Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-11-18
EVENTS IN THE WEST.
DIED AT HIS P6s1 IN THE BELFRY,
Caught Beneath tue wheels OF u Train %
Reliance to Go to Butte Metcors
Dash from the Sky.

The trial Of H. c, st. Clair for the
murder OF John Decker, terminated ut
Idaho City Wednesday, and the jury
has returned a verdict OF murder In the
first degree. He will be sentenced sat
urday.
In the trial Of Charles Erswen at
Cheyenne, Wyo., for the murder Of
Private Daniel McCrimiisk, testimony
of an impeaching character was ad
duced Wednesday. The defense began
its testimony Thursday afternoon.
George j. 10y, n prominent civil en-
| gineer of Spokane, wash, cut his
throat with a razor Wednesday, while
! travelling on train, and then jumped
| from i while moving. at point near
| Belgrade Mont. Later he was picked
up badly bruised and bleeding. lie
| will recover.
A mddle-aged woman giving her
name MS Minnie Peterson was taken
| to the receiving hospital, San Fran
cisco. Monday night suffering from
| morphine poisoning. She admitted to
! DR.. Tourney, who treated her that she
| had taken the poison with suicidal in
tent The woman said that she lived
| in a lodging house at "a sixth street.
! She refused TO assign any reason for
her act, except to say that she was
tired of living and wanted to die.
After an offer on the part Of the
| Butte football team, an acceptance on
the part Of Reliance of san francisco
ana a withdrawal on the part of the
Montana men, an understanding has
finally been reached. Monday Captain
Frlck of the Reliance eleven received
telegram from De Gray Stivers
granting the terms demanded, and a
hasty acceptance by Frick to the terms
of the Butte team sealed the compact
The Reliance eleven will now play in
Butte on November 25th.
The Alaskan Trade committee Il now
engaged in ascertalning the CONNER
Cial condition of San Francisco as far
as 1t pertains to the project that 1t is
forwarding. Secretary CarmHn Is send
ing out circulars among the merchants
of that city inquiring for those who
are manufacturing or intend manufac-
turing articles destined for the trade of
the North. II is the object of the com
mittee to obtain samples of all articles
Of this character for exhibition at its
new quarters in the ferry building,
The wife murderer, Harry f, Arnett,
who was convicted in the superior
court at San Andreas, Cal, last week.
has recent history which is Of pc
culiar interest. About two years ago
he served as n juror in a case Of wife
murder, the People vs. Hurbet, and the
jury in that case returned verdict of
guilty. The defendant Hubert Is now
under sentence of death, the case being
on appeal to the supreme court. The
defense in that case, as in the case
against Arnett, was insanity.
Fred Kelstrom, a Russian, 90 years
old, was sentenced Monday afternoon
at HOLSTER. Cal. to fourteen years
for assaulting Mrs. Ann Davis, aged
60 years He was conveying her to
her employers ranch, ten miles from
town. Sunday night. At lonely part
Of the road he assaulted the woman
: who jumped out of the buggy and
sought protection at neighbours
Kelstrom was arrested Monday morn
, ing, bound over, taken to the superior
court, pleaded guilty and went to Sar
quentin Tuesday morning.
Captain Emil Christiansen. a marine
and resident Of Oakland, Cal, has en-
| listed the aid OF the Society for the Pre-
vention OF Cruelty to Children in al
effort TO locate his wife, Bena Chris
Hansen. whom he says has left hi
home to fly with a handsomer man
The individual whom ChristiGnsen ac
cuses Of wrecking his home and happi
ness. is named Lief Erickson, and wa
| employed in a power-house there, bu
the only evidence the mariner hold
against him is the fact that he, too, /
missing now and cannot he found.
Peter Begg, 20 years old, sexton o
Westminster Presbyterian church, Soi
| Francisco, was found dead in th'
belfry Sunday night. He had rung thu
first bell at 7:l5 o'clock, calling thu
worshipers to church. At 7:i5 oclocl
the second bell should have rung. AT
ter waiting some minutes several o
the congregation, who had gathered a
the church assembled the belfry to as
certain the trouble. They found Beg
/ g,, 1.a1f FsNT IN pl IA hn M
dead. While waiting for the hour t.
ring the second bell the old sexton hat
passed away. Heart disease was tn
cause.
Al Hayman is as good as his word
He has disposed of all of his theatrlca
interests in san Francisco and ar
ranged to turn into cash every bit q
property he has in the West, He al
rived there on Thursday last, attende
to everything to his satisfaction, an
left Monday evnlng for the East. Their
was short decisive meeting Of tn
stockholders Monday afternoon and a
result the Al Hayman corporation
organized in 1891, viii soon be some
thing Of the past, and II the signs ma
be read the firm of Friedlander, Cot
lob 4 Co. viii soon control the theatr
cal interests of San Francisco.
Z ]. w. Moss, a well known real esta,
dealer who has lived at Oakland, Ca
4 for years and become widely known,
missing under Circumstances that lea
A his friends to believe that he left b'
' cause he was hopelessly In debt an
because he loved woman he could M
win. Moss owed Mrs. II. Clark of 8
Ninth street $4,000, and to others var
Gus sums aggregating $4,000. His flnai
clal troubles worried him OF late an
he had been drinking. He conhded II
fact to a friend that he loved a woma
who had rejected him, and that
was hopelessly in debt. No trace
him can be found. 1t is believed I
has gone to some distance to retrieN
his losses.
The knife of the highlander has aga
flashed on It's mission Of death
Chinatown, San Francisco, and as Il
result its victim lies dying from near
IA dozen CHASTITY stabs. In marhr
Its prey for slaughter the hatchet-ms
this time selected one of the highe
in rank OF his enemies. A priest WI
chosen, Chow Kung Sang Is the victir
one OF the highest priests of the s.
Yups, a man who had been marked Il
death once before, but who escape
by leaving the state. The priest liv,
in two small rooms adjoining the JOS
room of the Ming Yung company
lois stockton street. sharing his dwell
ing with an assistant, who slept in
small room above.
"Murderers' corner" San Francisc
has had another homicide added