Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-10-14

STORM o. lNe HtASbI gFeAtl Atg'
Sheriff johnson of Mendocino couu- /
ty, cal. believes he has In keeping one /
OF the men who held up the Meudocino /
city stage on September 18th aud shot /
and killed j. IL. Barnett.
Zoe Taylor, wanted in Texas for |
murder committed in January, 1856 !
has been captured by sheriff Borg
wardt of Bakersfield Cal, and turned /
over to the Texan authorities
Early Tuesday morning a Bakers
field, Cal, farmer committed suicide !
by shooting himself through the ieit
breast with a revolver In u room ut
the Lick hOuac San Francisco. He died
ten minutes after the bullet entered his
body.
Hulda johnson, the four-year-ol
child Of MIR. and Mrs. II. Johnson OF
san Francisco, died Monday evening
shortly before s O'Clock. at the city and
county hospital. from the effects nj
burns received during the afternoon
from n grass fire on Bern0l Heights,
set by some mischlevous boys.
Henry c. Drersback died Monday
morning at Cloverdale. Cal, from the
effects of injuries sustained IN "a run
away accident. Last Friday he was
found on the Pane Mountain road in
an unconscious condition. His horse
nnd wagon We're near by, the wagon
being broken and the horse injured.
The age OF deceased was Gi years.
Believing he was arrested for em-
hezZiing money in San Francisco,
Joseph Kcarns, who was arrested for
drunkenness In Stockton, Cal, Sunday
night confessed TINT he had collected
rents due his landlady and decampcd.
He broke down and informed the ar
resting officer that he was ready to
face the charge and plead guilty as he
had taken the money.
Fong Hong, Chinese, was SEN
fenced by Judge Cook at san Francis
co Monday to twenty years imprlsoh-
ment at Folsom FOR arson. April 3Oth
last Fong Hong set fire To his room in
lodging house for the purpose of
realizing 5000 on an Insurance policy
The fire endangered other property and
numerous lives, and for that reason
7 'nE was treated by Judge Cook with
more than ordinary severity.
The license taxes collected from the
| saloons Of Los Angeles, Cal, every
month amount to about $4,000. The
month-fuly seven times the tax in
| San Francisco, and greater than AL
most any other large city on the coast.
| This tax aggregates $4,000 year. or
| fully one-fifth the amount received
| from real and personal property taxes
| the city outside the regular taxes.
\ small boy living in Santa Rosa.
| Cal. had a dangerous experience n few
days ago. He ana another boy We're
| playing horse and the other boy was
| driving him with n rope tied around
| his neck The driver tied the other
end or the rope to Judge jerks buggy,
and when the Judge started his horse
| the rope pulled the boy down. He was
dragged by the neck for several feet
before the judge knew what was going
ON. The boy did not seem much hurt
At Sacramento, Cal, Sunday Frank
| Davis. Harry Lynch and Fred Howard
| We're held to answer to the supreme
court I'm $1,000 each for robbery. on
the night Of oct. 3rd they entered a
grocery store and compelled the pro-
prietor and two other men TO give
up what money they possessed. Davis
took the witness stand Monday and
| made complete confession. Lynchs
home Is in Oakland. He says he win
! commit suicide rather than so to the
penitentitary
Five young men langulsh in the city
| prison, San Francisco, three charged
| With assault to commit murder and
| robbery, the others with plain murder.
| Two Of them are l6 years old and the
Oldest Of the band Is sCant 20. Three
! of these boys almost killed Isidore
Goulet IN order to rob him, The other
two brothers, kicked a man to death
| in n saloon at Ninth and Harrison
| streets. In the first case the motive
seems to have been greed for gain. in
| the second 1t was uucurbed temper
| and pure vlciousness.
According to advices from Peoria,
NJ. w. s. Jack OF stockton, Cal, was
married I'm Peoria less than two weeks
ago to a handsome young woman, who
| Is dea.gnated as nm actress, but who,
IL appears from the accounts, was a
drummer in girls chorus. They had
| high old time at the wedding. 1t oc-
CURED at o'clock In the morning and
the entire troupe of theatrical people
with whom the bride was playing gave
the couple serenade. Mr.. Jack blew
! himself in to the extent of $500 in cele-
hrating his matrimonial triumph. Jack
recently fell heir to about $4,000.
Mrs. Margaret Oman, widow who
teaches school at san Pedro, Cal, was
badly slashed about the face and neck
by burglar Sunday night. She heard
noise on the porch and went to see
| what 1t was when n man who evident
~ was trying to effect nm entrance
through the window, grabbed her and
tried to cut her throat with razor.
She plucklly gought him OF. and her
screams attracted the neighbors, when
he fed. a searching party of citizens
was organized. but no trace OF the
man was found. Mrs. Oman is not dan
gerously hurt.
Mrs. Anna Hughes, the wife of Mi
chael Hughes of Calaveras Wiley.
Cal, disappeared from her home last
Wednesday, and the sherif's officers
at san Jose, Cal, are busily engaged
trying TO ascertain her whereabouts
and to determine whether Mrs. Hughes
has only mysteriously dropped from
view, committed suicide or been muir
dered. Mrs. Hughes. it is claimed. left
the following note on the table of her
home before departing: 81 am gone
and gone forever, and | am not going
near any one l ever saw. | am aolng
to see II can find any place that / can
lay my head down without quite 40
much trouble"
force of men have been at work
for some days at Henry, Cal, eight
miles from the town OF OroVille silr-
veying for an immense water-storare
| reservoir. Other surveyors are nj
work running line from there to thu
north fork Of Feather river II is mn
derstoOd that the purpose is to bring
lin a very large mining and irriratlon
canal at Hengy, Morris ravlne aud
OrOVille. The force of men employed
IL under the control of the Golden
Feather company limited. This com
pany is an English syndicate owning
many Feather river mines, amonr
them the fOrty-stamp quartz mill
known az the Banner mine the Clarl,
md COffaa NINA ,tha,., ttsl,-.l