Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-14
EVENTS IN THE WEST.
A Record Of Occurrences in Neighboring
States and Territories.
STREET CARS co -tlDE WITH BAD RESULTS
tion of Salmon Eggs--Two Engines
Collide Miscellaneous.

II. j. Lilliard, u nalt-Dreeu lnuiuu'
has been arrested at Cheyenne with
robbing the United States mail. Inc
man denies his guilt.
A strike is on at the Kemmerer coal
mines in Woyming and 100 men nave
gone out pending the recognition of the
union as to who shall and who shall
not be employed at the properties.
The Colusa Parrot Mining and Smelt-
ing company of Spokane. wash, has
purchased from w. \. Clark, the mil
lionaire mine-owner, his Butte. Mont.'
properties, which consist of four mines
of value and the Butte reduction
works. The consideration is said to
have been million dollars.
David Davidson, who killed his wife
at Randsburg. Cal, last May. was late
Friday night found guilty of murder
in the first degree, the jury liking the
penalty at Imprisonment for life. The
defendants attorneys waived time ana
Saturday morning he was sentenced
to San Quentin.
A collision Saturday evening be
tween an electric car of the Fillmore
street system and cable car of the
Suffer street line, at the corner OF
Suffer and Fillmore streets, San Fran
cisco, resulted in the almost total de-
molition of the cable car and the Sc
rious injury of three of its passen-
gers.
Robert Smile, the well-known con-
tractor and capitalist of Oakland, Cal,
was crushed to death beneath a fall
ing timber at the old Starr mill at
Crockett, In Contra Costa county, at
o'clock Saturday afternoon. He was
making an inspection of the work and
remodelng the old flour mill into
beet sugar refinery when he met his
death.
Louis Ortoga, the Mexican who was
last Wednesday convicted of murder
in the second degree for killing Anas-
tacio Avilia at Chino, Cal, on October
cath, was sentenced Saturday to the
full limit of the law, ninety-nne years
imprisonment In San Quentin. a mo-
ton for a new trial was made and
quickly denied. The condemned man
will be taken to San Quentin.
A Salt Lake blacksmith in the person
of Thomas Aldrich is now in Butte.
Mont. seeking his runaway wife. Mrs.
Aldrlch, 1t is said, made an elopement
with n friend of her husband in the
early part of November. going straight
way to Butte, and taking with her
their four-year- child. The de-
serted blacksmith is ready and willing
to forgive and forget, if his wife will
only return to him.
state Senator j. II. Mahoney of San
Franisco Is lying in critical condt-
tion In his rooms at the Baldwin.
Eleven days ago he submitted to
fifth surgical operation for cancer of
the neck. Friday night erysipelas
set in and the physicians have little
hope of his recovery. His head and
neck are swollen to twice their usual
size and none of his many friends are
permitted to visit him.
News from San Gregorio, near Red
wood City, Cal, tells of n fatal acct
dent to a young farmer by the name
OF Joseph Francisco. He was Telling a
tree Friday afternoon, and before he
could get out of the way the heavy
limbs struck him. Men engaged in
similar work near by came to his as
sistance. He died within thirty min
utes after the accident. The body was
badly mangled. The deceased was a
native of San Mateo county, aged %
years. and unmarried.
Prof. Frank Soule, head of the civil
engineering department of the Uni
versity of California, has completed a
series of tests for determining the
strength of California marbles which
show that the product of that state
compares very favorably with the best
marble of other places. Specimens
We're tested from several sections of the
state. The highest resistance was that
of fifteen tons to the cubic inch. that
amount being necessary to crush u
single piece of marble.
An unknown man jumped overheard
from the narrow gauge ferry-boat, Bay
City. when opposite Goat island, on its
last trip to Oakland, Cal, after mid
night Sunday morning. A boat was
lowered in all haste, but the body of
the man was not found. 1t is supposed
that n desire to commit suicide was
the motive which prompted the act.
None of the passengers had noticed
the man until he was seen to disappear
over the rail and no accurate descrip-
ton of his appearance was to be OBJ
tanned from any of the persons on the
ferry boat who saw him take the fatal
plunge.
John Trouette. a Ftenchman living In
Golden Gate. Cal. placed the muzzle
of shot barreled shotgun Mt his
throat in a fit of dependency Friday
morning and pulled the trigger. Death
followed almost instantly, as when
John Chisau, who employs Trouette.
rushed to the scene upon hearing the
report of the gun. he found the man
lying in a pool of blood, dead. The
suicide was n single man, 46 years of
age. He had worked for Chisau sew
ereal months as gardener and his eccen-
tricities had been marked. He was
of n morose disposition and often
brooded.
A dispatch from San Francisco today
says: The transportation companies
have agreed upon a passenger rate of
$500 from San Francisco to Dawson
City The Alaska Trade committee is
working hard to demonstrate the ad-
vantages of this city rs an Quitting
point for the gold fields. It's agents,
headed by ex-Gov. Sharkey. will start
for Chicago on Thursday in special
car filled with Alaskan exhibits and u
permanent exhibition will be estab-
lished there. A man will be sent to
Washington to work with representa-
tivcs of northwestern cities in the
effort to have Taiia closed as sub
port of entry.
The work OF collecting salmon eggs
| at the California Fish commission
hatchery on the Sacramento river, al
| Anderson, Cal, has just closed. The
| results of the seasons operations are
the most remarkable ON record. Forty
eight and n half million eggs were col
| lected. This exceeds the previous
record by 22O00.0OO and is $4,000 O0C
more than We're collected at all the
other hatcheries on the coast this year
These eggs will be Matched and the fry