Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-10-23
EVENTS IN THE WEST.
SHOT TO DEATH IN A DRUNKEN QUARREL



an Attempted Train wreckcr.
Omaha stockman oct 81: Spencer
ana y. Of Park City Utah, had two
cars OF cattle on sale today.
Two men were held up on the Idaho
city road near Boise, Idaho last even
ing the robbers getting $40 In cash.
state Game Warden Swan of Colo
rado says there IS not word OF truth
In the report that Utr Indians are in
Nnding that state to kill deer and other
big game.
Deputy Sheriff Ceoge It, Headen Of
san Jose. Cal, while superintending
the improvements being done at Alum
Rock by a gang Of prisoners. was
struck by n falling derrick and sus-
tained Injuries from which he died last
night.
Seventy-year- Martha Dean of
Denver. Colo, fell into GO-foot well
yesterday and 90 completely was she
1t took eight men to remove her from
her position. The woman was fright
fully bruised and MANNED and was rec
moved to st. Joseph's hospital with
very slight hopes Of her recovery.
Walter weisholmer, aged 2S years,
was fatally injured while coupling
cars in the Peralta yards, Oakland,
Cal, Wednesday evening. The young
man has been n brakeman Tor some
time. when he slipped as the cars came
together, and the wheels OF one truck
passed over his right leg. He died as
soon as he reached the receiving hos
pital.
At 3 O'Clock Wednesday afternoon
the jury in thecnse Of George Williams
charged with attempting to wreck the
New Orleans express at Morrono sta
tlon September 4th. returned YER
diet Of guilty, fixing the penalty at
life imprisonment Williams arose
when the verdict was announced and
asked TO be allowed to address the
jury. The request was denied.
James Jeans of Southwestern Trinity,
who arrived at Eureka. Cal. Wednes-
day, stated that when he passed
through Blocksburg it was reported
that Mrs. Henry Miller had died sun
day from strychninc poisoning. Mrs.
Miller. who was only 10 years old. re-
sided on Watts place. about eight
miles from Blocksburg It was said to
be a case Of accidental poisoning.
About o'clock Tuesday afternoon
a shooting affair occurred near Dutch
Snwmlll. above Serrla City near
A'bMlltNllt, idl. Ian ~ luullOlSt Il
young miner employed at the Hilda
mine, was the victim, and Richard
Phelan, the superintendent, the as
salant. The shooting was the out
come of long standing feud which
had existed between the two men.
Henry Rogers, charged by Manager
Brennan of the Hotel Pleasanton at
San Francisco with defraudlng him
out OF Sl20 by means of bogus checks,
was arrested Wednesday In Oakland at
cheap lodging house just off Broad
way. Rogers denied having issued any
checks with fraudulent intent, saying
that he supposed he had money in the
Canadian Bank of Commerce at To-
ronto. the institution that had dishon-
ored his drafts.
During a drunken quarrel at Stock
ton Cal, Monday morning. Hank
Smith shot his partner Ernest Carroll.
and is now defylng arrest in the noun
tnins of Tuolumrc county. Carroll died
on Tuesday morning and Smith i'm
mediately took his rifle and revolver
and started for the hills. saying he
would not be taken alive and would
shoot whoever was sent to take him.
Tuesday about II O'clock n three
year-old child named Ethel Boydston,
daughter of j. l.. Boydston and wife
of Rio Bonita, near Oroville, Cal, was
playing in the kitchen, when she step
ped SO close to the hot stove that her
dress touched 1t and caught on fire.
Before the flames could be extinguish-
ed the child was frightfully burned
from her knees to her waist. The
little sufferer died Wednesday morn
ing.
Herman Frick. aged years, while
Jumping OFF truck at Golden Gate
,,H San EPp
Wednesday evening, fell under n rear
wheel, which passed over his head. He
was taken TO the receiving hospital.
but died short time afterward. VIII
liam II. Billinger, the driver of the
tiuckwas subsequently arrested by
Patrolmnn Holmes and charged with
mansuughter. He was at once re-
leased on his own recognizance by or
der OF Chief Lees.
messiah" Fennimore r. Young. ac-
cused of shocking cruelty to his H.
year-old daughter. Nettie Young, was
declared not guilty Wednesday by
Justice Lawrence of Brooklyn town
ship, Oakland, Cal, who tried the case.
The state proved that the child had
been beaten by her father and that the
wounds on her back bled freely, hut
the girl saved her father by her evil
dence. She went on the stand, and
Wnile Sne dulnltteu tHat Sne ndu Deen
given severe whipping, said that she
fully merited it and that her father
usually treated her very kindly and
knew what was best for her welfare.
A dispatch from San Francisco says
that a war is In its incipiency be-
tween the sailors union and the mas
tiers of American vessels sailing coast
wise. 1t is ..-.med by the union that
the latter are trying to reduce the
wages of able seamen from 1856 per
month to $50. Several non-union crews
have been recently shipped for $50 Il
chile, bound north for coal has an
chored ON Melgg's Wharf where she
will remain until n crew can he Sc
cured at the cut rate. Secretary Furu-
seth of the union says he feels conf
dent that no union man will ship on a
sailing vessel for less than s35 month