Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-24
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has returned to San Francisco from a
six months trip to the Orient. He
said that as the steamers China and
Barracuda had obtained Hawaiian
register the company would not seek
a similar register for any more of its
vessels. Continuing. Mr.. Schwerin said:
president Asano of the Japanese
steamship company Tayo Yusen
Kaisha is having three steamers
built in England to go into the trade
between this port and the Orient. He
expects to have them completed by
next September. When they are fin
ished the Pacific Mail and Occidental
and Oriental companies will establish
n joint service with Mr.. Asano's line.
The Pacific Mail company contemplates
the construction of two new vessels
of 10000 tons each"
Denver Post: Mrs. j. C. Hooper of
Salt Lake City has reported to the
police the loss OF two diamond rings
from her room I'm the oxford hotel.
Mrs. Hooper Is the wife of j. C. Hooper,
commercial traveller for hardware
house in st. Joseph. Mo. Mr.. and Mrs.
Hooper arrived in this city yesterday
morning and registered and We're as
signed rooms at the oxford. Mrs.
Hooper retired to toilet room. re-
moved the two diamond rings from
her fingers, laid them near the wash
bowl and washed her hands. There
she left the rings when she went back
to her room, she thinks. Half an hour
later she missed them and hurried to
the toilet room. The rings We're not
there. The toilet room was searched,
but without result Mrs. Hooper
acknowledges that she might have
taken the rings back to her room and
there misplaced them. Detectives
have been at work for day on the
case, but can gain no clew. No one
was seen to enter the toilet room after
she left 1t. The rings are both solitaires
and weigh about 11s karats each.
George a. and Edward L. Arnold
were arrested Monday at Fresno. Cal,
to answer to a charge of assault to
commit murder upon Ed l.. Palmer.
All the parties are prominent and
wealthy citizens of that county. Pal
mer was building n fence across piece
of land over which he and the Ar
nolds have had some dispute, ana
George Arnold ordered him to stop.
Words followed and Arnold went for
his brother Edward. George returned
armed with Ratchet and Edward
with n pistol. Palmer did not know
of their coming until bystander cried
for him to look out. He turned Just
in time to see George Arnold throw
the hatchet at his head. He had no
time to dodge, but threw up his hands
to ward off the blow. The Ratchet cut
off three of his fingers. Had he not
turned he would have been killed.
Palmer brought suit Monday against
George Arnold for $1,000 damages.
George Arnold is Justice of the peace
at Huron and man of property and
standing in the community.
The sheriT's deputies and county
constables are securing the vicinity of
Fresno, Cal. in search of Charles FIJI
klns, convict under n five-year SEN
tcnce for burglary. Filkins was being
taken from Los Angeles to San QUEEN
tin on the train which reached Fresno
at midnight on Sunday and was in
charge OF Deputy Sheriff Ben Hill OF
Los Angeles county. The train had
reached point near the oil tanks. close
to the northern limits, when Filkins
made break for liberty. He wore an
Oregon boot" and this circumstance
may have induced the deputy to allow
him to enter the toilet room without
extra precautions. AT any rate Fllkins.
who Is an active young man only %
years old made his exit through the
window, oregon boot and ALL The
deputy got off the train at Coils and
hurried back to Fresno. The county
officers have made most vigorous
search of all the tramp roosts and lodg-
ing houses In town, but So far without
success. 1t Is thought Fillxins must
have confederate as the removal of
the Oregon boot would be difficult
matter.
Something entirely new In the line
of defaulters has made its appearance
in the person of Miss Jennie Ewald.
otherwise Wall, otherwise Slimmon. u
young woman who resides with her
parents at 1924 Chaplin street, Alameda.
Cal, and who has. been for the past
FIVE years the trusted cashier and
bookkeeper for Macondray & Co, i'm
porters of teas. silks and mattings, and
| agents of the North China Insurance
company, at 1i6 California street that
| city. Last Thursday afternoon Miss
Ewald left the office of Macondray a.
Co. at her usual hour. Since then she
has not been seen either there or at
her home. For the last flve days ex-
| perts have been Mt work on Miss
| Ewald's books and now Macondray &
| Co. are out with the statement that
| they have discovered n discrepancy of
| $500 in the accounts of the North
| China Insurance company. They leave
II to he inferred that they think Miss
Ewald's apparent shortages will go far
| beyond that figure. Within a few days
the experts viii have finished their
work and then the firm will be able to
tell definitely the financial status OF its