Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-09-16
AMONG OUR NEIGHBORS.
A California Lad Dies Through Being Bitten
by Mad Dog.
PhRNELL GETS A MEDAL OF HONOR.


and Fatal Accidents.
A party of Southern Pacific officials
has departed for Mexico for an in
spection trip over the Sonora railway.
and 1t ~ rumored that their inspection
OF the property is 10 be followed by the
formal transfer of the road by the
Santa Fe to the Southern Pacific COM
pany.
Deputy License Collector Cole was
rebuked by the Oakland, Cal, city
council Monday night for havlhg at
tempted to eNtort 100 tickets from
Walter Mains circus when that at
traction was there last August. The
matter created hot discussion,
which continued up to a late hour
Charles Smith, waiter employed at
the falace hotel, San Francisco. was
arrested Monday for attempting to kill
George %. Mueller. another waiter in
the same employ. He fired five shots
at Mueller in lodging house at GA
Mason street. They all missed their
mark, and in the struggle that fol
lowed Smith smashed Mueller's heau
with the butt end of his gun.
The san Francisco Farmers club
has determined to push its fight for
suitable free market on the water front
and, that the general public might re-
ceive reliable Information regardingthe
advantages that would accrue in the
event Of It's efforts reaching success
full termination, has issued bulletin
containg in condensed and concise
form extracts from the pens OF a num-
her of its promoters.
The trial by court-martial OF Private
NJ. T. Andrews, who assaulted Captain
d. w. Morris at the national guard en-
campment at Santa Cruz, Cal, last
month. has resulted in a sentence OF
dishonorabIe discharge from the guard.
This carries with 1t disfranchisemcn
for period OF one year. Andrews at
tucked Captain Morris with n heavy
coffee cup and soup plate. Both are
of company ID, stationed at Modesto.
w. II. Bedford, an inmate of the
county farm at Uklah. Cal, COM
mitted suicide Monday afternoon by
shooting himself through the head
with pistol. Deceased was a Men
docino county pioneer, having i'm
migrated to Little Lake valley from
Kentucky many years ago. He as
cumulatcd considerable property but
finally sold out and went to San
Francisco, where he lost his fortune In
stock speculation.
John Flannery. a resident of Men
docino, Cal. met with a fatal accident
while working on the county road
puluiudy dittInobn. IN COHlDauy WIN
others he was excavating rock by the
roadside when the rock from above
caved in on him. Both his legs were
broken, one in two places. His collar
bone was broken and he was injured
internally. He was about 40 years of
age and leaves no relatives on the
coast
Students of the Berkeley. Cal, Uni
versity are to be organized into a fire
a
under the direction of Lieutenant Sid
ney A. Cloman, commandant of the
University Cadets. The students will
he drilled in saving the states prop
erty against the ravages OF fire as part
of their military duty. The number OF
frame buildings now being erected on
the campus make this action timely,
say the university authorities.
Dick Bell. the Indian convicted Of
mansaughter in the killing of Thomas
Steele, another Indian at the Round
Valley reservation last February, has
been sentenced to eighteen months
imprisonment In San Quentin and to
pay fine of 800. In passing sentence
the Judge said: Il must take into con-
sderation the fact that the deceased
was the aggressor: nor do I think the
conduct of this defendant should be
measured by the same high standard
that should be applied TO one of our
own race
]. T. Carothers, well known and
highly respected citizen of Oakland.
Cal, is lying dangerously sick at ST.
Luke's hospital, San Francisco HIS
wife and some members of his family
are with him and 1t is not thought
probable that he will recover, Mr. Car
others is general baggage agent for
the Southern Pacific railroad and has
been ailing for about four months.
When sickness first overlook him it
was thought to be nothing more than
a bad cold. but subsequent develop
ments revealed the exist ence of or
ganis trouble.
Policeman Greene saw two suspici-
GUS looking characters on Tenth
street. near Broadway, in al<land. Cal.
Monday night. The men at once took
to flight and James Henneberry, a lad
Of Is years, followed them. Henneberry
overlook the men at Twelfth street.
near Clay when one of them truned
and fired a shot. The ball entered the
boys arm near the wrist and the
wound was pronounced Il serious one
by Or. Legault, who was summoned.
The men dropped four revolvers, some
burglars tools and cartridges as they
ran.
A special dispatch to the San Fran
cisco Chronicle under date of the 18th
lllSl.t SdNHH NiIt Vi Aiit tiAp1t fAltilSiNt
and destructive fires that ever oc-
CURED in this county started mysterl-
ously at the Iron Mountain mine,
eleven miles northwest of here, short
ly before pm. today. The fire origin
ated near the old silver mill. southeast
of the Peck tunnel. the main entrance
to the mine. and swept with lightning
like rapidity northwest up the canyon,
devastating its entire width and to-
tally consuming all the company's
buildings. The loss IL reported vari-
ably from $4,000 TO 100000.
The trial of Leon HIN for the killing
of Lloyd Duke at Warthan canyon
near Fresno. Cal. on June eth of the
present year, reached n sensational eli
max Monday. The case has been be-
fore the jury nearly u week. Monday
District Attorney Snow pleaded the
case for the prosecution, Frank II.
Short and General Kittrell argued for
the defense. and at "a special session
Monday night Special Consul Kinds
closed for the prosecution. Al the
counsel were at their best, and tears
flowed freely in the court room. Hills
mother, who was present throughout
the trial,was an object Of general SYM
pathy-
Five weeks ago Harry Cox OF Fuller
ton. Cal, aged S years. was bitten by a
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