Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-11-04
EVENTS IN THE WEST.
AN OLD MAN DIES OF HIS INJURIES,



Francisco, were Monday bound over TO
the superior court by Judge Conlnn on |
both charges. Bail un the robbery |
charge was fixed at 5000 and for the
assault to murder $1,000 in each case.
Prof. Edward Sweeney, the old man
who was struck by car at the corner /
o. san Pedro and Third streets, Los /
Angeles, Cal, Sunday. night died OF hls |
injuries shortly after u o'clock Mon
day. 1t was first thought that Sweeney |
was killed by accident hut the belief 4
now is strong that he got in front OF |
the car with the purpose to commit /
suicide.
John Reigel, Russian Finn and |
nom union sailor, stabbed John Schnei- /
der. union sailor employed on the /
schooner Halcyon, Sunday afternoon |
at Eureka. Cal. while crowd of /,
sailors We're drinking In saloon. !
Schneider received two deep slashcs on
the right arm and two cuts in the
head. They bled profusely, but are not I
dangerous. Reigcl is In jail,
Eugene Gonzales. charged with the
murder of Marook the mother-in-law |
of Robert Hereford. on the night OF
oct. 18th, on the Shoshone reservation,
has been held to await the action Of
the federal grand jury at cheyenne.
Through pouring coal oil on the fire.
Clarence. the G-year-old son of Mr.. and !
Mrs. Frank Downs of Lendvillc, Colo,
was fatally burned yesterday morn
Ing.
Miss Rosa Kell member of the well
| known Ken family Of pioneers of San
| Jose, Cal. committed suicide Monday
morning by drinking carboic acid. The
| young woman, who was "a years of age,
| though well connected socially, was
In reduced circumstances and was
| forced to earn her living as a domes-
| tic This preyed on her mind and
caused her many melancholy hours
She claimed that her relatives looked
/ down upon her
Monday night the police of San
| Francisco arrested r. j. Golden. re-
cent arrival from Los Angeles, and
| locked him up in the tanks" of the
city prison. He was apprehended upon
a dispatch from Sheriff Burr of Los
Angeles, charging him with murder.
| Golden Ia at a loss to account for the
dispatch. lie says that he was n wit
ness in the preliminary examination of
| Patrick Savage, charged with the muir
| der of VIM. Roach at San Pedro on
October 9th. but he strenuously denied
that he was n party to the crime.
Walter Foss and W. McNaughto, two
middle-aged woodchoppers eoped
| from Plumas Junction, small place
in California about twenty miles north
| of Reno, New, with two 13-year-old
| girls Saturday at midnight. The chill
| drCn We're the daughters OF Joe and
| Bedford Roberts. and when the parents
/ missed the children Sunday morning
| they, with several neighbors, armed
themselves with rifles and started In
pursuit Of the runaways. Up to Mon
] day evening no trace of them had been
found, but 1t Is certain that If the pur-
suers catch the clippers, bloodshed Will
result.
Richard Il. Flick, who was tried at
Rawlins, Wyo., for the shooting OF
Henry Border at Baggs last August,
was found guilty by jury last even
ing. He will be sentenced later.
The federal grand jury Mt Helena,
Mont. is about to investigate the loot
! ing of the First National bank. which
closed there year ago September 4th,
with $3,50O,OO0 in deposits, n capital
stock of $500 900 and surplus Of $780,
900 unaccounted for The first grand
jury after the failure indicted former
| Manager Edgerton. Director Il. w.
Beattie and Assistant Cashier George
II. Hill. but the indictments We're
quashes on technlcalitles.
A message was received at San
Quentin, CAL, prison on Monday
evening from Governor Budd's private
secretary. Peter ]. Shields, stating that
the governor had pardoned Ramon
Herrera, alias Garcia. Herera's case is
particularly interesting one. In the
early part Of the year 1894 a robbery
was committed in San Francisco.
Francisco Toros, who ls also known
under many aliases. swore out a COM
plant, had Herrera arrested, and by
perjured testimony, convicted OF rob
berry, and sentenced on March /, 1894,
to twenty years in San Quentin. In
May, 1894. 1t was brought to light that
lsadore Baldiva was the guilty man.
A personal encounter between Miss
Josie Murphy, a young lady residing
on Otterson avenue. San Jose, Cal,
and an unknown young man, evident
ly a masher, which happened on Satur-
day evening, became known Monday.
Miss Murphy is not n very robust
young woman. but when she was ac-
costed by a stranger on San Fernando
street. about dusk Saturday evening,
she let loose with her right hand and
administered n blow which would have
done justice to an athlete. The man
was partially knocked down. Miss
Murphy continued on her way home,
but the young man did not follow. The
young woman tore her glove in admin
istering the blow. a good description
of the assailant was furnished the po-
lice. but his identity has not been as
certained.
a daring thief with roll of bills
snatched from a bookmaker's CASH
box while the crew of the book was
busily engaged watching the exciting
finish OF the stake race at Ingleside
Cal, Monday. n dart into the crowd
and the struggle of bettors to get tick
cts cashed when the bookmaker set up
the cry OF "Thiefl" were the features
of an exciting Incident at the opening
OF the racing season. Incidentally the
police regard It as corroborative OF the
warning they received recently that n
gang of thieves and fine workers were
on the way west to participate in the
winters sport, Hugh L. Jones, one OF
the best known bookmakers. was the
victim, and his loss consists of roll of
bills containing $685.. taken from under
the eyes OF himself and his assistants
The supervisors of San Francisco ap-
pear determined to do something to-
ward driving the immoral resorts from
prominent thorourhfares and streets in
the nelghhorhood Of churches At
Mondays meeting of the board a COM
mittee was created. consisting OF SUI
pervisors Smith. Morton and Delany.
to be known as the committee on pub
lie morals. The present agitation is
due to the complaints made by the OH
cials and members of st. Mary's
church against the dens Of vice that
have taken fun possession OF st Marys
place and Quincy street, which are In
the vicinity of the church Their pro-
taat has bapf1 guunnrfpd nv moth 40