Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-09
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In the case of Watson VS. Terrell, 70
| libel, on trial at Pocatello. Ida, tn
Jury has rendered verdict for the de
PENDANT.
Inc King ranch in Monterey county
Sal., has been purchased by the
Sprec!les Sugar Co. The price paid
is said to have been 100000. The land
VIII be devoted to the cultivation OF
sugar beets for the supply of the new
factory at Salinas.
collision occurred on the Oregon
Short Line Wednesday at the Portneui
siding, six miles south of Pocatello
Train No. going south collided with
a northhound freight, which occupied
the siding. The shock was slight and
very little damage was done.
Prof. Perrine, one of the members OF
the Lick observatory staff, San Fran
cisco. has received letter from the
French Academy of Science announc-
ing that his work In astronomy has
been considered of such value as to
merit the bestowal on him of one OF
the annual prizes. The award will be
made at public meeting in Paris In
the latter part of this month.
Second Lieut.. Pritchard, Ninth cav
airy, Fort Duchesne, has been granted
leave of absence for one month. with
permission to apply to the proper ap-
thorities for an extension of his time
one month. The leave is made effect
I've at the conclusion of two trials
which are going on before the court
martial at Duchesne. Pritchard is a
member of the court.
The death of Frank Il. Wadman
occurred suddenly at Butte. Mont.
Tuesday night. AS his body was about
to be shipped to his home at Odgen.
Coroner Tremblay interfered, and or
dered 1t held pending an investigation
as to the cause of death. Wadman
was recently released from the Mon
tana asylum and as he had often
made threats of killing himself. he is
believed by many to have accomplished
his own demise by taking poison. He
was heavily insured.
The body of Ernest Hawthorne, who
disappeared from the Silver Stream
district, near Wellington, N. H., re-
Gently, has been found. 1t had been
pressed into a hastily dug grave on
the spot where Hawthorne and a man
named Stanhope had established n
camp. After the disappearance of
Hawthorne, Stanhope moved camp
and was afterwards arrested charged
with forging n check, and is in Jail.
That Hawthorne was murdered, is
beyond doubt
An explosion In the Helena Frisco
mine at Gem, Ida, Wednesday morn
Ing Instantly killed Joseph Mcnamara
and Joseph C. I3owes. The accident
happened just before coming off shift
aud frii tuesses. Both
men We're frlghtfully mangled, one be-
ing entirely unrecognizable and the
other had only one side of his face left
intact. Nothing could be learned re
garding their antecedents. Bowes II
said to have a wife in San Francisco.
Mcnamara was native of New York,
but nothing is known of his relatives.
Both We're young men, 20 years of age
or under.
Celestine Gimonet, one of the notori-
GUS proprietors of houses of III fame
on st. Mary's street, San Francisco,
who were arrested lest week by the po-
lice, ended her life Monday by inhaling
gas. Early in the morning she took
breakfast with her housekeeper, Anna
Bougues, at her residence, 526 Pine
street, and soon afterward retired to
the bathroom of her own apartment.
where she attached rubber tube to
the gas burner and inserted the end in
her mouth. She had determined to put
an end to her existence, as she said
that she was being prosecuted by the
police.
Negotiations have practically been
'ihPAN'Nt ut s'dIl FldutISto lOT three
more pugillstic contests. Peter Maher |
and Peter Jackson are to meet in Feb |
ruary, Choynski and Tut" Ryan in
January and George Green and Billy |
Gallagher at some time to be settled |
later. The Occidental club has Sc |
cured the Maher-Jaekson contest, and |
the National the other two. Maher is |
giving away considerable weight in |
making "A match with Peter Jackson. |
He will weigh something like thirty |
I've pounds less than Jackson. who also |
has the advantage of him in height |
md reach. Maher has the advantage |
n age of eight years and is in better
condition.
II. C. Nash, librarian of Stanford
and ]. C. Rowell, librarian
# the University of California, are at |
york on a scheme which II carried out
viii materially change the copyright
avs of the country and at the same
line build up large national libraries
n number of the big cities of the
United States. The plan is to require
uthors obtaining the protection of n
Copyright to supply copies of their
work to several repositories located in
tiles in different sections of the coun-
ny. Senator Perkins will Introduce
he bill in the United States Senate. 1t
will direct the establishment of add-
ional repositories in the cities of Chi
ago, Denver, sun ffanclSco ana New
orleans.
Laramie Boomerang: The ice on
he river is about four inches thick.
t is not so thick as 1t was n few days
go. Last year the Union Pacific COM
amy cut and shipped from this city
O5 cars of ice, which was stored in
heir houses along the line. The
mount of ice taken from them from
he river at this point depends on con-
itions at other points. If the weather
5 such generally as to make ice along
he line, a comparatively small quanti-
Y is cut here. The work of gathering
he harvest here begins just as soon MS
he ice is sufficiently thick. They have
men now engaged in rebuilding the
am In the river about two miles up
he river from the city. This dam was
'ashed out last spring.
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