivisiou,
leaving everything south Of anu In.
Guiding Ban Luis Obispo, Kern and
InyO counties, Ia the new state. IL is
claimed tna. all that 10 now necessary
for the people OF these cuun.
ties TO 10 IL TO proceed to or.
Ranize n state gOveTnment, when the
divIs,on will 10 AN acc mplisnsd fact
The Sau Diego people have sent letters
TO all the counties within the proposed
bguih California, Asking TT mutual
action al once. TIE Ban BernArdino
supervisor, Rltsr reading the petition
laid II on too table Tor further 0snsid.
Grafton.
A dispatch from sau Bernsrdlno,
Cal, sayG q. w. VAUGHN, Of Lsavsn-
worm, kas., at one time Prominently
onnscteu with the Santa Fs cOmpEny
~ an engineer OF construction, hiss
been in San BernATdinO county sevsf-
al days stuJying the topography Of tue
desert north Of ihe mountains. He
lot here Sunday, Mt tho same time
sending out an outht that would indi.
cate an active campaign Tor y large
suTyeyinR party. The outrt went TO
Vioter aud the party leaves the fOsu
tuerr, going In an easteTly direction.
Vaughn built the ChIcagO txtenfiOn
OF the SANTA Fo system, and his con-
nectlon with that company 10 thought
by some 10 indicate IhAt the Santa Fe
people aTs looking Tor n way b. oOnnso
their Southern California road with
the rest Of the system should the At
lantic and Pacific be sold. Another
anu more probable cause Of his presence
here IN that he N IN the employ n thu
capitalists who on Thursday, April 10Th,
were to yet final deeds 10 the NeVAuh
s0uiheTn rOHH, the right 10 redemption
oIpiTiug nj that time, II IL known "a
Dc their Intention to build that rad IN