Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-01-07
NEWS OF THE WEST.
Committed Forgery Because lie was
Hungry.
KILLED BY A ROCK FROM A BLAST.
t,,,,tlnv 10 New Mexican Mines
Cows with Iubertu.
losls.

b. ,oId bv order Of court TO psy the
eyerdue wages OF employees
Tbe gutro electric road, San Francis
=, dis now thought, will DO running
Az about a week or ten days. The new
EuII House will not DO opened, how
ever, until tue last Of the MONTH
G,org, Il. MCGOWAN, who passed a
fictitious check for $50 ON H. II. Won.
mer, Of Los Angeles. Cal, several
DAYS ago, was sentenced 70 thtec yehr
in the Folsom penitentlhry SATURDAY
morning. MoGowan pleaded guil'y,
and said that hunger forced him 10
commit the crime.
Charles West, an old man a ysafs
Of age, living on bee ranch az the
mouth Of Devil canyon, near San Bef-
pstdino, Cal, was found In n dying
and unconscious condition Saturday,
and before anything could be dons lor
him the man died. He had been Nv
iug a hermit life In the lonely place.
oFrench Pete" pioneer OF Lo.
Angeles county, Cal, who for several
wears has been keeping = roadhoute on
The whittier road, was burned TO doaih
I'm his place late Saturday night. Or
cumstances point TO murder, but The
assassin IL 30 far unknown. Tue house
had been saturated with Kerosene.
AT Isan 800 cows In the city and
county Of San Francisco, Cal, arc
said 10 be afflicted with tuberculosis.
Many OF inem are TO be found In
dalries which are furnishing milk
throughout the city, while Others are
owned by private individuals. The
board Of health proposes TO kill every
GOV ~ III icted, anu the slaughter Will
begin nj all early date.
stephen Bapblls,, young italian,
was badly shot In the face and arms
Saturday, at San Rafael, Cal Baptist
sud another young fellow we're out
hunting and scared up y hare, which
ran into n culveTt near by. Inc lads
went TO the opposite ends, and while
Bspbliat was looking into the calvert,
his companion shot, hitting him In ths
face and arms. He will lose the sight
Of one eye.
A dispatch from Prescott, Arizona,
says that }. II. Muse, aged 10 yeats,
has been held uHder bonds TO sppsar
before the grand jury on n charge Of
assault 10 commit murder. Muse IL q
resident OF Verde valley and cas- for
mefly a Mormon Bishop. New Years
day he shot n young man named l..
NJ. Butter ia the leg over n land dis
pute. There has been no Mormon
Bishop by the name Of Muse.
Friday afternoon Louise Santiago,
an Indian girl aged 20 years, was In.
SANITY killed while standing In the
doorway OF her cabin at Santa CruE,
Cal, watching a man blss,ing stumps
with giant powder In the bed OF tbs
river. She was some 200 feet away,
when halt stick OF the explosive was
placed in n stump and exploded, scat
isflng rocks In every direction. One
OF the rocks struck her In the foreh eaJ,
Featuring her skull.
During the last three months a num-
Der Of mines in the Carlisle district Of
New Mexico have been bought up by
the London Exploration company.
Among them have been the Laura and
tho Davenport groups. Another deal
has Just taken place In San Francisco,
The Imperial has been sold by IL.
II. Bailey OF New Mexico TO Henry w.
Child, supposedly representing tho
same foreign company. The Jim
Crow and the Gold King mines In the
same district have also been bonded.
They are all both gold and silver, the
value OF the ore being about In equal
proportions. The Imperial runs 500
ton. Mr.. Bailey, who made the fis
discoveries In the Carlisle district, rays
that with the exception OF the Laura
IA mi ha
owing TO lack OF capital and Indian
troubles. The London purchasers,
however, are expected to exploit the
mines to their full capacity.
News has lust been received Of q ter.
rible railroad accident ut Casper, Cal,
10 which Engineer Charles Gar WAS
killed and Fireman Charles Cassidy
fatally Injured. The road on which
the accident occurred 10 used for log
cling purposes and at the time OF tbs
accident but three men were on the
lrAln' The train consisted OF n loco.
motive and three Hat cars, heavily
loaded with logs. While rounding q
curve the locomotive was thrown from
lhe track and the front car, heavily
loaded with logs, dashed into the en-.
slne with terrific force aud dsTailed II.
The engineer did not have time TO e.
cape from tho cab. A heavy log
shot into the locomotive and striking
CEar killed him instantly. The bsdy
was fHghtully mangled. The brake
man was thrown from the train hut
escaped injured. Ga recovering from
ms fall he left for assistance. When
he returned with help hs engine was
IN names. The fife was extinguiAhod
aud the body, OF the engineer taken
rom tho ruins. The deceased leayts n