Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-10-27
EVENTS IN THE WEST.
CALIFORNIA lR ASKING FOR WASPS.
Two Ladies Tackled by a Footpnd -Dlsap-
pearance Mystery Cleared up-Try-
Ing to save Life.

William II. Aldrich son of an Ala
media, Cal. millionaire. who came into
notice In 1894 by fleeing from Hawaii
as a stowaway in a sailing vessel, died
Saturday after short illness. The
deceased was 40 ycrs of age.
George Null of woodland. Cal. ac-
cidentally shot himself With a 3S-cali-
Der rifle Sunday. The ball entered his
left side and passed under the skin for
nine inches. comig out at the back.
The wound Is considered very danger
Gus.
The California state board of trade
has addresse to the secretary Of agri-
culture a letter requesting his aid in
securing the Introduction into that
state Of the blastophaga wasp, without
whose aid the fig of commerce does not
fertilize.
The remains of Doc" Holloway, a
well-known resident of Gilroy, Cal,
was found Sunday on a mountain
ranch twenty eight miles from that
place. There was bullet hole in Hol-
loway's head and a rifle lay beside the
body. He had been dead two or three
days when found.
Sunday evening as Miss Evelyn Nc
Cormlck, the artist. and Miss Rodgers,
both of Pacific Grove. Cal, We're re-
turing from church they were held up
by footpad. and Miss Mccormick lost
pocketbOok containing several dol
lars. had her dress badly torn and her
wrist sprained.
Rutherford McGiffin, 20 years OF age.
residing at San Francisco, left his
home two weeks ago for his place of
employment with j. II. Keefe, painter
and decorator at 81 Suffer street on
the evening of that day, after having
taken couple of drinks with some
fellow-empioyes, McGiffin started to
return to his home. That was the last
seen Of him until Sunday, when his de-
composed body was found floating in
the bay by an officer on the United
States steamer Oregon. Now the re-
mains of the unfortunate young man
lie shrouded in the morgue, and an
air of mystery surrounds the manner
of his death.
The mystery of the disappearance of
Charles West a selling agent for the
liquor house of Il. Martinnol & Co., San
Francisco was cleared up Sunday
morning when his dead body was dis
covered in the hills about a mile south
Of Colma, Cal. West, who had lived
with his wife for several years at 5i7
Folsom street, left his home four days
ago and did not return. Mrs. West in
formed the police of his disappearance,
| and, though every effort was made to
We're unable to get any news of him.
| He died by his own hand having shot
| himself through the heart with an old
small-cal iber revolver.
| With the hope of saving the life of
| Charles S. Bertram, who has been in
| the Receiving hospital at Oakland,
| Cal, for nearly a month. two good
| sized pieces of bone were cut from his
| skull Sunday morning. Bertram fell
| from tho A 1nna1D local and hpgi1pg
breaking his right leg, suffered some
| injury to his head There was no evil
dence OF fracture, and DIR. Robert
| Stratton, who attended him, was at
loss to account for his delirium. Two
| pieces of bone were removed. and while
a small collection of clotted blood
was found. the surgeons were of the
| opinion that 1t was insufficient to pro-
| duce all of the effects found in the
case. Bertram rallied from the opera
ton and seemed better when he had
regained his strength.
In a little room in the Metropolitan
hotel, says a New York dispatch. with
the roar and rattle of Broadway ring
| ing in her ears, lies a woman who de-
| liberateiy set out to commit suicide by
| starving herself to death. The last
| money she had in the world, 50, she
| spent, she said. in order that the end
might come amid respectable sur
roundings. She had pawned her cloth
| ing that her baby might live, and she
had horror of dying in the street. She
is not an ordinary unfortunate; she IL
an artist. As Estrela Belinfante, con
tralto, she has sung leading roles In
| some of the grand opera companies OF
Europe. She is young, beautiful and
accomplished, but she became blind
and her artistic career was merely q
dream of the past. She had gone with
out food for four days, and during al
that time there was n European draft
for SIS awaiting her at n banking.
house. The woman is well known In
San Francisco, where she welded WI.
lis Edminster.