Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-24
EVENTS IN THE WEST.
A Record Of Occurrences in Neighboring
States and Territories.
FEMALE CASHIER AS A oEfAulTER.
Pigeon Shot Goes to Europe-Joint
Steamship Service.


forced the calling of of the proposed
fight between Ike Hayes, colored of
Helena, and Jim Williams, of Salt
Lake. The fight was scheduled for
Thursday evening.
An army pack-train. consisting of
twelve packers and sixty-two mules
left Cheyenne, Wyo., Thursday even
ing for Alaska. The packers will get
from $50 to $3.50 per month and the
chief packer $3.50 TO $3.50 per month.
Ex-Governor John Altgeld OF Illinois
has arrived in Sacramento, Cal, ac-
companied by his wife and two or
three friends. Mr.. Altgeld refused to
be interviewed, leaving word at the
hotel Office not to allow any newspaper
men to call on him.
Reports from the southern parts of
Colorado show that the sheepmen are
losing thousands of sheep by the snow
and extremely cold weather The win
ter has opened up unusually severe and
promises to be an exceptionally hard
one on the shoepmen.
Governor Richards of wyoming has
issued requisition on the Governor
of Washington for the return to Raw
Inns of William Herbert. alias Tar
Heel. who is wanted for shooting and
robbng a Mexican named Jose Lava,
at Baggs, Wyo. last summer.
State Senator Jeremiah II. Mahoney
of California died Thursday night, at
San Francisco, from the effects of a
cancerous growth in his thront. He was
born in Buffalo, N. Y, where he was
once city superintendent of streets.
He was prominent in San Francisco
| politics.
w. T.. Brown, E. Il. Gerald and Will
| liam G. Mahoney, appraisers of the es-
tate of the late Charles II. Croclier,
San Francisco. filed a report Monday
| placing the value of the property at
SL0S2. l29.2s OF this amount 1861, 154.2s
is represented by personal property,
principally stocks and bonds, and the
balance of s374,975 by real estate.
Next Sunday evening Reginald
| Carry Brenton will be sent out from
Oakland Cal, as the pioneer mis-
| sionary of the Mexican rural mission.
Captain Carry Brenton Is a son of Rev.
DIR. Carry of Devonshire, Eng, and a
grandson of Admiral Sir Jahleeel
Brenton. The Intention is to have the
mission include u sailors home at
| Acapulco.
An Eastern coach will preside over
the football destinies of Berkeley, Cal,
next year. Football Manager E. ].
Brown has left for the East to secure
Il coach for the university. He will
visit Yale, Harvard, Princeton and
| Pennsylvania and other institutions
well up In football to open negotiations
| with the pen available as instructors
in the gridiron game.
Fire Sunday night destroyed the
home of w. p. Ward in the southern
part of Eureka, Cal. It originated
from an open fireplace after the fam
| lily retired and gained such Roadway
before it was discovered that Ward
and his wife barely escaped with their
lives. Each snatched child and rushed
out of the burning buildinr in their
night clothes. the staircase falling in
Just after they passed. The loss is
$1,000, insurance S2,0oe.
Crittenden Robinson, the veteran
pigeon shot, who represented California
in European shooting events last
spring. has decided to attempt sec
ond campaign across the water. Rob-
inson left San Francisco Thursday
night for New York and will sail next
week for Liverpool. He has arranged
to be at Monte Carlo by the middle of
next month and will take hand in
all the big events of the shooting pro-
gram which is to open at that famous
resort about Jan. Gath.
An attempt was made Monday night
by an unknown miscreant to wreck
a Haywards. Cal. car. A log was
placed across the south track just
west of the San Leandro bridge, and
car II, which left the Elmhurst power
house at $40 was only prevented from
striking it by the rapid action of
the power and stopped the car just as
the wheels struck the log. The log was
brought to the power-house and the
companys officials have ordered n
very careful investigation.
John w. Harbourne, librarian of the
Alameda, Cal, Free Library, has fled
the city, and, It is surmised. the state,
leaving number of business houses in
San Francisco who have furnished sup
plies to tlie library to mourn his de-
parture. Since January last Harbourne
has been systematically Withholding
for his private use money due to San
Francisco firms for books, binding and
supplies The amount OF his misar-
preparation of funds is sl.10O, according
to the statement given out by the
library trustees Monday night. Among
the firms victimized are Doxey, Myself,
Rollins & Co., Robertson, and others.
A dispatch from San Jose CAL, says:
Samuel Johnson, the refined and edu-
Gated appearing old man and stranger
who went to the Agnews insane asyi-
UNI few days ago, is dead. He had
depository certificates for $500; cash
in the bank at Victoria, u. c., $50; cash
4
lie administration Secord has filed a
petition for letters. II is believed he
has a sister In Ontario, Canada He
was found here in weak and de-
mented condition and sent to a sani-
tarum. He grew violent and had to
be sent to the asylum. Little is known
about him, although he had papers TO
show that he had served In the United
States army. He was about 65 years
of age.
C. L. Steiner, an oiler and sweeper
at the Sperry Hour mills, Salinas, Cal,
had a thrilling experience Monday
morning which nearly cost him his
life Mr.. Steiner, who is a brother-in-
law of Superintendent V. ID. Black.
was engaged in oiling some machinery
when he slipped and fell. and caught
his leg in a moving wheel. He was
whirled round and round with terrible
| force. One of the workmen saw the
accident and shut off the steam. When
the engines were stopped Steiner was
extricated from his dangerous position
and removed to his home. 1t was
| found that his leg was broken just
above the ankle and the bone forced
through the flesh. Mr.. Steiner is now
resting easily.
The grand jury of Denver. Colo, has
been declared an obsolete body, the
| presiding judge of the district court
| saying, 1--WE have abandoned the
| grand jury because the district attor-
ney can file information In any char
acter of case. and we believe that he
| should take the entire responsibility
| in such matters. This viii obviate
the abuses to which the system has OF
late years been put. The supreme court