Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-28
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Articles of incorporation of the Yu-
lSon Transportation s. Commercial
company have been fled in the office OF
the county clerk Mt san Francisco by
j. w. Mcdonald, w. r. Mills, j. a.
Thompson. II. G. O'Brien, A.Altmayer,
w. A. Richardson and Thomas Archer.
The capital stock is fixed at $IbOo0O.
A dispatch from Pacific Grove, Cal,
says: Rev. C. S. Fnckenthal. for the
past eight years rector of st, Mary's
by-the-Sea, the Protestant episcopal
church and st. Johns chapel at Del
monte, has accepted n call to become
co-rector of n large Episcopal church
In Princeton, N. j.. leaving for his new
home in about fortnight.
Sheriff McInnis of Reno. New, has
arrested man named Albert Watson,
supposed to he the individual who held
up the hotel at Steamboat Springs
Saturday night. He was dressed in
five suits of clothes and carried shot
gun. He was seen In the vicinity OF
Steamboat Saturday, and as he does
not tell the same story twice. he was
pulled" on suspicion
]. l.. Simms was blown to pieces Fri
day morning at 10 o'clock in the Ala
bama mine, jamestown. Cal, by de-
layed discharge of eilnt powder, the
fuse of which had beAl smoldering for
three hours. When the night shift
went OFF at o'clock 1t fired nine holes,
and 1t was supposed that they all went
of, as there was broken rock all ABOUT
the bottom of the shaft
James Mccarthy, an aged peddler of
Oakland. Cal, fell down a flight of
stairs at the Model lodginghouse, at
916 Franklin street at midnight Satur-
day night and broke his neck. He died
without recovering consciousness. NC
Carthy was 60 years of age and had
Il nj having been arrested
more times than any other man IN
town. He is believed to have been In
toxicated when he fell.
At Los Angeles, Cal, Friday night,
the deadly fumes of illuminating gas
caused the death of Frank Doblon OF
Pinole and almost killed Alex Rocker
of Lincoln, Neb. Both of the cases
were accidental. Doblon erred in turn
ing the gas off in his room in the cos
mopolitan hotel at the corner OF Park
and San Pablo avenues, and was deau
when found. Rocket made the same
mistake in a room in the Galindo hotel
at Eighth and Franklin streets, but
was discovered in time to be revived
A Pocatello man named Frank
McCune was aroused from his SUM
Der early Monday morning by q knock
at his door. Responding to the can
he was met by two unknown men VINO
beat him into Inconsistencies with q
| piece OIL BdS pipe thN
being a broken jaw, split ear, ana the
loss of an eye. which was gouged out
of its socket. The murderous assailants
rifled their victims trunk and got VI
in cash, after which they decamped.
The sheriff has arrested b. IL. Sour
wine and j. E. Lowe, alias "Geyser
Jack" and these men are now In JAN.
A dispatch Monday from Leadville.
Colo, says: John Sullivan, an employe
Of the Arkansas Valley smelter, was
arrested tonight, after q severe strug-
gle. While crazed with drink he
climbed onto a switch engine belonging
to the company, threw the engineer In
the ditch and turned the throttle loose.
The engine sped over n quarter of a
mile of track with the velocity OF an
express and crashed into the round
house. 1t was supposed that sullivan
covered that he had jumped off short
" after he had opened the throttle:
The roundhouse was badly damaged
and the engine was complete wreck
Saturday afternoon at Sacramento.
CAL n young man known as Daniel
Devine, his name by adoption, shot
himself in the head with 32-caliber
pistol in an attempt to XIII himselt.
The bullet was dug out of his skull. but
1t did not penetrate. Devine says he
was sick, had been out of work ana
there was no use trying to live. lie
cid not seriously injure himself, but
says he is sorry he did not make a
better job of it. Not long ago Deyine
passed very creditable examination
for the postal service. and is said to
be q very bright young fellow, but
cratic.
The counting of the votes cast Mon
day for board of fifteen freeholders
to frame a new charter for San Fran
cisco progressed very slowly Monday
night. At an early hour Tuesday morn
ing 1t was evident that at least twelve
of the nominees in the field by the
charter committee of 100 which was
named by Mayor Phelan had been
elected. OF the non-partisan candi-
dates only three, Reuben H. Lloyd
Joseph d. Grant and George f. Dow,
are thought to have been successful
They are leading T.. r. Taylor, A. w
Thompson and ]. C. Nobmann.
Mary Castillo, the young Spanish
woman at whom the Japanese, George
Touchi fired four shots on Sunday af-
ternoon at San Francisco, did not die
of fright or from the effects of q
shock upon a feeble heart as believed
when she was examined at the receiv-
ing hospital a few minutes after her
death. No wounds of any kind were
found upon her then but an autopsy
held at the morgue by DIR. John Gal
lagher revealed the fact that the wo-
man B utHtn WAS tdustu ny Hulltl
which struck her in the arm, passed
through the lungs and entered tn,
pericardium, or sack surrounding the
heart.
The San Francisco postal inspector,
are using every effort to locate the per
son or perons connected with a sen
sational and. in Its way. daring mai
robbery which was perpetrated at Sac
ramento one night last week. Two mai
pouches, each containing first-clas
mail matter, We're stolen from the rail
way station, cut open, the contents alb
stracted, and the pouches thrown int
. q water tank. where they were after
ward found. Whether there is an.
cew to the perpetrators cannot b
found out, as the officers who are a
work on the case have scrupulousl,
kept their own counsel 1t Is believed
however, that they are not working nj
together in the dark. and that arrest
may be expected shortly.
The body of an unknown man. sup
posed to be sailor. was taken out o
the San Francisco bay Saturday morn
ing at the foot of Howard street. H
had evidently fallen over the side o
the scow schooner John Maggie In al
effort to escape from a fire he had &c
cidentally started in the hay will
which that vessel was loaded. A buck
skin purse containing solitary nickel
was found on the wharf near by, an,
the mans pockets were turned insid
out. This gave rise to n runor Of fou
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