Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-29
EVENTS IN THE WEST.
PARTICULARS IN FRENCH MURDER CASE.


Omaha Stockman, Dec. ": Preston
Nutter of Pleasant Valley, Utah, had
consignment of thirteen cars of cat
tie on sale
tent within the boundaries of Pocatello
Ida, the banner bearing the signal,
we are here to stay"
At Aberdeen. Wash. Tuesday night
N. II. johnson committed suicide by
cutting his throat with n pocket-knfe
while confined in the city jail. He
was insane from n protracted spree
The recent rainstorm in Washington
has seriously interrupted railroad traf-
fic for the past forty-eight hours, and
Chinook wind, which is converting
the snow in the mountains into water,
threatens considerable damage.
In the district court mt Laramie,
Wyoming. George Maggie, just turned
81, liz suing his guardian William A.
Robins, claiming that the latter has
made loans aggregating $4,000 and all
now uncollectible, without proper au-
thorlty from the court
Ed l.. Parker attempted to kill C ].
Sheets and his wife late last night at
| Il Los Angeles. Cal, lodging house
and then committed suicide by blowing
out his brains. Parker had won the
directions of Mrs. Sheets,and the shoot
Ing was the result of an attempt by
| Sheets to effect u reconciliation with
his wife.
John Healy, who died in New York
hospital on Tuesday night from wounds
supposed to have been inflicted by
| George II. Lincoln. positively refused
TO identify Lincoln as the man who
stabbed him. 1t is believed the reason
| for the refusal is that before the cut
| ting ARRAY the men We're the best or
| friends.
Prof. Willard B. Rising. dean of the
| college of chemistry of the university
OF California, has received the honor of
an appointment as member Of the
American committee for the third in
ternatonal congress of applied chem
istry to be held in Vienna next July,
at which II is expected that the most
famous chemists of the world will be
present.
Messrs. Sourwine and Jack Geyser.
who were arrested at Pocatello Ida.
Monday. charged with so brutally as
saulting Frank McCune. were ar
raigned before Judge Holson Tuesday
and pleaded not guilty. The officers
are collecting evidence against the
men and when they appear in court for
hearing II Is expected that things will
be made decidedly interesting for
them.
Cripple Creek. Colo, is about to lose
three of its most notorious gamblers.
They are Sam Mcdonnell alias Texas
sam. Tony Abbott and Bobby Burns,
all OF whom are now preparing to leave
the noted mining camp. and seek
fame and fortune in Alaska. They will
take their gambling paraphernalia
along and reap rich harvest from
those who see fit to call on them in the |
icy regions.
At the suggestion of w. c. Ralston, |
who liz in, 7
Ford of the Miners association, Cali |
fornia, will prepare resolutions in IA |
vor of the creation of the cabinet of |
secretary of mines and mining in the |
Presidents cabinet for adoption by the |
American Institute of Mining Engl- |
neers and federations of miners |
throughout the east. Mr.. Ralston has |
enlisted Francis c. Newlands. o. Me- |
vada, and Representative Loud in the |
cause.
Rosa Medici, aged 10 years. was
burned to death at the home of her
parents on the Santa Monica road Los
Angeles, Cal. While sitting i'm front of |
a CRATE fire with a baby in her lap a
spark from the cracking wood ignited |
her dress and she was Immediately
enveloped in flames. She dropped the
baby on the floor ana ran into the
yard where her mother turned the
hose on her but her injuries We're
SO severe that she died shortly after.
The baby was not injured.
Authorities of San Francisco have
made n new departure in criminal pro-
cedure. which is expected to deter muir
derers from interposing the plea of in
sanity Mrs. E. Papp- Wilson. who
was accused of numbering her husband
In that city on the 25th of September.
1894 was adjudged insane before her
trial took place and she was sent
TO an asylum. After her recovery she
was taken charge of by the authors
ties of the city and viii be brought to
trial on the murder charge in the SUI
perior court next week. District At
torney Barnes says this plan is to be
adhered to in other similar cases.
The Eta province of the Sigma AL
pha Epsilon held its second annual con-
vention at Denver Tuesday. The Eta
consists of six branches. the universe
ties of Texas, Colorado. Denver. Arkan-
Jr. Only three II these are repre-
scented in this convention. Colorado,
Denver and Leland Stanford, Jr., but
written reports We're read from those
not represented. The following officers
were elected for the ensuing year.
vice president, Harry Douel. Leland
e. p. Hitler. Denver. The next meet
Ing of the society will be held in Dem
yer In December. 1898. Tuesdays
ineting closed with q banquet at the |
Albany hotel in the evening.
As the result OF Christmas debauch.
Lagora Molina, Chilean wood chop-
per, met terrible death. Molina. who
was employed on ranch near Los
Gatos, CAL. drank deeply Saturday
evening. and with three other laborers
in his cabin until far into
night. After three members of the
luartet had fallen to the floor in a
drunken stupor. Molina took a lighted
amp and went out into the yard He
stumbled and fell. the lamp exploded
md the burning oil ignited his clothing. =
Being unable to arise, he lay there un-
III burned to death. No one saw the
accident. and Molina's tragic fate was
not known until Sunday morning, when
he body. with the chest and lower
limbs blackened and charred was :
'ound n short distance from his cabin
Additional particulars were received
1t Winnemucca. New, Tuesday, by
messenger of the murder of Peter
french, the largest landholder and
'attle-owner of eastern Oregon who
vas shot and killed on his ranch in
barney county. 225 miles north of there
asst Sunday afternoon. David Grow is
he messenger who arrived, having
,een in the saddle forty-eight hours
With nine changes of horses. Crow left
he scene Immediately after the homi-
de. He says French and a party OF
'aqueros had rounded up n band OF
attic and We're about to drive them
nto field on his ranch. French went