Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-06-09
NEWS OF THE WEST.
Real Estate Hans Trick 10 EYade
The Police.
A cur KNEE CAUSES LoCKJAw.
Drown'd While Ba'hiug-ln Old
Lady's T., cuifar Dea'h-Heasy
Wyoming storms.

joe OftZi Mex can, 10 years VI
age, was browne Sunday while bath
ing in the q. p. Davis reservoir at
Otsy, Cal.
Otto Polckow com mitted suicide 10
San Fran,isco ON SUNDAY nisht, by
iphai!ng gss. The caute OF his rash
act 10 unknOwD, an none knew OF his
having any unusual trouble.
Emma Lemos. an Is. yesr.old gir'
residing with her pare Is IN San Fran
cisco, committed tuiolde on bunusy
night by inhaIiug illumin hting gas.
No motive Ia known for the crime, rs
the girl was apparently happy at
home.
Edwari Bernard, an Italian, S5
years cid, died Sunday morning nj the
SAT Ftsncisco hospital, from injuries
received on March 5th. Bernard
worked at stone quarry on the Ssu
Bruno road, aud was caught by q all
OF T0cK.
Otto d'Erlsoh, a young San Fran.
ciso architect, 10 misslug and 10 be-
lieved TO have been drowred. He
was last seen going along the beach to.
ward point where he intended to
make picture. His hat has been
found In the water near the place. 1t
is thought he slipped from the rocks.
Walter Rosenberg, q boy OF Is. died
In San francisco on Sunday Of Loo :
Jaw. A week sgj he fell and cut b Is
knee on a Jagged rock. The wounu
was dressed anu WAS supposed to be
healing, when telauns set In. The
new serum treatment was appiiei.
de was an unusually Intelligent anu
uutiiul child.
Riwlins, Wyoming, journal: Fred
Peterson, working under Mr.. Palm on
the Union Pacific, was ipjure1 this
morning while working In the gravel
pit west OF the cut. A lot OF rock anu
gravel fell on him, breaking his upper
Jaw tone, knocking out tooth aDo
bruised him batly as he was entirely
covered by the earth. The other sec.
ton men dug him out q nd carried him
to DR.. Maghee, who attended his In.
juries. Peterson lives south Of the
trat X and has family. He will re.
cover.
News from Casper, Wyoming, says
that for seven days 1t has rsined
copious sho wers dsy and night. until
the gr, uud lie thoroughly soaked and
the grass never before looked 30 good
1t this season OF the year. The local
signal corps has record OF four inches
OF rainfall during the week. Roads
are impossible, and freight teams on
the prairie are hung up waiting the
settling Of the weather and roads. The
farmers are jubilant over their crop
prospects,. The prairie creeks are
pouring volumes of water Into the
Platte river, which 10 higher than for
years. During . heavy shower Satur.
Jay afternoon lightning struck q
barbed wire fence AID killed four
horses TOR Charles Denorsst In Q pas
ture near Casper.
widow Of East Los Angeles, Cal, was
found dead Sunday under peculiar
circumstances. She was SO years OF
age and the widow Of q former whole
sale and retail butcher in East Los
her sone-in.!Rw, Il. H. and ]. Reich.
the basement and found the old lady
poet dead. The Reich family insists
tunt uCoth was
while all evidence points TO suicide.
They say the old lady mad been Ill for
some time aud Bubjsct to fninting
spells, and that she was in the habit,
when feeling herself grow weak, OF
leaning against some upright SUPP 0rt,
instead of sitting down, and that her
handkerchief in this instance caught
in q spike In the top OF the post. No
IL ~ In IN attfal,fa n r,l au,
1t was the outcome OF her illness. Shs
was cheerful Just before death, anu
had been planning series OF enjoy
msnts for the summer.
For week past the Los Angeles,
CAL, police have boon searching for
W. NJ. Ware, . real estate agent,
wanted 10 answer to q charge OF forg-
ing deed to piece OF property upon
which he and man named w. A.
Davis obtained $1,000. Sunday nigh
q man was seen to uisrobe and jun i
Into the water from the pier ct Long
Beach, and q search OF bis clothes,
which were found on the wharf,
brought to light several papers bearing
Wares name aud address. Being
satisfied that Ware had adopted the
suicide ruse, for the purpose OF mit'
leading the authorities, the polics
searched the town Of Long Beach and
found their man In bed In wateI
front lodging house. Alter jumping
into the water, Ware, who was attireu
In q suit OF overalls, work cd his way
under the wharf 70 shore and retireG
W lille people were searching for hi
body. He was brought to Los Angeles
and admitted receiving portion o
the money obtained on the forged
| deed, but denied any knowledge o
L ihs fornaHu naula Waa aHrsaIad .