Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-09-25
EVENTS IN THE WEST.
SAFETY OF A BRITISH STEAMER DOUBTED,


on Wednesday last at Auburn. Cal.
, Eu !. Reed was sentenced to ten year.
: IN robson prison. Reed was convict
ca OF manslaughter on September i6tl
ior killing Lemuel Green Brown, AZ
NestYille. small town In the noun
tains. thirty miles above Colfax, Cal.
on May 2lst last.
To guard against the escape of any
convicts who may hereafter get out
warden Van Dorm, of the Idaho state
prison, has imported two bloodhound
pups from Kentucky. These are being
trained and will soon be able to trail
any striped gentleman who may at
tempt to levant.
J.. ID. MeMahon, who shot j. o. Clar-
rage at Elmhurst, Cal. six months ago
and narrowly escaped being n murder
en- appeared before Judge f. b. Og-
den at Oakland Wednesday morning
and pleaded guilty to charge of as
sault with deadly weapon with intent
to commit murder. His plea was a
great surprise, as 1t was thought that
he intended to fight the case. He had
pleaded not guilty when arraigned bIlt
changed it Wednesday. He was or
Goth. o'' Sept
william a. Wolf committed suicide
IN the brush near the 1ngleside race
track yesterday morning. His body
was found by w. s. Collett, a harness.
maker a short time after death en-
sued Wolf left Il letter to the coroner
| una one To his cousin, Charles Fisher
| az III Suffer street In the letter to
| MS cousin he said that he was going
TO XII himself on account of in health
and because. he alleged, he had been
sMinuleu out OF money by two men he
nutnes rs Leon and Baer He left
| nearly all his effects to Fisher. his
cousin who Is at present in the East
The Cheyenne sun of "Wednesday
evening says: This afternoon as the
Frontier Day stage from Laramie was
passing the halfway house. the six
horses running at full speed. q number
OF men under the leadership of l..
i<abis ran out with shotguns and or
dered the driver to halt. which he in
stantly did and turned the stage over
TO the hold-ups. while the leader es-
corted the tired rein holder to the in
terror of the halfway house and cooled
his parched lips with some malt soda
water, after which he was allowed to
progress ON his way, apparently much
benefited by the suggestive old-time
experience.
AS a result OF n drunken row which
occurred Tuesday night at Blocksbrrp
cal. one brother lies dead and another
is in custody. too drunk at the time
OF his arrest, to realize the serious po-
sltion in which he is plnced. Charles
Hank George and Brick Hoaglen. Of
Hoaglen, Trinity county were among
band of shearers employed by q. s,
kneeland to do his fall shearing. Tues
day evening they We're all drinking and
making much noise. Charley told
Hank he would awaken Mrs. Knee
land, and after bandying words the
brothers got into fight. In which
Hank beat his brother over the head
with picket, resulting In injuries from
which he died later.
Laramie Boomerang: Sheriff Frazer
returned last night from a trip to
North park after George w. Hunt. the
man who shot James Everest at Noun
tain Home on Sunday afternoon. Mr..
Frazer went directly to Mountain
Home thinking that Hunt might have
remained there and would make no at
tempt TO get away. He found that
had gone into Colorado and he fol-
lowed to Walden and learned there
that Hunt had become scared and had
saddled his horse and fed. Acting
on the advice of some of his friends
he decamped and could not be found.
He has good horse and about $50 in |
money, and 1t J.! quite possible that |
he has left the country. as he has not |
been In this region long.
Mile Macdonald. the young woman |
who was taken to the Detention hos |
pital in Chicago early on the morning /
of September 18th, after having at I
tempted to kill herself. is the divorced |
wife of Charles II. krause, treasurer of
the Tivoli opera house, San Francisco
In 1893 Miss Macdonald arrived in San
Francisco with Leavitt's Spider and
Fly company. She met Krause dur
Ing the time her company was playing
there. and they became such fast
friends that Krause's wife, Delphina
krause, sued him for divorce upon the
grounds of cruelty andlnfldelity. Miss
was named as corespon-
dent. on January, 10, 1895. Delphina
was granted II divorce, with $40 a
month alimony, and the esutody OF one
'hild, the issue of the marriage
Glenwood Springs Avaianche: A
nan giving his name as II. p. Phillips.
'dltor of the News Reporter Of
4eadvllle. has been doing n number
# citizens the past week He worked
ur sporting houses pretty heavily by
living checks on Leadville bank He
ave a check to the Hotel Glenwood for
lis board, and referred the check to the
'valanche office as TO his responsible
~. No one in the office seems to be |
cquainted with him. The Herald
Democrat of Leadville states that this
ldlvidual heeced the people of that
8 Harry lie Grand" The parties {
HON he fleeced here intended to have ,
i'm prosecuted, but when they rend of
Is dolngs at Leadville concluded TO ,
rop the matter altogether. His where ,
bouts now are not known.
A dispatch from San Francisco snvs. S
nat the British Hahnemann is now {
ut 2l5 days from ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 1
nd Reinsurance is being paid on The f,
nll and cargo. The vessel is laden !
18th coal and seafaring men and nm
erwriters are beginning to wonder il =
nything has happened to her. She was
st spoken on June 25th In latitude *
'uth longitude rs west and then the
lptain reported IAN WELL" on JnIv
h ind Sth the British ship Afchanis,
N Just arrived after a passage of i52
lys from Liverpool was in a terrific
lrricane in latitude Sc south longi-
lde CO west. There was an unusuaIi,,
aaNy cross sea. the vessel was svvcnt
gam and again and finally the cnrgo
ilited. From that time on fair Vea-
ef was encountered. Captain CraIgie
ports That his vessel was twentv-nno
'ys on the Horn and during nearly aIs
at time the decks We're full of water
} to the rails. "''ef
Alfred w. Delafield. n llthogranbic =
'ust who Is employed in San FranN q
SEQ wrote letter OF farewell To HE
;ed mother Wednesday night. MAJ
ok Of the contents of n bnttia -
lloroiorm' stood the partially emp-
% wal beside the paper on a table
ID lay down to die. A friend forti,-
Ia. i