Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-10-12
EVENTS IN THE WEST.
ELoPEMENT AT SAN RAPHAEL, GALA.


August Arnet, an elderly inmate Of
the county hospital at Los Angeles,
Cal, threw himself under a train at
the hospital station Friday and was
killed.
william Bridges, a dalryman of
Fruitvale. Cal, was attacked by an
Infatuated bull Saturday morning and
tossed high in the air by the enraged
beast. which struck him two or three
different times. Bridges sustained nu-
merous decorations and had two ribs
broken ON his left side.
At late hour Thursday evening w,
C. Hustin, a pioneer of Ventura
county, Cal, was caught between a
load of lumber and swinging der
rick load of shakes at the wharf and
received injuries that may prove fatal.
lis arm and two ribs were broken, one
rib entering the lung.
In the tanks of the city prison at
san Francisco are two men whom the
pocile think are responsible for the nu-
merous hold-ups in the Mission. Their
names are VIM. Roberts and Joseph
Meehan. Roberts is an eX-convict. He
was convicted OF robbery in 1892 and
sent to San quentin for four years.
Friday at Ventura, Cal. an inquest
was held on the body of John Chap
man, aged l6 who was accidentally
shot Thursday night by Antonio
Ayala. aged IS. The weapon was Il
rifle which the boys were cleaning.
Chapmnn's lower Jaw was entirely
shot away, death being instantaneous.
The men who waylaid. robbed and
nearly killed Isidore Goulet at San
Francisco some time ago. have been
captured. Two of them, George Rowe
and George Kelly. were arrested Fri
day in that city The third, Bert Gray,
who was also the leader of the gang.
was taken into custody Friday night
at Vallejo.
Lue Jow, q young Chinese who has
for the past three months been con-
fined in tho city and county hospital
at San Francisco suffering from an
ulcer on the right foot, was taken TO
the pesthouse Friday as the result OF
the breaking out on his chest of the
white spots that indicate the presence
of leprosy.
Joseph Dugan, an eight-year-old coll
ored lad who sells matches In Oakland
Cal, had an almost miraculous escape
Saturday evening from being crushed
to death by a car of the Piedmont
and Mountain View line. AS 1t was
his face and jaw are horribly multi
ated and It is feared he has suffered
AllhNi iHJhAiNss
William Parr Billiard, formerly
bookkeeper for Collins & Lyons, team
sters of San Francisco, was found
dead in his room at 231l Clay street
yesterday morning, asphyNiatcd by
gas. 1t was at first supposed that he
had committed suicide, but further in
vestigatlon convinced the coroner that
1t was purely an accident.
The sale of one of the choicest pieces
of unimproved property in Stockton
Cal, has been contaminated. 1t Is
what is commonly known as the Doak
corner. located at the intersection OF
| San Joaquin street and Weber avenue
and while neither the purchaser nor
the real estate firm that made the sale
| will state the consideration, II is sup
posed to be over $4,000.
District Attorney Emmett Seawell
| of Sonora, Cal. came nearly being
murdered in his own home at Santa
Rosa on Saturday evening. Mr. Sea
well and his wife had just returned
from concert and on going into the
house discovered burglars. They com
menced shooting but the bullets went
wide of the mark and finally they
made good their escape.
Some mlscreant placed an iron link
on the Southern Pacific track Thurs
day night just east OF Riverside, Cal.
but fortunately the train passed over
1t without damage. A tie was placed
on the track in the same place the
previous night and 1t looks as If there
was systematic attempt to deral
the train. Southern Pacific detectives
have been set at work to investigate
the matter.
Early Saturday morning at San Luis
| Obispo, Cal, the large barn at the
TNiftaan.nNtlA Tnttgn dpgfrnVal Inv
fire. 1t contained at the time seven
| teen head of horses and 100 tons OF
| hay, besides n large amount of farm
| ing machinery, wagons, harness, etc
all being consumed. There was no In
surance. The stock and other property
belonged to n. A. Lybeck and was &c
have been sold at auction.
The notorious burglar. II. C. Ester
brook, who has achieved great deal OF
prominence in Seattle and Tacoma
lately by his long string of robberies
was formerly well known in San Fran
| cisco as Peter Low.He is not the son OF
| Ex-Governor Low of California, as has
been stated in the dispatches, but is the
| son of War Governor Low of Iowa, a
| highly respected man and at one time
the law partner of Senator Allison.
on the ranch of Mrs. Mary Abbott,
two miles from Milton, Cal, two young
poisoning squirrels. They had filled a
large coal oil can with poisoned wheat
and We're distributing a portion of 1t
where the squirrels would get it. While
thus engaged some of Mrs. Abbott 4
horses overturned the coal oil can and
ate portion Of the wheat with the
result that four valuable animals are
dead.
T.. Pattengill, the lneman who was
injured while working on some electric
wires of the Peninsula Light and
Power company at Palo Alto, Cal,
on Thursday, died from the result of
his Injuries Saturday afternoon. He re-
ceved severe shock which caused
him to fall about thirty feet to the
ground, fracturing his skull and break
ing one arm. He did not regain con-
seriousness after the accident
At San Diego, Cal. Friday night the
city council by a unanimous vote
sustained the city engineer In his re-
port against the faulty work on the
Morena dam by the contractor who is
building II to turn over to the city as
part of the water system. The objec-
lions of the city engineer are that the
specifications are ignored and the dam
as constructed is leaky and unsafe. The
Southern California Water company.
which is building the dam, has stopped
all work because the engineers re-
port was sustained.
A complaint was filed Saturday nj
Riverside, Cal, against Il. j. Davis.
proprietor of the Rowell Hotel by Mrs
nit Moro a