Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-03
EVENTS IN THE WEST.
POLICEMAN RoBs A POOR PRINTER.


Stage coaches are to be run regular
ly from Rawlins, Wyo., to Grand En-
campment-a move instituted by
Rawlins merchants to catch business.
At Butte. Mont. Thursday j. Il.
Harmon was arrested for burglary. the
act alleged to have been committed at
Anaconda. Harmon claims to have
come to Utah in lS47. and protests his
innocence of the crime charged.
Dead in the snow was the condition
in which the body OF Herbert w. Herr
man OF Butte was found Thursday just
below his cabin in Madison county.
Herman had been working his claims
there. and, becoming lost In binding
snowstorm, laid down and perished.
with big butcher-knife. Mary
Pushman of Butte, Mont, attempted
Tuesday to carve her 13-months' -old
child. She was seen by n nelghbor,
however, and stopped. but not until the
child had received three bad gashes
In the back. Mrs. Pushman served n
term in the Montana state prison for
numbering another child by feeding
pins to IT, but this time she will be
examined as to her sanity, as the asy-
lum is thought to be the best place
for her.
No tldings have yet been received of
Andrew /. Sweetser, the Cordelia,Cal.,
wine merchant, who disappeared Sat
urday afternoon while fishing near
Lime Point in n small boat. At
o'clock Tuesday morning the tug Sea
Witch, with the missing mans brother,
j. II. Swetser, William Anterior and
several others on board. started to
search by water for the lost merchant,
but their efforts during the day proved
fruitless, as no tidings We're received
of the 'alssing man.
Special Policeman Cornelius T. KEEL
ly. who PATROLS a portion of Market
street, San Francisco. may be relieved
of his badge of authority by the board
of police commissioners for having
used his trusty pistol to induce a hard
working printer to part with his cash.
In short. Kelly will have to answer
to the governing body of the police de-
partment for that species of "unofli-
cerlike" conduct which Is known to
the criminal laws of California as
robbery. he having entered a saloon
and robbed the printer of $3.50 in
cold cash.
a dispatch from Victoria, n. c..
says: News has reached here that
party. composed of j. Robinson. a can
merry man, and several employees who
left Inverness.on the northern coast of
British Columbia. to journey to ClaN
ton, and who were given up as lost,
are safe. So strong was the belief
that they had been drowned that the
people of Claxton mourned for them
and n resident minister preached their
funeral Sermon. While their funeral
was being conducted the men were
comfortably ensconced In an old fish
ing station. unable to proceed on ac-
count of a high wind.
A dispatch from Butte Mont.
Thursday, says that d. n. Dickinson,
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cures of Pittsburg. was convicted in
court of swindling. The testi-
mony showed he had operated under
| different names in Baltimore, Md, An
sonia. Conn, Omaha and Colorado
Springs. He furnished written guar
$1,000 together the woman who was
travelling with him.took the money and
left. Dickinson attempted to follow,
but was caught in Idaho. His pun
ishment was fixed at two years in the
penitentiary.
Pocatello Tribune: w. w. Sterling
can now write himself the champion
of fishermen and no one will rise up
to dispute his claim. on Sunday Nov
eth. he caught the king of all the
trout in Doneldson's Springs, about 20
miles west of Pocatello. between
Blackfoot and American Falls. This
king fish was 27ls inches long and
weighed lO3s pounds ana was white
meat trout. The catch was made with
single gut leader, nine feet long:
Royal Coachman fly, number, $ hook:
eight ounce pole and about 30 yards of
line. We do not believe that the fish
ing record of the continent can show n
cleverer catch this year.
At 1 o'clock Tuesday morning, w.
II Gelger, a drayman of Chico, Cal,
retired to his home, babe his wife good
bye and told her he was going to cut
his throat. He took large butcher
knife from the kitchen table and going
into the back yard slashed his throat
in horrible manner, severing the
windpipe. The officers We're sent for.
but when they arrived they were I'M
able to do anything. Geiger declared
he would kill any one who approached
him. The wounded man finally sank
from exhaustion and was carried into
the house. Physicians were sum
moned, but nothing could be done for
him and he died at 10 o'clock Tuesday
morning. Gsiger has been worrying
over business troubles. His actions
for several days have been those of an
insane man. He was the son of ]. l..
Geiger, who for years was the city
marshal Of Chico.