Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-10-19
EVENTS IN THE WEST.
A Record Of Occurrences in Neighboring
States and Territories.
MINER STRUCK BY A ROCK AND KILLED.



c. c. Thelan. aged so years, COM
mitted suicide Saturday evening atSun.
Ia Ana, Cal, by shooting himself in
the head. He had been In bad health.
stuyvesant Fish. president Of the
Illinois Central railroad. accompanied
By his wife and a party Of friends, are
now in san Francisco on pleasure
trip.
a collection Of gold nuggets held by
the First National bank OF Helena,
Mont, was sold yesterday to A. j.
Davis of Butte for $4,000, an advance
VI $1,000 over the real value of the
nuggets.
At a post-mortem examination over
the body of Henry Chapman, found
Saturday between Diamundville and
Hams Fork, Wyo., II was demonstra-
ted beyond a doubt that the deceased
had received several blows either Of
which was sufficient TO cause death.
a certain party has been arrested ON
suspicion
William Kelly. who Is well known to
the police. and Joseph Edwards were
arrested Saturday night at san Fran
cisco by Detectives Ryan and O'Dea
and Special officers Crowley and Kin
delon and charged with burglary. Last
Tuesday night, II Is alleged, the prison.
ers broke into a freight car at Fourth
and Townsend streets and stole ten
chests of tea.
James Larsen an express man of
Stockton, cal, had n splinter removed
from his eye Saturday by a physician
after suffering for two months and
becoming almost blind He could not
account for its presence at first but
after some thought decided 1t must
4 Ia a. .
lightning which came near striking
him blind about the first Of August.
The old Capitol hotel. at the corner
Of Seventh and * streets. Sacramento.
Cal, was old at public auction Sstur-
day afternoon for $4,000. It was bid
In by q local real estate man, who
bought It for San Francisco capital
list. Wel-authenticated rumur has il
that Colonel Dan NJ Burns is the
real purchaser and that 1t Is his inten-
tion to remodel It throughout with
view to turning 1t into a first-cluss
modern hosiery.
Joseph Mutton. one of the lessees of
the Cook & Gray mine in Devils Gate
district Lyon county, New, was killed
| Saturday morning. Mutton was ascend
ing raise above the tunnel level of the
mine, and when forty feet above the
tunnel floor was struck on the head by
a falling rock, causing him to release
his hold on the ladder and fall to the
| floor OF the tunnel. When brought to
the surface he was unconscionus, and
| died a few minutes later. He was
native OF Cornwall, England, aged 81
| years.
Frank Cooke, for many years n
| bookbinder IN the state Printing Office
| at Sacramento. Cal, and secretary of
the local division of the Federated
! Trades. has disappeared and none OF
his friends know where he is. An in
| vestigatlon shows that he is 5000 short
| in his accounts. A letter received
Saturday. which was written by
| Cooke to a friend, says that he had
squandered the money over the
| gambling-table, and as he was unable
to repay it he thought it would be
| best to seek safety in flight before an
| exposure was made"
Hook Low, alias All Louis, is the
Little Pete"of the Puget Sound coun-
| try. Low is under arrest at Portland,
| Oregon, for the alleged forgery of GER
| tain letters. the contents of which
| formed the basis of sensational
charges of fraud in connection with
the entry of Chinese against eX-Col-
lector Saunders of Port Townsend and
Wee Gee, who was official interpreter
| during Saunders term as collector.
Low is known throughout the North
west as n schemer possessed Of great
| cunning and determination. lie has
| been mixed up in number of ques-
| tionable transactions, and some years
ago was arrested for passing counter
| felt money.
A sneak thief on the ferry-boat
which left the narrow-gauge mole
| Oakland, Cal, at 1880 o'clock Saturday
| night for san francisco secured a
| satchel belonging TO Guillermo An
10 0f A
| possession of papers consisting of
| bills and bonds well worth $4,000 to
| their rightful owner. Andrade car
| ried with him grip, which he
| thoughtlessly left FOR moment on the
| boat. He entered the cabin on the
| few moments later left his seat to go
| below, forgetting his satchel. He
| thought of his mistake when he had
reached the lower deck and hurrledly
returned, only to find that the article
was missing.
Seventeen passengers who arrived
| in San Francisco at Z o'clock Saturday
| evening from Yosemite Park believe
| that they had very narrow escape
| from death in railroad wreck. four
| miles west of Raymond Saturday
morning, on the Yosemite branch of
| the Southern Pacific. The baggage
| car and passenger coach Jumped the
| track on n curve and for l,f00 feet tore
over the ties down grade, luckily
huggins the rails within a foot of a
| ditch from ten to fifteen feet deep.
into which the passengers expected
| every instant to be thrown. The en-
| CINE stuck to the rails and stopped the,
train on a short stretch Of level track,
| just before another heavy grade was
| reached. The baggage car was badly
wrecked, but the passenger coach es-
| capped with but little damage A wreck
| ing crew was soon on the scene and