Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-31
EVENTS IN THE WEST.
LITTLE ROSA MEDlCl BURNED TO DEATH.


| Dec. 22nd, will reopen Monday with
their full force of 400 men.
Theodore Durrant has again been
| removed to the death cell to await the
hour Of his execution, which has been
fixed for 1880 a. m, January Z.
John Broumheld. colored man,
| charged with selling liquor to Indians,
| pleaded guilty at Pocatello Thursday
and was sent to Jail for thirty days.
Quarantine officer Rosenau of San
Francisco has received authority from
| Washington to refuse pratique to yes
| sells which cross the quarantine line or
| allow the pilot or any one else to go
| ashore before the quarantine officer
| has come aboard.
on Tuesday next at Pocatello, Ida,
| Sourwine and "Geyser jack will be
| examined on the charge of assaulting
| Frank McCune Mr.. McCN1ne is slow
| ly improving and II Is thought Will he
able to identify his assailants when
the case comes up for hearing.
Many Catholic priests of the terri
tory are arriving at Santa Fe. N NJ.
from day to day to bid adieu to Arch
| bishop +. l.. Chapelle. who departs
early in 1898 for New orleans. Report
has 1t that either Bishop Matz of Dem
yer or Bishop Bourgarde of Arizona
will succeed Chapelle at Santa Fe.
The United States steamer Biohican,
| now at Mare Island navy yard, San
Francisco. will go in commission for
cruise around the world with a crew
of naval apprentices. The boys must
be between the ages of Ii and II, and
| must be shipped with the consent of
their parents or guardians, until they
are II years of age.
The estate of the late Josiah II.
White, the pioneer miner who made
| g.. .,r.t rntt at h
stone, Ariz., hes been appraised at
$3.50, i53, The inventory which was
| filed Thursday in the Alameda county
court, Cal. discloses valuable per-
sonal and real property in Alameda
and Sonoma counties and in Blooming
ton, Ills.
As the outcome of a dispute among
some members of the crew of the ship
| Bohemia now in port at San Francisco,
First Mate Holman and Seaman
Charles a. Benjamin. the former with
| his face badly cut, are in the county
jail, and Charles f. Steadman, an
other sailor, is at the hospital with
bullet in his thigh. The men may re-
cover.
At Nevada City, Cal. Robert j.
| Holland died shortly after midnight.
Dec. 2sth, of injuries inflicted by
| Thomas Evans late Monday afternoon.
| While Evans claims to have acted in
| self-defense, the killing is commonly
regarded as cold-blooded murder,
| and some talk of Judge Lynch Is heard.
| Evans Is in n steel tank in the county
| Jail and presents a pitiable sight. He
has collapsed completely and has re-
| fuesd to leave his bed
The body of an unknown man was
found Tuesday morning at the water
tank, Marlcopa, Ariz.. short dis
lance from that station. The man had
| been struck on the back of the head
| with n mesquite club that was found
II short distance away. The skull was
| crushed. The body was recognized by
"A local hotelkeeper as that of man
| who arrived on foot Monday and told
him he was teamster on his way from
| Phoenix to Tucson. No clew TO the
| murderer was found.
Colorado will not be numbered among
| the western states which are forming
a combination to biennially inspect the
books of the large eastern life insur-
| ance companies. Insurance Commits
sioner Vivian said such a biennial in
vestigation was folly unless serious
| condition of affairs existed in the man
| agement of some of the large eastern
| companies. He Is Of the opinion that
il is not the large companies which
need watching but some of the smaller
| western concerns.
The Building Trades council of San
| Francisco have indorsed the actions OF
| Labor Commissioner II. l.. Fitzgerald
in urging at Washington, d. c., on
their behalf the annexation of the Ha-
waiian islands. advocating the eight
hour labor law, supporting the anti
| immigration bill and striving to have
a clause inserted In the specifications
| for the new postofiice in that city
requiring that all the stone be dressed
| in San Francisco.
with the paying off of the crew OF
the American ship Henry b. Hyde at
| San Francisco the story of n curious
,mutiny has been brought to light. For
only two days of the voyage did Cap
| tain Scrihnor really command his
crew, which was composed. not of
sailors, but of curly graduates from
the Rowery. Pat O'Donnell, the
toughest of them all, instituted him
self ringleader. and it was under the
O'ponnell thumb that Captain Scrib-
ner and his officers sailed the good
ship to San Francisco.
James Colwell, known as James
| Lesley and "Grass Valley Shorty" was
declared to be insane Tuesday by the
examining board of Fresno. Cal. Col
well is said to be well connected in San
| Francisco, being the son of William
| Colwell, a capitalist, who until recent
| ly resided on Twenty-third street
James, however, appears TO be the
| black sheep of the family. He has
served time in the state prison, and in
about every county Jail in the San
| Joaquin and Sacramento valleys. He
was serving n six months term for
vagrancy in the county Jail when he
| went insane.
Senator F. +. Warren OF Wyoming,
| replying to the charge of a Denver
| newspaper that Senators Wolcott,
| Warren and Clark and other Western
| senators could not have been elected
| to the office they hold If their con-
stituents had the slightest cause to
suspect that they would not stand fast
/ for free coinage at the ratio of l6 to
/ through the independent action of our
| government, said: "As n matter OF
fact. the Republican party in Wyoming
| has never declared for free coinage at
| the ratio Of l6 to l through the indie
| pendent action of our own government
| and | dare say 1t never will, for that
| would mean for us silver monometal-
lism. The Republicans of Wyoming are
| not and never have been either gold
| or silver monometallists but are BIZ
| metallists and desire recognition and
actual and general use of both metals"
Corroborative information has been
obtained regarding the establishment
| of n line of steamers between Nalpar-
also. Chile, and San Francisco, as re-
ported by Consul Wilson of Santiago
at the state department. The compan-
les interested are the Compania Sub