Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-11-03
EVENTS IN THE WEST.
A Record Of Occurrences in Neightorng
States and Territories.
SHOOTS HIS MISTRESS AND HIMSELF.



ID. Hatcher recent cashier of the
Northwestern National bank at Great
Falls, Mont, pleaded guilty to the
charge of misapproprinting 10000 OF
the banks funds. and Judge Knowles
OF the Federal court sentenced him to
five years in the state penitentiary.
Judge Stewart of Idaho has held the
law OF 1895 providing for funding OF
county Indebtedness to be unconstitu-
tional The decision is based on the
famous decision of the supreme court
In the fec bill case, the bill not haN-
ing passed the legislature in conformi-
ty with the provisions Of the Consti-
tuition as construed by the court In
the decision referred to.
C. Il. NJ Cole, negro barber Of Los
Angeles, Cal, attempted to XIII ms
mistress, Matte Pickett, sunday
night. and then shot himself in the
head. dying instantly. The bullet he
fred at the woman struck on the side
of her skull and plowed a furrow down
her check 1t shattered the jawbone
and then dropped to the ground ana
flattened out. She will recover. Jeal-
ousy was the cause.
one of the most disastrous fires ever
recorded in the history of Healdsburg,
Cal. occurred there Sunday morning,
when about 100000 worth of property
market, a. Thumann's jewelry store,
the cigar factory of Charles Wicltham,
the tailoring establishment of M.
Jacobs, the shoe store of II. Hansen
and a vacant storeroom of p. Lanan
were burned.
Antoine Pecci, a San Francisco ped
dler. placed revolver in his pocket
Sunday night and started out to kill
The girl of his choice had refused TO
I'll Il luH rNn
mind to place her beyond the reach OF
any other suitor. The young lady
whose blood the jealous peddler want
ed to shed is Anita Gilmetti: she is
employed in the Standard Shlrt rae
tory. on Hayes street, and lives with
her parents at the corner of Hayes
street and Van Ness avenue. As the
result of his thirst for blood Pecci was
arrested by Police officer JOY ana
charged at the city prison with carry
ing concealed weapon.
Ebenezer Newton Parkhurst, an old
man OF IS years. wandered into oak
land. Cal, Sunday afternoon with the
intention, as he says now, OF dong
something startling before ne enueu
his monotonous career. weakened by
lack of food for ten days and discour-
aged with the outlook for the remain
Ing years of his life, Parkhurst made
up his mind that the time had come To
depart this life but he wanted that
departure to he marked with some
stirring event He cast about Tor
means of achieving notoriety, ana
finally hit upon the scheme TO SET l,rs
to the long wharf. Then he STOOD
quietly by to see it go up in smoke.
The police of San Francisco are
hunting for two daring burglars VINO
have been operating In the western
la CT weeks
they have entered number OF houses
and stolen property valued at several
thousand dollars. The latest burglary
attributed to them was committed
about n week ago at the residence OF
Harry Striem, 1926 Sacramento street
Striem and his wife We're absent at the
time. having gone to friends house
in the next block. They. returned
shortly before 0 o'clock in the evening
and We're surprised to find the front
door unlocked A subsequent eNamina-
tlon showed that the house had been
entered and jewelry to the value of
several hundred dollars taken.
In some unaceountable manner the
engineer at the Eureka and Excelsior
mines at Bourne slipped and fell into
the mammoth fly wheel, which Is
twenty feet in diameter and runs at
the frightful speed of 1876 revolutions
ner minute says the Baker city, Ore,
Democrat. None of the employees of
the mine witnessed the fall of the en-
gneer, and for an hour end q quarter
the helpless man was whirled around
on this fearful ride at the rate of near
~ 100 miles an hour. When his awful
position was discovered and the pom
derous machinery at last brought to
standstill the helpless engineer had
actually Travelled 40 miles. He was
taken out seemingly more dead than
n1fN htat wi hn hIntlNht
consciousness, most wonderful to re-
late. II was found that his injuries
were simply lot of painful bruises,
none of which are in any sense seri-
Gus.
Richard Harris, n small boy living
on King street, San Francisco, was
rescued from death in the bay Sunday
afternoon by Thomas Howard, a
| stevedore, employed by the Pacific
into the water and kent the boy anoat
until help came to them both. The
Harris boy was playing on raft in
the basin west of the Pacific Mail dock
when he fell into the water. He could
not swim ana the boys who were with
they We're playing to shore
and ran for home as fast as
their legs could carry them. The tids
was carrying the lad out into the hay
| with his clothing holding him up wher
Howard's attention was attracted by
the cries of the drowning boys com.
panions. When the stevedore reached
] the waters edge all he could see wa.
the hat of the boy drifting on tn,
waves. He realized at once that there
| was some one in need of help ant
plunged into the water. He reached
the spot where the hat was noatinl
| and near 1t and a few inches below TIL,
surface was the drowning boy lyinl
almost motlonles. Grasping the lad
Howard held him TO the surface Unit
| some men came to his assistance in
| boat. The hoy was able to walk hom
after the salt water had been squeeze,
out Of him by rolling him over a bar
rel.
The throng of people who gathere,
at the San Francisco Cliff House Sun
day TO witness feats of aquatic skill
got rather more than they had an,
reason to hope for, and for tim
hundreds of anxious spectators expect
ed to see n young swimmer dashe'
upon the rocks and killed. r. b. Cor
nell undertook to swim from the Olym
pic pier around the Seal rocks. Ate
delay of about an hour beyond tn
time announced Cornell took in
plunge. He swan around the sea
ward side strongly. but on turning am
making the attempt to cover that par
or the course lying between the rock
and the Cliff House he was unable I
hau