Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-11-16
EVENTS IN THE WEST.
OAKLAND CHILD BITTEN BY A MAD DOG


Court Decisions Miscellaneous.
The saloon of Harris & Kirkland at
Lander, Nyu., was hurglarized SUN
day night and $50, q revolver and some
bar attachments taken.
The young daughter Of Policeman
Tom Cuoncy of Oakland. Cal.,was bad
ly bitten by mad dog Saturday night.
The animal was at once shot, The
condition Of the child is being care
fully watched.
Walter Preston, a 17-ycar-old boy,
residing in SANTA Clara, Cal, was
probably fatally injured Saturday
evening while hunting on the Alviso'
marshes. He was about to step into
boat when his gun dropped and was
discharged, the load Of buclkshot ter
ribly mangling his shoulders.
Sergeant Shea ana posse Of San
Francisco, consisting Of Officers Gallo
way, Morton, Tracy Burke, Hanley
and Silver made shortly after mid
night Saturday one of the most sue
ucssful ruids ever attempted in China
town. resulting In the capture of 1jO
paraphernalia and over 5000 In coin.
December 18Th, Mt Denver. Colo.
the famous Windsor hotel will be sold
OF $32jO00 owing to james William
Barclay, NJ. p. and John Irving Court
ney OF London. The Windsor was
built In 1881 by an English company
and was at one time the leading hotel
in the West.
The banking institution at Delta.
Colo, closed its doors Monday with
A. II. King as assignee. The bank was
stocked for $4,000 and the deposits
a gafH n, H.. al. NJ la
excitement has been caused in that
vicinity, as the depostors always re-
garded the institution as being thor
oughly safe.
The Dixon, Cal, poisoning mystery
seems to lie as dark and unfathom-
able as ever. Six days have passed
since the little town was thrown into
the greatest excitement by the death
Of Louis Belew and his sister, Miss
Susie Bclew, rumors have been most
persistently circulated, but as yet the
officers have not seen fit to make any
arrests.
Captain Leopold Lefebre linEuist,
fencing master mariner and lawyer,
passed away Saturday night at the
Oakland. cal, sanitarium, For the
last six years Captain Lefebre has suf-
fered with epilepsy, but was not seri-
ously taken until two weeks ago. II
was 50 years of age and leaves wild
ow. He has resided in Oakland for
twelve years, He was born in Lisle,
France.
Two convicts locked in the same
cell at san Quentin, Cal, became in
viewed in n quarrel Saturday night,
when one OF them named Sam Brandt
received a painful stab in the right
breast with the blade of broken
scissors in the hands of O'Neill. How
O'Neill came in possession of the wea-
ron is not known, but it is thought
about the prison that he picked 1t up
while at work in the jute mill.
CHIEF Justice Sullivan of Idaho.
handed down Monday the decision Of
the supreme court in the case of the
state VS. Thomas Fitzpatrick and
James Gadsen. The judgment of the
! lower court was reversed and the su-
preme court held that the secretary Of
| the state land board has no authority
/ to employ attorneys to foreclose mort
! cages given to secure loans for the
| school fund, this being the duty of the
| district attorney.
The daring burglar who has been
| operating in the Western Addition
| san Francisco, Is behind prison bars
/ He was arrested last Thursday night
! by Detectives Crockett and Silvey
while in the act of ransacking a house
at 2li2 Suffer street. His name Is
! sydney Kellett, aged 10 years. Al
though an innocent appearing youth
! the police say he Is desperate house
| breaker with at least thirty burglar
les to his credit.
Martin Devine, n young attorney OF
/ Sacramento, Cal, dropped dead Satur-
| day morning while carrying an arm
/ ful OF wood into his house, The cause
Of death was heart disease, resulting
| from stroke Of paralysis received a
number Of years ago. He was a son
! of j. c. DeVine ot Sacramento and Il
| nephew of James II. Devine of the
! city board OF trustees. For some time
lie has been working for local money
lender as collection attorney.
A dispatch from Boise. Ida, says
| that the trial of II. c. st. Clair for the
murder of John Becker began at Idaho
City Monday, the day being spent in
securing a jury. The only feature of
interest was the presentation of long
affidavit by the defense for a continu-
anCe. 1t sets forth that the defendant
could prove by various parties now in
British Columbia. that the team be-
longed to him, as well as the camp out
fit. and the money which he is accused
of stealing from his victim,
At Helena, Mont. Monday, the SUI
preme court sustained the constitu-
tlonality of the Inheritance law passed
by the last Legislature. The law i'm
poses n tax of per cent on requests
to any beneficiary not a relative where
the estate amounts to over SlO0 The
tax on estates directly inherited where
the value of the estate is over $3.50, is
/ per cent. II is estimated that the de-
cision will yield the state $4,000 from
estates already in process OF settle
ment.
a dispatch Monday from Sand
Point Idaho, says that A. j. Sage. a
well-known rancher living n few
miles below that city, was shot and in
stantly killed Sunday while out hunt
ing. An old acquaintance named John
Snyder, who went out with him hunt
Ing and who became separated from
him for n short time, seeing what he
supposed to he deer moving among
the trees, fired at IT, and upon reach
ing the spot was Mortified TO find that
he had shot his friend dead.
William Henry Kroger Of San Fran
cisco has started his married life with
a riot He called on Justice Fred Gift
at Oakland, Cal. Saturday night with
his bride, Miss Carrie Ella Hewett
OF San Francisco, and after inducing
the magistrate to perform a marriage
ceremony defied him to collect a fee
for the same. and ended up his argu-