Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-11-26
EVENTS IN THE WEST.
ROCKED THE BOAT AND WAS DROWNED



pie and s. OF ogden. Utah, had six cars
of cattle on sale.
Frederick Il. Rakeman, formerly jan
itor Mt the government immigration
station on Ellis island, New York. com
mitted suicide In San Francisco about
Z o'clock Tuesday morning by jump
ing off the Folsom-street wharf. His
body was recovered
Mrs. Amanda Terrell. known about
Alameda. Cal, as May Smith, com
mitted suicide last night by turning
on the gas in her room at the Park
hotel. 1t Is the old story of a heart
sick, respondent woman with a young
lover, from whom she was separated.
Roy Charter. the fourtcen-y ear-old
son of l.. c. Charter, who recently
moved into a house on Tenth street
near Harrison. Oakland. Cal, Is among
the missing. Ia mother II distracted
over his disappearance and deter
mined search has been commenced for
him.
Boulevards. street railways and
sewerage system are the improvements
which Sausalito, Cal, proposes. Work
a1 the boulevards has begun, applica-
tion for street railway franchise has
been made, and the new board of town
trustees Is now considering the sewage
question.
At Alameda, Cal. Sunday evening
Robert Burk. plasterer, stabbed Ed
ward Hayden. plasterer. twice in the
right shoulder with a pocket knife.
Burk and Hayden met in n saloon and,
as both men had been drinking and
ill-feeling existed between them, II row
| ensued.
After a 4.00O-mlle tramp from West
| port, Essex county, New York, to San
| Francisco, Daniel Mcconnell, aged SO
mt the city prison there as the city's
ward while waiting for n tardy recog
milton of his claims by the United
States government.
f. Pedemonte, wife and family and
two hired men, residing Mt the Italian
| gardens, Santa Cruz, Cal, had mar
row escape from death by poisoning
Monday. All ate heartily of sup
| posed mushrooms at dinner and short
iy afterward were taken Violently nj.
| One of the hired men is not yet out of
| danger.
Rev. Granville Sharp Abbott, d. D.,
well known as n PIONEER among the
| Baptist ministers of California, died ut
| I o'clock Monday night at his home in
| Oakland, after n serious sickness of
| more than weeks duration. DIR. ABB
| bolts wife. children and immediate
friends We're gathered at his bedside
when the end came.
As the result Of quarrel between
Gale Borden and some Portuguese herds
men at Huron, on the west side Of
Fresno. Cal. n lad named Frank Dutra
| Is in a dying condition with bullet in
the region OF the kidneys, and another
| Portuguese, Joaquin Antoine. is de-
tanned as a witness in Jail with a gum
shot wound in the hip.
A report was received at the sherlrf's
the poisoning at Elk Grove of young
man named Frosty Coons. on DIR.
Caple's ranch. A Chinese cook who has
fled from the place is charged with the
crime. Coons is by some said to be
dangerously i'll, while others assert
that he is not suffering from poison.
but from liquor.
John o. Brown. a young man born
In Folsom, Cal, was accidentally killed
Monday. He and his brother. Eugene,
were taking carload of lumber from
the mill to the yard of the American
River Lumber company, and as they
were crossing a deep ravine the lumber
slid off and Brown was thrown to the
rocks below His injuries were such
that he died soon afterward. His
brother saved himself by jumping to
the bank.
Eugene st. Claire. a butcher of ella
Bend, Ariz., is missing and the opinion
among the people of the hamlet Is
divided between a belief of foul play
and that he has absconded. He left
ella Bend ten days ago for a ranch
near the Mexican border taking about
$4,000 cash intrusted to him by a
butcher named Hyle for the purchase
of cattle. He has not been heard from
since. A party of searchers have
started on his trail determined tc
solve the mystery.
The warehouse of the Los Angeles
Hay Storage and Milling company at
Los Angeles, CAL. was destroyed by
fire Monday night. The residence OF
w. w. Lord. the president of the com
pany, was also destroyed. The en-
tire loss will aggregate nearly s2200t
and the price of hay in Southern Cal
ifornla will. 1t is said, in consequence
of the fire. be influenced to the extern
of 81 per ton. The origin of the fire IL
unknown, but it is believed to be tn,
work of tramps. Fully 1900 tons OF
hay, nearly $4,000 bales, were des
troyed.
Samuel McHenry, n well-known resi-
dent of Ell Nido. Los Angeles county
60 years old, died on sunday ut Campo
that county, as the result of fail II
n mine shaft. He was inspecting tn
mine about two weeks ago and wa
let down into the shaft on a rope hav
iHE al pm ~ o''
sitting on a stick fastened In the rope
When about thirty feet from the bot
tom of the shaft. his glasses fell OF
and in grabbing for them the stick h
was on broke and he fell to the bottom
of the shaft, sustaining Injuries re
sultng in his death on sunday.
w. w. Jenkins, plumber by occu
patton residing at 20oI Leavenwort
street, San Francisco, was browne
In the bay Tuesday afternoon about
o'clock near Munday's ways. Jenkln
and j. Ferguson, living at 1Ilsk Jone
street started out in skin. Whe
only n short distance from the shor
Jenkins started to rock the boat. Fer
guson expostulated with him, but un
ayailingly, and the boat capsizet
Ferguson. though he could swim bu
little. managed to get to the shore, bu
Jenkins was drowned. He was
years old, unmarried, and native c
California.
A complaint was made Monday al
,ternoon in Oakland, Cal, againS
Charles IL. Draper at the instance {
his girl wife, Grace A. Draper, upo
the strength of which warrant hn
been issued calling for the young man
arrest. Grace Draper, the bride of
year who Is scarcely II years of ag
charges that her husband has failed I
provide for herself and the little bal
which was born but a short time ag
Incidentally, she alleges that ito muo
motLer-in-law" Is responsible for a
her ills and sorrow, and that If she ca