Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-11-05
EVENTS IN THE WEST.
TO PROSECUTE WESTERN COAL DEALERS,


We're fclt In Montana Thursday, the
| disturbance affecting the country cN-
| tending from Silver Bow 10 Monida.
| No serious damage was done, but the
! inhabitants Of that section were bad
! ~ frightened.
Joe Walcutt's manager at San Fran
| cisco is trying very hard to get re-
turn match for the black man with
George Lavigne at 40 pounds. La
vigne win not agree however, to al
| low Walcott to weigh more than lSf
pounds ut the ringside.
Charles l.. Fair of San Francisco,
son OF the late Senator James G. Fair
| has announced his retirement from the
! turf Mir. Fair has been liberal
| patron of racing for years, but has
met with nothing hut hard luck. All
Of his horses win be sold.
A Denver man named A. c, Yost ar
| rived in New York Thursday, home
| ward bound from the South American
! gold fields, whittier he and n number
| OF others journeyed last year. Only
| three of the expedition survived the
/ rest having succumbed to yellow fever
Edward Feare brakeman on the
/ Union Pacific who was brutally as
| snulted about two weeks ago by man
named McGrcgor and one known as
| paradise Kid" died of his injuries
| Thursday at Rawllns, Wyo., near the
| scene Of the assault. His assailnnts
have been arrested and will be tried
for murder.
G. d. Mclean, the millionaire miner
of Grass Valley, CAL died at the Lick
House, san Francisco, late Thursday
night after a lingering Illness lie
was attended by his nephew, w. NJ.
| Blakcy, of Evansville, Ind, who VIII
take the remains east for interment.
MIR. Mclean was interested in many
| mining enterprises and with stephen
! w. Dorsey owned the famous Mary
land mine, noted as very valuable
property.
A dispatch from Helena, Montana,
says the heirs of the late millionaire,
Andrew j. Davis, have secured n
writ Of error from Justice BreWer az
| Washington and viii push their claim
/ for the stock of the First National
Bank of Butte, valued Mt $l,00O,OOO. Be-
fore he died Davis Is alleged to have
given the bank to his favorite nephew,
Andrew j. Davis Jr., and the latter
has held 1t since. The allegation Is
| that points involving the National
bank law are raised, thus giving the
United States court jurisdiction.
The winter residence of Otto Mer-
genthaler, the inventor of the linotype
| typcsetting machine, was totally de-
stroycd by fire at Deming, N. M,
Thursday. MIR. Mergenthaler lost all
his personal property and many valu-
able papers, including the drawings for
a new typesettlng machine. The prop
erty was owned by Col. James A.
Lockhurt of Colorado Springs. Colo,
and was valued at 100000. Mr.. Mer-
genthaler was spending the winter in
Deming hoping to be benefited in
health. Another fire earlier in the
morning destroyed several frame busi-
ness houses on Silver avenue.
states that a business quarrel is being
carried on by the San Francisco
Bridge company, Darby. Layton & Co
the Pacific Pine Lumber company and
other firms. large and small. interested
in the business Of pile driving. 1t IL
charged that a combination has beer
formed to corner the market in ples
and TO force prices up until the dealers
outside the trust are frozen out OF
business. In addition to this IL is
charged that those in the combination
discriminate against the outside deal
ers and have sliding scale of prices
to suit themselves. This is vigorously
denied, however, by the firms that have
signed the trust agreement.
Bert ostrander a stable boy in tho
employ of James Neil, met with an ac-
cident at the Ingleside track San
Francisco, Thursday which probably
viii result in his death. While exercis-
ing Il. McCormick's horse Thyme
Nick Halls colt Corriente with 81 Nc
Lain up. dashed into him, and both an
imals and Jockeys were thrown down
fence to the soft ground inside Of tho
track and escaped injury. Ostrader
however, fell upon the track upon his
head, sustaining conclusion of the
brain. lie was picked up and eve,y
effort made to restore him TO con
seriousness, but without avail. He was
then conveyed to the receiving hospi-
tnl, where his death in momentarlly
expected. Thyme was badly shaken up
but Corriente ran eight miles after the
accident and dropped in his tracks
from sheer exhaustion.
Mrs. Caroline V. Kelley OF Denver
sister and administrators of the late
John u. Airport, was before the court
in Boulder. jefferson county, Mont.
Thursday, to answer the charge OF per.
i jury in connection with her brothers
estate The charge Is that on January
9th, last, when she made application fol
letters of administration, she swort
there We're no other heirs. II now turns
out that there is another sister, child
OF still another sister.and several half
sisters. Since securing letters OF nd.
ministration will has turned up max
ing Mrs. Kelley sole heir, and has beer
filed for probate. The will had beer
given by Airport to friend who went
to Mexico and later to Alaska, and
only recently heard Of Allport's death
and sent the papers back. Mrs. KEEL
ley who was arrested very quietly In
Butte. had her bond rendy in $1,000
| and the court approved IT and set her
trial for January next.
The preliminary move has been made
at San Francisco toward the prosecu-
tion OF the Retail Coal Dealers asso-
citation under the provisions of the
Black has drawn q bill in equity ask
ing for an Injunction to restrain the
operation of the alleged trust and has
sent the papers on to Attorney Gener-
al McKenna. asking his consent that
suit be instituted in the name OF the
United States, United States Attor-
ney Foote of that district has approved
and Endorsed the request, The papers
are drawn In the name OF the United
States as plaintiff. and the defendants
| include all the members OF the assocla-
tlon. the officers and the wholesale conl
| dealers Of San Francisco. who are
| made co-defendants. The evidence
that the association Is n combination
in restraint of trade or Il trust. is said
to he contained In book of rules FOL
| retail dealers issued by the association
| which gives the terms of a contract
| which the assistant has with the
| wholesale dealers. From this II APP
pears that the wholesalers charge n
higher rate for coal to dealers who dc
not belong to the association than n
it's members Nearly all the coal con.
| sumed in San Francisco comes from
British Columbia.