Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-12-01
NEWS OF THE WEST.
A Pliteen-Yoar-Old Girl Shot al a
Wedding Party.
KILLED BY AN ACCIDENTAL saoE.
Los Angeles Terminal 10 Build to Salt
Laks-Sho Uur rair of Roofs
Sou h sea settlers.

Rpber Ciose, q pioneer OF Shasta
county, Cal, fell from u bridge near
keswick last Thursday and broke his
neck.
San Francisco Chronicle: San Fran
cisco 10 infested with a coal ring which
is doing more to retsrI the growth OF
the city than all other causes COM
Dined. Il deliberately compels the
retail dealer to charge consumers IAN
tastic prices under penalty OF being
refused supplies.
A dispatch from Kelso, Washing ton,
says that colony OF $50 men has been
formed in Kelso TO go to the 81. Johne
group OF the South Sea islands. They
VIII establisl. coffee aud cotton ranches,
engage in the culture OF tropical fruit,
collect ana ship CoooaDuts, coral and
fancy woods, and cell through agen'
CITES in the commercial centers of the
world. They Will sailI about January
lst.
Steve Soule, an old resident Of Little
Shasta, California, sbot q mau named
Louis Cook Thursday afternoon on the
SOule farm. Cook had purchased q
pair Of boots from Sgule which proved
unsatisfactory, and which caused u
dispute, whereupon S0ule shot Cook
in the mouth, and 1t 10 feared that the
wounG will prove fatal. Soule claims
that Cook attacked him with a pick.
handle and he shot In seli-defense.
John Fowler, 7.year.old boy, was
instantly killed ana shockingly mutt.
lated Thursday by the occidental die
charge of a shotgun. Y Jung Fowler,
who lived at Fulton, Osl., went with
his mother TO Walt friends at ranch
near Santa Rosa. The small boy OF the
place, Joseph Fiege, aged $, invited the
Fowler boy 10 look at a lew shotgun.
| While the boys were examining II the
| quo was dischsrged. The load OF shot
| struck young Fowler under the chin,
| tearing his whole face into shTeJs.
! IS. b. Hines, tho new general
manager of the Terminal Railroad
company OF Los Angeles, Cal, who
returned from the East few days ago,
Is now down to business. at lie the
intention OF the Terminal people to tx'
tend their road to Salt Lake Clty,"eAl
| Mr. Hines. When active steps TO tots
emu will be taken IL a question can
uOt hubWeI. luo iuteutiuhS VI Cui
company IN this matter are the very
best, as will be seen when the opp0g.
tune time for action arrives.
The wedding OF George Oceiger and
Matilda Kaison near Rulzvllle, WASH
| iDgtou, Thursday, ended In a peculiar.
| ly sad manner. Tue wedding feast was
being celebrated at the house of tht
bride's parents, when number oi
young men, In pursuance Of what Is
said to be O custom among certain
classes Of Germs ne, began the 0 Il .ir by
shooting at random. In this noisy and
dangerous tusiilade Mise Mary Bsuer,
young lady OF 15,was accidentally shOl
10 thu head. This wound was from {
shotgun and proved fatal.
Coroner Mcneil and Deputy Bow
ker Friday night reach ed Modesto
with the body OF French Canadian
named Henry Genonoue, who was
killed Friday near La Grat &c, Calf
| foInia. Genon0us with another
woodchopper named Hughes, while
Intoxicated, drove over large rGck,
which threw both men cut OF the cart,
the horse and cart falling upon them.
| Genonous fell hesdf0remost into poo
OF water. Hughes got out, but his
companion could not. When released
he was dead. Hughes, in "a drunken
frenzy, struck tho horse over the head
several times with an AK, killing the
animal.
A runaway Northern Pacific eng ne
startled Tacoma, Washington, on Fri
day evening. Switch engine No. 2lS
while coming from South Tacoma got
beyond Engineer Hislop's control on
Center street at the top OF the three.
mile grade leading to the Halfmoon
yards along the Puyallup river. This
grade Is one OF the steepest on the line,
running from the waters edge to Ill
elevation of 400 feet In three miles
J The engine shot down like q meteor,
1 passing through the center OF the
town and crossing Pacific avenue al
sixty miles an hour. In the Halimoon
yard 4. ran through an open switch,
turned somerssult AMI landed ups Q
down. Engineer Hislop anu Fire
man Stewart jumped at Twenty
| first street. Hislop broke his
right arm and his shoulder
blade and sustained internal injuries
which are expected TO prove fatai.
Stewart was only scratched. Tive
street cars had just crossed the tracks
They missed being struck by lees tina
ten feet. Near Center street COW wal
run over, and II Ia considered wonder.
full that the engine did not jump tn,
track. The accident happened jusl
before 9 O'Clock, when many workmer
were returning from work. They were
warned by the engines wildly ringing
bell, but several got oil the track just
in the nick Of time. 1t ia singul ai
fact that lust six years,ago that night,
at the same hour, Engineer Fred Dsx.
ter met his death In runaway train
accident on the same grade. Dextei
and Hislop were friends. An invest.
| CATION shows that Hislop's engine
| ustrinnedv itself bv Having out In.