Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-02-25
NEWS OF THE WEST.
Wtmln Drowned in an Attempt 10
Cross a Slough.
CAUGHT AND KILLED by a TRAIN.
BSs ball Player Breaks His Arm
Murder Of Wife-B Bicycle Acci-
dynt-Killtd By a. Uillcsr.

Wong Fook, Chinese clgar-m .ker
Committed suicide at San FrauciFrl
on Tuesday morning by cutting hi
throat.
The county commissioners of WsIla
Wslla, WASH, have distributed ninety
ouncua OF strycbniue among The
farmers around Wal,Fhurg. The drug
is to be ueed to kill squirrels.
a dead body was eau hit In fiahtr.
mans net at Bsllard, Wash, recently,
II o body is that OF a. J. II liman,
who drowned while escaping from
Hennigen's shipyaTd with stolen
goods ON January Sta laet.
Thomas BehaU, who holds the posi-.
ton NJ ehortslOp In baseball nine al
San Francisco. fractured his arm IN
three places above the elbow, by
throwing ball to iirelbase. The sur.
cons ray that the three fractures from
uch q cause nre without precedent.
Behan Ia an experienced ballpiayer.
A little German boy, AGED q month";,
son Of MIR. and Mrs. John Helmuth,
lost hi, leg below the knee On Tues.
'Ry. He was playing near the Santn
Fe Railway station in Pasadena, Cal,
when an eastbOund local passed over
him. Inc infant Will probably recover.
The trainmen are MT Ollme1.
Robert Dfnaher, a conductor on the
Gait ana lone branch railroad, had
both OF bie feet crushed off Monday
afternoon at Gait, Gal. He mad made
lying switch aud attempted to jump
upon the cOwcstCher Of the locomotive
gr IN IA N oil q q F.,TH Z
The engine passing over his legs below
the knees.
Nike McGrlyraD, patient OF the
hospital ct Los Gates, Cal, was run
over by the $40 Santa Cruz train
Tuesday afternoon and fatally iniure1.
His left leg wss cut o II jut below the
Knee AMI his skull fractured. Me.
GirlyAn anu two companions were
walking ON the track. The latter
stepped aside at the approach OF the
train, nut the former Stood still as II
laralyzsd and did not move.
Mrs. John johnson, who lived near
Pitaspnt Grove, Suffer county, Ca =,
went TO Sacramento last Money to
visit her sister, Mrs. Frank ID. Ryan,
the wife oil the district attorney. o.
Tuesday she LETT In her buggy Tor
home, two days before she was expect.
ed. Later her husband became anxious
about her nOu-aTrival aud tolepb nugd
to find her whereabouts. Frank Ryan
telepn oned back that she had let, las.
Tuetdsy, anu search was at once in.
sliiuted, resulting In the finding OF the
horse and buggy in a slough near home
aud slOn afterwards her body. The
gfOnnh hnn IpnH m a nj hNrF Iaa
cent rains, anu in trying u lord 1t SHE
was drowned.
Monday n'eht, at Fresno, Cal,
Deputy Sher fl Timmins shot and al.
most Instantly Billed ohu Denman, a n
escaping prisoner. Dsoman was arrest
ed by Timmius iust before the shouting
in saloon on Fresno effect and was
being taken 10 Jail across the court.
house park. The instant the pris n
entered the avenue OF shade trees he
started to run, though he mad been
told by Timmins that he would be shot
II he attempted to escape. The
prisoner continued to run, and TIM
mins, who is slightly lame, was unable
TO Overlake or stop him. He called ou'
to DenmRn to halt, but IN win. Then
he fired one shot, which struck ID u.
man in the back OF the head ana went
clear through the brain. Dsnman fell
and died at the jail door.
Peter johnson, tailor, toJk a wlli
ride Tuesday night down the Pleasan.
ton road, oakland, CAL, on his
wheel, and wound up ON the operating
table at the receiving hos pital badly
injured man. Johnson's escape from
death was remarkable one. He los.
control Of his machine soon after he
had started down the hill, and saw
then that his only hope OF rescue lay in
his ability to keep IN the middle OF the
road. This he did until he bad reached
the bottom OF the steep hill. when he
plu Dgci of Into n ravine. He struck
upon brambles, his lall thereby being
broken. johnson WIS picked up In All
unconscious condition, hut vas revived
OF the hospital and removed to his
nome. His injuries, which consist OF
many bruises, are not fatal.
Oakland, Cal, people are complain
ing OF the crowd of hoodlums that
travels to oakland on the 1915 boat
from San Francisco every Saturday
ana Sunday night, These hooulums,
Instead OF staying on the lower deck,
parade around the upper deck, through
the inolosed portions, ia gangs Of from
three to twenty. They iAuuige ~
much loud talking, shouting,
Blamming OF duOrs and shl m ny OF
Get. Sometimes tuey even puuetrate
the cabin and their actions are annoy.
log to the ladies and their O. coris, AS
aJUn as the boat leaves the slip, they
begin their march around the pper
Ck and do not stop until they push
anu crowd ana tumble over the gang
plank on lbisside. Usually these bows
and young men are half drunk, and on
IA liuays they are particularly apgres,
sive. There ls no Granny OF the ferry
tnfe from their Intuition, anu no effort
is made by the deck hands IL queil
them.
The people Of Port Blakeley, tho
big mill town OF the state OF Wash.
ington, were reused to great pitch OF
excitement Nom ay by a cruel murder.
The murderer " Charles +, Miller, q
ssilor, and the victim was his vile,
Caroline Miller. After killing the
woman, Miller shot himself twice, tu
40 VIII not die. When the nows OF
the killing spread the millmen 0
Blakely were wild. Miller was In the
hands Of constable. When the
managers Of the mill saw thai
there would be n hanging
tee unless something were
quickly done, they started the mRchin-