Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-09-15
AMONG OUR NEIGHBORS.
Bold Highwaymen Getting in their Work in
San Francisco, California.
DEcKHAND DRAGGED BY THE NECK.
Two Women Fight In y Rcstaurant-Died
In Her Chair-After Train Robbers
Cruel Abandonment.

F.. I. Upham, one OF the foremost resi-
dents and largest landowner of Solano
county, Cal. died at his home near
Collinsville at IL O'Clock sunday, He
had been Ill but few days, and his
death is regretted by the entire COM
munity in which he lived.
Great crowds of people gathered
about the corner OF Fillmore and Fell
streets, San Francisco, Sunday after
noon to see Archbishop Riordan lay
and bless the cornerstone of the new
Church of the Sacred Heart The on
lockers We're massed on the roofs Of
houses. over the hills in the neighbor-
hood and along every point that
offered a view of the imposing and
picturesque ceremony.
In Alameda, Cal, Mrs. Theresa Grau
died suddenly Sunday morning while
seated in an arm chair at her home.
Mrs. Peterson. neighbor. had been
calling upon her. Returning to the
house little later she states she found
Mrs. Grau still sitting in the chair
where she had left her. On speaking
to her she gave no reply and II was
discovered that she was dead. Heart
disease is supposed to have been the
cause of death.
A charge Of murder against
Frenchman named Demoner resulted
from the inquest Utlu NulluuS On llit
remains OF Christopher Molbeck. who
died suddenly in Rochon & Hunaults
saloon in Fresno, Cal, Saturday night.
DIR. Adair testified that death was due
to rupture OF the heart from violence,
and testimony was put in that De-
moner had struck Aiolbeck some ter
rible blows In the pit of the stomach.
Demoner has been arrested.
Bent upon accomplishing revenge
long MANNED Mrs Kate Council en-
tered the Creamery restaurant at 1852
Tenth street, Oakland, Cal, Sunday
afternoon. and pulling Mrs. Anna Lee
out of a private box in which she was
eating. beat her severely, taking some
punishment herself. She was smart
enough. however. to summon an Of
ficer first and cause the s-rrest of her
antagonist Mrs. Lee Is now IN jail
awaiting trial for assault. Mrs. Lees
husband Is said to figure in the trou-
bile.
Theodore B.Starr, the great diamond
merchant of New York, has rented
the magnificent residence of the late
Thomas Diblee, at Santa Barbara,
Cal This is one of the finest, If not
the finest residence In Santa Barbara
county, and was erected at a cost OF
S60 900. The floors and wainscoting
are inlaid with many different kinds
of woods. The residence Is on Diblee
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of Santa Barbara channel. Mr., starr
| and family have spent the summer in
Colorado and will arrive at their new
home shortly to spend the winter.
Frank Roman, deckhand. was
dragged over the floor of the Washing
ton street wharf, San Francisco, early
Sunday morning, on the end OF u freight
| hook that was caught securely IN the
| flesh of the nape OF the neck. He had
quarelled with Joseph Treaties, fell
| low workman, and the latter used a
| sharp pointed hook that longshoremen
| employ In handling bulky freight, as
| a weapon. He sunk the point OF the
hook in Romans neck and then dragged
| the man over the dock as he wished.
| Roman. when rescued, had an ugly
| lacerated wound where the hook had
| caught.
| The Norwegian steamer Transit
sailed into the san Francisco port sun
| day afternoon from Departure bay,
| and her master, Captain Schlytter
reported that ON the way down the
| coast and when off the Columbia RIVER
bar his vessel passed through guam
| tity of pine lumber floating on the
| ocean. He said the boards were strung
| a distance Of about ten miles
| parallel with the coast. The steamers
| crew said they saw no signs OF
wreckage from amy vessel and mari
I
| formed the deckload of some craft
| that was caught In a storm while out
ward bound from some Columbia river
port.
| ]. j. Boyle, contractor Of Alameda,
| Cal, disappeared from the sight Of
/ family and friends ON last wednesday
| and returned home on sunday morning,
/ He stated that since he left to attend
| to business i'm San Francisco on
l W. ARtNhn fnilnK
himself walking on the beach in Ala
media four days later, his mind had
| been a blank, on awakening to his
| whereabouts he at once made his way
home. His wife had been hysterical
| from worry over his strange absence
and his sons diligently searched for
| him each day in San Francisco and al
so as far down the valley as Mount
| View. near which place he owns n
| ranch.
| Tracy, Sept. 12.-George Williams
and George Slagel, the men suspected
| OF twice attempting to hold up the Los
| Angeles express last Week, are leading
| Sheriff Cunningham and his deputies
a merry chase along the river be-
| tween san Joaquin city and the San
| Joaquin river bridge. 1t was re-
ported late Saturday afternoon that
| the robbers had been surrounded near
| San Joaquin City. and Sheriff Cunning
| ham and his deputies, assisted by
| Railroad Detective Thacker, searched
\ along the river on both sides for a
| number of miles until late hour that
night, but no traces could be found to
| Indicate that the robhers had been in
that neighhorhood.
| A special to the Spokane Spokes-
| man Review from Lewiston. Idaho,
| tells of the cruel abandonment of two
little boys, aged 3 and respectively.
| by II hard hearted uncle. Some time
| ago Mrs. Belle Hagan. the mother of
| the children. left them with her hus-
| bands brother while she sought em-
| ployment. She also commenced suit
| for a divorce from her husband, who
Is In an oregon hospital. This in
censed the uncle ana he refused to
| provide for them further. Without
| informing the mother OF his change of
| sentiment he took the boys far across
| the prairie to Il deserted building and
| left them without food or bed. The
| next morning Thomas Stevens found
| the children, numb with cold and
| fright He warmed and fed them and
| took them to Lewiston. where he
| turned them over to Probate Judge
Stookey, who restored them to rcln-
| tives that will care for them.
Fred Gebhardt. a San Francisco
| cook, was assaulted by two men at
| Mason and ELLIS streets late Saturday
| night and robbed OF 81. According to
| his story, he was on his way home
| when one of the robbers accosted him
and inquired az 10 the direction OF