Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-21
EVENTS IN THU WEST.
S. F. MERCHANTS LOOK TO THE ORIENT.



Hon VIII Prove nm Alibi-uhI
Now in the Asylum.
The Oakland. Cal, board of trade has
adopted resolutions in favor of the an
nexation OF Hawaii.
Dewey C. Bailey of Colorado has
received the nomination for United
States marshal Tor that district. Mr.
Bailey Is a Mckinley man and has
firm supporter in Senator Wolcott.
Ferdinand Uhl the murderous mad
man who killed Patrick Murphy Of
Temescal. CAL, and then tried to ex-
terminate other imaginary enemies.
has been committed TO the asylum for
the insane at Ukiah.
Ex-Assemhlyman Eben owen Of Sac
ramento, Cal, ana a well-to-do farmer,
shot and instantly killed Matt Hen
essey one of his hired men. Friday
evening. Henessey was In Il tree and
owen took him for chicken thief
Henry a. Fylers relatives residing
at Chicago have just heard of that
geptlemans DEATH which occurred in
Denver, Colo, on the 4th inst. The last
they heard OF him was when he was in
the merchandising business at Salt
Lake.
alton, the judgment OF the lower court
in the case of Edgar Farris, charged
with cattle stealing, was reversed at
Boise, Ida, Monday. and the case re-
manded with instructions to the dis
trict court to quash the information.
Bernard Sues was arrested in San
Bernardino, Friday on a telegram from
Phoenix, A. T.. charging Sues with
numbering F. +. Lynch of that place
nj igr 4
bolstercr and has conducted an estab-
lshment in San Bernardino for several
months.
Report has 1t that w. j. Frazier and
C. d. Bast have been frozen to death
In the Pomeroy basin about 20 miles
north of Kemmerer, Wyo. These men
We're members of hunting party and
have not been seen for several days.
a relief party has gone in search of
them.
Thomas Noyes, the son of Montana
millionaire, has disappeared In san
Francisco, and all sorts of rumors are
afloat as to the cause of it. He has
been flying high for some time past
and there are those who believe he has
got out of the way TO avoid his credi-
tors.
w. Il, Brown, e. r. Gerald and Will
liam c. Mahoney. appraisers of the es-
San Francisco, have filed report plac-
ing the value of the property at s7.O32.-
1873. OF this amount s665S,l54 is repre-
sentsi by personal property. principal
| ly stocks and bonds, and the balance
of S3ii,475 by real estate.
Thomas Miller. a stevedore living at
1854 Campbell street. Oakland, Cal. at
tackled his wife with a razor Saturday
night while drunk and after a battle
/ W har In xNh he aa ant
best. stepped into a side room. where
he drew the sharp instrument across
his throat repeatedly, causing death.
The head was nearly severed from his
body.
The supreme court of Idaho has
thrown out the appeal in the anti
gambling case. holding 1t has no juris-
diction as the state cannot appeal from
Judgment of the lower court In favor
of defendant The lower courts have
invariably decided the anti-gambling
law as invalid and the action of the
supreme court refusing to disturb these
decisions give the gamblers a free hand
in Idaho.
Friday morning Patrick Joy was ter
ribly crushed at the sugar factory ut
Salinas, Cal, while engaged in coupling
cars on the Pajaro Valley railroad.
JOY was standing sideways and when
the cars came together he was caught
between the bumpers and had his
sides crushed in. The engineer saw
what had happened and the engine to
allow JOY to get out, but the cars had
become coupled and Joy was dragged
some distance before the train could
be stopped. Joy is now in n very dan
gerous condition. His home is in
jacksonville, Cal
Vessels for the Australian trade are
almost understandable at San Francisco.
There are now three cargoes awaiting
shipment from that port to sydney,
Melbourne and Adelaide, and a ship to
take them over cannot be procured.
There is at the present time 50O,0 600 feet
of sugar pine lumber on Fremont
street which are destined for Adelaide,
for which j. j. Moore q Co. would
gladly secure vessel. They almost
had one bargain closed when the man
aging owner backed out. He preferred
to wait for the spring trade to the
Klondike. rather than TO run the
chances of not having his vessel there
when the season opens.
Hon. Horace c. Plunkett. member Of
Parliament from Ireland. was to have
reached Cheyenne. Wyo., Monday. as
the guest of ex-senator and Mrs, j. NJ.
Carey Mr.. Plunkett is one of the
owners of the Wheatland colony enter
prise In that county, and during his
stay in Wyoming will speak to the
farmers of Wheatland on the subject OF
cooperation in dairying and other in
dustries incident to agricultural pur-
suits. Mr.. Plunkett Is a noted writer
and speaks upon agricultural and
other economic subjects, and is the
author OF comprehensive pamphlet
upon woman suffrage in Wyoming,
C. II. King OF Casper. Wyo.. has pur-
chased the Bar c ranch about fifty
miles north of Casper, on Powder river.
The ranchm will be stocked with cat
tie The Bar c ranch Is noted in Wyom-
ing as one of the ranches owned by
extravagant Englishmen in the flash
days of the cattle business In the West.
The Bar G was known as Frewen's
castle, and was fitted UP with fine
dwellings,, number OF barns, sheds.
etc. represented an expenditure OF sew
eral hundred thousand dollars. all of
which was lost by the subsequent de-
preston In the stock business. Moreton
Frewen. the noted financial writer, was
the owner of the ranch
Surveyor General Joseph Perrault of
Boise, Ida. is In revolt against the
civil service law and the interior de-
partmcnt He has been at war with the
civil service regulations ever since he
went into office. When he went in he
chopped off the heads of nearly all the
clerks and the application of these for
reinstatement is still pending. Two
mr. three of the men resigned Mr.