Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-02
EVENTS IN THE WEST
A Record Of Occurrences in Nelghborinl
States and Territories.
"SlLK KING" AsPHyxlATsD BY GAS,



Proposed Coast Railroad.
Omaha Stockman, Nov. %: w. II.
Hammond of ogden, Utah, marketed
three cars of cattle.
William McCarroll. a miner was
blown to pieces Saturday last by an
explosion in the Carrlsa mine at South
Pass. Wyoming.
Charles Pratt, 80 years of age, actu-
ated by Jealousy, attempted to shoot
Ida Tharp, 20 years of age, at her
home ON East Ninth street, Los An
geles, Cal. Monday evening. Thinking
he had killed the girl. Pratt then shot
and killed himself.
James Burns. a plurnber residing
with his sister at 472 Stevenson street,
San Francisco committed suicide Mon
day afternoon about 3 o'clock by shoot
Ing himself through the head. Burns
had been drinking heavily for several
weeks and his rash act is attributed
to this.
Arthur Root, lad Of IA years was
MORALLY wounded while hunting
in the vicinity of the powerhouse of
the San Joaquin Electric company.
Fresno, Cal. The boy died Monday
morning, and Coroner Long left for
Il
hold an inquest.
Monday last John Griffith of Fresno
Cal, was served with subpoena to be
present at the inquest to be held on the
body of George l.. Newman who fell
off the wharf at Antioch on last Thurs
day night and was drowned. Foul play
is suspected. and MS Griffith was the
last person seen in the company of the
deceased, he is suspected.
James S. Mcshane, known in the
commercial circles of Japan as the
silk king" was found dead in bed
early Monday morning ut his residence
in Berkeley, Cal. He had fallen asleep
leaving a gas Jet open and had been
asphyXated during the night by the
deadly vapor When discovered his
body was cold in death and accord
Ing to n statement of n doctor. life
had been extinct for hours.
Robert Idal, u young man living at
1906 a Mission street. San Francisco.
while crossing Kenrney, between Cal
ifornia and Sacramento streets. about
/ o'clock Monday afternoon. was
Knocked down by street car and
severely injured. The car was not trav-
cling very rapidly and was stopped be-
fore the wheels could touch Idal's
PROSTATE body. As II was he escaped
with "A broken leg and a number of
abrasions on the head, arms and
| body.
Deputies r. w. Tennent and Byron
| Cottle of the sheriff's office, San Jose,
| Cal, made an important arrest Mon
| day evening in the person of n man
who very closely answers the descrlp-
| ton of James Willett, who is believed
| by Sheriff Mansfield of San Mateo
| county, to he not only one of the rob
| beis who raldcd the Grand hotel at
| Baden on the night of November 18th.
but the man who fired the shot that
ended the life of C. a. Andrews.
In a raid of policy shops at Lead
vile, Col, Wednesday, the officers
discovered complicated electrical
4 device which had connecting wires
across the street to cellar wherein
the drawings have been made, and by
means of electric buttons the numbers
in the policy shop were pulled on the
board, it is said. as desired. Every
thing in sight was conflscated and
taken to the court house. The electrical
concern was seven feet underground
and cost the owners 800.
Eauia Wilson, an Indian, set upon
| Antoine Silva, n half-caste Portuguese,
near Pleasanton, Cal, Sunday night
and beat him to death with redwood
| stake. Louise Morales was the Indian
| girl for whom the two men quarreled,
and she alon was witness to the muir
| der. She fought to stay the enraged
Wilson and save Silva, but was fierce
ly thrust aside with an oath and a
threat of the same cruel treatment.
Wilson has fled, and there is n man
hunt in progress in the mountains near
Pleasanton.
Wee Tung was convicted of murder
In the first degree by jury in Judge
DUNES court, San Francisco. Monday.
No punishment was fixed by the jury
and Judge Dunno Will be required,
therefore, to impose sentence of death.
The jury was out only fifteen minutes.
Wee Tung on September End last shot
and killed his uncle. Yee Lick Chung.
The shooting took place in a house on
Jackson street. The murderer after
ward gave himself into custody at the
California street police station. He
stated that he shoihis uncle because
the latter talked too much.
All plans and estimates for the pro-
posed coast railway from San Fran
cisco to Santa Cruz. Cal, are complet-
ed Already about 500, 600 has been ex-
pended on preliminary work. The orig
inal plans have been changed so as to
shorten the length of the road to seven
ty-seven miles. Several tunnels and
considerable heavy grading have been
avoided, and the contractors are now
examining lne pliinS anu speclllCutlbnS
with the view of commencing the work
of construction early next year. The
estimated cost of construction Is So
900 900. 1t is proposed to construct the
road with eastern capital. Judge ST.
mons of New York agreed to furnish
the necessary funds last July, but he
has since died. and syndicate of
Chicago and New York capitalists is
now considering the project.
Adolph Bergman. booklSeeper and
cashier for the California Ink COM
pany, 4l3-415 Commercial street, San
Francisco, is locked up in the city
prison on n charge OF embezzlement.
II is said to be n case of beer and wo-
men, for which the company has paid
between $4,000 and $1,000. the amount
of the shortage. Bergman went to work
for the company twenty months ago.
and from the first day of his employ
ment, according to the management.
began to embezzle the cash. He was
an expert accountant. and used his
SKILL IL Is said, to conceal his steal
'ings His method, 1t Is charged was
to shrink footings and force balances
In the cash book and pocket the
amount of the shrinkage. short columns
Of figures. which some member of the
>ouse might incidentally go over, he
would foot correctly, but in big columns
he would drop a figure from the foot
ing and place a corresponding amount
of cash in his pocket.
A dispatch form Cheyenne. wyo.,