Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-02-19
NEWS OF THE WEST.
TTampled aud Killed By q Runaway
Team.
WENT INSANE OYER THtOsopnY.
Sprinkllng Carts as B0admak'rs-Fell
Dead Mhils WaShlng-lainl
Quarsels.

some huEses.
Two large eagles swoOped down on
turkey on tue ranch OF Il. 3. Davis 10
Santa Maria valley, Cal, IA 'ew days
ago. aud be,oro they could I've driven
gwHy hau neafly Gev0ured The gObUler
Joseph Cosgrove, VITO was crushed
by log, which fell irom the Trucks o.
a Jogging train ut ;hc Blue canyon
bunk1rs, H. Whatcom county, o.,
Saturday, diod ut 81. J seph's hospital,
Fairhaven, a few hOurs later.
The three. ear.old son of Peter
Jensen OF MeEdervllle, Mont, was
kicked IN the head by a horse n the
morning OF February 9TH. One OF the
cliks ON the AOrsc's shoes penetrated
the brain, and the child lived but a
few moments.
The eprinkllng wagons used in San
Jose, Cal, are equipped with Tires ten
inches wide, ana AS the front wheels
track inside the renr, tweBty inches OF
road on each SIDE Is rolled down hard
and seliI. Tue spriuklers thus serve
double purpose.
n. j. Hames Of the Union Dlslrict,
near Los Gatos, Cal. fell rom the ROOF
OF his winery Tuesday anu was III.
| stsntly killed. Nit. Hames wac the
owner OF one OF Inc best ranches IN
santa Clara county, prominent
w!nemaker, dryer and grower.
Mrs. Frank Deaner, who became in.
sane over u too close attention TO the
mysteries OF theosOphy, was sent to
Naps asylum, Cal, Tuesday by Judge
5. z. Hall. she be an etu dy OF the
| nf "A IA i'm.
ago aud her mind failed under the
strain,
Peter ThompaOn, an old resident OF
Calaveras county, Cal, while intoAi-
cnteu, started for bis cabin about two
miles from Mokeiumne HIN. His body
was found on February TN. The
hands clasped quart whisky bottle
that had been drained to the last
dregs.
Frank CASTLE, stockman, stabbed
| John Beck III the abdomen AT Cleve.
land, WASH, carly Tueqdny morning,
killing him almost instantly. The
men were attending masquerade
ball, and became involved in quRrre.
over woman. CASTLE claimed that
he killea Beck in sei-de,ense.
| Damon Gebnardt, q pickle veDder,
and Harry Andereon, q gambler, were
shOt and dangerously wounusd by
| William OK seize, u sure.thing gam,
bier. in a Los n ngeles, Gal, saloon, on
| Tuesday evening. O'keeie oil ected
TO the attention Anderson paId 10 a
certain woman, ard booming noisy
he was ioIoibly ected from the place
by the proprietOrs. He returned ahort
~ with revolver anu immediately
II. lA.I 49,.
In the side by bullet ana ia ia Il CAN
gerous condition. A ndersou, in at.
tempting to take the pistol from
O'Keeie, was shot in the gTo!E, a
serious wound being f. II cted. U'Keeie
was arrested with diffi Guilty.
Mitchell Cater was trampled under
runaway team at Oakland, Gal,
Tuesday afternoon and died In twenty
minutes from the injuries received.
| The runaway team belonged TO g. b.
Guenther, baker, who IL a sou-in.aw
| VI the deceased. IL was lett standing
In front OF the bakery anu the horse
took fright at passing team. Cater,
who WAS on the sidewalk, made an at.
tempt to stop the horse but was thrown
down ana trampled upon. Two of the
| wheels passed over his chest. When
i
scious. He was carried TO Gnsnthsps
house but expired before doctor could
be summoned. Cater was native Of
Germany, aged SO yeRrs, ana leaves a
| wife and six children.
| At AnaConds, Mont, Thursday
morning, about O'Clock, Frank
Dresser, q gambler, shot and killed his
wife anu her paramount, Sherman
Ransom, whom he found together H.
bed. Dresser YVES on the might shift at
the gambling house where he was EN-.
ployed, and going home went straight
to bis room over the saloon where
Ransom WAS employed as bartender.
Dresser and his wife had quarreled
snd had not occupied the same room
for several days, Hud he had evidently
expected to fiau Ransom there. He
broke In the door and found things as
he expected. Mis-. Dresser plesded
with her husband and he shot her first
and killed her, and fired three shots
into Ransom, who WAS still in bed.
Dresser had one bullet remaining 10
his weapon and says he contemplated
killing himself with it, tut found that
RsnsOm was not dead anu SO fired the
last shot into hls body. Dresser gave
himself up alter the murcer.
On Tuesiny suit was brought by J.
and w. Seligman, New York bankers,
against the city OF Santa Rosa, Cal,
for the payment OF five municipal
water bonds which maturei on the iirst
Monday in ID oember and Tor the in.
terest due ON 100 coupons from tie
same date. The action was filed In
the United Sates circuit court. The
complaint MED ny jesse w. LiIlen-
thai, the counsel for the Selig,
mans, clniains 1855 counts ant
covers 1000 printed rages. The
trouble has arisen over tho TACT
that Santa Rosa has two water sys-
tens, ono private anu principally
owned by Mark Med maid, tue 9th er
municipRi, rwb ich 200 bOnds OF the
value If 1925 each were issueJ,
umouuiirg 10 SI65, 900, and bearing
interest at the rate Of ! PER cent per
anuum. The bonds manure At the
rate OF Ave per year, and they viii con.
uuue b. fail cue annually at this rate
until 1883. No Fl It 20 avoid the
responsibility OF payment, either Of
principal or interest, has been made
by no municipality OF S,uta Rosa.
The fi.st len were promptly met al
maturity, theTe il money In the city
,feasury for the tYe that malu'ed last
I no.