Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-23
EVENTS IN TIM WEST.
CoRoNER'S INQUEST IN THE CLUTE CASE
Heavy Klondikc Travei-Shot "a Young
Woman-Aspliait Compapy's Suit.

All work has been discontinued in
the Union Pacific shops at Laramie,
Wyo, until Jan. !, 1895. There being
plenty of work on hand the men are
in IL quandary to know the reason for
such action.
Amazon Hernandez, n Mexican
woodchopper, at San Jose. Cal, was In
the habit of carrying giant powder
cartridges in his pocket. as he fire.
quently used them for blasting tree
stumps, Wednesday he tripped and fell,
Il knife in his pocket struck a cap and
nine explosions followed in quick sue
cession. Hernandez was terribly man
gled and viii die.
Work on the Japanese war vessel,
Chitos. in course Of construction at
the Union Iron Works, San Francisco.
Is being pushed forward and she will
be launched early in January. She will
20 at once to Japan where she will
receive her armament. The Japanese
government use the English Armstrong
guns on all their ships. Hence she
will not be equipped in that port.
l.. j. willis of San Francisco. mem
Der of the party that sailed ON the
schooner La Ninfa for Copper river
in October last. writes from Kodiak
that on Dec there were about $50
along "a trail between Eyak Lake, over
n level stretch of country known as
the Grass Flats, and the little Indian
village of Alganak, anxious to push
on into the interior as soon as the ice
on the river is strong enough to permit
travel.
Travel from Australia to the Klon-
dixie will be very heavy next year and
the Oceanic steamship company Is pre-
pairing for It, All the available space
on the Mariposa, due at San Francisco
in February, and the Moana, due there
in March. has been engaged. In the
case of the Moana the bulk of the pas
sengers will come from New Zealand
and the purpose is to erect berths in
some OF the space reserved for freight.
No passengers from Honolulu will be
carried on this steamer, and tourists
will have to depend on the regular
boat.
A special to the San Francisco FIX
aminer from Spokane. Wash. says;
Several persons who have come here
from Colfax declare that notwithstand
ing all denials n lynching occurred
there Sunday night or Monday morn
ing. II is asserted that Chadwick Mar
shall and John Mcdonald. the al
legged murdererS of Orville Hayden,
prominent citizen of Pennington, were
taken from the county Jail by mob
ana nhnRHn 10 trees near the lOWll.
According to this story a press censor
ship prevails and consequently the
facts have not been permitted to make
their way to general notice.
In fit of drunken jealousy Charles
Bailey, an iron molder employed at the
Sutton iron works. San Francisco, put
bullet into the neck of a young woman
named Mary F. Symora in the room
occupied by her in the Cotton house,
I'd ct
of the shooting is known only to
Bailey and the woman. She is too
badly wounded to speak, and Bailey
does not state why he shot her, al
though he surrendered himself to Po-
liceman Murphy and acknowledged to
him and to the friends of the woman
that he had tried to kill her. Mary
Symora, the woman who was shot,
comes from Salinas. where her par
ents still reside. She Is aout 81 years
of age and rather pretty. The physi-
clans at the receiving hospital say she
win recover.
The American Asphalt company of
Colorado has brought suit aginst c.
N. Bliss, secretary of the interior, and
William a. Jones, commissioner of
Indian affairs, TO enjoin them from
declaring void a lease to certain min
ing lands in the uintah Indian reservn-
ton and from interfering in the nee
eSSHfy operations OF the company on
their property. 1t Is asserted in the
company's declaration that it had a
valid and recognized lease from the In
dams to lands on the reservation, but
that the government forfeited its lease
and Its deposits of $1,000 on the ground
that the company did not complete and
file its surveys of the land within the
time prescribed by the interior de-
partment. The delay. it is asserted.
was caused by a railroad accident
while the compnny's agent was on his
way East with the maps of survey.
a criminal case in which the defend
ant. the complainant, one of the at
torneys and nearly all of the witnesses
are deaf mutes is on trial before Po-
lice Justice Allcn.San Francisco. James
Daggett Is accused of n felony by
Maggie Halloran. Rodon Grady, who
can neither hear nor speak, is ASSOC
ciated with ii. S. A,drich in the de-
Tense. There Is not much noise in the
court room, but nimhle fingers are in
constant motion. Grady was admitted
to practice before the supreme court
last July. Miss Halloran testified in
sign language. The interpreter is W,
A. Caldwell. a speaking Instructor
at the Berkeley deaf, dumb and blind
asylum. Attorney Grady closely
watches Miss Halloran's fingers, and
questions are rapidly put and TO the
point. Miss Halloran is employed in
the family of l.. C. Williams, II deaf
mute street contractor.
j. d. Lewis, who startled the Aus
tralian turf world in 1890 by winning
the Melbourne cup with Tarcoola
stands ruled of the American turf. At
a meeting of the board Of stewards of
the Pacific Coast Jockey club Tues
day night. j. u. Lewis, Dan Halliday
and several others appeared before the
board and We're questioned in regard
to the imported Trance. The stories
told were OF n very contradictory ma
ture and the stewards, at the conclu-
sion of the session. unanimously agreed
to uphold the decision of the Ingleside
judges in regard to the ruling off OF
j. u. Lewis. Dan Halliday and the
mare Trance. It was discovered that
imported Trance was not eligible to
start on the American turf as she was
ruled of at meeting in Brisbane.
Queensland, before Lewis purchased
her for shipment to America.
Tom Cooper, the big officer on duty
at the Union Pacific depot in Chey-
enne, WyO,, at niChts received n