Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-09-27
EVENTS IN THE WEST.
WEAvERvlLLt, CAL, WIPED OUT BY FIRE,
Remarkable Tale of shipwrccit and Priva-
tion a Fire at Livingston, Mont
Accidents and Suicides.

A special from Livingston. Mont. to
the Helena Independent. announces
that a disastrous fire is hging there.
and may envelop the whole town. a
high wind is blowing. Later udvices
announce that the fire has been gotten
under control
y. Norman. ship carpenter en-
ployed at the yards of Hay & Wright.
| Oakland, Cal, had his left shoulder so
badly dislocated by a fall Thursday
| afternoon that Il took five men to pull
the hone back into place. Norman on
~ fell about ten feet but his shoulder
was completely put out of place.
Charles A. jerks bookkeeper, and in
his leisure and more dignifled moments,
captain and commanding officer Of
Troop A, National Guard of California,
was sentenced Thursday by Judge Con-
Ian to pay fine of $500, or, in lieu
thereof to spend six months in the
county Jail, for starving horses placed
under his charge.
Junction City, nine miles from
Weaverville. Cal, was almost wiped
out by fire early Wednesday morning
The blaze broke out at 2 am. in the
supply store. burning 1t TO the ground.
The inhabitants OF the little village
turned out and fought the flames, but
with their meager fire-lghtlng ap-
paratus, could do but little.
William Trauddle, an operative at
the California Cotton mills, in East
Oakland, Cal. had his right hand
caught in wool-picking machine on
| Thursday and was very painfully in
jured. All Of the flesh on the back Of
his hand was torn Off. some of the
smaller bones of the hand We're
broken, and one of the tendons lead
ing to his fingers was pulled out of
place.
Henry Stahlecker, the 4-year- son
If Henry Stahlecker, an Oakland. Cal,
blacksmith. accidentally poisoned him
self Thursday morning and was only
saved from death by hard struggle on
the part of the surgeons at the receiv-
ing hospital. The child got possession
of a bottle of cough medicine carrying
n heavy proportion of laudanum and
intended for use only in small potions,
and drank about six ounces.
A sensation was caused at Santa
Rosa. Cal, Thursday afternoon by the
arrest of Joseph b. Reed, an old and
wealthy citizen, on the charge of an
attempt TO commit arson Reed, II is
alleged, set fire to certain house
owned by him, by placing n lighted
candle in one room, arranged so that
when 1t burned to certain point, 1t
would ignite some paper that had been
saturated WIN Oh. Inc discovery u
the plan resulted in his arrest.
Mary Ward, wife OF Thomas Ward,
n well known stockman of Oakland,
Cal, worsted in n suit for divorce, has
started some novel litigation to re-
cover possession of two valuable pieces
of property at the corner of Eigh-
teenth and Cypress streets. Mrs.
Ward claims that the property belongs
to her, but that her husband and his
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for the purposes of a suit filed Thurs
day has transferred 1t TO her sister,
Mrs. Rosanna Stevenson of Portland,
and stands as a defendant in an action
began by the latter to obtain possess
sion of the property.
Roy Crellin, the seven year-old son
! of Thomas Crellin. who lives at Durant
| and Alice streets, Oakland, Cal, fell
from the back platform of a Piedmont
car Thursday night and may die. He
sustainSd fracture of the skull and
| remained totally unconscious for four
hours. The little fellow was caught
| unawares as the car started up, and
| was thrown into the street on New
| Broadway, near Durant street, strik-
ing his head on the macadamized
| pavement. He was picked up, covered
| with blood,and moaning, and was i'm
| mediately taken home, where medical
| attention was given him.
w. +. Kasson,a prisoner incarcerated
! in the county jail at San Francisco,
| announces that he has fallen heir TO
| S25O,000. He is serving a sentence of
| ten month on two charges of emhezzle-
ment. Kasson was the business mana
| ger of the California Commerce, a lit
tie sheet that ran for several months a
year ago. and in accounting for the
| finances that passed through his hands
| failed to make known certain transac-
| tons. He claims he has fallen heir to
the amount stated, through the death
| of James Kasson, an uncle, rich min
| ing man of Idaho and Nevada, who
died some time ago at Austin, Iowa.
John w. Power OF San Francisco
assemblyman from the Thirty-second
district, occupies a cell in the county
jail at San Rafael, Cal. on a crimina
| charge. Power is the legislator who
gained so much notoriety last winter
| in connection with the coyote-scalI
scandal. The charge preferred against
Power is obtaining goods under false
pretenses." He was arrested Thursday
! night upon warrant sworn to bS
Michael Murray, proprietor of the Bay
View stables. from whom he hired {
horse and buggy for n day and did MOI
return to the owner until eight days af
terward, and only then under compul.
sion.
Frank Walker n harber of cnnsidaro,